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Hey, guys, first blog post. No pressure. I figure I might explain what this is about rather than jumping right into it. This is a side note of sorts to my main website, which if you hadn't noticed, is FromTheVan.com, one of the tabs at the top of the screen. We are currently going to stay in a city in an actual apartment instead of living in the van, as we have for the past four months. The van is pretty awesome for what it is, though. I'm more used to sleeping in it than in an actual bed, like we did for a couple days in Colorado. We were up half the night goofing around like little kids having a sleepover.

I frequent Twitter, our website, and harass Facebook, so I figured I'd come here, too. My last blog, My Back Patio, was pretty much a failure. It was a nice idea, but nobody wanted to have coffee in my imaginary backyard. This may be less personal, but people seem to hate interacting with the entertainment on the internet, so this blog might work a little better. It's less of a promotional thing and more of an extra place to put the things I say that don't make sense. Stuff that wouldn't fit on the FTV site, basically.

As you can see, Assinine is spelled wrong. Thank you Google Chrome for pointing that out every single time, but it's done for the irony. I know, it cancels out the funny when I point it out, but that's not why I did it. If I'm going to be honest with you, I spelled it wrong on accident when I first entered it into the website name, and I liked it. So oh well. It's pretty asinine anyway.

I'm Alexis and I'm twenty years old. My last name is Esteb, but I'm not Spanish, Mexican, or otherwise. Just a white girl with opinions and a nasty way of putting them. Now, before you click away, I should point out that I'm also a college dropout from a straight-A student lifestyle and I've been living in a van and traveling the country since June. I'm a libertarian, but also apathetic to voting and to the entire system in general. I did not vote in this election and I do not like either Romney or Obama. Having said that, I will never mention my preferences again, so if you're confused about who I like, please refer to this post in the future. I have a cynical attitude toward most things, but I like to keep a variety of opinions and use them as jokes. If you hate anti-religion jokes or cursing, leave now or get prepared by reading some of my Twitter posts. I hold nothing back and this is the only time I'm going to explain this.

Earlier I mentioned that I am moving. Brandon (my civil union partner) and I are going to Memphis, TN, to get an apartment and save up more money for our next trip. We actually have never been to this city, so our move is going to be almost completely blind. We'll be driving down there, sleeping in our van until we find jobs and a place somewhere. That is Brandon over there with the smug grin on his face. He's a pretty cool guy and  he keeps me entertained. Right now he's playing video games. That will probably be a similar story throughout this blog. I don't mind the video games. Sometimes I join, but I'm not a fanatic or anything. I like Age of Empires and Sims and other building towns junk.

Brandon and I do a weekly podcast that is hosted on the website, but you can also find us on iTunes, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and some other places, probably. We try to spread out so we can get to more people. We're not trying to get famous from this, but we do like to have some fan base. Just enough to want to keep doing it. It's more for ourselves. Something to do, I guess. We're actually about to do our 18th episode today. Shows how much we plan.

Well, before this gets too long and pointless, I'm going to wrap this up. Like I said, I keep up on Twitter, so when I'm not here, I'll be there. Thanks for your time and patience, and I hope you visit again.

Alexis