"and now," cried Max...

"Let the wild rumpus start!"



three years ago tomorrow, i started blogging.

three years.

of my life.

spent here, with you and some of you have known me from the outset.

pretty nifty, that.

how do you read?

a dear friend and i were chatting on the phone today and we were talking (natch) about blogging and blog rolls. a while back, forgive me for not searching, i posted a question about how important it is to be on one's blogroll. i am reposting this question:

(1) how important is it to see your name on someone's blogroll?
(2) are you offended if you are not on someone's that you feel a kinship with?
(3) if you are not and once were, would you stop reading that particular person's blog?
(4) how do you visit your favorite blogs? via blogrolls or bloglines?

i'll be the first one brave enough to answer -

(1) not so important
(2) offended is too strong. there is a blogger i read on a pretty fairly consistent basis whose blogroll i was never on. i often commented but he never responded (sort of how i can be if i am pressed for time) so i felt nothing i ever said resonated with him. until one day he emailed me and called me "sister." i just noticed a short while ago, i am on his blogroll now, and it's pretty cool, but it didn't stop me from reading or responding to something he wrote.
(4) i am a blogliner, all the way. which is a bit unfortunate, b/c if someone makes great changes to their blog, i won't know unless they say "hey, i made great changes to my blog, take a look!!" so yeah, that's me.

i would clean up my blogroll, but i don't want to offend anyone i haven't read in a while to think they are not my pallies any longer. i keep up with most through bloglines and am always a bit shocked to see what has happened to my blogroll blogs when they switch domain names. ooofah.

(spring cleaning??)

blogger anniversaries and such

Groundhog Day
1959
Andrew Wyeth (American, born 1917)

we love to mark time, don't we? we wax poetic and philosophical, give voice to our inner musings when significant dates come around, remember fondly or not so fondly those things that happened on that date.

another reason to simply sit back and ponder.

i was just thinking as i looked at hope's "blogiversary" post - she was one of the first people i really began to follow along with when i started blogging two years ago in november (which anniversary i failed to mention because i simply had other things going on at the time...) she is deep, insightful, honest, raw, and as a true sister in Christ, has stood by me through some of my most painful moments.

and then there's annie, another soul whose life i follow and have for the past two years -- i have laughed with her, cried with her, am a huge fan of her artistic abilities and have great admiration and respect for her.

they were probably the first two blogs i ever left a comment on.
and they responded!! (was that their first mistake?)

i have been fortunate enough to *meet* some pretty amazing people through blogging these last two years (not negating for one moment those who i have met elsewhere in cyberspace). many of you have walked an interesting walk with me for some time now...some of you are new to the neurotic musings of this particular blog hostess. all comments have been considered by me in one way or another, many dialogues completely and utterly refreshing.

i am thankful for all of you - for your prayers and thoughts, your humor, your wisdom and understanding, fortitude and when i have none, right judgment. i just wanted to pause for a moment to simply say thank you for enriching my life.