First Post: Happy Birthday To Me!

Hi! Welcome to my blog! It's certainly going to evolve over the next few weeks, months and hopefully years. I've been planning and plotting to blog for several years. Life keeps getting in the way. I've declared the Summer of 2010 as " The Summer of Lori". For the first time in 48 years (today is my birthday), I'm attempting to put myself first. It's a little bit scary and somewhat hard to do without feeling guilty, but I'm doing it. So, today seemed like a fitting day to begin the blog. I made a summer bucket list, for lack of a better term, to plan activities for myself for the summer - before the summer got away from me and I hadn't accomplished any me time.

I have signed up for a month-long photography course with Tracey Clark through www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com, I have REAL tan lines instead of a farmer's tan, and I got my first (and probably only) tattoo today. I'll post a picture later; my girls have similar tattoos in memory of our beautiful T.J. (more on T another day).

I'm enjoying getting to know myself better and exploring what interests me this summer. How are you spending yours?