No point in pretending here; I've been sitting on this site for a couple of months now. Why? Well, I'm not really satisfied with the template and need to learn more about modifying it so I can get closer to what I want. But the bigger issue has been where to start. I needed a strong, solid foundation--a launching pad. Something to really set the tone. Any old idea wouldn't do. You can see where this is going, right? This blog is really about as inconsequential as it can be, yet here I was piling on this pressure and these unrealistic expectations, slowing myself down in the process. Your blog can't suck if you never start it, right?
When I was drifting off to sleep in seat 28C somewhere above the mid-Atlantic states, it hit me...the only thing I needed to get this started was to actually get started. Sounds so obvious, right? So, here it is, the inauspicious, highly unofficial launch of my new blog. Hello, friend.
"But what IS Tara Standard Time?"
I'm glad you asked! Last night--or "last night," for you time purists--I was up very late doing things around the house and preparing for my very early departure this morning. (Fine, I was procrastinating packing.) I ended up going to sleep for about 90 minutes before the alarm woke me at 4:00 a.m. That might not sound like a lot of sleep (because it most definitely isn't) but it was necessary to mentally reset for the next day.
I often say when it's after midnight that it isn't tomorrow yet. No matter what the clock says, the calendar doesn't roll ahead until my head hits the pillow. I've come to think of this concept as Tara Standard Time. Definitely not the standard...and uniquely from my perspective, good or bad. And possibly sleep-deprived. That's what you can expect here. Which means that, after all the overthinking and procrastinating, I accidentally hit on the only possible way to get started. Go figure.