First post about the first kiss

Hi. My name is Virginia Sanders. I turned 30 just a couple months ago. I haven’t had my first kiss yet.

Whew. There, I said it.

I intended to have that little detail of my life accomplished a while ago. Many years went by without much concern over it. For the past couple of years, though, I’ve said to myself, “Okay, before my next birthday, I’m getting that kiss no matter what.” Obviously my resolve wasn’t strong enough, because it didn’t happen.

So, what should I do? A conventional route of “find an opportunity and kiss a guy” doesn’t seem to be working for me all that well. I need to create an opportunity.

Then I had the idea of auctioning off my first kiss and giving the proceeds to charity. The idea wouldn’t leave me alone. It got stuck in my brain, and I couldn’t shake it. I know people have auctioned off all sorts of unusual items on eBay, so why couldn’t I do this? The answer is that I can do this.

Welcome to my blog, Kiss Chronicles, which I’ll be using to tell the story of one very small, very belated kiss that is going to happen sometime in the future. I have some fun and funny posts planned for this blog. I have a Kiss Chronicles FaceBook page,too.

I haven’t contacted the charity or set up the auction yet. That’s a vital step in the plan, but first I need to get this blog going, get some word out, and hopefully generate a little interest.

Meanwhile, I have some predictions for this project:

• I will laugh frequently. That would have happened anyway, even without this wild idea, but the idea will lead to a greater number of belly laughs than usual.
• I will be asked awkward and/or creepy questions.
• I might get called a liar (not by my friends, but by people who don’t know me).
• Someone might lie and say he kissed me. Haha, good one.
• My name will be mocked. I see that one coming a mile away. 😉
• The situation will evoke Never Been Kissed movie comparisons. I watched the movie (most of it), and I’m positive that my experiences through this blog and project will be more interesting.
• The unexpected will happen because of this. I have no idea what the unexpected things that are going to happen will be. That’s why they’re unexpected. But I can say I saw them coming. Sort of.

As a side note, yesterday I had Chinese takeout for dinner. Inside my fortune cookie was the message “Good things are coming to you in due course of time.” WOW. Go ahead, let that irony sink in. I’m taping this little sucker of a fortune to my laptop lid until this project is complete and I have that kiss.

Special thank you to Rachael Thomas (of Rachael Thomas Designs) for being the moral and technical support I needed to get this mission moving.