Why you ask?

WHY HAVE I STARTED A BLOG?
Good question.  I suppose my desire to blog is driven mostly by ineptitude; blogging seems like the one "new" trend I can embrace (see?!  You're laughing aren't you, because blogs aren't new).  I haven't mastered my cell phone of 3 years.  I use the throw-away cameras you buy at CVS.   If the computer doesn't work as expected when I login, then I need to call the IT Helpdesk, and they will ask me questions that confound me:  what is your IP Address (I don't know and I can't find it).  What version of Outlook are you using (the version that lets me send emails).  You get the picture.  I didn't even set this blog page up, my husband did.

One interesting aspect to my blog - I don't actually want anybody reading it.  I'll write AS IF people are reading it, but don't really want people to read it because then if they think it's really lame and completely unfunny, they won't tell me, they will just silently think that I am just a little pathetic.  And while that may be true, it's not the kind of thing you want to be universally known.  As a matter of fact, my daughter Maeve just entered the room with a bunch of her friends and they were all like - you're starting a blog? That's so cool, I like the name, I'd read it.  ACK!  Now I need to change the name.

So what do I plan to DO with the blog?  The purpose?  I suppose like most other blogs, there is no real purpose other than to listen to myself talk (and the secret desire that some day it becomes such a cult hit that I am interviewed by David Letterman on LIVE T.V., but you never say that, you act like it's something you just did for yourself and the LAST thing you ever wanted was notoriety).  But actually, I do have some loosely defined goals at this early stage.  If anyone were to read the blog, I decidedly do NOT want to improve their life in any way.  I hope to offer no inspiration.  If I am lucky, maybe I have exaggerated the good things happening in my life such that your life pales in comparison. Or perhaps I have written something clever that makes you, the reader, realize that YOU aren't that clever, ergo you are probably boring to other people.  So I suppose you could say my success can be measured by how much worse people feel after they have read a blog entry.  But really, at the end of the day, can success ever TRULY be measured?

(note to self - nice move, ending with a compelling question, creating the illusion that this blog will compel people to think)