You know it’s bad when you’re being mocked…

…by cartoons.

A recent episode of the Simpsons said it best:

Ha Ha! Your medium is dying

So many rules

Mr. Newsgal just informed me that my blog has to have a theme. He suggested I write about purses. In fact, he just said “News Cycle” should be changed to “In the Bag,” complete with a photo of me passed out drunk on all of my purses with an empty bottle of wine close by.

This pisses me off for several reasons.

1. I drink red wine and I would never be careless enough to pass out on top of my treasured purses holding a liquid famous for staining fabrics.

2. He is my husband and I often find myself annoyed with him, even though his comments are usually pretty witty and he is (usually) pretty darn cute.

3. In an effort to get rid of some of our massive debt, I’ve refrained from purse shopping for almost as long as I’ve neglected this blog. His suggestion that I write about purse shopping taunts me.

Of course I’m kidding about all of this. But still, I think I’ll swing by the Coach outlet tomorrow on my way home from work and pick up a little something for myself. That will teach him.

Also, in the interest of full disclosure, I now have a myspace account and a facebook page, that I can’t figure out how to use. Guess I’m not a prude anymore.

Let’s try this again, shall we…

Just found my old blog. As you can see, I started it with pretty low expectations almost two years ago and have have done very little - OK, who am I kidding? — absolutely nothing with it since.

Again my expectations are extremely low and this will likely be the only post until about 2010. But I figure blogs are going to eventually mean the end of my career as a newspaper journalist so I might as well give writing one of these a try.

Gosh this is weird. It’s like a diary, only I’m going to publish it and strangers are going to read it? Of course when these strangers  (a.k.a. a few friends who know about this blog) read this they are going to see I’m a complete moron who can’t even figure out how to write a decent blog entry.

Hey look, your first insight into my personality: I use self-deprecation as a form of humor.

First timer

I can’t sleep. Not unusual. I decided to read a few of my friend’s blogs and realized I want a blog too. If you are reading this and know me, you will know how absurd that is since I am a real prude when it comes to the Internet — not much else. I don’t even like myspace.

So here I am, with a blog. Weird. I wasn’t going to post anything, but my husband — am I supposed to insert his name here? — told me it was pretty “f—ing gay” to start a blog and not post. So I’m posting.

Thanks for reading.