Destined to Fail

Bethany reacts to the deliciousness that
is tortillas and chile that she and Jonathan
made themselves at Santa Fe Cooking School!

BETHANY  Welcome to the very first installment of Ruby...Don't Take Your Blog To Town.  I'm Bethany, and the other one you're going to hear from momentarily is my best friend Jonathan.  We are successful adults working very adult (not in a bad way!) jobs, hundreds of miles from each other.  We first met when we lived in the same city, more than a thousand miles from where we each live now.  That was high school...a lifetime ago.  Now there are relationships and bosses and kids and bills...  But there are a lot of things that haven't really changed at all.  And that's a lot of what we will blog about.  At least, I think so.  We're not really sure.  The thing is, we've started a great many projects together over the years.  While we have had a lot of success with some of them (not really...I'm just trying to make us feel better), more often than not, we fizzle out.  We're idea people, I guess you could say.  Jonathan, why is it in YOUR opinion that none of our projects have lead to great success?  Could it be because we haven't finished any of them?  Because, if so, I don't really think that's a fair thing for the world to hold against us.

Jonathan reacts to the deliciousness that
is tortillas and chile that he and Bethany
made themselves at Santa Fe Cooking School!

JONATHAN  Maybe the world just wasn't ready for our...unique...talents? I don't know. If only James Cameron had made us stars, then I might have an answer for you, but I am not sure. We have both created things that were actually completed, but somehow when we try to collaborate, it never comes completely together. But we are both determined to stay on this particular project, and I think we might be able to turn our luck around. Because as much fun as it is to have a handful of ideas and beginnings, it's even better to see them fleshed out all the way. So here we go, thanks in great part to your endless energy and ambition. So tell me, dear Bethany, why will we keep going with this blog and not just give up and never speak of it again like so many other attempts? 

BETHANY  Oh let's face it!  We won't!  It's going to fail just like so many endeavors before it.  No...I refuse to accept that.  It WILL succeed.  And do you know what the difference is?  The difference is we're getting older and starting to forget things, so we both realize that we need to record them, or they will be gone forever.  So this one will stick.  Unless of course our agent finally sells our "Wings" fan fiction to a reputable publishing house!  Then we will have bigger fish to fry!