Goal Analysis: To Blog Regularly

So this is another one that is really a few goals in one.  I want to be more organized, enjoy my space and be more grateful.  So really I guess I want what seems to be the idyllic the blogger lifestyle. 

But honestly, I don’t think I can do perfection.  I read what has become the 2015 Food52 Piglet

Contest controversy of the year, in which a food blogger I really enjoy, Adam Roberts  gave his perception and rating of 2 cookbooks.  In the now infamous review, he pokes some fun at MimiThorisson’s A Kitchen in France.  And I loved it!  I hate reading a cookbook where there are more shots of the chef in question than of the food itself.  I’m looking at you, Giada.  Because maybe (maaaaaaaaaaaybe) I can master that recipe, but I will never look like Giada or Mimi.  

But this got a lot of flack with Food52 weighing in, as well as Eater, Design*Sponge and even Mimi herself.

  

Sorry for throwing that many links at you!  I guess the whole thing just left me thinking – yes, I liked Adam’s comic book review, and I have the same issues he does; but at the same time I’m sorry someone’s feeling got hurt.  And her life does look better than mine. And I guess that’s my point.  Even the realistic bloggers have lives that are just unachievable for me.  

Like this morning routine post from Blissfuland Domestic - I was reading, and nodding along and thinking – yep, so true.  When my kitchen sink is clean, I do feel better.  And oh yea, that’s true – my tiny apartment looks so much better just by having the bed made! And then I got to her third suggestion.  My lips tightened and pursed and my eyes narrowed.  Throw a load of laundry on?  Throw a load of laundry on?! And the mental rant began.  Lady! I live on the fifth floor of a walkup, and my nearest laundromat is a block away.  A New York City Avenue block!  So yea, forget living on an idyllic farm in Southern France (with or without marble mantels).  I can’t live the lifestyle of homemaker in Nevada. (Who I respect a lot. She's one heck of a homemaker).

But then it dawns on me… I don’t want either of those lives.  I actually was actually born on a farm.  Southern Missouri, not Southern France, but still.  It’s nice to visit but I know I don’t want that life. I also know that I don’t want to be a homemaker.

I chose New York, and I love it. I am not a perfectionist, but I am particular about certain things.  So… I guess I’ll do what I can, and accept that some things are out of my control (like putting a laundromat in my building, which actually was a tenement building at one point, or having my ceiling fall down).

So revising my vague ‘blog regularly’ goal into something meaningful and actionable, my new goal is to: Post 4 times a week to this blog, with something I cooked, crafted, hung/designed or tried myself, with hopes to make myself more of the person that I actually want to be.  I feel pretty good about that goal. (But my fingers are still crossed!)