Well hello there!

My name is Robin, and this is my new blog!
I'm pretty sure my first few (or many) readers will be people who have actually met me, but if you're a new visitor, welcome!
Hmmmm...
This seems totally hokey so far.
Oh well, I'm sure I'll get into the flow of blogging sooner rather than later.
You see, I've always, ALWAYS loved to write.
I've tried journaling, but it seemed like such a waste, since no one would read it.
I've written both stories and fanfiction for varied universes. I still write, on occasion. I'm actually hoping to write out a full book this November for NaNoWriMo. The fanfiction will stay safely on my hard drive, far from the light of day, where it belongs. :)
For the last year I've been writing longer and longer posts and rants on Facebook (more about the WHY for that later). Eventually, someone suggested I should start a blog.
I'm boring myself now. Skip ahead a few pages, brain.
And now we're here!
HUZZAH!!!

What to talk about...
I don't want to talk about me, since I know all of that already...
But you might not, so here goes!

I'm 23 (as of 2013), female, married (since summer 2012), living in the cold white north (read: Canada), and I don't have any pets right now. SADFACE. I'm hoping to convince my apartment manager to let us have a cat. I NEED A CAT.
Ahem.
I'm more of a cat person, but I adore animals in general. I was born and raised in California, which I still consider to be the most amazing place on Earth. I mean, seriously. It's beautiful and wonderful and WARM. Ugh.
I HATE the cold. Absolute disgust and agony is radiating from my being at the thought of wintery doom descending upon my humble abode.
I love my husband. He is an amazing man, especially for putting up with all of my nonsense... Cause if you know me, you know I can be ridiculous in both good and bad ways. :P
But he's amazingly patient and kind, and I'm going to keep trying to do my best for him, because he deserves it. Even if he does annoy me sometimes. Eh, everyone annoys everyone at some point, am I right?
Yes, obviously.
Is there anything else you should know about me?
I'm religious. I believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God, and I try to live my life according to His will. Basically, I try to muddle through life by holding onto a bright rope of His principles and following them. Will I try to ram my beliefs down your throat? No. Will I tell you what I believe if you ask? Yes. Will I hate you for not believing what I do? No, although it will make me sad. *shrug*
What can I say? I like people, and therefore I want them to know the truth of the Bible.
I would say that you can feel free to ignore that part of me, but... It's a pretty big part of me. Mighty hard to ignore, I'd say.
So, yeah! That's me in a nutshell!
...
Oh yeah!
I don't have any children, and won't for quite a while (if I have any say in it, and I'm pretty sure I do). I have two wonderful parents, four wonderful siblings, more relatives than I could shake a stick at, and enough friends to sink the Titanic.
Seriously.
I'm pretty sure we could accomplish that.
...
Maybe I should've... I don't think... I'm not sure sinking the Titanic is something I want my friends to be a part of... It really isn't, now that I think about it...
Hmm...
Okay, I'm pretty sure I have enough friends that we could have been all the extras for the MOVIE Titanic. HaHA!
Crisis averted!
Also, I keep typing Titanic as "Titantic"... Too many 't's.
I'm certified to teach elementary school in California, but that doesn't fly in Canada, unfortunately, so I'm in the process of getting recertified. Apparently that's not a word. TOO BAD, SPELLCHECK!
Normally, I love spellcheck, but sometimes A WORD HAS TO WORD! You know?
I love children, and I used to feel more comfortable around children than adults! Now I've figured out that adults won't eat me, so we're cool.
Um...
I'm trying to learn Russian, as my husband grew up there and we're hoping to go visit his family sometime in the spring. It's going s-l-o-w-l-y. Priviet, zhenshena o mushinya!
I'm pretty sure that sounds like Russian for, "Hello, woman or man!"
...
Yeeeeeaaaaaah, I've got a WAYS to go.
Moving on!
It's a little late here, and I have to get up early to go to the doctor (I've been sick on and off for the past year, which isn't cool). Maybe they'll have figured out why I'm so sicky all the time.
Therefore, I shall sign off for now!
Except that I forgot to tell you!
Ugh!
My plans for this blog are varied and will morph and change as time goes by.
Currently (Oct 2013), I am hoping to use this place to ease myself back into writing a lot so I'll be prepared for NaNo in November.
I'm also hoping to use this place to rant and vent about things. I like talking, and I don't have a ton of people to talk to right now.
Finally, I would love to make some art work thingamajigs, and getting pocket money from that would be great. I have a shop on Etsy, and maybe posting about this will inspire me to actually PUT SOME THINGS IN THE SHOP COME ON ROBIN!!!
Yep.
So THAT'S me in a nutshell. I was just joking earlier... Heh heh. Right...
I'm a bit of an oddball, so I'll be random at least once a day!
Feel free to say hello (if that's an option on this thing... I really have NO earthly idea what I'm getting myself into)!
Walk cheerfully!
~Robin