I completely missed my eleventh “blogoversary”, which happened last week, on October 28th. It’s funny how, in the early days of blogging, the annual anniversary of our first post was a huge deal. The community was different back then; each of us bloggers had our own little community of readers within the larger community as a whole. People actually commented on blog posts and we found new blogs to read by checking out the sites belonging to our commenters. Facebook was fairly new back then and word of mouth was how we grew our sites. The fact that I didn’t even think about my anniversary on the day it happened…
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There Has To Be A Life Lesson In Here Somewhere.
I throw my back out approximately twice a year, and when it happens my my ability to move normally is impaired for a week to 10 days. As someone who exercises every single day for between an hour and ninety minutes (and gets crabby when she can’t, even for a day), this semi-annual event makes me ragey. I have a few risk factors for back woes: both of my parents have a history of back problems, I carry extra weight around, and there’s that aforementioned daily workout nearly without fail, without days off for recovery. It happened again nearly three weeks ago, under stupid circumstances: I yanked my back out…
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The Future Is Coming to Our Neighborhood Pool (Maybe)!
I had the most excellent idea for our neighborhood pool.
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Hand Pies: It’s Never Been Easier To Impress.
These hand pies are so super easy you're going to wonder why you didn't make them years ago.
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(Trying to) Get a Hobby!
Since we moved back to Knoxville last spring, I have been toying around with various hobbies, old and new.
