Let there be Write - Creation of my blog

I created this blog after being inspired by another person who has found happiness and success in blogging/writing about their life. Wil Wheaton has a very interesting life, and after reading his self-narrative "Just A Geek" I created by own blog.

I had the pleasure of meeting Wil this past weekend at the Phoenix Cactus Comicon. There I said it. I went to a Comic Book/Sci-Fi/Nerdfest convention. It was my first one, and I have to say, my first time was definitely special ;) There were a lot of memorable moments, of which I will recall in later posts, but for me the most special was meeting Wil. I bought his newest book "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" on Thursday night (the preview night) when not many people were at the convention because it was only open to those with a full event pass (yep, I bought one!). I stayed up until 1130PM reading it. You have to understand that sleep, for me, has become a premium luxury ever since my boyfriend and I got a puppy. Since December 28th, I've not gotten more than 4 hours in a row of uninterrupted sleep, and on top of the daily work schedule, life is leaving me with 5-6 hours of broken sleep every night. While I was able to do this successfully in college, less than a year later, I find myself struggling with it. So staying up 'til 1130Pm on a work night is no small change for me. Anyway, I found myself laughing out loud, smiling, crying, and reminiscing in the 3 hours it took me to finish the 140 page book (a nice easy read).

The next day, I found myself leaving work as early as possible (which turned out to be a whole 13 minutes early) to head down to the Mesa Convention Center for day 2. The first booth I visited was Wil's. We exchanged thoughts about the book I had read less than 24 hours before, and then I exuberantly put my finger down on "Just A Geek" and proclaimed that now I wanted "this one." Wil signed this book for me as well, along with a TNG poster, and I skipped away like a little school girl (which for me isn't too far of a stretch given the fact that I'm a 5'1, 22 year old (girl? woman? female? XX? damn 22 is an awkward age...more of a fledgeling state progressing into adulthood, but not quite totally there yet....ok, we'll just settle on young woman). When I got home, I opened the book. It had that nice freshly printed smell (unlike the old person smell you get from reading books with yellow pages that were printed over 20 years ago) to it, and I found myself once again laughing out loud, smiling, cry....well you get the point.

This is what has brought me to you. Albeit, Wil's life is a tad more interesting (given his experiences in the entertainment industry), we have a lot in common. I think if most people read any of his books (he has three right now), they'd find that they too have a lot in common with Wil. This is because he writes about growing up, life, love, loss--running the entire gamut of emotions that most (and I say most because there are some people out there who are like Vulcans - committed to suppressing emotions) people deal with on an everyday basis. He writes in such a way that makes you able to relate his storries to your own life, and it's even easier to relate with if you are also a geek.

More to come...I'm at work now and feel a tad uneasy that I'm using work time for a personal project. SHHHHH, don't tell ;)