today you are 11.
11 years that i have been coming here,
sometimes sporadically,
sometimes religiously.
11 years of posts and prompts,
photos and doodles and
ongoing proof that i am a dork
to the 9th degree
and totally ok with that.
thank you, little blog, for always being there...
no matter if i said i was going to come
every day for a month
and then showed up once
and late at that with store bought cookies
from the day old section.
when people ask me how i got into photography,
the truth is
it was totally because of this blog...
i started the blog so that i could comment
on another person's blog
and really, i had no idea what a "blog" even was.
but i was working from home then,
with kids all day every day,
and finding out that there were other people out there
in the stratosphere that
were like
me
that liked to try things like knitting and crochet
and painting and writing and that talked about books
they had read and fairy houses they had built and
poems they had loved...
i was stunned.
and hooked.
hook, line and sinker.
and i wanted to try making things and sharing photos of them, too!
but my photos sucked.
(poor old kodak easyshare...my first digital camera)
so i got a new camera (my fuji)...
and eventually,
it became to be about the photos rather than the knitting
(cause, truthfully, my knitting sucked.)
when i first started,
there were TONS of people blogging...
and likely, there still are,
but when i started,
it was more like a community
rather than a business.
but i still find myself drawn to this page,
to the flickering light of this computer,
to put down some words, an image, a doodle...
it's my creative outlet.
sure, i check my stats & visitors every now and then
but really,
even if no one ever read it,
i don't think i could stop now.
it pushes me to try new things, do things i wouldn't normally do...
and it always reminds me not to take myself too seriously...
and it is so funny to be able to go back
and see where i was at any given point...
when i first started, my kids were 9 and 5...
i often came here to deal with things like the first day of school,
of turning 13, the stress/competition/judgement of parenting,
i shared stories of what a loser i can be...heeheehee
i tried series like friday i'm in love, poetry thursday, whatcha readin'
wordless wednesday and tuesday truth, among many others...
{now...when i say i'd be ok if no one ever read it...
i should also say
i AM SUPER EXCITED WHEN PEOPLE DO READ IT...
or comment...or share...
so thank you to those that do stop by!
it's always interesting to see what caught people's attention...
that maybe something i thought i was alone in
was actually something that other people
relate to.}
so...happy happy birthday, geek ink...
can't wait to see what the new year brings!
:)