According to my Facebook flashback, today marks the two year anniversary since I first published Count Your Blessings.
Two years. That’s it.
That’s how long it has been since I started taking this writing thing seriously again. It feels like it has been so much longer ago than that. Ok, sure, there is a leap year day snuck in there that might be the reason for why it feels so much longer than just an ordinary (non-leap year day) two years… but I doubt it.
Time is weird like that I guess. For instance, it’s not until someone says something like…
Did you know Top Gun came out 30 years ago?
That I suddenly realize how much time has gone by. And yes, go check, this year marks the 30 year anniversary of the release of that epic Anthony Edwards movie. Only, they had to go and make it about Tom Cruise and kelly McGillis. We all know the real love story was Goose and Meg Ryan. Right?
But, anyway… digressing being what it is… It feels like that movie came out just a few years ago, not 30. Man, just typing that is making me feel really old… And yet, there it is. The cold, hard truth that all that time has passed since then.
And in the two years since I have started back to writing, I have gone back to college, finished my AA, started my Bachelor’s degree, switched over to WordPress (I started on Blogger), started a second blog (A Flash Of Fiction), joined up with the guys over at Epic Fantasy Writers, entered into a few writing contests (and won a couple.. yah me!), joined a writing workshop group, penned several hundred stories, poems and haiku (including my currently ongoing March Haiku A Day), and am currently trying to figure out how to outline a novel so I can actually (and finally) finish a book (wouldn’t that be nice?).
After typing all that, it’s no wonder two years seems much longer than it has been. That’s a lot of stuff. Oh, and I forgot to add, I turned 45 last month. So there’s that too.
I’d just like to thank those of you who I have connected with on here, who have become my online friends. Even those of you who just lurk in the shadow like you are Buffalo Bill, just waiting to see if you can wear me as a skin suit (too far?). This has been one heck of a ride.
So, here’s to two years of being back in this writing game. And to many more.
Hoo Yah!
Thoughts from the Front 
In another two years, you’ll be wondering where the time went. If it makes you feel any better, the hubs reminded me that our third anniversary was coming up, and I was all, “No way has it been three years since we got married.” It has indeed… Seems like it was just last year… or forever ago. ^_^
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… or forever ago. That reminds me of the line that Zeus says to Hera at the end of Xanadu… (yep, I watched that movie and remember it…) One year… or a hundred. I got them confused.
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Congrats!
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Thanks. And I mean that, you were actually one of the first people I connected with when I came over to WP, and you’ve stuck with me since then. Part of me feels sorry for the torture you have had to endure in reading my posts (you do read them, right?). 😀
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Your posts?? Er…um, of course! I’ve followed every one of your recipes. Delicious!
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Thanks, and your do-it-yourself blog is awesome. 😀
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right, well I have been called handy many times.
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hahahahahaha 😀
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Wow, you have accomplished a lot in two years. Congratulations and here’s to many more achievements. 45? You’re a baby. Cow Pasture Chronicles
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Thanks, and I don’t feel like a baby. I act like one (or so I am told), but I definitely don’t feel like one. 😀
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I hear you! LOL
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Congrats Todd! Cheers and to many more! 🙂
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Thank you very much. And to you too (for however long it has been), keep on writing.
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🙂 Since February 14th 2014, I never missed a day.
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I think that is awesome!
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Thank you! 🙂
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