First and foremost:
Hi to anyone who finds this and reads it! Hopefully I’ll offer up interesting stuff to keep you reading :)
Next on the list:
So what’s this blog about? Why was it so important that I hound my brother to serve up a blog tagged to the makeitmade.com domain? And why would I abandon my semi trusty Xanga blogs which have served me relatively well for so many years?
Well, part of it might be to have a new start with a new me. I know it’s a bit cheesy and hey, that’s what I thought when I saw it on my friend’s Xanga signoff. But there is some truth in it. While I’m nowhere near knowing who I am, I am a lot closer than I was my freshman year of college. I’m still the same person, but different enough to want a new blog that’s free from the embarrassing clutter of years passed. I’m sure I’ll still have embarrassing clutter on this site, but that will be for the new new me to decide, circa 2013.
Part of it probably also has to do with a desire to funnel traffic into my tshirt site which is now only 4 letters away (www.makeitmade.com). I don’t think this effort will be too successful, but I’m still living that dream! This tshirt project was my first effort to makeitmade and I’ll keep milking that dream until reality forces me to move on. Knowing my delusional tendencies, that will be for a very, very long time.
Lastly, part of it definitely has to do with how important the idea “makeitmade” is to me. So what does it mean to me? Well, it’s about just doing something with your life. Not just thinking about what you should do, but doing it. And that’s something I need to be reminded of. Everyday if possible. So from here on out whenever I post something, I’ll be reminded that life is short and that I have a goal. That goal is to makeitmade. I’m not certain what “made” actually means, and figuring that out is part of the journey that I hope to document here. But whatever and wherever it is, that’s where I need to be.
Finally:
So what can you expect on this blog? I’m not quite sure yet. It’ll probably mostly be about my recent endeavor to makeitmade (okay I promise I’ll stop doing that soon). Posts about what I’m doing wrong, what I’m doing right, and what I need to start doing to make everything that’s currently wrong, right. It’ll probably also just have a collection of things that I find interesting – news, other posts, etc. that spark something in me. Perhaps this running log of interest spikes will help me learn more about what makes me tick and help me think of new ideas to pursue. So I don’t know. We’ll see :)
