Me... blogger?

My first blog. Sadly, not quite the milestone I expected. All these tools / templates make it so easy. It takes literally all of five minutes to set up. In fact, the hardest part was coming up with a name that wasnt yet taken. - Kinda takes the thrill out of a 'first time'.

Still, here I am- joining the blogging bandwagon a couple of years too late. Funny, I didnt even have blogging in my new year's resolution this year (unlike last year and the year before and the year before that...). No drawn-up plans or complicated roadmap. I'm just jumping in, cold turkey.

Maybe it was a matter of finding a topic to write about. It happened to dawn on me the other day that, in a few months, I'd have been an OFW for two years. Twenty four months of dreadful delights. One million, fifty-one thousand two hundred bitter-sweet minutes of recent history. Too much time that have slipped by without a proper accounting. It's time to amend that.

So I'd better get this blog on the road. To document the joys and travails of being an OFW. To share my experiences as a Pinoy in the US midwest. To mark my passing on this road that many a Pinoy before, and after, me has trudged on. To tick this (blogging) off the list of things to do before I die.

So here's to posterity. And my sanity. Enjoy.