Blogging

Well, I've decided to start blogging. It's really weird too. I never intended to blog...ever. But I've read many of my friends blogs and they are always so interesting. I always said I would never blog because I always thought it was weird to write about everything that happens in your life and also because basically my life isn't that interesting and there is never anything to tell...I'm quite boring. So we will see what happens. The hardest part of starting this blog was coming up with a name. I didn't know it could be so taxing! I thought I would try to come up with something cute to rhyme with my name but seriously...nothing good rhymes with Janice or Donoho. So I racked my brain...for what seemed for ever. I was surfing the internet (something I do quite often) and I stumbled upon Big & Rich's website and on there they are playing snippets of every song off their album. One of those songs is "Lost in This Moment". It's a song about a bride and groom and their wedding day but I loved the concept of the title...to be lost in a moment. Any moment. So I borrowed the concept from them. I hope they don't mind and since I doubt that John Rich and Big Kenny will ever stumbled upon my boring blog I don't think I'll worry about it too much.

I love the idea of getting lost in something whether it's in a book, movie, TV show, song, or the scenery. I can get lost in all those things. I guess you can say that I'm a big media fan. Not media as in news reports and tabloids (although I do subscribe to People), but as in movies, books, tv, music. Sometimes I would rather sit and watch a movie than anything else. If I could get paid just to watch movies, I probably would to that. Movies can be a nice escape from real life sometimes. I love all types of movies but mainly romantic comedies. I had a single friend tell me one time that she doesn't watch romance movies because it reminds her of what she doesn't have and although I do feel that way at times, I love them because it makes me excited for what I could and hope to have one day.

I love to get lost in a good story. Reading is a big passion for me and I read all the time. My favorite author is Karen Kingsbury. She is a Christian author and I've never read books quite like hers. She can really take you places in her books and make you think about your life, relationships and walk with God and want to make them better. I hope and long to be able to write something as wonderful and life changing as her work.

Getting lost in music and scenery goes together for me. I love to sit on my balcony at my apartment and turn on some good country music and just relax. It's so soothing just what I need sometimes after a long day at work. From my apartment I can watch the sun set and it just amazes me reminds everynight just how wonderful God really is! (I also need to get something to sit on.)

I also decided to start blogging as a way to get my thoughts down. I used to write and write quite often. I used to do a children's newsletter with a former co-worker and in there I wrote a one page fictional story about a family. I enjoyed that very much and it is my dream to actually sit down and write a novel. I got out of the habit of writing for many reasons but I thought that this might be a good way to relearn how to pull together ideas and put them down where it's understandable.

So we will see if I have any real thoughts from day to day and we'll see if I actually keep up with this thing. But since today's blog went much longer than I actually thought, I might have something to say...even if it isn't of much importance to anyone but myself.