Its true folks. My lack of blogging ambition/energy/enthusiasm/motivation is annoying me. Well, its not actually the lack of that stuff annoying me so much as my blog calling to me, saying "write a post NOW", with pure disregard of the lack of ambition/energy/enthusiasm/motivation.
In order to withdraw myself from the constant drip, drip, drip of guilt over my near abandonment of my precious blog, I have become determined to find an answer to why I my mind shuts like a steel trap at the sight of an empty New Post.
So far, my brainstorming has uncovered three truths as to why blogging is becoming more difficult and less amusing than it used to be.
1. My blog is not anonymous. People I know read it. People that are neighbors, relatives and (possibly worst of all) coworkers. (WAIT! That didn't come out right! You guys are THE BEST! THE BEST!). Because I didn't set up the blog to be anonymous, I constantly fear being a casualty in the economic downturn (aka fired for even mentioning my work life on my blog). So I do not. Issue is, however, that I spend a plump, yet healthy chunk of my waking hours at work. My only regular and meaningful daily interactions with human beings that are not my husband occur at work. Leaving work out of my blog is like minimizing my blog to include only the two hours at night that are spent coherent before bed. And if I'm honest, those hours are mainly spent mindlessly watching reality TV or reading
your blogs.
In addition to not writing about work, my darling husband would like me to write only about his most wonderful traits. Because someone may find this blog and connect it to
his business, and then think, "you mean this guy actually gives his wife a play by play of his daily golf game...what is the guy doing playing daily golf anyway?" and disregard him as a slacker. Which he most assuredly is not. But I can understand his point.
Now, I'm the first to admit, there would be relatively little to even discuss about my husband currently. He is pretty amazing. I never need to ask him to clean the house, take out the trash, do the gardening, etc. Mostly because he notices the need to do these things looooooong before I ever would. But he does them all, without any complaint or even so much as a boast of his efforts. He also treats me like the princess that I pretend to be, takes me on weekly dates (of his own accord), and regularly tells me I look pretty.
But, c'mon. All of that stuff does not make for the most entertaining and funny blog fodder. I mean, I know there are bloggers that solely discuss the wonder that is their husband. But all husbands, roommates, friends, people in general do things that are funny/annoying/crazy and make for entertaining and relateable blog posts. Sadly for you, I love my husband and I have to live with the man, so I do tend to understand (and even, mostly, acquiesce) when he wants me to tone it down on the blog.
So, I'm basically screwed from the get-go on the lack of anonymity.
2. I'm afraid to say this aloud as a backlash will almost certainly occur, but at the present time, my life is amazingly stable. The stability is most likely a form of me meeting my life's quota for drama and insanity prior to my turning 31. As in, prior to turning 31, my life had been mostly depression and angst, with some very brief times of joy mixed in to keep me alive. Oh My God! PLEASE I BEG YOU KNOCK ON WOOD RIGHT THIS MINUTE. The last time that I wrote about my life being stable, I broke my knee and my independence was reduced to that of a potty-trained, but otherwise very dependant young child (thankfully, diapers were not needed during that time). But, I'm not going to delete #2 because that would be ridiculous as the powers that be have already seen me write it and there is pretty much no hiding from the backlash now.
UNLESS, YOU IMMEDIATELY KNOCK ON WOOD!!! And the final reason for my lack of blogging mojo:
3. I do not have children. I am in a state of not-
not-trying to have a baby, but I am not in a state where I feel the need to worry about the fact that the not-
not-trying has yet to produce an embryo. That said, blogging when one has children is decidedly easier than when one does not, particularly when that one is also omitting work and funny things about her husband from this non-anonymous blog.
So, there you have it. I have probably just given you three reasons to never come to my blog for entertainment again (I'm a genius at positive and enthusiastic self promotion after all). But do come. Because I am going to figure this thing out.
Suggestions are always appreciated.