Actually, the exact date of my blogiversary is unknown, because I started a blog and then deleted it in a post-op-medication-induced fit of depression and self-doubt. I got my appendix out, started a blog, and had a breakdown because I was sure that Sarah Marinara (the first non-relative to ever read my blog) had removed my name from her list of links. Over a period of, let's see...24 hours, I thought better of deleting my blog, and started it up again, this time lowering any expectations of Sarah Marinara ever reading it again. See? I told you I was all whacked out on my pain meds. Alas, my first blog ever written (entitled "Kitchen Sluts and the Bible") is lost forever. Now Sarah Marinara is married and I am about to give birth to child number two. Who knows that would have happened if I hadn't continued to blog??
I've been thinking a lot about my wild blogging ride, and I've decided that I am qualified to give others lots and lots of good blogging advice. So, those of you who are thinking about starting a blog of your own (Emily, this means YOU), here are some tips:
1. Never accidentally steal someone else's bandwidth. And, if you do, send them 12 cents immediately to rectify the situation. If the person happens to be an ardent Japanophile who is very sensitive about his picture of a girl in a kimono, you are in especially big trouble.
2. Never, ever, ever JOKE about the phrase "Junque for Jesus" because someone may give you a lecture about--heaven forbid--your own need for charity some day. Hey, I'm already there, my sensitive friend. I'm already there....
3. Never discuss the boys you went out with--even in code, and in innocuous terms--because there's the slim, but present, chance that one of them will google you and feel a need to write several lengthy blogs detailing his version of your short-lived relationship. Woopsie daisies!
So, that is basically the blogging trinity. Follow those three rules and you'll be fine. Learn from my mistakes.
And, to commemorate my one year, I will refer you to an early post and provide the accompanying picture that should have gone with it (but it took me a year to figger out how to post a picture).
Ahhh, those were the days. I knew so little of what lay ahead...
Happy blanniversary. I love your blog and read it almost every day. I hope you never stop blogging.
ReplyDeleteBLOG ON GIRL.
ReplyDeleteYou and your clan are an inspiration to all of us Blogites. I am captive to your prose.
Blog on....and on....and on.
Please re-write "Kitchen Sluts and the Bible." I'm begging you.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you followed suit with Kacy (again) and started blogging. Who knows where I'd be today if I hadn't been third in line of the "monkey see, monkey do." BTW in my grand Goodwill donation, you will be happy to know that I got rid of my red Curious George tee with sequin bananas on it. (Even though you know how Bombshells love monkeys.)
WHAT? Why didn't you offer that T to me first?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I was so selfish. When I originally bought it, my first thought was, "You know who would just LOVE a shirt with a monkey on it? HOSS!" I'll try and make it up to you.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Carly! As you can probably tell by your voo doo blog patrol thingie I compulsively check your blog. I love it. Keep posting! Even when you do have a newborn.
ReplyDeleteHow are you feeling? No more prelabor? Jana had a bunch o' contractions last night, but they unfortunately went away. But in honor of her contractions I shared Mike's poem with her. She loved it. Good luck and congratulations!
I'm glad you blog. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy blanniversary!!!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I didn't understand it at first, I've repented and love reading your blog, just like all the other lurkers who never know what to say, and so don't ever post comments, for fear of making a typo like spelling a word wrong, or writing a run-on sentence. Is that how you spell run-on? I don't know.
You're wonderful Carly. Keep on...bloggin' on.
Congrats. I love your blog. Whenever I am feeling so normal/neutral/boring/middle aged/drab/etc., it gives me a smile and a chuckle. I also love reading the adorable comments your hubby makes.
ReplyDeleteCarly, Carly, I have never been mentioned before in a real life honest-to-goodness blog and I'm touched. Really. I'm gettin closer to thinking about exposing my inner soul to any old perv or stalker or old boyfriend who may come along, although it seems I'm the only one on this planet who didn't major in creative writing, so that's holding me back just a little. Anyway, I believe I have a brother getting a family blog underway, and I really only make sense in the context of my family, anyway, so I'll hook you up with that very special URL when the time is right. In the meantime, blog on. You are second in my blog-checking sequence only to Suzie Petunia, and I wore her wedding dress, so we have some history there. I anxiously await more astute Junque for Jesus references. (That was the entry that made me partial to you.)
ReplyDeleteYour blog does rule. And I mean that in the context of one blog to rule them all. It has brought us all together in our love for you--especially in your absence. If you hadn't started blogging your move to Tucson would have really thrown me. So glad you started back up after deleting the whole venture.
ReplyDeleteCarly, I've noticed that sometimes your comments get stuck on 11 for long periods of time. This is me just trying to get to 12. How's Tucson? J Lo's filming a movie in Nogales. You ought to go down and see her. Gas is cheaper across the border. The weather is finally getting nice, no?
ReplyDeleteEmily,
ReplyDeleteThanks for upping my comment numbers. The weather here IS getting better, much to my relief. This has been the first bearable week I've had since we moved here. I will be advised about J Lo.
I love this picture of you. You are so very beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Alice. You are so very beautiful, too.
ReplyDeletePretty soon you'll be wearing coats in 60 degrees. You'll be an Arizonan in no time.
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