Inspired by Christina Aguilera's Song "I Am".

Today, I am feeling kinda melancholy.  I have a love-hate relationship with these days, as they force me to take a good look at my life and it's surroundings, the people in it, things like that.  I have lost friends because of my melancholy days.  I have also gained a lot of insight as to who I truly am because of them. 

So there I was this morning, waiting for my bus downtown (damn that bus, it's chronically late!).  I have inspiration, and no paper.  Cell phone is dead.  I have a pen!  I was about to write on my friggen arm.  Then I found a business card and started writing on the back of it.  I wanted it to be kind of poetry-esq.  However, I couldn't turn it into a poem.  So decided to make it a checklist type of thing.  Sort of an inventory of myself.  I suppose it's not all there.  I suppose there are many other words to describe myself.  It's difficult to start it all with "I am", but it was my inspiration, therefore I felt obliged.

I am… stubborn

I am… determined

I am… oversensitive

I am… tired

I am… defensive

I am… temperamental

I am… emotional

I am… unpredictable

I am… vulnerable

I am… a woman

I am… a mother

I am… confident

I am… strong-willed

I am… hardworking

I am… shrewd

I am… imperfect

I am… responsible

I am… persevering

I am… cautious

I am… persistent

I am… honest

I am… respectful

I am… ambitious

I am… reserved

I am… conservative

I am… insecure

I am… pessimistic

I am… capricious

I am… intellectual

I am… rational

I am… logical

I am… ill-at-ease

I am… methodical

* NOTE: These are not the lyrics for the song. Listening to the song just made me decide to do a checklist of myself :) *

First

My very first blog. I have read other people's blogs, and I must say, it looked like it would be an easy thing to do. I said, "Hey, I can do that, I like to write!" But now that I am sitting here, at my computer, trying to think of something to write about, I can't think of anything.

It was actually my very good friend Mike that inspired me to start writing again. He's awesome. He's got this exciting energy, he's always so upbeat about everything, and I always get so inspired! Him and I are the co-founders of "Mike and Shannon's Awesomely Spectacular Book Club", a result of too much time on our hands at work.  Currently, we are reading "The Chronicles of Narnia".  He found the entire series for $5.99!  But the book is ridiculously huge, and almost impossible to lug around!