Happy 3rd Blogiversary, alamodestuff!

Numbers by Ian Pearson GB, on Flickr

Today is about numbers for me.  It is the 3 year anniversary of this blog!  You can visit my very first post here.  I took a leap of faith when I started blogging and here I am writing my 994 post.

There have been 2989 comments from wonderful readers, 3 fabulous contributors (thank you, thank you, and thank you), generous sponsors, and a few guest posts along the way. 

I've chronicled my business and personal life.  I've laughed, cried, promoted, bragged, taught, learned, and vented.  Through this blog I've grown personally, professionally, and technologically.

Thank you for being a part of this wonderful experience.  This blog has evolved in many ways and I look forward to its next evolution as my family moves across the country and new adventures unfold.

302 posts and counting!

A year ago today, I took the plunge. I decided that I'd start a blog not expecting to enjoy it as much as I do. I never expected I'd have enough to say and I certainly expected no one to listen. I mainly started blogging to be able to keep a running journal of what was happening in my business and to entertain myself. Looking back over the last year, I'm happily surprised. 301 posts?! out of 365 days?! WOW! I've never even been able to keep a diary for more than a month.

What has gratified me the most are the relationships I've built with people I would otherwise have never known. Thank you for the comments and follows.

Now to kick off this next year, here's a total non sequitur I thought I'd share:

Have you ever swallowed dead fish water? In the middle of this post, I stopped to help my husband drain a 10 gallon fish tank that has been dead-fish-free for a few weeks. He had to siphon it with his mouth. All I could think was that he was sucking dead fish water. After emptying the water in to a bucket, I set off to the bathroom and spilled some of it on my bare feet. Now I have dead fish water on my feet.