'This is the First Day of my Life'

6/7/10

This is my first blog post and I'm going to be honest, I'm very new to this; it is all very alien to me. As my friend and I like to say: 'Hi, I'm Libby, I'm new.'

First of all, let me explain the title of my blog - 'Ad Lib'. The dictionary definition is:
1. Something improvised in speech or music.

2. At one's pleasure; without restriction.

This sums me up very neatly; I like having no restrictions on my thoughts and in my music, I adore beyond compare to just completely let myself go when I sing. (Also the 'Lib' of the 'Ad Lib' is also a nickname of mine but that was just for added effect!)

Next I shall explain the title of my blog. This is a line, and in fact also the title of a Bright Eyes song, notably called 'First Day of my Life'. The song is about feeling as if everything in his life had completely started afresh again after meeting the love of his life. Excusing what seems to be hyperbolic, it is a song about new beginnings and feeling completely new to themselves and their feelings.

I felt this was appropriate for my first blog because it is the start of something that I've never attempted before and it would also be a place to explore feelings and goings on and writing them down in the hope that someone may be interested! Hopefully - though this is just one of my aspirations when it comes to things like this, the novelty may fade after a while - I would like the title of each blog post to be a line from a song that I deem fitting for the subject matter of the post. But hey, we'll see shall we not?

All my love, Libby :]

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