I want a snowball

I have been following this blog for about a year or so. I don't remember how I came across it, but I got sucked in and it's been one of the few blogs I read religiously. What keeps me coming back, I'm not sure. Possibly the fact that the woman is living a life in the midwest completely foreign to mine on the east coast. The fact that she's self-deprecating, which is always funny. Maybe because she's into photography, and so am I. Or she cooks, and I don't. Who knows. But she's doing stuff, and people are reading about it. In fact, she just published a cookbook, mostly with her recipes from her blog. And yesterday, on the front page of the Food section of the Philadelphia Inquirer, there was her cookbook with a short article. Here's a woman who started her blog 4 years ago just for the heck of it. And now she gets 13 million page views a month. Her cookbook is already #1 on Amazon's preorder list in the food category. I'm jealous! I want to find my thing. Why does it seem like this stuff just falls into their lap? I read about these "success" stories, and they all start off with someone simply doing something they like to do, then it snowballs into a fabulous business.

It might be time to revaluate my life. Or start making candles again. Or tighten up my photography skills. Hmmmm...