The beginning...again.

Apparently, I created this blog and nabbed "Maavax" in May of 2009.

Then, in true Reece-fashion, I left it completely blank and forgot all about it.

In more recent history, Google has taken over the world.

I'd been reluctant to join the Cult of Google beyond some daily searches. I've already established some comfortable niches on the Internet -- I've got my email, I've got my Myspace Multiply Facebook that I update every day, I've got my Camtu where I keep in touch with my 'tu girls -- and I didn't relish the thought of revamping the whole system just so everything could be streamlined with one log-in. Plus, I kind of like how they're NOT all connected. I want my peas over here, I want my mashed potatoes over here, I want my meatloaf over here (so to speak -- and a very unlikely metaphor for me, as I like it all plopped in the same bowl and covered in gravy).

My reluctance has been waning and little by little Google has been chipping away at the walls between my internet presences...and then today was the tipping point.

I woke up to an email in my inbox from an author that I used to follow faithfully and then lost track of quite a long time ago. I can't even tell you how much that email meant to me - I'm talking "Beiber-fever" levels of excitement. Turns out, she keeps a blog on Blogger. There you have it. That's enough to make me want to be a part of it.

Really, there's no reason not to -- it's not like I ever present any persona other than the real one anywhere online. And I'm not shy about sharing my various contact information with pretty much anybody.

I make no promises, to myself or anybody else. It's entirely possible that this will be the only entry for the next three years...though, a more likely scenario is that I will over-use it for several days or weeks and THEN abandon it for a long time again. I'm nothing if not consistently inconsistent.