A confession from my obsessive personality.

I have a confession to make.

Recently, I've become obsessed with blogging. 

Probably too obsessed.

I've been busy trying to make each feature of my blog the best it can be, 

trying to grow my readership, and exploring the thousands of
other awesome blogs out in blogland.

I've gotten so wrapped up in it, I've been neglecting other parts of my day.

I haven't spent enough time exercising or cleaning 

and I've been perfecting my blog posts instead of putting the finishing touches on my novel.
I'll admit, I've got a bit of an obsessive personality, and when I begin a project
I often jump in headfirst. That's definitely what happened with this blog.
And when it grew quickly, I was seriously enthralled.
"People are reading stuff I write! The internet likes me!"
I'll admit, it was pretty cool. And I just wanted to keep it up!
I knew I'd been spending a bit too much time in blogland, but that sort of came to a head
a couple days ago when I lost a few "followers" and I was seriously bummed. And worried.
Did I offend someone? Did they just decide I wasn't that cool, after all?
Who knows.
But I was sad about it; probably sadder than I should have been.
And then I gave it some more thought, and I realized I was being a bit of a lunatic.
Sometimes I feel like blogland is the 20-something
girl's version of a high school popularity contest.
Who has the most readers, who has the most perfect outfits,
who goes on the coolest vacations?
I love blogging; I love reading about other people's lives
and I love that there are wonderful folks out there who actually like reading my own ramblings.
But in five years, which is going to be more important to me?
Having "X" number of followers or publishing a novel?
The latter. Duh.
So, I'm re-prioritizing, PRONTO.
Fiction first, exercising second, blogland third and cleaning...still last.
(Sorry, cleaning, I don't think you'll ever move up on my priorities list.)
Which doesn't mean I'm going to be posting less...
I just may be slower at responding to your awesome comments,
and I'll probably have less time to stalk other blogs.
It's fine if my blog's not the best lifestyle blog in the whole world.
The reason I started a blog in the first place was to document our life
and to share it with our friends and family.
And, really, how am I supposed to blog about my life if I don't have one?