1st Blog-O-Versary :)

I did it.

I made it.

Well technically, I will have by 4:22pm today.   In 7 hours it will have been 365 days since  my very first post here.

Looking back at where it all began, I have written on pretty much all the topics I initially stated and the journey has been amazing.

I made my first regular email penpal (what’s another word for penpal that doesn’t mention the word pen?) from the very first post, thanks Jimmy!  Its been a fantastic faith journey with you and I know that no matter how long it takes for the next email to arrive in my inbox, you haven’t forgotten about me and are praying for me :)

I’ve become better acquainted with the lil miss over at Dramatic Hullabaloo who writes so beautifully and poetically that I’m constantly in awe of every single post :) It’s pure art….love you Sarah!

I’ve received updates every now and again of the (mis)adventures of my dear friend Mookxi who inspired me to start the 101 in 1001 challenge :)

I’ve learnt lots of other things from the blogs that I regularily visit such as here, and here :)  And I’ve been able to reach out and hopefully encourage those I normally may not have been in contact with (here and here).

Stats seem to be appropriate after a year so as of today, there have been 7, 254 views and Sunday 25 October 2009 was the ‘busiest’ day with 81 views.

In addition, after approximately 45, 600 words (averaging 300 words per post), 189 tags (alphabetically spanning from ’Amy Grant’ to ‘Youth Event’), 182 comments (plus an additional 258 spam comments- so thankful for Akismet filter) and 152 posts (28- now 29 posts this month is the record), I’ve come to make a friend for life and if that was the only result, it was worth it all :)

Thanks y’all for the input and insights you’ve given me and allowing this blog to become ‘my corner of the world’  to record and share my highs, my lows, my anger, my frustration, my confusion, my sadness, my joys, my loves, my dislikes…. my life.

Here’s to another year of blogging happiness.  I wonder what will be in store.  I know it’ll be fun :)

OK, time for the offline day to start.  It really should be a day at the beach soaking up the sunshine and improving my non-existant tan.

But instead I shall be indoors studying away all day *sigh*… well 3 weeks should pass quickly… not sure if that’s a good thing or not…hmmm.

love you all :)

♥ a.

Quote of the post: Sometimes you win, something you learn. - John Maxwell

Song of the post: Hole in My Pocket - Joy Lippard (very cute and catchy) linky here

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