i wanted to tell you so many things today.

 i wanted to show you an inspiring video about an incredible documentary i want you to see, and then spent way to much time setting up my blog account on youtube. 

i wanted to talk about how i want to focus more on the theme of this blog, especially the travel part, and then went into a whirlwind of ideas on how to do that, got lost in the internet abyss chasing my thoughts and, alas, the topic became so huge that i could barely escape the vortex. 

i wanted to make the banner up above more simple, and, finally, centered. it's been slightly off kilter since the get-go and has been insidiously nibbling on my nerves. i'm beginning to ever so slightly grasp the concepts of pixel counts and css commands. but, still, a task like this seems to take far longer than i could have ever imagined it would. i wanted to layer the images with filters on photoshop, but, well, that seemed to be an endeavor begging for more hours and brain cells than i had left today.

i wanted to say so many things today. about stories and songs, art and the things i see. and i wanted to do these things in-between picking up kids from camp, preparing food, scheduling appointments and shuttling to voice lessons. as my daughter belted "the wizard and i" from wicked, i was wondering if you were giving up on me because i hadn't shown up here in a couple of days. 

i wanted to share with you about how i just reached the three month mark on this blog. how over five hundred of you have stopped by, from all over the world. how i feel like i've been in the giddy anxious part of a new relationship. preoccupied sometimes over whether you'll call and whether or not i'll ever see you again. hoping these first dates have been as good for you as they have for me. hoping i've revealed enough (and not too much) to show you what's really and truly my intention here and that it has been enough. hoping that you know that, for me, this is for real.

i want to share so much with you. 

and it just can't all happen on any given day.

i need many more dates with you.

so, i'm just going to ask.

wanna go steady?