I started this blog 14 years ago. Fourteen. Years. Ago. Woah. It began as a bit of an experiment, and coping mechanism. I was young, in a new city, with not a lot of friends so I used the blog as an outlet – pretending that I had real people interested in my life and what I had to say. Over time, it was a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I did end up making some friends, and a life for myself that wasn’t half bad. You can see it in my old posts. I do get a kick out of reading some of them!

Now, I hope to do it again. I am once again in a newish city, with few friends here (I left them all in Toronto) and find myself needing an outlet. I am older, wiser, but still stumbling around and wishing things were better. I don’t know if I’m ready to start writing about my private life (I’ve gone through a comedy of tragedies lately) but I probably will get there at some point. I think right now I just want to go back to my roots and write about fun things like product and service reviews or other random things.

I feel really old. I was an influencer before that even became a popular term, and now everyone and their grandmas are influencers on YouTube, TikTok, Twitter (is that still a thing?) and Instagram. Hell, I’m so old that I remember when all of those started to become cool, and now they’re either juggernauts in the space that humble Blogger.com used to inhabit, or some have even passed out of our memories.

As I was looking around to figure out just how the hell to run a cool blog again, I realized that all of the people I used to follow don’t blog anymore. So many URLs for sale. I really don’t know where to start. So I guess I’ll just start at the beginning like I did before, and worry about fancy layouts and shit later. If anyone is actually reading this, I hope you’ll bear with me! Everything is so much more complicated, now.