My first post!

I did it, I finally am ready to blog all the crap that goes on in my crazy hectic life. After months of reading other people's blogs, and nodding my head, laughing or crying at posts that mirrored my own thought so closely, I am taking the plunge into this cyber journal world. I admit it, its scary to share with the rest of the world, who knows if you will all think I am a freak, or even worse, just too boring! But here we go...

OK, so why "moshpit"? No, I am not some hard core punk rocker... Mosh is a nickname, one my sister and I made up when we were kids. Hers is Mush, and our cat, Licorice, was MishMosh. "Moosh" was a word we used to use instead of cursing around our parents. And because "moosh" was such a DIRTY (!) word, we had to say "mish" immediately after, to erase the effects of saying "moosh"! Funny, people in the rest of this country think that growing up in NYC (Brooklyn to be exact) can make one tough and insensitive. Meanwhile, these 2 Brooklyn girls were afraid to curse, and god forbid one of us said MOOSH, the other was there saying "MISH" to make sure all was right with the world. Guess our parents raised us right!

So, now you know I am from Brooklyn. Something that definitely has defined who I am, and how I perceive life in general. I spent 18 years there, before I went away to college in upstate NY. WOW! Was that a shocker for this "tough" city girl. The first night in my dorm, I couldn't sleep...where was the noise? No trains, no sirens, no screaming...just quiet, and some crickets, whose melodic chirping KEPT ME UP AT NIGHT!

I no longer live in Brooklyn. I met my husband in that upstate college, and he was from, what we in "the city" called the 'burbs....Long Island. So, eventually he took the girl out of Brooklyn [but much to his dismay, has never taken the "Brooklyn" out of the girl ;-) ]. Now I live on Long Island, in our suburban house, with our suburban ways, and our 2 children, and life is just perfect! Ok, not perfect, but I am happy to be in the 'burbs and seeing my girls have things I never had.

As I start this venture into blogging, I don't have any concrete thoughts as to what this will all be, I only know that I am ready to share, and not that my life is all that exciting and different, but I know there are plenty of you out there that will relate, and this will be for us!

Til my next post,
Mosh