Today I was inspired by an old high-school friend to create my very own blog. Being in marketing and teaching at a college, I write and read all day and have shied away from one more task that requires a keyboard. However, being pragmatic, I can see that there may be several benefits from blogging that may just outweigh the risk that keeping this blog will further contribute to the likelihood that I will have carpal tunnel by the time I'm 40.

I'm not quite sure what purpose this blog will serve for those reading it, though for me, it may end up being a catharsis--I do have quite a lot of emotions to purge, especially being pregnant. Perhaps keeping a blog would have prevented my breakdown last week after learning that the car I wanted to test drive had sold. I've always heard pregnant women are hormonal, but now that I am one, I can testify that that is indeed a fact. Not only have I cried on several occasions over the past month, but I have also been completely unable to keep away from my daughter's Halloween candy. Case in point, today at lunch, I had five pieces. I kept telling myself to stop, but I just couldn't. The cool part of this little pig out is that the baby really likes it when I eat sugar; he kicks and squirms for a bit, so I think he's enjoying the sugar high. Unfortunately, this sugar has no positive nutritional benefit for me or Dylan. When I wasn't pregnant, I would have been able to tell myself to stop, step away from the candy bowl and think rationally about the input/output of caloric intake. But, now that I mostly consist of hormones, I can't seem to convince myself that eating chocolate until I feel sick is not good idea.

Besides providing me with an outlet, I'm hoping that eventually this maybe this a fun way to keep in touch with some friends and family. I am getting tired of myspace and tired of my myspace site being hacked into. I don't want to send out anymore porn to my friends and family. And I'd like a less superficial way to keep in touch with those people who actually care what's going on in my life. I have some friends I haven't talked to for over a year.

Negatives to blogging? Well, I guess i could have random strangers reading my blog, though I have thousands of random strangers reading what I write every week. (Isn't it amazing how some newspapers never change a word of a press release?) I could reveal too much and that could come back to haunt me... so I'll have to be careful about that. I could also get caught blogging at work, though I don't see how that is any different that sending e-mails and I don't think anyone would really care. All in the name of creativity!

Anyway, it looks like for now I'll give this blog thing a try, though I'll probably only invite a select few friends to read it. You'll have to help me decide if I should blog or not and whether this is an exercise in futility or a worthwhile expenditure of my time.