Friday, November 21, 2025

Blogiversary!?!??!! Who Knew!

So, on Friday, November 21, 2008, this appeared on the interwebz:

Newbie

I'm new to this blog thing, but I do love to talk and I do have an opinion—hell I have thousands of opinions—so I guess that's as good a place to start. Let's talk about.........Me!

I am a happily-partnered gay male, and I have been with the love of my life for the last eight years. We met online in an AOL chatroom—no, not THAT kind of chatroom—and became Instant Messenger friends, and then email friends, and then phone friends and then friends across the country and then I went from California to Miami to meet him, and that was that.

A few months later I'd left California and settled in Miami—talk about culture shock! We stayed in Miami for about six years until Carlos—the aforementioned partner—accepted a job in Smallville, South Carolina, and we loaded up the truck and moved to....well, not Beverly Hills, but Smallville. A small town. A cute town.

A town full of nice people who didn't seem at all peeved that the newest arrivals were a couple of mo's from Miami.

That's a start, I think. More to come.....I hope.

And that’s how it all started and here we are today some eighteen years and 11,600 posts and 96,000 comments later.

Who knew? But enough about me … thanks to everyone who follows and comments and blogs ... let’s keep going …

10 comments:

  1. Cleora Borealis9:03 AM

    πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰πŸŽŠ Congratulations! Keep going! You couldn't get rid of me if you tried!! 😘

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  2. Congratulations! I've only been following for a couple of years and hope to be around for the next 18!

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  3. Anonymous9:12 AM

    Jamie (jannghi.blogspot.com):
    That's great. I'm approaching 17 years myself in December.

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    1. Cleora Borealis10:38 AM

      πŸ‘ Congratulations to you Jamie. I've added your blog to my daily look-sees! πŸ˜ƒ

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  4. Eighteen years. Time sure flies when you're causing trouble!

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  5. Happy 18th Blogoversary! Wishing you many more!

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  6. Happy Blogversary!!!
    Yay!

    XOXO

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  7. Anonymous11:07 AM

    the dog's mother
    :-) :-) :-)
    xoxoxoxoxoxooxo :-)

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  8. That was a lovely introductory blog post. Congratulations! I'm approaching 18 years . . .

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  9. Cleora Borealis11:45 AM

    😲 Hubby just reminded me that 18 years ago today, South Park introduced us to Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo! So, Trey and Matt have that tie-in to your blog's greatness! πŸŽ„πŸ’©

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