About

I’m Lesley and I mostly describe myself as a “busybody”. I’m interested in a lot of different things, but I’m not the guru of anything. I love gadgets and all things tech, but I’m a hack. I can break as many things as I create. I moved back to Colorado after living in San Francisco for nine years. I am a wife and the mother of a very busy two year-old toddler.

I spent most of my career in auditing, accounting, consulting, account management, etc. I am halfway through a Masters in Counseling graduate program, but it on hold when I had my son and decided to make the move back to Colorado.

I’ve been blogging for almost three years. I started a family blog before I had my son as a way to keep the grandparents connected. I still have that blog, but it has evolved into a photo site of my son, AKA The Golden Child (or GC). I also have a blog documenting the restoration and remodel of our 1955 MidCentury Modern architecture home. Lastly, I blog at a company sponsored “mom” resource site. The company is owned by my long time friend and she asked me to be their “Techie Mom” blog contributor.

Now, why am I starting a new blog now? I have about 150+ blogs in my reader right now and reading them and commenting on them is one of my primary “adult” talk outlets. It always takes me a while to make friends after moving and frankly, I’m a bit lonely. When I do get to spend time with a husband or friend, I feel like I am a rambling idiot. So, I think I need to get some of the talk out of my head and on to the screen. I’ve met some of my best “in real life” friends online and I really enjoy the banter.

BUT, In the realm of twitter, facebook and my family blogs where my family and high school friends see and comment on every single update, I found myself editing my comments and writing. None of my random posts when unnoticed by my family and I often had voicemails from my mom asking, “what did you mean by that post?” Even though I live thousands of miles away from the people I love, I got gun shy. I eventually tell my family everything, but I wasn’t looking for comments and advice from them. I’m just looking for a way to get the voices and ramblings out of my head and maybe find other online buddies that want to dish about the same nothingness. I’d just like to have those conversations without them being misunderstood or scrutinized by my family.

At a more frivolous level, I am going crazy not using my brain…I’ve enjoyed learning to set up my various blogs and wordpress. I will never be a programmer or coder, but I’ve enjoyed (and needed) the problem-solving involved in setting up a self-hosted wordpress site. Maybe I’ll learn a little CSS soon!