It feels like me.

I’ve been a blogger for many, many years now.  I was bloggin’ away before it was even cool to blog.  But, in my near-decade long span of blogging, I’ve never had a blog that has felt more like “me”.

My first blogs were full of your typical teenage agnst.  But it always felt somewhat forced.  I was writing what I thought people my age should be writing about.  My next blogs all revolved around Jose and how much I loved him.  Obsession is more like it.  I would write a bazillion entries in one week professing my love for Jose and blab about how much sex we had and how much I missed him (he worked out of town). 

I dropped off the blogging radar for a while, and when I came back, and it was all about my kids.  Birth stories, accomplishments, milestones, pictures galore!  It was anything and everything about Olivia and Isabel.

Now, I’m not saying any of the above are bad themes for a blog.  But I never felt free to let loose and shine through, you know what I mean?  I always felt CONFINED to talking about such topics or else I would feel as if I were straying away from the real purpose of the blog.

When I started up El Sueno, I just wanted a blog.  I missed blogging and wanted somewhere to call home.  Mainly, I wanted somewhere to blog about my life married to a Mexican. 

But, I soon realized, that gave me almost free reign!!  I can blog about our life together, I can blog about my daily going-ons, I can blog about my kids, I can blog about current events that interest me, I can blog about cultural differences, movies, music, jokes…

And the list goes on.

Most importantly, I can blog about ME! 

One of these days, I’ll get brave and post the link to my blog back in 2001, when me and Jose first started dating.

I was real original.  I named the damned thing “I LOVE JOSE”.  🙂

Adios.