Lets Get Ready to Rumble!

Today began with choosing between 2 options: throw my crappy computer over the balcony and enjoy my tea in the morning sun, OR find a solution to the communication breakdown that has occurred over the last few months BECAUSE OF the crappy computer.

I picked option number 2 but at this point option number 1 is definitely still on the table.

Here's the issue: keeping in touch with family and friends while living halfway across the world has become difficult thanks to my crappy computer and crappy computer accessories (camera, microphone, etc). Skype conversations are a massive headache lately, literally and figuratively, leaving my Skype profile unused for months now. Facebook has kept everyone fairly well up to date except the majority of my family over the age of 40 who haven't jumped on the FB bandwagon and probably never will. So my solution to all this....besides blaming technology and chucking it over the balcony in a crazy, screaming, pregnant lady, hormonal fit....I'll start a blog.

Great idea Tara. Your computer is pissing you off so you've come up with a plan that involves spending even more time on the computer. Brilliant. Your 5 years of university was money well spent.

Yeah alright, this may become even more of a headache than the recent Skype woes but I'll give it a shot and if it doesn't work out I'll buy a phone card so I can tell you all about the scrap heap under the lemon tree that was my computer.

But here's my vision:

I want to write a little something everyday, or almost everyday, about what's going on in life. Photographs included. This means pregnancy updates, what's going on in Molyvos, where I went, what I saw, probably a lot about food because I'm obsessed with food and whatever's on my mind at the time. This will also encourage me to get out of the house and do some interesting thing so I actually have something worthwhile to write about....I'll admit it, I'm massive and leaving the house lately has seemed like a massive undertaking because of it. But that's not healthy and it's time for a change!

So that's the plan. We'll see how it goes. Already I'm getting a bit agitated by this blogging site because I want to change the title of the blog and a few other things but of course I can't figure it out. That's ok. You'll probably notice things changing a lot over the next little while as I figure out how to do this, but I'll just get started and learn as I go. Today my homework is to figure out how put pictures on here. But for now, I need to get back to the sunny balcony and conjure up some kind of zen state...deep breath in *in with calm*...and let it out *out with murderous thoughts on technology*....that's better! Namaste...