The Start of Something Big?

Okay so my first Blog entry ever. While I get the concept of blogging, I have no idea about the mechanics of it including who will be able to read this, how they'll find it and whether they'll be able to comment (not sure the ego can take that anyway). I do admit to having a morbid curiosity about whether anyone will read this blog. Why would you bother?

Okay so I'll introduce myself. I'm thirty years old, I have two children aged 4 and 7 months. I am married and I have a love/hate/giggle relationship with my husband. I work in the Australian public service doing not very interesting work (at least for me) which I would be able to do in the dark, standing on my head. For this they pay me a lot of money and tell me at fairly frequent intervals how amazing I am and how wonderful it is that I can do what I do. Occasionally I flirt with the idea that this is because I'm a genius. The reality I think is that they can't pay anyone else to do my job because it is so horrendously dry and boring.

So where is the spice in my life? Well apart from taming the kids (one of whom shows sign of evil genius that I feel I must curb if the world is to remain safe for habitation) I have a passion for renovating, building, sewing, cooking and sticking my nose into other people's business. I am also in love with self help (the kind that doesn't involve reading books) and I like to analyse myself and work at growing into a better person. I also like to talk about myself a lot - but I don't do that because I have family that do it and nothing is more boring than hearing other people tell you how fabulous they are. Which makes a blog ideal. I guess apart from getting down all my thoughts my target market is weak-willed people who love to hear me talk about myself in the vain hope that some of my arrogance will rub off and magically turn them into confident people. No doubt the people that will really find me are the ones who like to laugh at how self-involved I am. Because that's what this blog will be - everything I can't say in real life because I'm too meek/nice/etc.

So the name of my blog. Tool Chick is one of my many nic names. My sister is Groovy Chick (so skinny, beautiful and effortlessly fashionable you wouldn't believe) and I'm Tool Chick because I am all about the tools. And Guide To Life? Well while I consider myself to be a pretty scattered type of person I seem to get told a lot how together I am and how amazing I am at achieving things. I don't understand this because I don't think I'm anything special really and I'm certainly not doing anything that anyone else couldn't do. But, in the interests of studying the phenomenon that is my reality vs everyone else's perception - here is what I propose to do. For one whole year, starting today (28 January 2010) I will record a sort of diary of the things I do to challenge myself and the things that the universe/God throws at me to challenge me. I will set myself a new major challenge each month and record how well I achieve it.

Tune in, write back (if you can) and stick around as I aim to learn new things, try new experiences and live my life to the full. Please don't send too much negativity my way - for all the brash bravado, I am pretty sensitive and this blog is my soul stripped bare.

Peace-

Tool Chick

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