The Big 500

Did you hear the fanfare? Feel the confetti in your hair? Well, then you missed it! Today's post marks a very special milestone in my blogging career. Today I hit my 500th post! That means in approximately 33 months, I have averaged nearly 15 posts a month! That's about 1 post every other day! Whew!

Looking back, I have covered nearly every subject. Crazy life experiences starring possums, bats, "demented squirrels", "intruders", and my beloved pooch. I have dished about marriage, politics (and subsequent barf), TV shows, music, books, weight, health, home decor, God, and even Eleanor Roosevelt!

I have rejoiced, grieved, lamented, bubbled, steamed, complained, and laughed. I have shared foolishness, wisdom, ideas, successes, and failures. I've even brought my elliptical to "life". That's a crazy bunch of muddled up topics, but they somehow describe me perfectly.

I have shared my "wannabes",but I've also shared my truths. My rejections, joys, and frustrations. I have written by moonlight, and while basking in the sun. God knows I've written while it's snowing!

I typed my way through pain, loss, gains (mostly weight), and parenting woes and joys. I have written while on the mountaintop, and I've certainly written in the valley. I have probably touched on something that everyone faces at one time or another. I sure hope so, or it's all been for nothing. Some people blog, some people talk, some people reach for chocolate! Well, I do it all, hence the weight thing! (and probably carpal tunnel one day)

And who has been reading? You!! Wonderful you. However, that doesn't always mean it's written with you in mind. Sometimes I write to myself and you're just eavesdropping on us! I write in the journal, and you pick it up and read it with my permission. In other words, I'm sharing a bit of me with you....but why?? Why would someone want to do that anyway?

When I started this blog, I assumed it would be a way to write the things that are floating in my head all the time, and that has been some of the case. What I didn't expect was to learn so many things about myself through reading my own words. And to put it "out there" gives it power, right? It means you own what you say. You must mean it or you wouldn't say it, right? Obviously when you say something, you want it to be heard. Blogging is much the same to me, a person who may be of few words sometimes. I write what I really would like to say, if ever given the chance to speak and be heard. This world is noisy when you're on the quiet side. Here on my laptop, I get a chance to make my noise.

So, on this day, my 500th post, I celebrate your eyes, which tune in to my noise. For the 13 official followers, I say thank you for posting your cute litte pics or names, for the occasional (but rare) comments, and for pushing the little reaction comment buttons. For those of you who pop in now and then, I appreciate you too! If you keep reading, I'll keep talking.

So here's to 500 more....and hopefully a new PC so I can get back to doing what I love most--posting beautiful pictures of the world around me.

Thank you!!