Hey goosey! (love the nickname)
It's perfectly normal to experience that barrage of thoughts that you describe when you first start meditating. Most people go through that stage. The trick, in my humble opinion, is not to try to fight it. That just leads to frustration and, sometimes, a sense of failure.
We wouldn't expect to sit down in front a piano for the first time in our lives and immediately start playing Mozart, because we realised that mastering a musical instrument takes practice and patience.
In many ways, it's the same with meditation. Having said that, you are already the mater of your our mind in that you are greater than the limited thought-producing machine in your skull. How can you know that? Well, the fact that you are capable of OBSERVING your thoughts, of knowing that they are arising suggests that something, some part of you which is BEYOND the mind is perceiving this.
Don't try to stem the flow of thoughts, just enjoy them passing by -- not judging them or hurrying them along. Just watch in a detached manner as if they were not your own thoughts at all.
I hope this helps a little!
Warmest wishes,
Martin
advice welcome!
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