So, in full disclosure I have been known to procrastinate or put off until tomorrow what I could do today. Not always. Just sometimes. I never miss a deadline and I get things done. I simply have my own time and I have learned how to walk that line. Well.

Let’s take this blog for instance. The idea of this space has been incubating in my mind for years. Literally. As an inherently reflective person I am a deep thinker. I stack ideas, thoughts, observations, interpretations and all things perceived like I was filling a can of Pringles. Lining the shelves of my mind are endless topics that move me in all directions.

But I am busy. Always busy. Therefore, no time to start a blog. At least that’s what I have told myself. And if I am not busy then I am tired. So tired. There had never really been an action plan. I mean who was waiting for it? No one. And, still no one. There was no rush.

So, why now? Why today? It is just a random day in April as I write this. It is raining today, and I have no afternoon plans. Enough with the binge watching and social media scrolling.! FEEL LIKE STARTING MY BLOG! That thought always just popping up like a piece of my puzzle that keeps falling off the table. Hence, if you read my About Me blurb, there is the randomness I was talking about. This wasn’t on my day’s agenda when I woke up this morning.

I know I am late to the game. Who even blogs anymore I wonder? Should I be embarrassed? But who is asking anyway? Again, no one. So, today is as good a day as any other. It’s time to just do it and see what happens. It’s a solid way to spend the next few hours anyway.

My millennial children would probably laugh their heads off. My ten-year-old would think it’s cool because for him I still am.

It might be fun to go on the record of my life and let this be a fluid and ever evolving journal that can just explain me. We are always learning new things about ourselves so why set limits bound by our age or by established patterns of what we and others know about ourselves. So what if this isn’t what she’d “normally do.” I am going to have fun with it, out of character or not.

I always contemplated, what would be the perfect and most relevant FIRST post? Looking back over time, that contemplation was probably what was tripping me up from getting started way back when. I just couldn’t decide (more on the analysis paralysis of decision making coming up at a later date) on that kind of perfection. And now that just seems so silly and like wasted time (hmm…musings on wasted time…. I could say a few words on that!)

One of my many revelations about myself is the contentment I have cultivated with the perfectly imperfect. The concept of perfection as relative and not absolute has been freeing. So much more to say on that too. One day.

I will leave it here for now, with As The Years Sip By as one of many endeavors on my continuum of starting points. Completely unreliant on context or further explanation more than Today Is The day! Directions from here forward TBD.

Whew!! Thank you very much. The door is finally cracked. Let’s see what shows up next! Your guess is as good as mine.