An Introduction

Hello! Welcome to my blog. I figure, since you are taking the time to read my thoughts, that you may want to know some stuff about me and why this blog exists. We'll just hop right to it!

A Little Bit About Me

The first thing that you should know is that I am not particularly fond of posting a great deal about myself on the internet, so the following will be relatively non-specific.

This is me. Nice to meet you!

I was born into a very religious, nuclear family in the USA. I grew up mostly in the western side of Washington state, and I have loved it. I ended up being the third child of eight, and I would not trade my childhood for anyone else's. I have since received my AA at eighteen years old from a community college that allows concurrent enrollment to high school students, and I went on to study at a private university, receiving my BA in theatre education with a minor in English teaching. As my major and minor might have already alluded to, I received my teaching certificate in both subjects. I am currently using my education to be a private tutor, but I will become a teacher when I feel like it is the right time to become one. I have lived in three different states, and I love to travel. I am a married mother of one (so far!), and while life has thrown me many hard pitches in my life, I am looking forward to seeing what else it has in store--because I adore learning.


That is, I think, the most important thing in getting to know me as far as this blog is concerned. I gobble up information and go to great lengths to have my questions answered with enough background and authority for me to feel satisfied with the answer I was given; it usually leads to more questions. I have always been this way. I started forming opinions when I was very young about things that my peers were not really concerned about, including presidential debates when in elementary school. While I didn't understand much about what was being said at the time, I would clue into body language, which is something that I have always had a talent in interpreting, and have since had the talent honed in my theatre studies. Because of my very conservative upbringing (large, religious family!) and my very liberal schooling (Western Washington schooling as well as theatre and education in my college career), I have turned out to be very independent politically. I tend to side with Mr. Mike Rowe on this one--many people want to tag him to some political party or another, and he simply doesn't want to belong any of them. I am the same way. Also akin to Rowe is my very loud, opinionated nature. While it is possible for me to keep my opinions to myself when in public, I have found that they end up turning into a massive collection of exclamation points behind my eyeballs. You see, I tend to think a great deal on any given subject before I vocalize an opinion about it, so when I do have something to say, I can go on for quite some time.

"So, Lela," you might ask, "why do you have so many opinions about a myriad of subjects?" Well, even after my explanation of my love of learning and my education training, my history of work positions plays a big role in my many interests: courtesy clerk at a grocery store, produce clerk, lighting technician, AV support, Walt Disney Theme Park attraction host, teaching assistant, student, laundry worker, mom, wife, and all sorts of other things. It has been a fun life! The assortment of jobs with all sorts of different needs associated with them (and many, many different types of people as my coworkers) has left me with thoughts on all sorts of different subjects and experience in many different fields. I am most definitely not an expert on anything, but I do feel that I have received a lot of learning opportunities that many others my age (young, but not "youngin'" young) have not had. This is one of the reasons for my silence in public places to be extremely loud, as I have found that many people like to present themselves as experts in an area that I have learned a bit about, but that they have only read about online because of trending topics on social media. As such, my opinions do not tend to be very popular.

The Blog

I suppose that is why this blog was created: to offer opinions that may not be heard very often. After talking to a few close friends about my feelings and struggling with myself about how to best go about organizing my unpopular thoughts on many, many subjects, I have decided that writing it all down in a medium that allows for various other media to be added to it would be best; what better medium to do that than a blog? The title of this blog is a reflection of the feeling I have when I try to be reserved and quiet about something that I feel very strongly about... which, I admit, is quite a lot of things. The Excited Ellipsis, therefore, is not going to be about any one specific thing, and it is not written with the intent for people to be convinced that I am correct in my thinking. Once again, I do not claim to know all--I keep asking questions because I don't know everything. I have found, however, that one of the best ways to fully "think out" any subject is to write it all down. After journaling most of my life and finding that keeping my opinions all to myself only tended to make my opinionated outbursts more intense, I think that my friends were correct in thinking that I needed to make them accessible to the public.

This is also me. Hi!

Because I am family-oriented and don't take kindly to people being unnecessarily rude, I will not tolerate comments that are created simply to be offensive. Due to my love for learning and my wish to hear others' opinions, I shall read all comments that are posted on my blogs--be prepared to either talk to me via those comments, or to have your comment deleted if I deem it to be rude.

I like to sketch, and I like to relate things to my own life, so you will see some of my work on the blog. There's an example!

By the way, I don't expect much of this, and I want you to understand that. I don't even expect anyone to have read this post. I just want to organize my thoughts in a way that I can let other people choose to "listen to" them or not, rather than me talking somebody's ear off at a social event when I should just keep my mouth shut.

Either way, I am honored that you are here, and that you are reading what I write. Thank you for your understanding, and I hope that all is well with you, no matter where you are.

Lela