On Blogging...

I've sat back and watched social media transform over the years with mild amusement and milder interest. It seems like by the time I was technologically competent for blogging, it was outdated. True enough, many of my blogger friends have gone the way of the world, sucked into the void of pointless showing off that Facebook has become.

Social media is still in its infancy. Or at least its adolescence.

Regardless, it doesn't know who it is and neither do we. Myspace started out as an online bulletin board of sorts but quickly imploded on itself in its poor defense against spam, porn, and coding errors. For a time, I thought Facebook had learned its lesson from its predecessor.

Finally! A spam-free environment in which we could all keep tabs on each other (a necessity for a frequent mover like yours truly) and stay in touch in each other's lives in an unobtrusive and inexpensive way.

And yet, somewhere along the line, we began poking, throwing sheep, announcing how tired we are, letting the world know how great this movie is, how lame that book was, announcing to the internet that "It's SOOOO NAPTIME!!! <3 and other updates on the sundry minutia.

And so, in an effort to break away from the sea of duckfaced girls, Memes, sports rants and game invites I'm going back to the blog.  The tried and true online journal that can be checked on by friends and family to stay in touch in a very basic way.

This is an important time in our lives.  These days of our marriage's infancy deserve some chronicling, and more detail and reflection than is normally offered in the average status update.  Now are the days when we really start to learn each other. 

We won't be perfect.  We'll test each other.  We'll be clumsy. 
We'll argue, we'll disagree, we'll fall more in love each day. 

We're not perfect.

But we're not supposed to be.



We're still working out the Buggs.