Sunday, April 29, 2012

My First Blog Post

Well, here it is.  The First Post.  I feel like I should have something momentous to say (I don't).  Then again, it's not like anyone is actually reading this yet, so I'm kind of off the hook.  
My name is Brandy.  I'm the "Me" in "Millie & Me."  Millie was my great-grandmother -- that's her in the photo, kissing the crap out of her One True Love.  

It's my favorite photo of her, even though you can't see her face.  We have several other photos, but this is the only candid -- and to me it just radiates LIFE.  I wish I could have known that girl.  
The Millie I knew was a wicked card player, had a player piano that fascinated me as a child, and would go out dancing well into the wee hours (often after the grandkids and great-grandkids had gone to bed).  She lived to 100.  Now when I think of her, as corny as it sounds, I see her strapping on sparkly dancing shoes and gliding across the stars with Pat, the afore-mentioned One True Love.  They had to wait for far too many years to be together again.  
As for me, I'm not much of a dancer.  My feet and my hips hear two different rhythms, and don't even get me started on my arms.  I'm a lot of things, but I only gave Millie three, so I'll do the same for me (besides, this is The First Post!  Can't give everything away all at once, right?) -- I'm a parent to an amazing little girl, I'm a proud-but-tired member of the U.S. Air Force, and I make jewelry to stay sane (although I suppose "sane" is a relative term).  So this blog will probably be a little about all of those things, as well as a lot of other things.  I'm still figuring it out, which will probably be easier now that the Big Blank Blog isn't staring me in the eye, taunting me with its emptiness.  I figure it's like art -- just make a few marks to get the paper dirty, then the rest will appear.  Here we go...
  
- Brandy



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