Introduction

Well, I know it’s time to try again at the whole blogging thing when my own mother has a blog that is actually pretty awesome. Her blog, Eating for Health, is her “6 week” journal of her healthy lifestyle that she started for a class she is helping to lead at church about weight-loss and healthy living. Anyways, so my domain ThisOrrThat.com was bought a little while back for the immediate purpose of hosting a website that I had to create for a class at USC Upstate, but with the long term goal of creating an Orr Family website that could be used for a multitude of things. So since I’m paying for the name and for hosting, I should probably start using it for something.

My goal is to use to write about things that I enjoy and/or am involved in.  I hope to start eating more healthily and writing about that struggle as I do it. I will be posting progress reports on how much weight I’ve lost and what I’ve been eating. I wanted to start good today, but I blew it by waking up at the last minute and getting a bad muffin from Dunkin Donuts. For lunch I had a Subway sub…but got the foot long instead of the 6-inch. Definitely need to get on the ball with making breakfast and lunch instead of going out all the time. This will not only help me eat better but will save a lot of money!

I will also be  including my adventures and progress in working on the genealogy of my family and also April’s family. Most recently I received a message from someone asking about a discrepancy with a certain Thomas Orr’s death date being before the birth date of his daughter Laura Jane Orr….I looked at my tree on Ancestry.com and sure enough this discrepancy had slipped by me. This week a plan to look through my Granddad’s files to see if I can gain any further insight into this matter. Knowing my granddad, he would either have the correct information or a note about the mistake.

I will also be using this blog to talk about current progress and happenings in personal finance, such as the ongoing process of April and I purchasing our first house which has been quite exciting so far.

Could even talk about current programming development projects I am working on at work or on the side….just never know what the next post might be about. Could be anything! I hope that April will join in with some of her own thoughts and ideas, such as documenting some of the craft projects that she plans to work on.

And mom, if you end up deciding that you would like to keep blogging after the 6 weeks are up, I’d love to migrate your blog to ThisOrrThat.com so you can have a more succinct and generally named home for it….could be ThisOrrThat.com/EatingForHealth…..or http://healthyliving.thisorrthat.com. Think about it!

Til next post!

Andrew Orr