Hi, Alea. I'm going to leave it to someone more expert than I to explain journals to you, but just want to say "Welcome to the forum!". It helped me to get the journal thing better when I clicked on other people's journal links (and mine is a pretty weak example as yet so I don't really recommend it) and read what was posted there. Then you can create your own.

Hope you find lots of great info and enjoy the friendly posts here. I hung around for several days just reading, and then couldn't resist joining.

Good luck on your LC journey!