Hi, I’m a Blogger Now

If you reading this, then that means I finally did it. I published my blog Old Cottage Charm. I purchased the domain a year ago. I worked on it for a while. I created the logo, set up the site, and even posted a few blog posts, but I never published it.

For the last year, I was Cameron Frye sitting in his car in the driveway deciding whether or not to listen to Ferris Bueller. I spent 365 days going back and forth of whether I was actually going to publish this blog.

You see, this isn’t the first time. Five years ago, I graduated college, moved to Wisconsin for a summer internship, and I decided I was going to start a blog. I purchased the domain, chickened out, and let it expire a year later.

Whenever I saw the emails coming through the last few weeks, reminding me that my domain was about to expire, I had a choice. I could let it expire and do this whole thing again five years from now, or I could actually publish this dang thing.

I’m no therapist, but I’m pretty sure this is analysis paralysis, fear of failure, or both. I really don’t know, which is exactly why I’m not a therapist. All I know is this blog is not going to be perfect, but I just need to stop worrying and take the plunge.

It’s 1:30 in the morning, and I should be sound asleep next to my snoring dog. Instead, I’m trying to become Cameron Frye at the end of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, minus the whole destroying his father’s 1961 Ferrari bit.

That’s it. I’m hitting launch and going to bed… as soon as I find the right button.

I’ll probably regret this in the morning.

Your friend,

Laci