so, here i am.

i'm not going to bore everyone with an introductory post.  well.  by "everyone" i mean "myself," since i don't particularly expect followers.  i just need an outlet.

i started this blog to keep track of what i'm doing, getting done, and what i ought to be doing (or at least what i think i ought to be doing).  and who i am right now, which changes a lot--i hardly recognize myself anymore!

i chose the name 'one fierce farmgirl' (it was going to be f'ing fierce farmgirl, but you never know who may end up at this thing) because it encompasses my current identity: me, a city girl, "fierce,"and the farmgirl i'm slowly but surely transforming into.  but you know what they say, "you can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl."  so true, so true.

so anyway, i think it's bad form to start multiple sentences with 'i,' but this is all about me, so i guess i can be selfish.

my big brother matthew is expecting a baby in march!  i'm so excited!  it gives me a reason to really start hammering away at sewing, because i'll have a tiny baby to sew for.  i'm jealous, really, having grown up the "oldest sibling"--

a little backstory on matthew and i.

matthew was adopted out when he was born, and i was told when i was eight or nine (or ten) or so that i had an older brother, but never knew if i would meet him.  and oh boy did i want to!  and then in the winter of 2008, i met him, on his birthday no less!  and he's awesome.  we're just alike, i swear--baking and artsy and awesome, and it's weird, because i finally have someone i can relate to!  he lives in springfield and even though we're a half hour apart, we don't talk nearly as much as we should, which is something i'm working on with (most of) my siblings.

well anyway, i'm jealous because i was raised the oldest and thus expected to do all these things first, and here he is, getting married and expecting a baby and buying a farm and whatthefuck (i cuss a lot, probably just get used to that), that's supposed to be me!

but i'm happy for him and excited to be an aunt, so i won't complain (except for here; i can say anything i want in sierraland).

okay, well, this ended up being a satisfactory post.  tomorrow i'll post what i've been up to lately, and i am pretty darn impressed with myself.

xoxo - sierra.