we'll see how this goes. maybe it'll take off and i'll blog all the time, or maybe it'll be one of those things that sounded like a good idea but was really just one more thing on my to do list that never gets done.
either way, i figured that it was time to give it a try. i have friends that blog, and they seem much cooler than me. maybe blogging is the secret to coolness. maybe i'll become one of those famous bloggers that EVERYONE follows. i'll get paid to blog. people will want me to write for their magazines, and in the preface of my third book i'll make some funny comment about how it all started with my little blog. or... maybe it'll just be an easy way to keep friends and family up to date as to what's going on with the AK Slaugs. on the off chance that someone other than family happens upon this little gem, let me take a moment to explain AK Slaugs.
i am Mary Slaugenhoup, but i can't just leave it at that because there happens to be another Mary Slaugenhoup. not just some random person that happens to have the same name as me and i only know because i googled her. nope, the other Mary Slaugenhoup is my sister in law. yep, one family two Mary Slaugenhoups. you can see how this could make things a little confusing. after a few different attempts at how to distinguish who we was being talked about, the family sort of settled on Philly Mary (because she lives in Philadelphia) and AK Mary (for the strangers that only found this blog because they read the preface in my third book, i live in Alaska. not Arkansas.) i have found that some people are intimidated by my last name, so i try to shorten it for them when i can. thus AK Slaugs. ironically, my name gets spelled correctly more now than it did before i was married. Greene looks easy to spell, but that pesky little e at the end always throws people.
well there. my first official blog post is done. i feel cooler already. i'm sure that feeling will fade as i go change the diaper of my now screaming little boy. hard to feel cool when you're getting peed on.
