Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

If you thought this blog posting would be about the film Casablanca, prepare to be disappointed - or not, depending on your point of view.

This is to be my first of possibly few to many blogs. We'll see how it goes. Like everyone else in the world I feel I have something to say. Whether or not others choose to listen in is up to them. Whether or not I truly have something worthwhile to say is up to me. Some posts may be worth it, some may be complete crap. Like I said, we'll see how it goes.

Making this blog in and of itself was a slight pain in the ass (oh! Already Julia Child would not be a fan of this blog). Turns out after filling in the initial create a blog page, I was reminded I already had a google account, which is linked to blogger and thus I needed my sign in information from who knows how long ago when I apparently created a google account. Makes me wonder what other accounts I have floating about out there in cyber space that I've forgotten about. So I have the password sent to my inbox and start all over again. Then there was some confusion between a display name and a blogger title, but I think I've figured that out and will make the appropriate changes...when I get around it it.

That brings me to the change from my typical display name, KCbarbie. This display name came about years ago during which time I worked at a retail store where some co-workers and eventually costumers came to call me Barbie. This is due to the length of my blonde hair, which flows to the bottom of my back. Blue eyes, slender build and being 5'10" don't hurt either. When creating my first networking page at the urge of friends, I was faced with the first display name dilemma. At the suggestion of a friend I entered the name Barbie knowing that the page would inevitably inform me that this name had been taken. Then rather than adding a number to the end of the name suggesting I was Barbie number 343, I decided to add location to the name. That is how KCbarbie came to be my display name, user name, log in for many websites to come. For this site it is not my display name partly because it sounds pretentious.

The Beautifully Quirky title will make sense eventually.

Well, there's my first blog posting. Nothing earth shattering. There's more of a specific reason of why I started this blog and that will materialize as I get the hang of this. Until then there may be a few "starter blog posts" as a warm up.