Skip to main content

Ten Years Later ...

I almost didn't notice, but I have been blogging for a decade. Yes, ten whole years. In fact, I was bad enough at tracking the dates that I am now a month late in celebrating the ten-year anniversary of my first post (the first one was apparently in August 2009). I never imagined that my random musings would lead to a full-blown writing practice, as the Mild Wife calls it. Still, here we are, all these years later.

I figured the most fitting way to mark this occasion would be to revisit some of the more memorable/fun blogs posts during that time. As you can probably imagine, a lot has happened in ten years. So, I present you some of the highlights from the last decade:
  • I got married a couple of years ago. There were several blog posts about it, but the term "Mild Wife" started making an appearance in posts shortly thereafter.
  • I decided at about the two-year mark to stick to a schedule of one blog post per week. Eight plus years later, I am still sticking to that schedule. There are over 560 posts, amazingly enough.
  • There has been a fair bit of traveling during that time, usually leading to amusing anecdotes in the process. I think one of my favorite stories was the one where the Mild Wife and I actually decided we didn't want free champagne anymore.
  • I picked up crocheting and never quite stopped. I still make beanies these days, though it amazes me that I have been doing this for almost four years now.
  • I write fiction on occasion, leading to author/writer-related shenanigans. Incidentally, if you are ever on the lookout for a Japanese illustrator for a children's book, I probably know someone.
  • I have done ten installations of the "Little Kids Are Awesome" posts (latest one here). These are always entertaining, and I have a ton of fun writing them. It's probably no surprise that the first of these entries appeared a few short months after I started blogging.
  • There are 90 posts tagged with "eating." Assuming one post per week, that's nearly a year and a half of eating shenanigans. Apparently, I find the act of breaking bread quite entertaining.
There are plenty more stories, so I invite you to stroll through a particular tag and see if there's any that catch your attention. I will be chuckling to myself that I've been doing this for so long. Hopefully, I'll be able to keep this going for another decade.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

From Scratch 2

A few months ago, I tried my hand at making home-made dumplings . It came out all right, and it was definitely passable for a first attempt, but we always said that we should have another go at it. After all, if we liked it all right when we made it with no first-hand experience, it should come out even better after having at least one rep under our belt, right? We found out this weekend. First of all, the Mild Wife helped with the dough preparation this time around. I knew to be wary of making the dough too sticky this time around, but because she has more experience with baking, she was able to guide us through the pitfalls. What really surprised me was just how little water you can/should add at a time. We're talking about a tablespoon at a time when you're trying to make a ball of dough. I mean, I knew not to overwater it from previous experience, but it still surprised me to add in that little water at a time. Still, there was a method to this ( including the trusty sanduk...
Post a Comment
Read more

Inside and Outside

As I've mentioned before, the Mild Wife and I invested in a sewing machine during the pandemic. It was the most basic model we could find, but it was good enough for what we needed: to make a few masks. And now, over a year later, I still think that it was a good investment. Interestingly, even with restrictions being lifted a bit, we still find that we need masks. Some stores still require them, and neither of us wants to be in a position where we needed a mask and didn't have one. So, we still have to wear and wash them. And even though we've never run out of clean masks to wear, we did notice that we were close a couple of times. So, I recently broke out the sewing machine to make a few more masks. When we initially invested in supplies, we bought a pack of fabric squares. We figured we weren't going to need super high quality, and having a bunch of squares would give us options in case one of us screwed up (read: me). That also gave us the ability to add a little v...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pink

Way back in high school, there was a male teacher that all the girls thought was attractive. It was an open secret that a bunch of them had crushes on him. In fact, the school newspaper even did an article about him that quoted some girl saying, "he's so cute, he even makes pink look good." Yes, he had worn a pink shirt to school one day, and it had apparently been a big hit. I was reminded of this story when my sister-in-law suggested that she would choose pink as the color for her wedding and bridal party. I don't think I've ever made a color look good before, but I remember thinking, "well, I know it's possible to not look stupid in pink as a straight guy, I guess I can try." And I think that's almost exactly what I told her. I also happened to own a gray suit, so I figured the combination would look all right. However, I was pretty much the only one willing to play along. My sister-in-law's brothers wanted absolutely no part of th...
Post a Comment
Read more