Here I go, with my first ever blog posting on my first ever blog in the blogosphere! Suddenly, I fear I have writer’s block — but never fear, my idiocy shall overcome all frozen thought! Aha! Well, now, what do we have here in this first ever posting? Well, we shall now discuss why we are here.
Without going into a humongous essay here, I will tell you the reasons for this blog. First of all, I have had a big interest in self-reliant living for some time now, and have done a lot of research on it. Now I am ready to embark on living a life as self-sufficiently as I can, though I must say, I will have to start out rather slooowly — after all, I still work in the 8-5 world, with the 8-5 job and all the attendant frustrations and even pleasures, such run of the mill living so entails. My ultimate goal, however, is to be able to work at home, grow my own food, live off the grid, produce various crafts, live simply and sustainably, and yes, even eco-friendly, lower my carbon footprint, tread lightly on the earth, yada yada yada, blah blah blah.
I have also felt somewhat pushed towards self-sufficiency by all the so-called economic developments in the world – rising gas prices, food prices, grain shortages etc. NOT that I’m any sort of gloom and doom type, and I’m not looking for the four horsemen of the apocalypse to come riding over the hill any day now (though I suppose some folks are). BUT I do think it’s a good idea to be prepared for whatever may come over the horizon, whether it’s those lovely horsemen, a big Mack truck, or Lady Godiva (either in the form of a naked lady or a box of dark chocolate, take your pick–I’m all for the dark chocolate, myself).
Anywho, this blog serves as a record of my journey into self-sufficiency, and I hope it can also provide resources for others who wish to embark on this path. Like I said, I’ve done a lot of research on all this, with lots and lots of bookmarks, and, heck yeah, I oughta put all those wasted hours perusing the Internet to good use and benefit my fellow sentient beings, right?
So here you have a little idea of what I will be bringing to this blog. First of all you’ll get to see me create a very small Square Foot Garden — this begins tomorrow. There are many, many other topics, however, that I want to explore and share with you, so I hope you’ll hang with me and learn as I go. I’ll put in more about what I want to do in the ABOUT section, but I haven’t written much about that there yet, but you can go there now if you want to get a brief little blurb about ME!
Anyway, that’s all folks, for now! Buenos Noches and thanks for reading my blog! 
