As a reformed journalist, I often wish to stray back into the writing world. Every so often I try to jump back in it (just like with everything else I do – just fecking jump right in, headfirst, without fear of missing my mark. But then life happens, or I get worried the wrong people are reading, I get scared my husband (the most non-online persona on earth) will have a big problem with it.
Mostly, the writing and creative outlet is lost in a day full of haunting my home office and the kitchen like some sort of restless ghost, answering client emails, meeting deadlines, and producing things – and really not making any time for myself during the usual business day. Kind of like I wasn’t running my own business in the effort of self-improvement like I’d originally hoped. This blog is an effort to get me to refocus my creativity onto myself and my home, since it’s going to be up to me to make this place a home (if we left it up to my engineer husband, bless him, every interior wall would be staunch white and every room would have seriously bright florescent light bulbs). And, of course, to keep up with relatives and friends who live afar (if any of them have the spare, previous minutes to pay this a visit).
Jumping back into blogging was really put into my mind when I composed this instagram post:
Complete truth: I’ve been married since February 2016 and it still boggles my mind that 1) I actually got married, 2) someone actually WANTED to marry me, and 3) It’s going FANTASTIC for us.
So, naturally, the next step is to , OBVIOUSLY: START A BLOG ABOUT MY SUPER COMFY LIFE! WHAT AN ORIGINAL IDEA! No educated white woman who spends most of her day at home has ever thought of that! Like I can totally write about wine and coffee and uggs and –
okay-
that’s enough that I could give into the sarcasm and ridiculousness of it all. Even I think this is a trite effort (and I’ve never owned anything close to uggs). I understand that writing about myself online does not designate me as some special and unique snowflake, and there’s enough wife blogs out there to fill up the entire internet and more.
But, I don’t know. I figure I can put my own twist on things.
But yes, I do want to write more. I do want to fill a gap of self expression that maybe I miss out on now that I work from home. I do want to be inspired by other wife-lives and how they decorate their homes – I’ve got the cooking part down pat – but decorating, cleaning, and coming up with fun date nights – that’s where I could use some improvement. And I don’t foresee this just being a wifer-for-lifer content base.
Also I want to be a better wife. I think he deserves that.
What to expect from my blog:
1. NO POLITICS (however social and feminist issues will have a spotlight when neccessary)
2. Wisdom I’ve learned
3. Food. Stuff about food.
4. Things like unicorns and coffee that make me happy
5. Wifin’
6. Cursing.
7. Stuff about marketing, PR, journalism, and creative jobs
8. Content appropriate GIFs
9. Self-improvement
10. Tips of the trade, hacks, and other secret ingredients to life.
