Hello out there, Joanna!

And thank you for stopping by. I hope you find this blog a comfy, if spotty, place. Also, thank you for the SECOND g-mail invitation (since I let the first expire in my wishiwashiness over choosing a username). I'm all set up now, and wondering how to fit it into my daily email routine. I know a lot of people, like Tammitopia, juggle four or five accounts flawlessly, but I've always only had "work" and "home," and sometimes just "home" (and also one of those "email for life" forwarding things, which I should use but never do).

Some considerations:

• Should I give only the special people my g-mail account?
• Or should I use it as the spam magnet that I open out to the WWW?
• If I give the special people the g-mail account, what purpose would the home account serve, since they're the main ones who write me (them and Amazon).
• I'll be moving soon and may switch my services, so maybe I should make the transition to g-mail now and just keep it.

This is the email equivalent of agoraphobia. I prefer to keep things simple, and when I was looking for a house I quickly realized that, resale value be damned, I didn't want a bunch of extra space I didn't need. No den, please! Considering my current furniture inventory (bedroom set, desk, bookcase and tiny table with two chairs), even an eat-in kitchen is a little daunting. Clearly, I'll have some vacant rooms for a while, but I know the purpose of each. Too much space dillutes your focus; I'd spend all my time wandering from room to room, asking myself what is the point?

Anyway. The day is moving along quickly toward tomorrow morning's flight to Utah. Many things have been accomplished, and many more need to be.