I went with realness instead.

I am not a lifestyle guru or an expert on much of anything.

I have had a wide spectrum of experiences that I can't mentally squeeze into my short 30 years on this planet.

I have lived through lean times and times of plenty, manic upswings and depressive episodes, the bliss of ignorance and the often painful nuisance of hyper-awareness and obsessively-critical thought.

I am a high school drop-out with far too large of a vocabulary.

I was a young republican with blue hair and a sincere belief in the tenets of fundamental christianity and I morphed into a bleeding-heart liberal who identifies as a secular humanist... and I've got blue hair again, 14 years later.

I am borderline hedonistic at times with my own party-girl mantra of "live and let LIVE IT UP!"

I'm proficient at a few things, adequate at most things, and completely useless at the rest.

I'm a cluttered neat-freak, a socially awkward extrovert, and a modest exhibitionist.

I am all of the above and none of the above.

This blog is basically a window into my life. I promise that there will be ups and downs. I have no intention of showing just the unicorns and rainbows and sunshine parts of my life. I'm not perfect and I don't know everything... and that's more than okay.