I officially suck at this

More than a year between posts was not the goal I was shooting for when I first started this blog, but honestly, shit happens and blogs are sometimes forgotten. Recently, I have really gotten into reading blogs instead of working. My office within an office is extremely conducive to perusing the Internet all day - I have the perfect setup with my computer facing the window, my blinds down and my face tilted toward the computer screen in such a concentrated, confused and frustrated expression that no one ever bothers me. It is very nice.

After yet another day of blog browsing, I think I am finally ready to take the art seriously and to try to not suck so much at this. I have read and observed the blogging habits of some of the more successful blogs and they always seem to start with a little background about the narrator.

My name is Kelly. I am 24 and live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with my boyfriend, Johnson. I am employed (thank goodness!) at a real estate consulting firm and actually enjoy my job (about 90% of the time). It is a hard time to be working in real estate and my projects continue to dwindle down the same spiral that the economy is following. Hence, my need for a time-taker upper.

I love New York, the ridiculously overcrowded subways as well as the annoying people that ride on them (mind you, I am one of these annoying commuters, shoving my bag in your child's face and listening to my Ipod without a care in the world). And let me just set the record straight- although I am not from New York, I have been living here for two+ years. It really only takes a couple weeks of commuting from uptown to downtown, east to west, downtown to uptown, and west to east before everyone begins to annoy you in some way. I choose to ride the subway, but trust, I have tried to commute via bus and hoof.

Although I love the bus because my hair does not frizz up the second I get on, the fact that it takes 12 minutes to move three blocks kills me. I am such a control freak that having to sit there and do nothing while multiple cars, pedestrians, trucks, strollers and other buses cut my bus off, drives me insane. It is not as stress-free as I would like my commute to be.

As far as hoofing it, on sunny, brisk Fall and Spring days, I can overlook the fact that three people have rolled their suitcases over my feet without so much of a grunt of an apology; I can overlook the fact that an 80-year old woman stands on one side of the sidewalk while allowing her tiny teacup Yorkie to sniff the tree on the other side of the sidewalk, requiring the Walking People of New York to jump over the leash; and, I can even overlook the swarms of tourists that see the Chrysler Building and decide to stop dead in their tracks to snap a photo. All of these people can be overlooked on a nice day, its the bad days, the cold days, the sweltering hot days, and the rainy days when I most certainly will not choose to walk to/ from work.

So, in order to keep my sanity I "subway" it to work, more specifically, "4-5-6" it to work and it works out nicely, so long as the volume on my Ipod is high. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am an unlimited metro card holder and I never leave home without it. Excuse my digression on NYC public transportation, I had not planned to go down that route .

I just moved in with my boyfriend a month ago and so far our only fight has been about Rock Band and not having enough room to store it. But after throwing my purse on the sidewalk in a drunken stupor and breaking my cell phone*, Jonson bought me a slice of NYC pizza and we went home to eat it in bed. Yes, we are gross and eat in bed once every drunken' occasion. The next day, we found a safe place for the fake drum set at the top of the closet and all is well.

I would be lying if I said that I have an extremely exciting life because it isn't ridiculously exciting. But I manage to have a fun time most of the time. I have great friends, a wonderful boyfriend and my family that lives close by in a CT suburb. My knowledge of technology is pretty bad, despite the fact that I am 24 and should know everything about every gadget and gizmo just because I was born after 1980. For example, I have no idea why my font has changed or how to change it back. I am officially still sucking at this blogging business, but at least I am trying.

More to come... I may have been born fresh, but I am a work in progress :)

* Just a lil' note about me: I have a tendency to break my cell phone once every six months and 9 times out of 10, it is because I happen to be drunk and PMSing. Just putting it out there.