Hello Blog World!

So, with advice from a friend I have come here to blog my progress in my attempts at becoming a published author.
I'm not always the best at blogging, but I will do my best to keep up with what progress I do make.  I am prepared to dive in head first and throw my all at the wall to get my name out there and publish some works, so this should be an interesting adventure, don't you think?  Join me, will you?
Currently I have my whole focus on a fanfiction that I have been writing for almost two years now, it is coming to an end now, so I can turn my attentions to progress.  There is some talk of taking that story from the fandom it was written in, and turning it into it's own verse - good talk, I might add.  It's a good idea, and I think it could go somewhere.  We shall see, we shall see.
At any rate!  Let me tell you a bit about myself to get going.  It will be nice to be able to come back to this some years down the line and see where I started:
I have a few poems published out there, but overall, I have not yet succeeded in breaching the written world.  Currently I am a mechanic - and I do LOVE my job.  Probably more than I should.  There's just something about working on cars that is very zen.  I do have a pet project in which has been dubbed 'Nightburst'.  It's an old mustang that refuses to work for anyone...of current a new engine is being put into the beast.
I am also a returning student.  I'm going for my Associates in Applied Science.  I should have it within a year or so, which will make my world much easier.
I am a wife, and a mother of a rambunctious two year old - I bet you can imagine how life has gotten interesting since her second birthday.
I have several animals, though I tend to sympathize with the feline breed most of all.  I have a heart for the dogs, and birds, and horses, and mice, and rats, and all the other little critters out there.
I have many brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, mothers, and fathers in my life.  Extended family mostly, but family none the less to me.  Just because there is no blood between us does not make them any less kin to me.
I have tattoos.  I have ear piercings.   I do tend to have a rather unique view on things around me. 
I tell you all of this because this is where I draw my inspiration and drive from.  I get ideas from being around these things, notions, people, creatures that greatly influences my writing and I thought it might be nice to note that.
My writing tends to be dark, but I do have moments of good humor and love as well.  I believe that in life, no one can make it from beginning to end without some form of tragedy, and the same goes for a good story.
I have heard much of 'Merry Sue' and the male equivalent, but while I do understand the concept, I don't understand the totality of it.  I have been told both that my characters are, and are not, of this design and I don't really know what makes a person think one way or the other.  So, suffice it to say that I will write my characters as I see them in my mind, and that will likely be the end of it.  I am not opposed to constructive criticism, and yes, I will change as I learn - you cannot become better if you are unwilling to change - but I will not try to cater to everyone simply because a name such as 'Merry Sue' is thrown at my character.  Okay?  Fair?  Good.
Well, I believe I will end this particular entry here.  Lets see where this takes me!