Welcome to the About Me page, where I talk all about me as if the rest of the blog wasn’t about me in some way. Cmon, people. It’s got my name on it. It’s mine.

Here goes:

I started reading when I was two. I got my first email address in the third grade. My first computer games were “Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego” and “Oregon Trail”. Oh man, I thought the Carmen Sandiego game was so awesome because it came with an atlas. And after I ripped through Oregon Trail, all I wanted was Oregon Trail II. One day, I was crying over something huge to eight year-old me and my dad told me that if I’d stop crying, I’d get Oregon Trail II. At that moment, I forgot what I was crying over and got so p*ssed that he was bribing me that I refused to stop crying and refused to let him buy me the game. To this day I’ve never played it. Ever.

I like to think my ethics are still that good, but I could never run for president because surely some picture of me in my underwear at an impromptu pool party would turn up. Which is just like a picture of me in a swimsuit except the top and the bottom don’t match because I’m not that concerned about clothing people can’t see. I’m practical.

I got into social media because I got hooked on personal finance blogs after making the usual mistakes with credit cards. Listen up, kids: Just because you can make the $49 monthly payment on your minimum wage, doesn’t mean you should. And “building credit” is not a good excuse for building debt. But if you wanna be like me when you grow up, go ahead and do it the hard way. In any case, one blog lead to another which led to Twitter, then my whole extended family got on Facebook, and you know I was already on Myspace. Next thing you know, I’m knee-deep in Chris Brogan.

And here I am, with a Bachelors in Social Administration. Given the insane amount of focus I have, I’m not getting my MA in Marriage and Family Therapy. I like to get things right, but I don’t have to be right so feel free to tell me when I’ve got it wrong.

And no, you shouldn’t have a Twitter and a Facebook because its the cool thing to do and everyone is doing it. How about some cigarettes while you set up all those cool social media accounts? Thanks for reading.