The same way I should be someone who likes to run, I should be someone who likes to blog.
But I am neither.
By all accounts, blogging should be easy for me. I mean, I am a writer. I love to write. In fact, I write a column every week in the Tribune. You may know this as you are, in fact, reading it.
So when my fiance asked me why I don’t have a blog, I didn’t have a good answer for him.
“Um. Because I don’t,” I said, expecting that to be answer enough. “I write all day. Why would I want to write when I get home?”
“Because it’s your passion,” he said, with the same confused look a dog has when a person is talking to it.
Oh, come on. Now how am I supposed to argue with that? That’s one of those trump cards in an argument. There is nothing I can say to top it.
If we were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, Drew just played dynamite.
It’s the same way he reacts if I say I’m too exhausted to go to Bible study one night.
“It’s cool. Its not like God did anything for you,” he will say, nonchalantly.
Dang it. I’m going. Jerk.
He just played dynamite. I’m not sure I can deal with this kind of no-nonsense logic for the rest of our lives.
I thought I would put it in terms Drew, the Internet marketing manager for a car dealership, might better understand.
“When you get home from a long day of being in the Internet and doing marketing on social media, do you want to be on the Internet and social media?”
“Um, yes. That’s the point.”
Shoudla seen that one coming.
Check and mate. I am apparently terrible at blog writing and terrible at arguing.
And so I started my first blog —
erinshultz.tumblr.com. You can follow along as I attempt to learn about blogging, a pastime that the rest of the world discovered in 1999.
Currently my blog has about as many miles on it as my latest pair of running shoes, which is to say not many.
But as Drew and I have started personal training together and are currently heading into another No Spend Month, where we stop buying all nonessential products, I feel like I will have plenty to write about.
And I can always write about training for another Mini Marathon. Because yes, as I signed up for my first blog, I also signed up to train for another half marathon, my first in more than a year.
I may not be good at either, but I’m going to give them a try.
— Erin Shultz
[friday] editor/soon to be blogger
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