Lights out, guerilla radio.

Hi.
I'm Nikki.
Just joining the world of blogging, thanks to my good friend Green Teeny.

[Insert shameless blog plug here: www.teeneygonegreen.blogspot.com. She's quite the lady, I'll tell ya that.]

Do I tell you about myself? I watched 'Julie & Julia' yesterday. Julie created her food and life blog. She had followers. Lots of them. Will I have followers? I don't know. I'm okay with that.

I like Googling things. I do it all day long--basically get paid to do it. Right now, I just Googled what should be in a blog? Results show how to make money by blogging, but that's not what I want to read about.

Here we go (from About.com: Web Logs)
"Top 10 Reasons to Start a Blog: Why Should You Blog?"
1. To Express Your Thoughts and Opinions
2. To Market or Promote Something
If this is marketing or promoting happiness, wellness, passion, excitement, love, music, rainbows, unicorns, all things great, then, YES!
3. To Help People
4. To Establish Yourself as an Expert. (Ha...ha....ha)
5. To Connect With People Like You
6. To Make A Difference
7. To Stay Active or Knowledgeable in a Field or Topic
8. To Stay Connected with Friends and Family
9. To Make Money
10. T0 Have Fun and Be Creative

Almost all of those reasons I completely agree with for my blog.
Do I like expressing my thoughts and opinions? Of course. Who doesn't? Marketing/promoting? Well, that's already been covered.
Helping people? Most definitely, even if it is just reading and commenting.
Myself...as an expert? Laughable, at best. I delve into many things, but am not an expert at anything by a long shot. I've come to terms. Maybe one of these days, though...
Connecting with people with similar interests who I can learn from? Bring 'em out!
Making a difference - isn't that what we're all here to do? In small actions and in big ways, most definitely.
Staying connected with friends and family (isn't that what Facebook is for? Ha ...also meeting new blogger friends).
To make money? Chyea right. This is just for funzies.
It all boils down to point numero diez: having fun and being creative. That's what everything should stem from.

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So, now I guess it's time to give a little information, and why I want to do this, aside from the aforementioned reasons.

(I, I, I, me, me, me. Ugh.)

I'm 25. My name is really Nicole, but only a select few call me that. I've always been, and probably always will be Nikki. I'm blue and red and green: A liberal vegetarian (those exist?!), living in a small, conservative community in Nebraska.

Graduated from Wayne State College with a bachelor's in Mass Communications and Mass Broadcasting, which landed me a full-time OAT (on-air talent) gig at a radio station, hence the living in conservative northeast Nebraska.

I love many things. Really, I do. Small, little, minute things bring me the most joy. Hearing a song that I absolutely loooove? Going to a show? Not a whole lot gets better than that. Music is my ultimate passion in life-the reason I chose the career I did. I didn't want to rollout of bed everyday, dreading going to work. That's just not the way life should be lived. Find something that gets you excited--and do that.

Excitement =
work,
new music,
old music,
my love,
the gym,
my family,
old friends,
new friends,
recipes,
blogs,
books,
quotes,
lyrics,
new running apparel,
everything.

Life.


With that said, pretty sure it is time to end this inceptive blog.

When I started writing this morning, I was listening to a station online and Rage's 'Guerilla Radio' was streaming. Like I said earlier, I love lyrics. This was on--and is incredibly apropos, I do believe.

"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime.
What better place than here, what better time than now?"

Touche.

-Nikki