happy blogiversary to me!

I am soooooo excited that you could come and join me for this momentous occasion honoring the one year anniversary of what has become like an extra appendage to me---a second head, or eleventh finger, or a tail (oooh! I've always wanted a tail...!) --***my blog!*** (cue mariachi music!)







Look! All my favorite people have come:
The boy squad, of course, because without them I would have had no other plausible reason to start a blog.

There's Elena whom I refer to as my crack dealer. She "turned me on" to all this!:

And how embarrassing! All three of my boyfriends are here:

They're already fighting over who gets to drive me home. Silly boys--I'm already home!

And of course YOU and YOU and YOU! You're all my favorites!

Yippee! The entertainment has arrived! ........

I get to go first! No, actually let's see if we can all cram in here. It'll be more fun that way. Don't forget to take your shoesies off!

I am so happy to have Chocolate Chex catering this event:

Like I've always said--good for breakfast, good for lunch, good for dinner, and I guess good for blogiversary soires as well! Yummy!

And now, I'd like to say a few words (is this thing on? tap. tap. tap. feedback.....eeeeeeeeeeeeee!).

I don't know that I can convey exactly what this blog has meant to me. I said the majority of it here. But I'd like to add a little bit more to those sentiments: In short, I am a different person than I was a year ago. Not just because of some of the more, shall we say "unfortunate", events that have occurred in my life over the past 365 days--but because I WROTE about them. I wrote THROUGH them. I feel I have come to understand and accept myself in a way I haven't in a long time-- owing a good deal of that to what I have been able to communicate through this medium, and even more so to what I have received back from the many kindred spirits who have found me here. I have done more crying, I have done more laughing, I have done more stretching of my brain to say something new in an uplifting or entertaining way. Because of this blog and its amazing, supportive readers, I got my bum up off this incredibly uncomfortable computer chair of mine and went back to school----to be a WRITER!!! That dream I had abandoned to practicality 15 years ago. I figured that if this many of you would tune in to read whatever semi-nonsensical stuff I was saying on any given day, maybe it wouldn't hurt to let a little light shine on my dream again. Thank you blog. Thank you more blog readers.

AND NOW FOR ONE LAST IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT...........

*Somebody had what she thought was a pretty great idea to offer a course at the university about blogging. I mean it IS a growing cultural phenomena, it's a great business/networking tool, and it's the perfect way to get your message out there whether or not a snooty publishing company thinks you're marketable or not. How could English, Communications, and Business majors NOT want to get in on it? Somebody approached her English Seminar professor with the idea. The result? This coming Wednesday, somebody will be teaching her first university class.......about blogging.

Yeah..........................It's me.

Just call me the Professor of Blog :)

And in case you haven't read enough, here's the short, sweet post that started my blogging journey:

Saturday, September 15, 2007

This is for you Elena
I have absolutely no idea what it is I am doing here. I am like a child with the computer--no wait, even my three year old seems to know the computer better than me. Even my 76 year old mother-in-law knows how to use the computer better than me. I am like someone from the 18th century. I like pen and paper, I would probably use a quill and ink if they sold them at the Wal Mart. HOWEVER, I always get a kick out of checking out your website. so I'll DO THIS FOR YOU :)! Brad promises to show me how to download photos this evening and we'll give the whole thing a try! And I didn't know it was FREE! I eat lunch by wandering the sample aisles at Costco, so I'm all about free! Plus I never,ever pass up a challenge!

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And so it began....

Thanks for coming! Don't forget your shoes!