INTRO POST

I'm Michaela and I am taking a running start kind of jump really far down off something really high with this and I am starting this blog. I guess since I've spent so many late nights - that go as far back as 6th grade - pretending to be forgetting homework and losing precious kid-sleep over eclectic little blogs, I've always wanted to be as cool as their authors with their keen fashion eyes and dip dyed hair (whoa, right?). Wow, no I definitely still want to be like them. To be fair, I'd be lying if I said I hadn't tried out blogging in my past, but I think the last time I truly did that was in 8th grade when I made a little website for taking care of pets. Like.. I had a thing for learning about the care of household pets so I wrote about what I found out on the ~~interwebs~~... in middle school? Wow, yeah I don't know. AND WOW OH MY GOD AM I STRAYING OR WHAT

Where was I even going with that, uuh okay well yes, so I've wanted to be like the cool blogger girls I based myself off of since before time (middle school ayy) and save for a couple trials that ended in errors, I haven't thrown myself onto the internet in a while. Hooray for the throwing of oneself onto the internet, no?

So who the gosh diddly darn is this ranting child you're doubtfully still paying attention to? Whoooo? WHO IS SHE? Dude I totally have no idea, but I can describe a little of what my goals are for this, sure.

The main pull I had towards starting a blog was that I've been getting hit more and more with just tropical storms of ideas and concepts and words and colors.. so many things all at once. Most of the time I'll maybe vaguely tweet in reference to my artfeels instead of making them into (#)artreals (hahahahhaaaaaa yeah), you feel? So by the end of the night I've been on tumblr for hours and I've lost a couple of my more sports-orientated twitter followers and, I mean, what's up with that? I shouldn't accept that, right? Right. So I'm giving myself a big ol' blank space for my paintings and new ideas that are too heavy to shove into 140 characters. Because sometimes I feel like there's no reason for me to continue creating when there's nothing coming from it, when it's pretty obvious to me that that is something very important.

So what can you expect as a reader? Novel question. Good work, man. Probably lots of thought posts, watercolors, sketches, school projects I'm proud of, things found, photos. I sometimes wish I had something I was especially interested in I could focus my posts on, but truly there is no one thing for me. I really like fashion, art, music, and different approaches to thinking/creating, so I guess if that's close enough to a central theme, that's as much as you'll be getting. Right now I'm less interested in appealing to an audience/being a useful resource for something specific, and more interested in keeping track of myself as an intellectually active human.

So let's see what happens here. It'll be fun.

Michaela