Two years ago, I started a Wine & Dine club in Portland. My parents have been a part of a Wine & Dine club for years (and years and years) and they took me to a party one summer. It was the best party that my parents had ever dragged me to - it may have helped that I was also drinking... So I decided to start a group in Portland with my friends.
We get together once a month for wine tasting and a pot-luck style dinner. Whoever is hosting will choose the wines and provide the main course, while guests contribute to the cost of the wine and bring a side dish, appetizer, or desert. Wine & Dine is a great excuse to get together with 15 of our closest friends, get creative in the kitchen and bring a dish you'd never try making otherwise, and drink wines you've never been adventurous enough to try. It's been going strong for over two years and it's something I look forward to every month.
A few months after I started Wine & Dine, my dear, wonderful, amazing friend Jeff purchased a website for me for Wine & Dine and I just never got it going. I was a little overwhelmed with the technology speak of it all - trying to design it the way I wanted - and I didn't have any sort of direction to take it. I don't do well with blank canvases...
So the website (and Wordpress blog) mulled around in my head for the last couple years and I'm finally to a point where I can take on the monster. It's not a website anymore, and it's not Wordpress - too much HTML code for me to handle, and I'm too much of a perfectionist to just leave the little things be. I switched it over to Blogger, which is a platform I'm more comfortable with and there's waaaaaaaay more help blogs and how-to websites for Blogger than for Wordpress, so I can teach myself how to use and design it.
Hence the Resolution #2 is to get the Wine & Dine blog rolling. I've already got a jump start on it, since I'm on Winter break for two weeks with not much else to do but perfect the blog. It's in the beginning stages, of course. I haven't exactly figured out what form it will take, what it will be most useful for, or what types of content we'll be putting up. Actually I feel like I need a business plan or a blog committee or something... But it's up! It's created. And I'm dedicated to making it work!
Check it out here: www.wineanddineportland.blogspot.com
I also have a link to Wine & Dine in my blogroll.
Suggestions for content would be most welcome. I also accept compliments. :-P
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