Wow. Ten years.
As of today, I have been blogging for ten years. (It also happens to be my dad’s birthday. He’d be 73 this year. Crazy. But not the point.)
I started out back when blogging software wasn’t readily available. Maybe it was, I’m not sure. I just kept everything in HTML files, but I’ve been working on transferring them to WordPress so you can read them in all their glory.
In April 2001, I was 26 years old, overweight, completely out of shape, and smoked a pack a day. I decided it was time for a change.
If you know me, you know I like to do things big. One baby? No way, let’s do three. So I wasn’t going to start by walking, I was going to go right into running. And that’s what I did. Obviously, I wasn’t very fast, nor could I go very far, but it helped. And to keep myself from quitting (like I’d done so many times before), I signed up for the 2002 London Marathon in April of the following year. Sending in the deposit ensured that I had to do it. I roped my friend Chris to doing the marathon with me, as an even greater incentive.
So that’s what I did. I quit smoking, started running, and finished the marathon a year later. Sure, I was passed by a one-legged guy at the end. I never said I was fast!
Who could have guessed that ten years later, I’d still be blogging?
10 years, 2100+ posts, two marathons, a million page views,
8 responses to “Ten year blog-iversary!”
WoW! 🙂
Congrats on all of those! Guess I gotta catch up a bit, huh?
Happy, happy, happy (cause I do things big too ;)) blogiversary!
Oh wow… that sure is a long long long time!!!
Happy Blogiversary!!!!!
Happy 10 years!
awesome. and what a pile of accomplishments 10 years can bring!
wow. it’s been ten years! we’ve had some good adventures.
Congratulations! You should be very proud of all you have accomplished! What an inspiring change you made for yourself.
awesome! congrats on 10 years and all the things you have done in those 10 year!!!