Blog Envy

I have blog envy.  (Does that count as one of the seven deadly sins?) 

Blogs are everywhere you look.  A quality blog, however, is something to collect.  Honest and interesting words warm my soul.  I bookmark the great ones, and read them often.  I am sometimes obsessive in my search for updated postings on my favorite blogs.  I follow the blogs of friends, acquaintances and strangers alike.  I love stepping outside of my own lens and looking through someone else's, albeit for a brief moment in time.  There is beauty in that.  

I have to say it:  Poor writing and grammar does not warm my soul; rather, it makes it feel cold and dead.  I skip over those words/blogs, lest they are written by someone I love.  For you, my dear friends, my tolerance level experiences a temporary increase.  You're worth it.  Count it as love.

Nonetheless, I was starting to get jealous of all of you blogsmiths, so I pondered having a blog of my own.  Allow me to walk you through my thought process:

Does the internet need another blog?  (Probably not.)

Do I have anything interesting to say?  (Probably not.)
Will anyone read my blog?  (Probably not.)
Great!  I should start a blog!

And so it began.

Here are the blogging goals for this superhero to live by:

1. I shall document my thoughts with my best effort in grammatical accuracy.
2. I shall blog regularly - particularly in the moments when I don't want to.
3. I shall write about that which  I am passionate about.    
4. I will be transparent.  (Spare me your judgment, though I will accept grammatical corrections - see #1.)

Anyone who knows me knows that follow-through is not on my list of strengths.  Particularly when I don't have a village/team/husband to keep me accountable.  I'm the idea girl - and this idea girl is not fond of rules.  (Even if they are my own.)  I just wrote four rules for myself.  What was I thinking?  Well, if I don't follow my rules, I suppose that I'll be left with the blog envy I started with.  And I'll only have myself to blame.  I might try to blame it on you anyhow.

Let's get this party started.