First Joy of First Post

Wow!! My first blog entry!! Never imagined it was going to be so soon.
But thanks to Linda Kay, I realized I really wanted to write it. So thank you Linda .

Hmm… trying to search for a topic, but I guess it will be just total randomness. I’ll just let the ideas flow to the page and you make whatever you can with them.

So… a little background. I’m 19, I live in Uruguay, South America, I speak Spanish as my native language, I study Systems Engineering at the University (just about to finish my fourth week of my first semester), I love to read, I love horses, I love acting, I love my family, I love …. Well, you get the idea that the list is quite long (I can get quite “passionate” sometimes, although people slightly more grounded call it “obsession”, LOL).
I’m quick to laugh and VERY slow to get up from bed (I’m DEFINITELY not a morning person, and getting up at 6.30 doesn’t help my mood). I choose to be happy every morning and I have recently decided that the day I have opened my eyes to is THE DAY (take it as you like it). Curious fact: I’m not very conversational in the morning, even though I can make your ears fall off once I’m fully awake.
I enjoy music thoroughly even though I have no serious aspirations in that area, except learning how to play the piano.
I am very insecure when shopping: having poor personal taste (I’m educating myself, don’t you worry), I make my sisters choose my clothes (although I have veto power).
I’m fascinated with animals, and I am going to build a beautiful shelter for the homeless ones.

OK, enough of the background. Feel free to ask anything I might have missed out. I’m going to write about my current “obsession”: love (and by this I mean Saint Valentine type of love, romance).
Ever since I read the Twilight series and The Host (all Stephenie Meyer books), I am DESPERATE to find my other half. I mean, since I can remember, I have been single. And I feel I am totally ready to be in a relationship. I want to feel the butterflies because the guy I like is smiling at me, or holding me, not because I am reading a book that features Edward Cullen (which is my perfect, imaginary other half).
Last year a woman found it “endearing” that a girl of 18 was still single. I could have smacked her right there, but I’m too well behaved (sadly, snif). I find it alarming!!! My only consolation has been the song “Can’t Hurry Love”, by the Dixie Chicks (great song).
I have decided that enough is enough, and I have traced a plan of action. First, I am investing serious hours on my hair and clothing (guys are always hooked by the eyes, shallow creatures). Second, I have decided I have to broaden my horizons. In the past, I generally got stuck with one guy I liked, and after I realized it wasn’t going anywhere, I just forgot him. Now, I have at least three guys that I like. One is “cafeteria guy”, a gorgeous piece of eye candy I always encounter at the cafeteria (hence the name, obviously). I don’t know his name, I have never crossed a word with him, but I find he has a beautiful smile. Another one is a guy I went to preschool with; today I suddenly remembered him (totally out of the blue, I haven’t thought about him in YEARS). I’m pretty sure I had a crush on him when I was a kid, but I don’t know if it was one sided or not. Thing is, after I remembered him I added him on FaceBook, and my oh my, he is a sight to behold. And funny thing is, his cousin is getting married next month, and I’m INVITED!! So I will TOTALLY see him there. Coincidence? Hmm, I wonder…
The third guy? Haven’t seen him yet, but I’m looking for him. The three-guy method raises the odds in my favour, and gives me triple the excitement of sighting (you know, when you see him across the room, and you make every effort possible to be in his line of vision looking alluring).
I have a lot of work still to be done, because I have yet to overcome my shyness. Seeing progress, though.

OK, for a first post it got pretty long. I’m glad I got THAT off my chest, and hopefully next entry will deal with acting. Depends on my mood.

LOVE YOU PEOPLE!! And I give you a standing ovation for actually reading all that. I wish you happiness and romantic encounters for this week!!

Random thought: I can’t believe the American Idol people saved Matt Giraud, and had let Scott MacIntyre leave last week.

Mariana