First Entry - Good Intentions

Dear reader,

I have been waiting to create my own blog for a long time. Now that I will turn 30 this year, I thought it is a good time to start. I had some reservations before. I have this high standard that all (or at least most) things I do have to be "good", serve a purpose and be something new. The fact that I really don't have anything earth shattering to say didn't change, but my attitude towards just saying what's on my mind, regardless of the reactions has changed.

There are also a couple of promises I intend to keep. I am promising these things more to myself than to you, my dear (not yet existent) readers.

1. I will keep my entries short and sweet, so you can read the whole thing without your eyes turning backwards in your head.
2. I will update the blog at least once a week.
3. I will be honest, no cover up or sugar coating, my thoughts will materialize here unfiltered and with that follows
4. I will take responsibility for the things I write. Not everything you read on here you will like or agree with and that is ok, I take responsibility for for what I write and towards the people I write about. I will use cover names to protect certain people. Of course you, certain people, will know who you are, and that is ok. It's just more convenient to say certain things to an anonymous internet crowd than to your closest peeps - I don't care who you are that is a truth!
5. In order to keep some what organized (yes this blog serves my own therapeutic purpose too) I will summarize each post with a bottom line - dang that should have been my blog title.

Fair warning
I am not a native speaker (or writer) of the English language, also my thoughts race faster than my fingers can type, so every now and then there might be typos and missing words - don't laugh - just think of all the million thoughts that are crossing my mind - battling over who gets to be published, spoken or thought to the end.

Great expectations
Here are some of the topics I want to blog about, because it is part of who I am and what I do:
Motherhood - I am first time mom of a toddler, needless to say I could write a book about my daily baby escapades.
Soapbox - I will find out where this term comes from, but I can already tell you it will be rants and just my very own opinion on things, more than likely there will aspects you won't like, because well - there is just no one else like me, with the exact same thought, right?
Products - I do want to share some of the wonderful things out there that I love and that make my life a lot easier, or more fun.
Pictures - I do want to incorporate photographs of my life - a picture sometimes says more than a thousand word.
Memoir - I have always wanted to write a memoir of my life, I had some crazy things happening - as does everyone else- either way, I think some of them are very entertaining :)
My Life - These entries will start with "Today I did..." documenting what's going on in my life right now.
Life Purpose - I love helping people and at occasions I will share my philosophy on life, or just talk about random life questions - hopefully you will find it helpful.
Business - I am running an online business and probably discuss some practices that helped me grow my enterprise
Culture - Being a German expat in the USA, there are quite some things I notice are different.
Foodie - Recipes and love for food need an outlet too!


So, not to break with promise number 1, I will sing off for tonight.

Cheers my Dears,

Dani!