Explanation {thorough, if nothing else}

{Walking. Blogging. Beginning. }

Since I began this blog four days ago, I've suddenly had a plethora of post ideas flooding into my head at all hours of the day, usually ridiculous hours, of course. However, I shall try to keep this post put-together and concise.

*Why* 

I was in such a hurry to begin writing before that I didn't actually explain much about anything. I began blogging because I recently (within the past year) have discovered that many of my friends have blogs, and I could never resist peer pressure.... But actually, I do enjoy writing things, and I do enjoy people, and blogs bring that together. 

*What*

One of my first thoughts was that this blog can be the outlet for my less prosaic writing, when I decide to wax eloquent {there it is!} about subjects near, and less near, to my heart. Basically, I'm saving the Facebook world from my extreme creative expression by posting it here. Brobdingnagian words aside, I should also warn you that there may be posts about my life, my makeup, my downtown adventures with friends, on top of more reflective musings on life, current events, and other issues that matter. I'm so extremely sorry for grammatical/punctuation/stylistic errors. I don't want writing to become a chore, so I'm not taking as much time as I could to revise my posts, in the hopes that this will preserve my enthusiasm, and allow me to post when I have a short moment, rather than waiting for huge blocks of time that may never appear in my life. Run-on sentence, much?

*Titled*

When I finally made the plunge, clicked the buttons, opened blogspot.com, I discovered that I needed to come up with some perfect blog title with which to draw in unsuspecting bystanders. Naturally, I went into my Instagram photos and began to look for inspiration. Obviously, there were lots of food pictures, but this is not a food blog {if I ever write a food blog, you should probably read it because it will be hilarious, and full of examples on how *not* to go about cooking}. I came up with several words that I wanted to play around with for my title: reflections, mirrors, window. And here we are, Reflections On the Window. Make of it what you will. Perhaps someday I'll do an entire post on the name, to explain how I see it.

*Proud Mother Moments*

This blog is my new baby. I haven't posted for four days because I've been researching different ways to customize the layout, and so I must share what I've done! Just in case you hadn't noticed all of the extremely snazzy, mostly subtle, changes.

• I've added a second page to the blog, called, "Quotations, Quotations, Quotations" check it out!
• The navigation bar at the top of this blog is gone. I hid it. I think it looks much more classy this way.
• If you're reading this on a computer, notice that there is a mini-me picture {the "rain in Petaluma" picture} up on your tab by the blog name instead of the orange B for blogger you saw the first time through. 
• After many attempts, I finally was able to position my HTML icons for Instagram and Pinterest right next to each other like lil buddies. If you put your mouse cursor above them, you'll even see an extra personalization that rather tickles me. 
• The comments section of these posts now also say "Post a Comment" rather than just "No Comments" or "Two comments" etc...
• My personalized signature, at the end of this post

And, I believe that's it for now! I'm still researching new things to do with the design, though. It's a much better form of procrastination than Facebook. Maybe. 

*For Now* 

You can now go back and read the paragraph at the top, which mentions conciseness. You can laugh. Because: 1) I'll never know. 2) It's a tiny bit funny. 

I'm excited to share some of the ideas I've recently been bombarded with. Soon. So until next time...

Ciao! Xxx