1st post!

so, i finally have a blog. no more hijacking of my friends’ blog, either by leaving insane, unrelated comments or by actually logging in as them and writing something.

first, getting a blog of my own was a “new school year resolution,” which became a “start a blog by the beginning of the new year” resolution. of course, that became just a plain old “new year’s resolution,” allowing me to procrastinate until any time in 2008.

why did it take me so long? well, i couldn’t figure out what to name it. i know you can change the name in the header, but what about the url? you can’t change that. you see, i have this weird problem of not being able to name things. i still haven’t named the stuffed iguana (long story) that i got as a graduation present, and that was almost a year ago! i just can’t come up with anything good enough.

so, Adrienne suggested that i should be the music nerd that i am and use some random music term as the name of my blog. for some reason, ‘compound melody’ was the first thing that came to mind. it’s a melody within a melody, basically. the 2nd melody is usually harder to recognize – but it’s still very important. i thought i could take this and run with it by making it some analogy to life. we judge things by the way they appear, thinking that is the way things are. but there’s more behind it all. i can apply this to my life right now (and probably always) – despite how things appear to me, God is working in my life, even though it can seem pretty mundane and useless to me. see? i really did take it and run with it.

so, now i finally have a blog. yay!