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Call me Kim.

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A little bit about me…

My name is Kimberly, but most people call me Kim.  I was born and raised in the Bay Area about an hour south of San Francisco.  I still live in the South Bay and now spend much of my time with my husband and our three fur babies.  I have a huge family, 35 first cousins on my mother’s side.

I take too many pictures — this is how I document my experiences, I generally eat too much food for my own good, I LOVE my friends — they are like family (notice I said LOVE in caps), and I don’t sleep enough.  I enjoy good music, trying all types of new cuisine from food trucks to fine dining, traveling (especially to destinations with a tropical or Mediterranean climate), learning new languages, and spending lazy Sundays reading, writing, or watching a good movie or musical.  I’m a geek at heart, and I’m finally starting to own it.

My guilty pleasures are rom-coms, savory snacks (Cool Ranch chips, beef jerky, Flamin’ Hot  Cheetos, you name it), reality TV (think The Voice, The Amazing Race, Married at First Sight, and the occasional Bachelor Paradise-type show), and makeovers.  I am ashamed to say that my coping mechanism for stress went from overindulging in food to overindulging in food AND buying cosmetics.  It’s a problem.

I wish I were better at cooking, crafts, exercising (it’s just sad, but I’m working on it), and web development.  I’m a zero in this last area, and it would be extremely helpful to this blogging adventure to know more so I’m learning along the way.  The last blog I had years ago disappeared into a black hole because I forgot to renew the site.  Lesson learned.  Today’s small victories were figuring out how to map my domain to this blog and setting my domain subscription to auto-renew.  It’s the little things.

I hope to post weekly and would really appreciate your feedback about things you’re interested in hearing about.  If you take a look at the About the Blog page, you’ll see the broad topics I plan to stick to.  Future posts should include an image of some sort so stay tuned.

Until next time…

Taking the leap…

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Have you ever dreamt of taking your first step toward a new adventure, albeit a small step, but a first step nonetheless?  Following a passion?  Doing something different from your status quo?

And is it just me, or is that process so much more overwhelming once you actually try to start?  Forget technical savvy, money, and time.  Set those barriers aside.  Just the idea of starting is suddenly a huge undertaking.  Don’t get me wrong; I am super excited to start putting time and effort into this passion project, dare I say ecstatic, but I suddenly feel very small.  Like I don’t know what the heck I’m doing.  Like there are hundreds of thousands of other people (if not more) who are embarking on a similar adventure.  People who are further along, have access to more resources, and who are just “better” at this.

Then I remember… I’m doing this for me, and I’m genuinely excited to take anyone else who’s interested along on this journey with me.  So if nothing else, I hope you get something out of this blog.  A laugh, a new idea, encouragement… whatever it is that makes your day a little better.

Take a look at the About Me, About the Blog, and Contact pages to learn more about who I am, what I like to write about, and how to reach out.  I would love to hear about what you want to see.  If you enjoy my posts, like, reply, share.  Let’s make it a conversation.

Until next time…