Hello, World.

I have a blog on here? Huh. I guess I have a blog now. Okay. Allow me to introduce myself then. My name is Rachel.I live in Minnesota. My avatar is actually a photo of me that a friend of mine took during one of my band's shows a few months ago. We're called Sirens & Stardust. We're going into the studio for our first album next month (unsigned), and I guess I should probably come up with a way to keep all our fans updated on what we're up to, but I haven't quite decided how I'll do that yet.

Anyway, as of writing, I'm a little over a month away from turning 24 years old. I'm simultaneously single and taken. It's really weird and complicated. To put it simply, I'm faithful to someone who I'm not officially dating because he's shy and insecure. Blah. Life. Blog. I spend too much time on Instagram and Facebook. My best guy friend and I are so close, my family has adopted him as one of our own. He's like a big brother to me. I already have a biological one, but we're so far apart in age it's mad. We love/hate each other. I can't count how many times I've beaten the crap out of him (lovingly) for annoying me half to death (affectionately).

I used to write a lot of fiction. A lot. Like, three stories updated every other day. I was a really lonely, depressed chick, and I guess I kind of lived in my head and in my creative writing, because I had created a world better than my own. It was therapeutic. Cathartic, even. But I lost the habit and basically quit writing altogether. Now that I'm my band's go-to lyricist, I figure I should start up again and regain my creative flow to help me write songs.

So yeah. Hello, world. Feel free to talk to me, or with me, or at me.