1-Year Anniversary

Last year I used to visit the American Idol page every week so that I could read the show reviews and to find out what the contestants would be singing the following week. Soon I got tired because the writer doing the review pretty much wrote the same thing every week so I googled American Idol and one of the returns I got was DJ Slim's American Idolbloglive.com, I immediately got hooked. DJ slim would write the previous show play by play almost verbatim and his comments were those of a fan and not of a writer.

After almost a month of going into that site daily, I made some friends there including these two ladies, Angie of "Ficken Chingers" and TRL or Terilynn of "Terilynn". When they mentioned that they had their own blogs as well as being moderators for DJ Slim's blog, I didn't want to sound ignorant so I didn't ask them what exactly was a blog so again I just googled it and Blogger was the first response. I signed up and wrote my first post,and second post. By the way Angie and Terilynn are on my blogroll and will remain there until either of us decides to stop blogging, they are like my blog godmothers.

That was a year ago today. Who would have thought that I would continue to write, I really thought that after a week or so the blog would wind up in blog heaven or wherever it is blogs go when they die or are abandoned.

It was obvious that my blog had a faithful reader, me. Angie mentioned that "Blog Explosion" was on of her favorite sites and gave me the link, actually I just clicked on the BE button on her blog and soon became a member too.

Once on BE I met my first reader "The Battle Rock Spot" and we immediately became friends, to this day we still visit each other's blogs almost daily. My second blogger friend was "Bozzette", and then after a month of stalking me as an easy target for the BOTBs Erin of "It's my life" now known as EC of "Whatever Blows My Skirt" also admitted that she had been enjoying some of my posts. That's how my friend base started at BE.


My blogger friends and family

Blog Explosion has definitely been the engine I have used for exposure. Sure there are others but I think the coolest people are on BE. New friends were made, "Mushy" of "Mushy's Moochings" became some of my best and most influential blogging friends, it seemed that different as we are we also had a lot in common. I consider it a pleasure and an honor to be his friend. If you want a good read and haven't been to his blog, I highly recommend it.

Tara of "Soul Blessings" and Carol of "The Turning Point" also found their way into my blogroll, both of them found me and now I am happy to say we are really good blog friends too.

So I survived the first year and I hope to continue to stick around for as long as I can. My plan and or goal for the second year is to get more friends that actually visit the blog because they want to as opposed to clicking on me to get a vote, all your comments and suggestions for what you would like to see will be greatly appreciated.

So to all my readers, family and friends, thank you for the support you have given me throughout the first year, hope you all keep coming back.