The Sound of Music

I want a blog. Everyone's doin' it. All of my friends have blogs and I am boderline-obsessed with several blogs of absolute strangers (see: dooce and bitemycookie). These ladies are funny and irreverent in a way that makes you feel like you are their friend, even though you know nothing about them. As I discussed with my friend Yellow (see: toabrightyellow), while goofy and funny-looking, I'm not particularly interesting on paper. So, this is my attempt to actually organize the thoughts flying around, bruising the inside of my cranium, set them down on paper (errr....sort of), and also to edit them.

Making a blog is not easy...coming up with a fun, relevant, and/or snappy title without totally giving away my ultra secret identity is a task that prompted me to eat half a bag of holiday m&ms. In the end, I decided to create a theme blog, and, while I'm not a) Austrian, b) a nun, c) a governess, d) Julie Andrews, or e) a goatherd, The Sound of Music is my favorite musicalphenomenonofalltime and I really admire Maria. And, we are similar, in that we both have blonde hair, love to twirl on the hillside, and we both love young, handsome Chistopher Plummer in breeches (with a whistle).

I ran into some problems trying to link this to my Flickr account. Apparently there is a very scary and disturbed young man with a similar account name that Flickr wants to link to. So, do not be fooled, the scary pictures of said young devil are not my photographic commentary! They may be on my slideshow, but they are not mine.

If life were ideal (which it clearly is not, since I am not married to both Fee-Fie-Foe-Fum and Patrick Dempsey) I really believe that, instead of ipods, we would be hardwired to have our own soundtrack. It would sort of be a like a mix-tape that plays just for you in your head. It requires no earbuds, it has no spin wheel, and it does not come in a really cool metallic shade of pink. It just is. The soundtrack area of the brain, snuggled up against the primary auditory cortex and the motor cortex. It would always be music that is apropos of the situation, it would not be distracting, and it would always, always be a song you actually enjoy. So, this is why I wanted to have a Sound of Music themed blog (besides that it is my 2nd favorite movie of all time). Perhaps this blog will serve as the soundtrack of my life, the sound of my personal music.

So, this is where I lay it out. Put the proverbial smackdown on my life. Keep in touch (I am notoriously bad at this). The hills are alive, my peeps, and I don't just mean that in connection with Lauren "LC" Conrad.