Paragraphs, Pie Plates and Pictures...

Hello everyone!

This is the first of what I hope to be many blogs on some of my favourite things.  I’ve wanted to try blogging for years, but had a terrible time deciding what to blog about.  The interweb is positively  chock full-o-blogs on everything and its dog.  So what could I possibly blog about? Writing?  Cooking?  My new passion for photography?  Dating??  Why would anyone care about MY dating life?  Then I thought, who cares?  I am going to write for me, and if people want to join me, they are more than welcome.  I can be rather entertaining from time to time!

So, since my dating life is about as exciting as waiting for the first bubble to surface in a pot of water, I figured why not blog about all the things I love to do, and if any interesting dating stories bubble to the surface, I will share those too.  And you can be damn sure that they will be RIDICULOUS!  ‘Cause I am a ridiculous magnet.

In any event…

I’m the type of person who wants to do it all, yet never actually does any of it.  Some call it procrastinating (mom) and some call it laziness (other people)  But me?  I think its both…  So this blog is now the beginning of my war on apathy.  I’m 30, single and have an extremely creative mind.  So its time I get off my potentially great ass and get it in gear.

Shall we begin?  Yes.  Let’s.

I have always loved to cook, but have only recently jumped in.  Not the best of timing as I was doing a fantastic job of attending the gym on a regular basis and eating healthy foods.  I dropped 45 lbs in 4 months!  I was on top of the world!  Then I re-discovered my love of baking.  Can you say piss-poor timing?  But I just love it so much.  The way the kitchen fills with the sweet and salty smell of peanut butter cookies, or the savory aroma of a turkey pot pie; it makes everything bad in the world just slip away up my nose.  Wait.  That was horrible.  Let me rephrase.  It smells good, therefore I am happy.  That’s better…ish.

As I get into my stories of baking mishaps and triumphs, I will also share some pictures I have taken.  Since photography is another one of my hobbies, I decided one of the best ways to practice, is to integrate it with my other hobbies.  So I started taking pics of my food and posting it on that professional time-waster, Facebook.

The response to the pictures has been great, and I secretly get a kick out of making people want to cheat on their diets.  That is REAL power.

Then finally, there is the writing.  I know that the blogging itself is writing, but my goals for writing are more along the lines of children’s/young adult books and scripts.  So occasionally I will throw some snippets up here as well.  Of course the whole copyright thing might be tricky but, if someone wants to steal my idea, I will try to take it as a compliment.  Before I Hulk-out and flip a car over in rage.  Or use my fingers to type slightly harder… in anger.  Beware copyright pirates.  You have been warned.

So this is it.  My first entry.  Is it odd that I feel slightly nervous?  I guess that is a normal thing when you put yourself out there.  Gotta do it sometime!

So until the next time,

MultiMatt