Okay, so this is why I am trying blogging...

Let me explain...Like a lot of addicts, it started out with experimenting here and there.  Nothing serious at first.  I just dabbled with the occasional internet search.  But my first life-changing foray, many many moons ago, was with the unreal swiftness of e-mail.  I could send a letter to a friend and, provided they also knew of this amazing new thing called e-mail, they could receive it instantaneously!  I was hooked!  No need to find an envelope, lick a stamp, or, God forbid,walk to the mailbox and lift the little metal flag.  I only needed to stay in my (sort of) comfy desk chair and hit "send."  It was that quick.  And that easy.

The next step in my descent into the technological abyss came with the invention of social websites, Facebook in particular.  I tried to resist, I really really did.  But the pull was too strong.  And so many of my friends were doing it.  Family members too!  I know!  Crazy, right?  My own little sister was pressuring me. "Everybody does it, Mindy!" So one day, I just did it too.  I created an account and before I knew what I was doing, I was trapped in a world of "likes" and "tags," throwing virtual donuts at people I hadn't spoken to since I was in 7th grade!  But everyone was doing it.  And besides, how else was I going to be able to see all those adorable pics of my nieces and nephews who lived out of state? How else was I going to wish my sisters Happy Birthday or let my husband know just how very much I loved him on our anniversary?  If I didn't use Facebook, I would never know that, while I stalked friends on a rainy October morning in Chicago, Jay from my 6th hour Pre-Algebra class in 8th grade was getting a double shot Skinny Venti Caramel Machiato with no whip from a Starbucks in San Diego! If it weren't for my addiction, I would never have known!!!!

Which leads me to the third step toward my ultimate destination. Well, really this is the third and final, but not last step.  Pinterest.  This is my ultimate goal, to become a Pin master.  Like most people, Pinterest first came into my world through the usual conduit of Facebook.  I began noticing little notes on the side of my wall, "Lora commented on 'Sock Darning' on Pinterest, "Melissa re-pinned 'Hot Men of the OFD' on Pinterest." It was like they were taunting me with this new stimulant, yet they weren't actually offering it to me!  I had to investigate!  I admit, I just jumped in, not knowing what to expect, not fully understanding the power of Pinterest.  But in it I found an amazing medium to share all those cool things I found during those internet searches!  And heck, maybe I could share all the cool things I'd created over the years as well!  So I tried. I did.  I only wanted to Pin about the roast pig cake I made for Natalie's birthday, BUT IT WOULDN"T LET ME DO IT THE WAY I WANTED TOO!!!  I had plans!  I had aspirations!  I had all these great visions in my head of how my board would look!  But I couldn't make it work!  The concept of Pinterest was so potent, but the tools offered were so limiting!!  I was crushed, frustrated, beyond hope.  No one would ever know just how many boxes of cake mix it took to make a roast pig.  No one would ever know the right formula for creating a faux roast pig skin glaze.  

Which is why I am here, blogging about my failed attempt to Pin directions for Roast Pig Cake.  It occurred(belatedly) to me, that I was supposed to be pinning things from other websites.  That was the way to get things up on Pinterest.  But the problem was that my directions weren't on a website.  They were in my head and in a series of carefully shot photos on my Macbook.  I couldn't mesh Pinterest with my pictures, or my head, in a manner that made sense.  And then lightening struck!  I recalled my sister Lori's blog online and thought, maybe, just maybe, I could BLOG my directions and pictures and then Pin my blog!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHH! <---(think divine voices from Heaven singing that)  

So here I am, wasting a perfectly pleasant October afternoon, not stalking my Facebook friends, not doing the stacks of laundry that are waiting, not packing for my trip to Omaha in two days.  Nope.  Not me.  Instead, I am learning to blog so that I can Pin directions for Roast Pig Cake and all my friends on Facebook can see a little note on the right of their walls that says "Melinda pinned 'How to Make Roast Pig Cake' on Pinterest." And if you don't see it there, don't worry.  Once I figure it out, I'll be sure to send you all an e-mail.