Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Happy Blogging Birthday to Me!
Today, May 3, 2006, marks my five-year anniversary in the blogsphere. Yes, five years. Somehow, without realizing it, I got caught on the first wave of a trend, for once in my life. Of course, that was completely unintentional--I'm not nearly cutting-edge enough to be purposely trendy; it's always a fluke.
And so, I've succumbed to the trend that actually not very many people that I know are following. So maybe I am being a leader. Or maybe not. Maybe I'm just writing these things down for myself, and no one will want to read them. But if you are reading this, and you do have some strange reason for being interested in my life, good luck! You never know what might appear here. I'll try to write something new often enough to keep all my adoring fans interested... And, if no one else ever reads this, I'll enjoy knowing that I had a place to vent.
Those were my first words, and since then, I've logged close to 2000 entries (apparently, all of my 2001 entries, when pasted into a Word document, make 150 pages. I can just imagine how many pages I've written altogether!). I still have the first blog I ever started, and it's still going, although slightly on hiatus right now. I've had several supplementary blogs in the meantime--a top-secret one during college that was used to vent about the things I couldn't post somewhere that people I knew could read; the ever-popular but now-defunct quotes page; The Spark, a group blogging community that I was a part of for a couple of years; the Gilmore Girls blog; and this one, my current day-to-day blog.
I've met people online through my blogging, I've gotten to meet some in person, I've kept up on other people's lives, I've felt like I've gotten to know people and their children and their lives, I've discovered great websites, I've started several real-life friends on their own blogs, and I've followed some of my favorite bloggers through three or four or more different addresses.
I've gone through phases where I posted numerous times a day, and phases where it's been only once every few days, although I try to keep once a day the status quo. I've written through the rehearsal processes and productions of many, many shows; I've complained about classes, papers, and finals; I've discussed work, graduation, and the future; I've ranted about friendships; I've recapped "what I did today"; I've posted through four NaNoWriMo's; and, above everything else, I've posted many, many vague entries that even I don't remember the specifics of now!
And perhaps one of the most significant things is that five years ago, I began using the online name "fulfilled" at my first blog, and that's the name that I've carried through to nearly every internet community I've been a part of since then. I never expected it to last this long, but I guess it's a name that I just didn't outgrow the same way I outgrew "babealicious2000," my first email address. I've had the name for so long and I've used it on so many communities that it now feels like another first name--when people that I feel like I know on some level address me, it's as fulfilled, not as Alida, so it's become almost another name that I answer to,
So... happy 5 year blogging birthday to me! I'm eating a Blizzard right now to celebrate. Actually, I'm eating a Blizzard because Kim and I wanted ice cream, but that's beside the point.
And, of course, the most important sentence that this post could contain:
GO FLAMES GO!!!
4 Comments:
Congrats, babe! :)
It has certainly been great to read about your life on your blog; it's much more convenient than writing letters. (I guess I'm getting lazy...)
Hey, congrats - 5 years is definitely a milestone...
Looking forward to reading your blog(s) for years to come! :-)
Happy half decade blog birthday, and may there be many more to come!! =)
There's something strange about posting top-secret thoughts on a blog, so that people you know can't read them, but the rest of the world could, since nothing on the Internet is really private!
Re: the flaming hockey boys: Too bad, so sad. . .
Mom
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