The next questions are from the girl who inspired these Q & A posts, Lily from LilySpeak.

What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

It’s not very exciting, but my favorite is chocolate. I like other flavors (cookie dough, in particular), but when asked to choose between all flavors, I’ll pick chocolate every time. On the other hand, my least favorite is vanilla (unless other things are involved). I’m a girl of extremes.

Do you like water chesnuts (I don’t)?

I don’t mind them, but I couldn’t eat a bowl-full. The crisp snap always gets me, though.

How did you start blogging?

I started out with a love for writing, as most of us do. I had/have boxes of journals when I was younger. When the internet became popular, I started ‘diaries’ on diaryland.com–the first one being in middle school. I still have several diaries there (though I no longer write in them), and it’s interesting to go back and read about my life in the past.

During my freshman year of high school, I wanted a place that I could write in and allow friends to read. (Diaryland was always much more personal for me.) That’s when I found Xanga. (I met Husband on Xanga, but more on that later.) When my granny was diagnosed with cancer (In my diaryland diary, I wrote “My granny has cancer. Lung cancer. She starts chemo soon. That’s all I want to say about it.” on May 24, 2004.) and my family moved back to Florida, I used my xanga blog to keep my friends (and boyfriend, Ryan) in Tennessee updated. My love for blogging formed.

Eventually, xanga died out. I then fell in love with Weddingbee around the time I was planning my own wedding. I started my own planning blog on Blogger, but soon moved to WordPress. Thus, the start of SomewhatVoluble.com!