It’s my birthday, and I’ll post if I want to… August 14, 2012
Posted by mareserinitatis in food/cooking, personal.Tags: birthday, blogiversary, celiacs, gluten
2 comments
It’s not my birthday today. I didn’t post on my birthday. But I thought I should mention it since that was one of the reasons posting has been light. I always like when my birthday shows up because I get to tell people all the famous people who share my birthday and watch as they look confused. I think it’s quite possibly the slowest day for celeb birthdays all year.
I also forgot about another milestone: I’ve been at this new spot on wordpress for over two years now. My second ‘blogiversary’ was July 1st. It’s kind of scary to think it was over 8 years ago that I signed up on LJ and have been putting crap on the internet ever since. (Actually, if you check the way-back machine, you can find the web page I put up in 1994. Yeah, I’ve been putting crap on the World Wide Web since 1994. Remember when we had web pages and not profiles? Just saying that makes me feel old.)
And mostly I wanted to let people know I’m still alive. I’ve been spending a lot of time researching gluten-free diets and am attempting to change some eating habits. I’ve managed to have small bits of fruit here and there, so fructose may be safe for me. Dairy still gives me fits if I don’t take lactase with it. And I have already discovered that one food I ate quite often and assumed to be perfectly safe was, in fact, very bad for me. (Who puts gluten in sausage?!) Our waffle Sunday breakfast menu will have some new items in the coming weeks.
I will have more productive things to say in the coming days, especially with the beginning of the semester. In the meantime, how was your weekend?
One year (plus a bit) July 15, 2011
Posted by mareserinitatis in meta.Tags: blogiversary
2 comments
Earlier in the month marked my first full year at this blog space. I have to say that moving to wordpress was a good idea, although there are some drawbacks. Primary, of course, is the loss of readership. It did seem like the discussions were more interactive on livejournal. But that was before they started their new advertising policy.
On the other hand, it seems like whatever I initially lost has come back, especially with the start of EngineerBlogs. I have to admit that blogging in two places has generated a bit more work, especially when I’m running low on interesting topics. Aside from more engineers reading this blog, I also see a lot more people interested in education, especially math and gifted education, as well as dog lovers. Of course, there are still a lot of people looking for information on antennas…and the few strays who are looking for cute blondes or tushes.
Also, I have been rather remiss in keeping my blogroll up to date. If you would like me to include your blog, please let me know in the comments.
Anyway, here’s to the first year, and hoping there will be many more.
Now you’ll have to excuse me while I go get an iced tea to celebrate. It’s been rather warm here lately.
I also blog at Engineer Blogs, home away from home to some of the best engineering blogs.