Arg. So when I got home yesterday afternoon, after a long shower and a fine appreciation of air conditioning, I started to type out a long blog with all sorts of fun and exorbitant details about my trip (which, by the way, was wonderful, partly because I met another Lydia, bringing up my number of other-Lydia's-who-I've-met up to three, including me, excluding a vague someone who told me once they knew a cat named Lydia. If you have a hankering to know more about it or just the project in general, which is called C.O.P., then you should email me at aquarterpastwonderful@gmail.com. It's a great project where you go out to Southern Jersey for a week and fix up, repair, and build houses for people. I really really recommend you go next year if you can; you don't even have to live in Jersey, because there was a girl from New York who went, and also one of my friends from Pennsylvania was there. You also don't even have to go with your Church, [yes it is a Christian thing] because you can go alone - or organize your youth group to go, too! - or possibly even be Christian. You just have to be in highschool. It's really long and hard [that's what she said] to explain, but it was such an amazing experience. Seriously, I recommend doing anything like this - for example, last April I went [with my Church, yes] to West Virgina to build houses, and even though it was vastly different, it was still amazing. Oh boy, I really digressed here. But, like I said, email me!)

Ahem. But then.. I just couldn't finish it (the post, that is. In case you got lost.) I kept putting off typing it up, and procrastinating, and suddenly it was Monday night, and I realized I really didn't want to have to type it all up, as much as I wanted to share it with you guys. But, let's be honest, who's even going to read this post? Okay, maybe a few people, mostly my friends who are just kind enough to glance through it, get bored, and then possibly comment. It didn't really seem worth it. And, I realized I didn't want this blog to turn into something I was dreading having to do. (although whether or not that's just blogging in general, or just this post, I don't know. It's probably the former, though, knowing me.)

So I've decided to change the rules. Instead of this being a Lydia-posts-things-about-her-life-once-every-week-or-so, this is going to be an awesome site. And I don't mean it is an awesome site, (although it is xD) I mean that it's going to be, literally, an awesome site. Instead of "blog" site, or "design" site, you get an "awesome" site.

Now, you're probably thinking that I've gone insane. And indeed, I probably have. Nevertheless, this is my plan: I'm going to sporadically (daily, weekly, once every three months, depending on how I feel - and it will change all the time) post awesome things, things that I think are awesome and that make your life, the internet, and just everything in general a little more awesome and a little less sucky. (yes, I realize that I'm channeling my inner Nerdfigher right now. And?)

What kind of things, you ask? Maybe pictures. Maybe drawings. Maybe graphics. Maybe quotes, books, other blog's posts, blogs, fanfics, videos, sites, anything! Everything! Anything that's awesome or interesting or pretty or ugly or fascinating can end up here. I also plan on, from time to time, posting opinions of mine in the hopes of sparking debates or a sharing of opinions and discussion. I'm also probably going to keep doing Sunday Secrets (although, maybe not every week, or even on Sunday. Just whenever.) because it fits nicely with my goal for the kind of content I want.

Wait a minute - Lydia, are you stealing this idea from 100 Awesome Things?? No, mysterious questioner, indeed I am not. Although I do love that site. In fact, I'm more likely stealing it from Hail Mary who used to do an "embracing Mondays" feature, where she would post tons of things that made her happy on Mondays, or from Owlssayhoot who likes to post cool things, too. And in fact, I had planned to (outrageously rip off Mary) create an "Embracing the Awesome Internet" or something along those lines and post awesome things even when this was just a normal blog site, and not an awesome site. Cool, well, now I'm doing that, but all the time.

The most important thing: what does this mean for you, dear reader? (whoever you are. Not that I have many, no doubt. ILY) It means that you can check out my site for a little bit of awesome whenever you feel like you need it, or you can overdose and check it out EVERY SINGLE TIME I UPDATE.

And how often should you check this site? However often you want to. Maybe I'll post too much awesome for you to intake all at once, or maybe I'll post too little, but either way, check out (and leave a comment, perhaps sharing your own bits of awesome or just opinions?) TSC whenever you want a dose of awesome. I promise that I won't ever leave this site or shut it down without first telling you guys - even if it's been months and months, I'm still around, and you can email me or leave a comment (or cbox comment, if I put one of those up) and I'll get back to you eventually, I swear. I won't leave without a goodbye. I just don't intend on making this a huge priority. If I find some awesome stuff, then I'll post. If I have something I want to share, then I'll post. If I don't, or I just don't feel like it for a while, then I won't. No apologizes, no expectations. It is what it is - I just don't know what that number is exactly, yet.

So, let's see how this turns out, shall we? Who knows how long it'll last before I change my mind yet again. Tell me what you think, please. If you're confused, as you probably are, seeing as I'm not explaining myself well, then just stick around for a little while - you'll see what I'm talking about soon enough.

Also, don't worry! I'll still be commenting on lot's of people's blogs (BCF *cough*). Indeed, I'd say this just gives me more time to blogsurf!

I'll get started on making some changes (layout, content, etc. Small things. First thing? To stop using so many parenthesis.) possibly tomorrow. Right now I have a headache, and work today was awful - it was so hot I literally thought I was going to melt. Blaahha. So I blame that for the complete foolishness and senselessness of this post, which indeed seems foolish, and upon rereading, is senseless and has too many commas.

7/6/10 EDIT: New layout! You like? I love. D: I'm feeling really good about this, guys!

listening to: 40' by Franz Ferdinand
icon by.. I don't remember! :c

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