Time for Introductions

OK, so I have no clue how to start this off. Maybe there's some sort of How To manual out there detailing how to approach your first blog post. If so, unfortunately for you, nobody tipped me off to it, so I gotta go free-form with this.

 

This is my blog. It will be about whatever topic strikes me as interesting that day, because it's about my (hopefully fairly interesting) life. This is going to be about as random and self-indulgent as you can get.

 

I know what you're thinking: This sounds amazing! Why, thank you for your compliment!

 

Here's a few brief tidbits about who I am, so you can get your footing before we dive on in: I'm a born-and-raised Jersey girl, and I'm obnoxiously proud of it. I'm an only child, and although I do my best to not act in a way that perpetuates the stereotype, sometimes sharing is a wee bit difficult. Even though I've held down steady "big girl" work for about 5 years now, after a couple of years living on my own, I'm back at home with my parents and our awesome dog who stretches the limits of laziness on a daily basis (she's a trail-blazer). Within the past year I began working in the publishing department for a large company, and while I'm thrilled to finally be in a field I'm interested in, I'm still debating how exactly I want my professional life to pan out. All in all, I feel like I'm a pretty stereotypical millennial, trying to reconcile the fact that I'm on the verge of true "adulthood" with my desire to drink cheap beer and play board games at 3 a.m. with my college friends. It's can be a weird head space to be in, and I want to take y'all along in the journey.

 

I have to be honest: I'm not entirely sure I want to merge my "virtual" life with my real life, which seems a bit silly, since these things are normally started with the whole "Market yourself!!!" goal in mind. However, I'd prefer to go the Batman route, and keep these two lives separate (at least for the time being). Hey, if it's good enough for a crime-fighting, cape-wearing billionaire, then it's good enough for me, damnit! So, until I grow the cajones to take off the bat mask, I'll be going by Jae.

 

Nice to meet you! Now, let's get this rolling, shall we?