Thinking Out Loud...Squirrel!

A friend whose opinion I value greatly said I should write a book/cookbook  the other day.  That she'd totally buy it if I did.  I have to say I was truly flattered.  I don't think much about my cooking or writing, because I guess I love to do them and they come naturally to me. Like Brad just "getting" computer things.  Any kind of problem, Brad can totally figure it out.  Or how numbers make sense to him, he catches things on our taxes or balancing out our books each month that our Accountant misses.  Go figure.... But I don't know that he'd write a book about that knowledge, what kind of market could there be for something like that?  Kind of like how I feel about the book idea for me and my favorite things.

Maybe I could manage to piece together the outline of a book.  But how? what to write about? I'm not all that interesting.  I don't have many things in my life that others would truly find interesting or read worthy and the few things I do I could NEVER put down in black and white for the world to see. My friends and family would never look at me the same *muah*.

My husband loves the way I think and write subsequently.  It's the world according to Bitsy (his nickname for me it comes from my favorite Calvin and Hobbes comic) he says.  Every now and again I'll let him see how my thoughts really flow and I have to say it's an interesting place albeit confusing, to those who don't think like I do!  He looks at me and shakes his head completely baffled.  If I had to decribe his thinking, it's linear, you go from point A to point B, in that quick, straight line.  My thinking well it's like sunshine, lollipops, rainbows...squirrel!  Get it lol?  Perhaps that's why we work so well together, we are so not alike on that front.  I do tease him though, he thinks VERY loudly some days and I love surprising him with blurting out his thoughts when his brow is creased in his deep thoughts look.  Edgar Cayce has nothing on me haha!  Ok, right there, see, I was following a thought and the next thing you know I am talking about Edgar Cayce.  A semi-squirrel moment happening right there in between the sunshine and lollipops.

So maybe my blog will be my book in waiting as it were.  I like putting thoughts down on paper, well computer screen nowadays, and seeing an archive of my life.  When I go back over my blog I laugh out loud at some of the things I wrote.  It's kind of like my cooking, I really like my own cooking (no wonder I battle the bulge all of the time) and sometimes I hit on a creation or recipe that makes my taste buds sing!  There are those thoughts that I manage to put into words just right and I tickle myself silly when I go back and read them!  And like with my cooking, I am extremely critical of what I produce writing wise too.  I guess we're always hardest on ourselves.  Would I be able to take criticism and a potential book being shot down by a publisher?  Questions to ask.

I need to get a following for this blog of mine.  Brad thinks I need to figure out my niche, and then I would develop a core of followers.  I think if I had more then 8 people following my blog, I'd feel better about trying to put myself out there.  But who knows?  Could this be the thing that makes me happy?  I don't know, but I believe Cyndi's idea deserves further consideration on my part...