My First Blog
When I was asked about doing a blog back in mid-October, I took one look at them and was like “Nope, not doing one. I’ve never done one, it’s not my thing, I don’t know how.” You see, I’m not big on, or in the know about, a lot of online stuff or the computer world. I mean I have never even really read a blog (until now) or gotten into that sort of thing. It took me a long time when emails became a thing to start using one and what felt like forever to figure out Facebook. Even now, I am not a big fan but I had to learn for my kids’ schools and activities because that is how they put information out to the parents. I do have to say, it was helpful living overseas to be able to Shae pictures and stories with family members stateside. However, after some more conversation and knowing that on the schedule I had until mid-December to figure it ou, I decided why not? How hard could it really be? So, me being me, I started googling and scrolling through Pintret “What is a Blog?”, “How to Blog”, and “How to start a Blog”. The amount of information coming across my device screens was totally overwhelming. My anxiety about something new and uncomfortable would start to increase, so I would close the computer or swipe out of my phone and say “I’ll do this later.”
After continuing to do this multiple times and then getting in the groove of the holidays with work and home life, I totally space on working on it. The person in charge came to me on the day is was due and asked if I had it finished. My first thought was “oh crap” and of course I apologized profusely and asked for a new date promising to do it then. With him being the amazing person that he is, he gave me a new date in January.
So, again I opened up my computer and started the whole “How to start a Blog” search. But instead of closing the laptop and giving up because it felt overwhelming, I decided to adult and started scanning over all the options to click on. Apparently, there are multiple ways to start a blog. For example, one link said “8 Steps to Start Blogging”, “9 Steps to Start Your Blog”, “Sign up here to Start Blogging”. There were way too many options in my opinion. And then there are multiple layouts you can use to help get you started on your topic. Some of those you had to subscribe to in order to access. My thought was “nope, I get too many junk things sent to e as it is”, and went back to searching.
The more I decided to adult and read everything, the more different pieces of information I pulled from and concluded that a blog is basically just someone, somewhere talking about anything. I sat in my chair and thought “Well, now what am I going to write about? Do I need to use a layout? Can I just type?” Too many decisions and not enough coffee. I get told that I overthink things and that I am overthink this. As I stare at the blank page on my laptop, it clicked. I can write about my experience of having to write my first blog. I decided not to use a fancy layout and just typed like I am sitting across from you with a cup of coffee talking about myself and my insecurities when it comes to learning something new that has to deal with technology. So here’s my first blog. If I’m asked to do one again I may try one of those fancy layouts with an interesting topic like “How to…” or “Did you know…”. But for now, I suppose I’ll conclude with this thought.
Don’t be afraid of trying something new. You can learn something cool or learn about gibberish that you still don’t understand, but hey, you gave it a shot right? I’m going to keep trying and who knows, maybe I will get good at these one day.