Today’s my blog’s birthday.  Kind of.  Eight months have come and gone since I first payed the fees and did all I needed to snatch a domain and launch a little place on the internet where I can go to gather my thoughts.  Except the launching part never happened.  I didn’t know what to do to make this place look like a living, breathing, functioning blog.  So I didn’t do anything.  How do you create something out of nothing?  Writing is all I care about!  Not the techno-junk that comes with blogging.  Plugins, tags, widgets!  Oh my!

This place has become such a spot, ever so slowly and just for me.   It’s still new to me, this blog, but I’m starting to use it regularly as a place to pour out my heart and soul through writing, my words under lock and key, for my eyes alone.

But today, by mistake, this baby went live and a blog was born.  For the whole wide world to see.  The birth was premature, just a bit, but she’s here to stay.

Here’s what happened.  I met Jody at a Panera in Renton.  She’s a seasoned blogger and willing to help.  But a mistake was made when we fiddled behind the scenes with the dashboard.  All of the sudden the blog went live.  We tried to get it un-live, but neither of us knew what to do.  Jody sent a message to her tech-y friend to see if she could kill it.  We tried creating a new Coming Soon plugin.  Not sure what happened to it.

Normally I would freak out.  Maybe not in front of Jody, but alone in a bathroom stall or on the car ride home from Renton.  You see, I like things just so.  My work doesn’t have to be perfect as perfect doesn’t exist.  But anything worth doing is worth doing well.  Can I hear an Amen from you melancholies?  I know you’re out there.

But something Kimberlee and Emily mentioned a few nights ago came to mind.  And what they said slipped from my brain and fell smack into this tender heart of mine.  You see, my writer friends told me about G. K. Chesterton and how he wrote, “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”    So there you have it.  Take that, perfectionism!  I’m going to be brave and let this blog be what it is.  It’s nowhere near ready.  It’s not even functioning properly.  But it will be someday.   Hopefully someday soon, very soon.  And until I get my blog’s act together, or pay the big bucks to have someone make it pretty, I’m going to start publishing my work, bit by bit.

Happy Birthday, Blog!