To Boldly Go...

So here it is...finally. I've had these grandiose dreams of having a fancy, revenue-generating website someday that is so successful that I have to quit my job to stay at home and maintain it. And, you know, of course, it will eventually buy me a condo on the beach, a cabin in the mountains, and frequent vacations to places like Disney World, the Carribbean, the Poconos and Europe.

As with most of my big dreams, I often build them up so fabulously in my mind that by the time I'm finished mentally shopping for the yacht, I'm too exhausted to even get started. So at this point, I'm employing the KISS theory. (In case you've been holed up in a basement for years on end, a la Brendan Fraser in "Blast from the Past," that means "Keep It Simple Stupid.") I'm going to start with this blog, which may or may not be read by all my friends on Facebook and the other people I spam with the link. (If you are one of them, may God bless you and your household for reading this.)

One reason is I love to write. And part of the inspiration came from the fact that I found my writing portfolio after months of it being MIA. It has all the newspaper, magazine and web articles I've written, along with stories from my journalism classes and college newspaper. I was reading through some of them and remembering that I was a decent writer at some point (I think), and all I wanted to do with my life was write. I'm familiar with blogging now, too, because I've done a blog for about a year and a half for the website of the TV station where I'm employed. I've found in doing so that I'm wittier than I perhaps thought. (Don't you think so, too?)

I chose the name Scattered, Smothered and Covered, because my interests (and usually my mind) are scattered, I'll be covering a lot of issues and topics, and well...smothered just went along with it. Plus, I love Waffle House hashbrowns - a Southern staple, really - and well, quite honestly, Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, Topped, and Diced was just too long of a name.

So it all boils down to doing something I'm passionate about, doing what I love, and letting God take it from there and turn it into whatever He wants it to be. And who knows? Mickey Mouse and I may become buddies someday before it's all said and done.

Thanks for reading!
Edie