Thing #2 Creating blog and avatar

Honestly, I have very little experience with blogs.  I have never read, commented on, nor published one, that is until today.  In the past I have mainly used the internet for doing research, sending emails, and social networking.  The main reason for my limited experience with blogs is because none of my closest friends or family read or published one.  I do like the idea and purpose of a blog.  I like to record ideas, feelings, and experiences in a journal; however, I never felt the need to post them on a public forum like a blog.  I guess I thought that no one would be interested in reading what I had to say because I was not particularly interested in what other people had to say.  I felt that it was a waste of time to sit and read about someone else's experience when I could experience the same thing for myself.  

I decided to name my blog with the initials of my first and middle names along with my last name because I like the way that it looks and sounds.  I have always liked the way that some authors choose to be recognized by there initials and last name.  I put the "23 Things" on the end because that is the contents of the blog.  I wanted people to know what the blog was about from the name.  The blog was very easy to create.  It was easy because the instructions on D2L were very helpful and Blogger is really simple to use.  Overall, creating the blog was a good experience because everything worked right the first time and nothing frustrated me in the process.  I did not like having to create a new gmail account for it, but I see how it was necessary do so.  It's just one more username and password to have to keep up with.     

Yes, I created my avatar to reflect my personality.  My avatar has on a red baseball cap similar to the faded-red Austin Peay hat that I always wear.  I wear it so often that on the rare occasions that I don't wear it people say that I look different without my hat on.  My avatar is wearing shorts and a t-shirt because that is what I prefer to wear.  I really enjoy warm sunny weather and being outside hiking, swimming, water-skiing, kayaking, botanizing (going around and looking at plants), and playing sports.  My avatar is holding a baseball and a bat because baseball is my favorite sport.  I played from when I was five years old all the way up to when I was a senior in high school.  The whole experience was really neat because it's interesting to try and re-create yourself.