To Blog or Not to Blog?

O.K. I have finally done it. I have started a blog. Believe me when I say that I tried not to, I really did. For the longest time I have been avoiding it. I wouldn't look at others' blogs. When my girlfriends would talk about their blogs, and what they read on someone else's blog, I would just smile politely and nod, and pretend I was in their world, instead of floating around in my own little blogless universe. Why have I put off this moment for as long as I have? Am I blogist? a blog-snob? suffering from bolgophobia? No. It isn't that I hate the idea of a blog. In fact, it is quite the opposite. I LOVE the idea of a blog. Having a blog is just of the kind of thing that makes me giddy. It is the kind of thing that will keep me up way too late at night (and I already stay up late enough), will get me out of bed way too early in the morning (as if 5 a.m. isn't early enough).
You see, I know myself too well. I am a woman of passions. Of course I am passionate about my husband (yeah, baby!) and my 6 darling and energetic sons, my family and my friends, but I also have a litany of other activities, interests, collections, hobbies, traditions, etc. that I love passionately. How many all-consuming passions can one girl have anyway? When it comes to passions, I am like an old lady with a bunch of cats. When I see that scrawny little homeless blog sitting there in the rain, I can't just pass it by! After all, there is always room for one more, right? Not really. That is the problem. My poor little passions are being neglected terribly, and are getting quite skinny and some probably ought to be put out of their misery. For some strange reason, after I have rationed out my time to kids, husband, church, family, friends, chores, and taxi driving, there is little time left for my passions.
So, being the cautious soul that I am, I have talked myself out of blogging for as long as I could. But I am weak, silly and weak, and have finally given in to blogomaina, against my better judgement. And, being in danger of getting in way over my head, I jump with both feet into the blogosphere.