Boredom has led me to blogging

I've had many friends suggest I start a blog, however I've been hesitant for a few reasons.  One, I never like to be someone who follows the crowd, but mostly because I'm really not sure I've got anything profound worth saying. But it's amazing how one's opinion can change in light of insane amounts of free time. Ultimately, I have unemployment to thank for my new interest in blogging. 

So once I decided to start a blog, I was burdened with the task of a title.  I handle the task of titling anything with upmost seriousness. I could never be satisfied with a mainstream name to mark my monumental decision to begin a blog. I received a good dose of creative inspiration from my friend Libby's blog: "A little ray of sunshine...with a pocketful of angst." And so, after much deliberation, I have decided upon "Coming to terms with sloppy joes." To explain the title, I first must give some detail of a current project I am working on (another urge sparking from unemployment).

Years ago, when Tom and I first met at BYU-Idaho, we almost instantly became e-mailing pen-pal-ing maniacs. We accumulated close to 80 e-mails between the years of 2005-2007. Trust me though, they're hardly love letters.  Anyway, I've begun the process of compiling these e-mails into a book. As I was going back through all of our absurd discussions and musings, I found one October 2005 e-mail from me titled "I'm glad you've finally come to terms with sloppy joes."  Due to the content within that particular e-mail, I decided that it would be fitting to title the entire book "Coming to terms with sloppy joes." And well, I liked the title enough to have it stretch further into my newly-acquired blog.

Here are a few more pages from the book.