(tap, tap, tap)…is this thing on?
Perhaps not the most original title for the first post of a new blog by a new blogger, but my writing skills are rusty. To put it mildly. In fact, the only thing I EVER write anymore are emails. During work time. But I thought I’d try my hand at this, anyway.
So, Hi! Welcome to Stacked Heels! Now, I know you’re wondering where the name comes from and all that jazz, so let me just stop the guessing games straight up - “Diamond Jackie” is a prostitute in a Bruce Springsteen song called ‘New York City Serenade’, and one of the lyrics is “Jackie’s heels are stacked…” So there you go! I have to say I’ve been pondering starting this thing for the past few weeks and gave absolutely no thought whatsoever to what it should be called, so when I was creating the title and my screen name a few minutes ago, I kinda felt on the spot. And when that happens, well, I always rely on Bruce. And just for future reference, I truly admire Bruce. He may come up often. Just warning you. And you should totally give ‘New York City Serenade’ a listen sometime - it’s from ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle’ album. In fact, give the whole album a listen! There ya go!
Maybe here is a good time to set out some tentative ground rules for what this blog is going to be about. I’m thinking: part journal, part food blog, part photography site. How does that sound? And I do apologise if this becomes redundant or boring - like I said, my writing skills are rusty. I’m hoping I’ll learn as I go.
I used to think I wanted to be a writer, so I wrote in journals all the time and started little stories which never got finished, of course (oh yeah - I’m a self-diagnosed flake, btw. Just so ya know!). I even went to a journal writing class and hired a personal coach for a while. But then I discovered photography and, well, the instant gratification of taking a good picture eclipsed the writing bone in me. Or you could say I just got too lazy to write and making money at it seems so very difficult that that flakiness I was telling you about? Yeah, that kicked in hard-core.
SO, right now the biggest things in my life are being married to my wonderful husband, Homer (okay, so that’s not his real name but he likes the Simpsons so that’s as good a name as any), and taking care of our adorable puppy, Tucker, and living in our newly purchased home. It’s frightening to say, but I quite enjoy my life right now. I KNOW - how many people get to say that??
Of course that’s not to say that my life is perfect. My day job is fantastically, fantastically boring, but the salary and benefits are awesome so I can live with it (besides, it’s not a career, it would never be a career, it’s just a job that pays for my life. Hey, I didn’t take an English degree for a career! Pshaw!). AND we’re currently changing financial planners (that’ll be a post all on it’s own for sure) all to find out how much money we waste and how poor we are, so that’s sucky. I hate feeling poor, especially when I want a gorgeous Mario Batali dutch oven (although I COULD want the Le Creuset one, now, couldn’t I??), 1000 thread count sheets and at least $2000 worth of camera gear that would make me a perfect photographer.
Oh, and I’m about 20 lbs overweight. I’d like to lose that in about 4 months, before we go to Cuba. ‘Kay?
Anyway, I guess the rest will come out as the blog progresses. Hope to see you again!
Cheers,
Diamond Jackie
Of course I have to comment here to say that you’re beautiful the way you are.