My 101st post!!!
I can't believe it. Holy fairies how time flies.
When I started blogging I had know idea really what I was going to blog about. I thought initially it would be about a big city RN moving to a smalltown and what it was like to be a nurse in a smaller community. But it never really worked out that way.
It turns out I really blog about everything and anything. My life in general really. I am in awe of where I live. I am surrounded by such beauty pictures and words can't do it justice. When I drive home after a nightshift I watch the sun come up. I am struck by it's beauty, the sun, how it stretches it's beams like little tentacles working it's way up the inlet. The morning mist over the shores and birds diving for their breakfast. The seal lions on the log booms. Absolutely breath taking. The mountains with their snow capped peaks. This truly is one of creations masterpieces.
I have blogged about my family, my children, and my husband. All of whom bring me such pleasure and joy. I have had to deal with some difficult situations but have been able to work through them through support I have received from fellow bloggers.
I have met some absolutely wonderful people through blogging. There has been controversy at times and I changed my blog name and title, but hey would it be blogging if there wasn't some kind of controversy? What a boring world this would be if we all were the same. I have had to practice being tolerant and patient. I have been hurt by comments and questioned why I continue to blog. When I wrote about my experiences and how it made me feel, people came out of the wood work and said the nicest things and gave me encouragement to keep on blogging. I was humbled.
Blogging has become a wonderful pass time for me. I had no intentions of it ever being something to make me money, or to win awards. I just want to blog and to share stories, thoughts and ideas. I have come across some everyday folks doing amazing things and amazing folks do simple things. Variety is the spice to life I am told. So in my quest for knowledge and variety, I would like to celebrate our differences and continue to explore this vast world known as "Blogging"
Vive le difference!!!
21 comments:
Blogging does a body good, and teaches us so much about people as well as ourself in the long run. I have meet many wonderful friends through my blogs, and even when problems arose in blogging, good things still came about as I meet people that had close relationships to my experiences and they were helpful and became good friends.
Everyone blogs for different reasons, and if used right, reading blogs can be many tools. From blogs we get inspiration, friends, knowledge, humor and grow with in our blogs as well as reading blogs.
Katie
Thank you Katie...very well said...that how I truly feel about blogging. I am glad you enjoy visiting my blog.
I think blogging feels a need that we have....it must or we wouldn't keep doing it......great post. This is the very first place I come to visit after checking my mail! Hugs
Thats' supposed to read 'fills' not feels! Oops, lousy typist!!!
I think that blogs are wonderful for networking people together. Some of the blogs that I have visited have brought back some wonderful memories for me and some painful ones too. I’m glad to have ‘met’ some new people through this medium.
Anyway I just wanted to say congratulation and I'm glad that you have enjoyed blogging as much as I have. I'm hoping that we can put the misunderstanding we had behind us and you will drop by my blog to get to know me a little better.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I started my blog as a method for friends to stay abreast of our building project. It has turned into something much more. I hope you will visit my site occasionally.
Congratulations. Little did you know when you started blogging what exactly you started. We bloggers love it because we love people and love connecting to others around the world.
There is someone in Sweden who visits my blog all the time but has never left a comment. I wish I had a URL address so I could connect with this individual. Oh well, maybe some day. In the meantime, I truly value the friendship we have forged and I would be very sad if it ended. Later, aligator.
"everyday folks doing amazing things and amazing folks do simple things"
And then there's folks like me who's just plain simple....
Congratulations on your blogging achievement.
yep..i hear ya!
congrats on the number of posts.
hope the weather has calmed for you guys on the island!
cheers,
NFC
Congratulations on 101 posts! It is a whole new wonderful world since blogging has become so popular!
The friends I've made are the very best part!
:)
Boy, variety - that's my blogging style for sure. A little bit of soup to nuts (the nuts probably being the family tree stories and photos I started playing with and posting there.
But above all, mine is really sometimes just -as the name implies - drivel, pure and simple drivel. Sometimes it is noting little things my grandkids did that day - good way to remember these minor and minute details. Other times, I might be on a bit of a roll remembering things from when I was a kid, or something really bugs me, so I do a rant.
Overall, it also gives me a chance to play with words, wordings - sometimes gives me ideas too that I can reference back to for an article I might like to actually write sometime or other. And, blogging also gives me some very unbiased audiences at times too, when they are willing to comment and tell me their opinions on what I wrote. But mainly, it's an outlet and fun at the same time.
Smalltown, you know...you've hit my sentiments right on the head with this post. I started reading and every few seconds I found myself nodding my head going "yep". I too had a little trouble starting out, I didn't know what to write about and I felt like I was trying too hard to be funny and not letting the real me shine through...eventually I decided that this was my blog, my rules and I think it's a great thing. I can't imagine my life without blogging...well, almost!
Congrats on getting to 101! Now get yourself to 202!
why mary anne honey i didn't know someone hurt you... i am so sorry. (dang i hope it wasn't me! gads! my mouth runs before my brain kicks in all the time....) your blog is an inspiration to us all and i mean that sincerely. ( well as sincerely as an addle brained old broad can get anyway. ) i come here every day to read, i usually leave a note but not always, sometimes i just smile and on to the next one. that is bad manners and i will try to do better. i think if you take the time to read a blog you should let them know you did. even if you are busy and in a hurry you can at least say hi and i stopped in today. (of course some of these young ones don't have the time cause they're so busy going out and having fun and taking their panties off all the danged time and leaving home for no good reason and then they just come home to eat and they eat you out of house and home ) mary anne honey, did i leave a little round silver box here yesterday? i seemed to have lost my meds and when i do that i tend to ramble a little, you know what i mean? i think i am alright now but sometimes i get a little, um, what's the word i looking for now? oh, mist said i could test her wedding cake if she has that cyber wedding with that black guy she is dating. he's a looker i tell you, she'd be lucky to snag him! and honey, are my glasses over there? no? sigh... i'd better move on, i must have left them at odats..... dang. bee
Congratulations!
I'm glad you blog because I got to meet you (and you are interesting to boot).
You are a great blogger. I enjoy your posts and I always look forward to what I will find when I get here.
Yes, I’m running a bit late today.
I spent the better part of this morning dressed in sackcloth, my face covered in ashes as I beat myself about the head and shoulders with reeds in mourning for the Buckeyes...
I’m better now that the doctors have given me the shot.
Woohoo, congrats on your 101st post!!! It really is amazing how time flies when you're having fun:-) I will be celebrating my one year blogiversary in March and like you, I'm amazed at the friendships I've made through my blog. I'm glad that you decided to continue with your blog...I was told from day one to make my blog my own and not mind the negative comments I would sometimes get...I know it's hard not to be hurt by them but then I think of all the wonderful positive comments:-) Having been to BC a couple of times, I know how very beautiful it is where you live and you are indeed very lucky to be living surrounded by such beauty! Hugs xoxo
Congrats on #101 RN. It's quite a milestone.
(Insert fireworks) Congrats!!!! I'll be here for the next 100 and the next...
It's like an online pen-pal directory that works in a much speedier fashion, if you know what I mean.
You are such a beautiful happy soul, RN that I hope blogging brings you much pleasure along the way. :-)
You are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. I hope that if I ever get to retire to live in such a place myself.
I started blogging because I was always coming across such wonderful sites and blogs,and I just love sharing information (i guess librarianship was the right profession for me). I talk about my sweetie, and my life and whine about work. I really enjoy it and I love reading other people's blogs. I have learned so much, and I also like that if you are having some problem and you think you are the "only one" you find out that you aren't.
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