It's 2:00 In The Morning!

If I were you I would be thinking, “Why is she writing a blog post at 2:00 in the morning?” Well the answer is very simple. No, nothing startling and life changing occurred tonight. No close relatives have died. My book has not been accepted for publication (how it would be accepted I don't know considering I haven't even finished the first chapter yet). The answer is three insignificant words that – put together – form a no more significant sentence. They are: I'm not tired.

There. Really, it's boring. Pathetic, really. I don't know why you're wasting time reading this. I mean that, I'm not just saying it because I'm trying to sound as cute as Sarah. Actually, I do know, it's because you love me enough to humor me. Thank you.

Why I'm not tired is hard to explain. It's hard because I'm not quite sure. Yeah, there are some things, like the two hour long nap I had this afternoon or Sam keeping me up until 10:00, but those things have happened before and I really have no idea why I can't sleep tonight.

I tried all the usual remedies. First, I decided I didn't care and thought about my book. (They were really interesting thoughts, by the way, but you won't be allowed to know them for a couple more years.) Next, I hummed Brahms' Lullaby to myself. That has always worked in the past. There is something completely irresistibly tiring about Brahms' Lullaby. It didn't do a thing.

By the time I gave up on Brahms, it was 12:07. I got up to turn off Sam's light and the ipod he was listening to and met Mom on the same errand. I told her of my predicament. She suggested math, but at the same time another thought crossed my mind: scriptures!

I mean, I was reading my scriptures when I fell asleep this afternoon! Why shouldn't it work tonight! (I don't normally fall asleep while reading my scriptures. I was tired and I was reading a rather uninteresting part of Leviticus.) I tried it. Unfortunately, I was reading in Ether and that was very interesting. I was still very much awake when I finished. On the positive side, it was really amazing to read my scriptures with absolutely no other interruptions. Nothing besides what I was reading even crossed my mind.

I finished reading at 12:40. So I decided to pack for my family reunion next week. Yeah, it may sound crazy but it was actually quite logical. We are supposed to pack tomorrow and it was really late but I weighed my options.

1) Lie in bed for another couple hours and spend tomorrow packing

or

2) Get up and pack so that I can have tomorrow free

I can't think of many people who would choose the first option. So I packed. It took a little less than an hour. I still wasn't tired when I finished so I cleaned my room. I'm still not tired. So now I am sitting here, drinking hot lemon, water and honey, while I write a blog post.

My goodness, that was excessively boring, wasn't it? But I will leave it, just because I'm like that. (I was about to post a meaningful, cool thought on Dreams that I have been planning for a while but I won't. This time it's not because I enjoy boring you out of your wits, it's because I'm really tired and I don't want to make that post about Dreams as... unique as the rest of this post has been.)

It's A Computer Screen! It's A Web Page! It's My Blog!

You have found my blog! Congratulations! Now that I have created this, if you care what I'm doing, you can follow this blog and find out, and if you don't, you don't even have to read this! Yay!

I decided to start this blog for a few reasons. They are:

An Aspiring Photographer Needs An Audience – Have you ever tried to find out what people think of your pictures when no one has seen them? And Facebook really doesn't work as well as I'd like when it comes to pictures. And then there's the fact that I commonly go searching through my friends' blogs for pretty landscape pictures and I want repay the favor by letting others search through my blog and steal the pictures that they like.

Writers Need Blogs – Blogs satisfy our sadistic tendencies and unique eccentricity. You see, if I have a blog, I can drop random little peeks into what I'm writing. Things like, “I heard Taylor Swift's Invisible today. It fits so perfectly for one of my characters.” And then I can laugh while I imagine you trying to figure out which character it works for and if she ever gets the guy. (Not that you'd care yet, considering I haven't given you anything of my current draft.)

I Have Many Friends – Okay, so maybe that isn't exactly true. But I have friends all over the continent! I can't keep all of them up to date with everything that is going on in my life. That is another reason I don't use Facebook as often as some do. You can't tell the whole story; it's only allowed to be 420 characters. Blog postings, however, can be as long as necessary.

Blogs Are Awesome - I mean, just look at this beautiful thing! I love to read blogs! If you have time and things to say, why not have a blog of your own?

That, my friends, is why I now have a blog. I hope you enjoy it! (And if you don't, I won't even know!)