The funny thing? I just discovered technorati TODAY! And I’ve been blogging for two years. But, in my defense, I have an almost-nine-months-old baby.

But seriously. Look at my header. Clearly I am lost. I need to just pay someone.

Anyway, just happy to have found your blog. Before the baby, I spent all my time on the craft blogs, especially among the sewers and quilters. Now that I’m a mommy, I’m gradually shifting to the mommyblogs. You guys have so many rock stars…there are some in the craft blogs, but it’s different somehow. I guess the jealousy there is of the tactile work, not the writing itself.

I’m so screwed. Better dig up those long-dormant writing genes and find the strength to dig in.

So, glad I found you! Looking forward to reading more.

Feather Nesters last blog post..YouTube Love

Waaaay back in 1997, I created a homepage with free webspace from my ISP. I started with their standard template and then taught myself HTML by reading about it online and looking at the source code of other sites. When my husband (who’s in the Navy) went on a six-month deployment, I posted photos he sent me, emails he wrote to me, and information about ports he was visiting so all our friends and family could find out how he was doing. I kept up that homepage for seven and a half years, even though we moved four times and each time I had to re-do the whole thing. I quit when my daughter was four months old, because I just couldn’t spend as much time on it, and I didn’t want to do a half-assed job. I wanted to do it right. So I made the decision to close the site down, hoping I’d get back to it someday.

When I was pregnant, I started reading The Trixie Update, which is mostly on hiatus now, but used to be the daily happenings of a stay-at-home dad and his daughter. Not long after that someone sent me a link to Dooce, and a few months later I stumbled onto The Reign of Ellen. I commented on The Trixie Update on a fairly regular basis, but Ellen’s blog was the first one where I became part of the community, and developed a relationship with the blogger.

Those were the only blogs I read for a long time. Then Ellen posted a link to her friend Brenda’s blog, saying that she’d had her baby and we should all go over and say congratulations. So I did, and that’s how I found Secret Agent Josephine. I liked her style, and her cool photo slideshows. I sympathized with her new-mother frustrations and confusions. I kept reading her site over the months, and then she launched Gumball the Kitten on the world, and that got me onto Flickr.

Flickr hooked me, and through it I found OMSH and Angella. I commented on their blogs and photos, and over time they and SAJ encouraged me to start my own blog. I had been considering it for ages—years, really—and I guess I finally felt the time was right. Since I was familiar with HTML I went right into having my own domain name (though CSS is still largely a mystery to me). And voila, my blog was born.

Whew. That was a freaking long comment. And now I REALLY have to go to bed. :-)

bethany actuallys last blog post..Dotty circles are still fun to paint

In short, the blog had outlived its usefulness to me, which is why I’ve neglected it. I’m still struggling with trying to make it something else, but it’s hard, you know? My life is just sort of blah now. Not terribly exciting, not terribly disappointing. Hmmm.

But the person who turned me onto blogging? Erin. And my ex. One good thing, at least.