Welcome

So, as some of you may know, I started a blog about my attempts at gardening and proceeded to let you all in on my many failures (and a handful of successes too) while trying to create the world's most awesome garden.  I figured blogging about it would help keep me accountable and force me not to ignore the garden for a week or two leading to the whole thing dying when I have a bunch of friends tuning in to see how I do.  But I digress, this is not my gardening blog.  So why did I start Abby's Attempt at Everything?  Well, you see, I have a tendency when I get onto a project to go all in and research the crap out of it.  I'm an attorney, and thus an overly type-A OCD nutcase.  As my friends pointed out, however, this odd tendency of mine to over-research the crap out of everything often benefits them when they decide to say--go buy a fish--and it turns out I've spent 8 hours researching dwarf pufferfish alone not to mention all the other fun types! 

So they convinced me to start documenting my many over-researched projects spanning things far outside of the realm of gardening.  As an attorney, I find I'm forced to provide disclaimers:
1.  I enjoy grammar and spelling a lot, but I also have a life and will not be overly proofreading the crap out of every post.  I'll try my best, but I'm also a product of public school education and if you start talking split infinitives at me, I might go check out my copy of Eats Shoots and Leaves but I'll just have one global sorry for typos now. 
2.  I am not an expert.  On anything.  Not even the type of law I've been practicing for years (because calling yourself an expert on any subject matter is banned by the ethical rules, otherwise I totally would be because I rock).  Certainly not on anything I'm putting on my blog.  So feel free (and please do) comment and add your experiences or correct me if I get something wrong.  I love constructive criticism!
3.  Why yes, I AM totally self absorbed!  Otherwise, why would I be writing TWO blogs?  In all honesty, I just really enjoy writing and journaling and this is an extension of that.  I have grand plans for a scifi novel someday but I'm too lazy for that at the moment.  Some people paint, or garden (me), or needlepoint to relax.  I write!

So sit back, enjoy, comment away.