Amandarin: A Retrospective
My blog reached the ripe old age of three years last week! Since that's about ninety in internet years, I guess it's time to add a tiny little walker to the header and take it out for an Early Bird Special at Denny's to celebrate.
Instead, I've spent the past several days going through my archives. Cleaning things up, re-categorizing, re-visiting my public record of the last three years.
Though I've had a website / web journal since the fall of 1995, I began blogging in earnest in 2003 after deciding that I was tired of maintaining the behemoth that my personal site had become. I deleted my entire website and started with a Blogger account (ugh) but moved quickly over to TypePad, where I've been ever since.
My blog's been through some changes since its inception (it used to be called The Gravity Bill, for instance), but 800 posts, 1000 love notes death threats emails & comments, and more than 80,000 hits later I'm fairly proud of the "final" product.
Since I have been digging through my archives, I thought I'd celebrate the big 0-3 by re-visiting some of my favorite posts from various categories:
What are your favorite posts?
- adventures: Grocery Empowerment is an oldie but a goodie. It remains the single most bizarre trip that I have ever taken to the grocery store (and that's saying a lot) as well as one of the most defining moments for my self confidence.
- dating, mating and relating: Apollo may have turned out to be a coward and a cliche, but the story of the day I met his mother will provide cocktail conversation for years to come. What A Girl Wants is a damn close second for my favorite, though.
- essays: Periodically I'll get an email from a Psych Professor telling me that one of his or her studens has swiped my Freudian Eminem essay for their own. My personal favorite, however, has to be Adventures in Driving.
- life happens: The New Minimalism, wherein our plucky heroine managed to inadvertenly destroy every single piece of furniture in her bedroom.
- los angeles: I can't decide which is my favorite: the woman who was in a terrible hurry, or Luke Perry getting advice on fame from some girl at Petco.
- memories: I reread Simple Things every time I start to despair of ever going on another decent date again. The fact that the man who took these actions is not Apollo makes this memory a particularly effective reminder.
- mental wanderings: Sometimes Confronting the Mirror is the hardest thing you will ever have to do.
- open letters: I discovered a few future Darwin Award winners on my drive home one evening.
- quotables: I remember so vividly the day I became one of the guys.
- tidbits: A screen door taught me not to take myself too seriously.
- work:Thank god my company has a sense of humor.
Damn. I don't even know if I've been alive for three years! lol...
Seriously, its an honor to know a real live internet rock star!
Happy 3rd...
*hugs*
Posted by: Tag | October 15, 2006 at 04:51 PM