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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

HAPPY BLOG BIRTHDAY TO ME!

A few days ago I was curious about how long I've been doing this blog, so I looked up my first post and it was exactly one year ago, at the end of January!! It doesn't seem that long at all, I was really surprised!

I remember trying to get on the Blogher roll list & after applying I received a gentle note saying that I was not posting often enough to merit that honor. I felt pretty silly because I had been kind of proud of my once-a-month posting & thought I was being pretty industrious to do that much. I wondered how in the world anyone could sit down at their computer & write any more often than that!

Then came the November Nablopomo & I posted every single day for the month! I was hooked after that! Something changed in me & my writing by doing that challenge. It made me begin to look around every day for ideas & pictures & fun stories. (I think I may be using the "&" too much huh?) I loved it!

Something else changed as time went on. Just now, I went back to read my first 2 posts & they sound pretty different than I do now. I bet that would be true of most of us. I did not know how to "speak" to such a wide....as in http://www....audience/. (Ha!, using those 3 letters together automatically makes it an internet address! Yikes, wonder where it would send you!) Anyway, when I was picturing the entire world reading my blog, it was more than a bit daunting! So instead of writing something fresh, those first 2 posts are actually old articles I had written years earlier for our local small town paper on the church page. It may be my imagination, but they "sound" different than I am writing to you now.

So Happy 1 Year Birthday to me! I now have a bunch of new friends that I never would have known without the world of blogging. It really is a warm & encouraging place here with all of you. Recently I told my friends & students that I have another blogsite other than FaceBook, but I told them that the address will remain my secret for now. Hee hee! It's still fun to have a place of my own, ya know? So wonder where I can find some cake to celebrate myself?! :)

On another subject:
Yesterday our Leadership Team all went out to the school where my friend Joyce created that beautiful cross I told you about! We had not been out to see it in person as a group yet. So here is a pic of the backsides of our team since I have not asked permission to publicize them! Ha!


Added after published: I just noticed that this birthday post is my 100th post! Cool!

8 comments:

  1. Happy Blog Birthday to you! Mine is next month...5 years!! Yikes! It's kinda like a job now! LOL!

    Lisa

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  2. happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you. It is quite a proud moment when you realise how long you have been blogging. My post numbers creep up each year. last year I set myself a challenge to post 366 posts in the year, in the middle I thought I was struggling, but in fact I completed it a couple of days before Christmas, I ended up posting 378 for 2008. You soon change your way of thinking to 'can I blog about this' and you find you are already composing the post as the event has happened. It is addictive...!

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  3. Happy Blogging Birthday! It is such a fun world. I still can't believe that cross....so beautiful.

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  4. Brenda,

    Happy blog birthday! Your audience is grateful :-)

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  5. Happy Birthday Brenda. I hope that I can become as great a blogger as you are. :} Seriously.

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  6. Congratulations on your one year blogiversary and your 100th post! Thanks for stopping by my blog the other day. Enjoy the warm California weather!!!

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  7. Hi! Just back from my vacation and catching up with your blog! Of course I have to comment on this post -- happy 1 year blogiversary! It made me laugh for you to "revisit" your blogging beginning. One post a month! Haha! Doesn't that just sound outrageous! I know what you mean about "finding your voice" as your blog grows and develops. It is a strange thing to write so often and "publicly" and I think that is one of the things I like so much about blogging -- seeing people find their voices, discovering my own voice. I know I'm still finding my voice, but I feel it is getting easier every day. And I love that you are "coming out of the closet" with your Christianese. : )

    And the signs were funny too. My fave was Large Print Audio Books.

    Hope your trip to see your sister was wonderful! : )

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