Fine, I'll blog ...

I have a feeling most first blog posts sound exactly alike, so I'm not really even going to try to be unique here. I'm a 20-something lady living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with my fiance, with whom I fell in love over a semicolon. I'm sort of a Jane of all trades -- I love to cook, read, knit ... but I guess you can read all of this in my profile.

Mostly, I need an outlet for all of the things that I think in an ordinary day. Also, I have taken some hilarious cell phone pictures and I need a place to post them. I only wish I hadn't lost 20 Canadian Tuxedo pics when I traded in my last phone -- what was I thinking?

I realized I needed a blog today when I was on an internet message board, and someone said they were "a tad bit annoyed." I hope someone out there in blogland can appreciate why that phrase made ME a tad bit annoyed. What the heck does "a tad bit" mean? "Tad" is a noun. "Bit" is a noun. We don't use two nouns in a row like that. It just isn't prudent. Find an adjective and go with it.

I had a similar reaction last night, while I was at my local drug store. Some snotty, belligerant guy was totally balling out the checkout boy. In defense of the old guy, the checkout boy probably was vapid and clueless -- that's generally how it goes at that store. But the old guy was really laying into him. At one point he said, "Are you like this with everyone, or is this a personal problem between you and I?" It took all the strength of my being not to remind him that "I" is not the object of a preposition. It's "between you and me," jerk. Of course, I didn't say anything; it was between him (not "he") and the checkout boy.

This blog won't be all about grammar ... but it might be mostly about grammar.