Welcome and Stuff

This personal blog has been a long time coming.  For those who don’t know me yet, my main site and pride and joy of nearly 6 years is A Little Bit of Personality, or aLBoP.  (Still working on the acronym for this one, because “aLBoC” sounds dumb… of course that’s what I said about aLBoP at first, lol.)  But I’ve known for a good year and a half or more that I wanted to start a personal site, and that I wanted its moniker to be a spin-off of aLBoP, and a play on “a little bit,” as well as an apt description of what I want this site to be.

I love aLBoP.  It’s a challenge, and I get overwhelmed sometimes (read: often) with all the plates it leaves spinning in the air.  And even though we have some good silly fun over there, its purpose is still fairly serious and focused.  And although helping people understand themselves and how they think on a complex personal level is a great way to invite people to consider new things and to put down their defenses, making it an awesome on-ramp for aLBoP Phase 2 and beyond… I don’t always want to talk about only cognition and personality typing.  I’m really good at that 😉, but that’s not all I’m really good at!

I want to screw around with DIY stuff, clothes, tech stuff, fiction writing, and whatever the *bleep* else I feel like!  aLBoP is Calise, but it’s only one aspect of Calise; a really big aspect that incorporates so many more hopes and plans and friends and desires to help people, but still not all of me.

And while I’ve met pretty much all my best friends (besides like Justin and my mom lol) through aLBoP, a lot of the people who search online for “personality typing” and related topics can actually be pretty annoying, arrogant, and narrowly focused.  The many awesome people I’ve met via aLBoP still seem to be the exception rather than the rule, unfortunately.

So I want fresh blood (*fangs*).  I want friends from the rest of the internet, like the places I explore, mom blogs and DIY sites and stuff.  And ya, if I’m being honest, I hope my aLBoCal (does that work? idk lol) friends check out aLBoP too.  And then I’d be able to help people from all different interests and categories!  And I’d be able to help them feel like anyone can be a hero, and that the way they think and the things that are important to them are good!  And we can all group hug and stuff!! 😍💖🌈🦄

*Ahem*  Or not, y’know, it’s cool.  I can be cool.

In any case, this site will be an opportunity to explore me-ness, in all its wide varieties.  It’s likely to be messy, because that’s who I am.  But hopefully it’ll be messy in a genuine, charming, it’s-cute-that-she’s-awkward-and-klutzy-and-has-no-filter sort of way, because that’s really all I have going for me, lol.

So I hope you stick around!  If it’s not your thing, I understand.  I haven’t figured out why people like my writing style yet, so if you don’t then have a nice day anyway!  But if you stay, then I think we can be real friends.

Yeah, I really don’t know how to end this now.  I’m about to release Calise on the internet and I’m low-key freaking out.  But let’s do this!