Allow me to introduce… myself. (wow, that’s original)

The name is Joyce, or as you would get more used to seeing it spelled as: Joiz. My last name is not DotOrg (hahaha!), it’s Santos. I’m Joyce Santos, and I love to write and take photos.

I’m currently employed as a web administrator / business analyst / QA tester (multi-purpose?) for a global professional services company. I am also a mother to a 5 year old girl, named Ashley Fiona (lately referred online as “the kid”). In between being a single mom and an employee, I try to find time to do other things I really love.

I’m both a Scorpio and Saguittarius. My vital statis-LOL, no. You won’t get that kind of introduction here, but yeah, I like to add side comments to what I write (I even have side comments for my side comments, Inception!). Expect that a lot of my posts were, is, and probably will be –for a lack of a better word to describe it– nonsensical.

I love to travel, I like to try different things, I enjoy different food and I savor adventures. But I have never considered myself a writer, so when I try to describe my exploits it always ends up lacking the vibrancy, it lacks structure, even to the extent of lacking sense. Then, there would be times that I would deliberately write that way to amuse myself (You are welcome to decipher which is which, but good luck?). There is a saying out there that people who don’t have a sense of humor, call funny people “immature”. But me? Funny? I don’t know… Maybe, I’m really just immature. *shrug*

Joiz.org was born in 2007 (joiz.be used to house my blog in 2005-2006). I registered this domain so I could write more, and have a place I can store in all my photos and illustrations, and share them with friends & family and the occasional strangers who just happen to pass by. This site’s predecessors served pretty much the same, the only difference was that those predecessors were hosted in free & now defunct sites. Yes, having your own domain and getting your site hosted requires moolah. So please note that from time to time, I also serve ads & adventorials to fill in the blog’s corners and cracks. Mama needs it to pay the bills, yo. My disclosure policy will be posted soon, I just haven’t had time to type it up.

I’m not a big name in this blogging industry. I don’t have thousands of followers on Twitter, or gather a lot of +1′s in G+ & likes in Facebook. I don’t have a harem on Plurk, or stalkers on Tumblr, or my very own paparazzi trying to snap an upskirt or boobs shot (At least, I hope I don’t have a paparazzi doing that). But what I lack in fame, I make up for enthusiasm. If I haven’t said it enough, I love adventures. Every new thing is an adventure.

I enjoy what I have right here, right now. The long term goal is to live life to the fullest, be a student of the world, find the meaning of my life. I hope this blog not only allows me to share my explorations but to pave the way to it.