The short answer: Pinterest
I contemplated making the long answer a series of diagrams and flow-carts depicting exactly what clicks lead to what, but in all reality, I have faint memory of exactly how it all went down enough to actually bust out visio and make a chart. BUT I do have enough of a memory to make some sense of it.
Back in October/November when Pinterest came into my life I started realizing that all of these awesome recipes and craft ideas were coming from blogs. I didn’t really pay much attention to them in the beginning, just copied down the recipe or idea and went on happily pinning.
Then I came across a treadmill workout that seemed interesting and it led me to Brittany’s blog. I’m not exactly sure what captivated me about her blog (maybe it was all the jelly beans on her background, or her cute little smiling face on the right hand side staring at me) but for some reason I wanted to stick around and stay a while. I browsed around her various menus and checked out her story etc…
This was right around the time that I started understanding more about RSS feeds and how those work. I had clicked on “reader” a couple of times while in my gmail but didn’t really understand what was going on. When I randomly clicked on the RSS button on Brittany’s page and then somehow her posts were directly added into my Google reader, it all began to make sense.
From there it kind of just exploded.
I checked out her blogroll and started clicking around. Then she had guest posters and then fuh.get.a.bout.it. I was a goner. Blog addicted. No, really. I even took a test.
So many interesting (mostly) women doing amazing things, making amazing things, being amazingly funny. It was like this whole little world that was hiding and I had just discovered it. Then I got the itch.
Obviously I convinced myself to answer “YES” to that question. Which I guess is technically not an correct answer to that question. But you know what I mean.
And now I am a blogger.
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I love it. I started blogging mainly when I lived overseas to keep in touch with family. But basically every reason is a good one!
I totally agree! Everyone starts for a different reason, but they are all good!
Hahahhaha I love that last cartoon … I feel like that fits me about 90% of the time!
That’s why I only post 3 days a week … because do I REALLY have that much to talk about (at least that people care to read)?? No, no I don’t. 
well I care to read about anything and everything you care to write about!
But that cartoon is funny. Paul is always telling me “you should blog about this” funny
so interesting! Mine almost happened backwards from yours!
I always browed the health stuff on yahoo and MSN, and there was a thing about a featured “health blogger” that lost weight and is healthy, so of course i was interested. It led me to Katie’s blog (Keepingupwithkatie.com) and i was even MORE intrigued by her blog cuz she lived in NC and this was right about the time we decided to move there so i started drooling over all her pictures/etc and that led me to other blogs, and more blogs and then i was obsessed. THEN i learned of pinterest andall the other similar stuff, and randomly decided i was going to start blogging!
isn’t it sooo interesting how everyone gets into it? funny that yours is almost opposite of mine! love it!
Haha! AW! Thanks for the shoutout, Cinnamon! I’m not going to lie, it makes me very happy to know that I had something to do with you getting involved in the blogosphere
So glad to have met you! (Well, virtually…haha)
you too!! (virtually!) Thanks for being a part of my blogging story, even if it WAS unintentional!
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