Now that that's out of the way, a little about myself. My name is JP, I just turned 25, I'm very opinionated, and I love projects. I grew up in NYC (Morningside Heights) and then Northern Virginia (Oak Hill) before moving to Blacksburg, Virginia to attend Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech.
I've always had a bit of difficulty making new friends when I'm somewhere new or unfamiliar; I'm not especially socially awkward, I just tend to be a little reserved and keep to myself if I'm around people I don't really know. Moving to Blacksburg, I spent my first year in my comfort zone not meeting too many new people (only met friends of friends) and spending time with friends from high school. My second year in town, I decided I needed to branch out and meet new people; I had looked into joining the Car Club at Virginia Tech my first year there, but it had seemed a bit too cliquey to me, so I'd cast it aside as something to look back into later. That year, they started a program to get more involvement between new and older members which they called the "Wheel and Lugnut Program" (functionally similar to family lines in Greek life)... simply put, it worked. Long story short, thanks to the encouragement (or taunting, I guess) of friends I made through CCVT, I started disregarding my apprehension towards projects and taking more on.
Anyhow, all that to get to introducing my biggest project yet... I bought a house. It's a 1929 bungalow with a Main Street address in small-town America. If that's not the American dream, I don't know what is. So it needs work, and it's another project, thus is life... I wouldn't have it any other way.
My goal for this blog is to commit to actually working on my projects and sharing them proactively, rather than reactively sharing with folks if and when they ask. Expect the unexpected in terms of what projects I'll share; it'll be a mix of absolutely mundane and [hopefully] decently interesting.
Anyhow, here're the pictures of the house from the listing to give you an idea of the starting point for this project, before I delve into what's already been done and plans for the future (or share other projects to distract myself from this one).
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So there it is, it obviously not what I want it to be, but it's got good bones and potential... More on that later!
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