Jun 29 2008
The 1,000th Post Recap
Well, I can finally shut the hell up about it because this here is my 1,000th post. I thought I’d write something profound, but then I thought I’d go sit in the sun for 34 million hours straight yesterday and sunburn through a layer of sunscreen that could probably effectively shield satellites.
So, yeah, nothing deep. No manifesto, no Pulitzer stuff here. But I have to mark the occasion in some way, right?
I started this blog 3 1/2 years ago. I was still in my twenties. I had two kids. I have a rocky-ish marriage. I had a job, and I lived in America. Since that day, I have survived another pregnancy (barely) and have kept a new child alive (also barely) through infancy, through toddler-hood, and well into sassy pants years. I have moved in and out of countries 3 times. I have watched my marriage completely fall apart from under me. I have been a totally single mother. I have seen friends fight to bring a child home from overseas. I have lost a few friends, human and canine alike, I have fallen head over heels in love with a girl and her family, and I have rebuilt that totalled marriage, and I have done all of that right here.
This was the best thing I have ever done for myself, starting this blog. I’ve tried to quit it a few times, but I just can’t. I think we’re attached to each other now, after having shared so many major life thingamajigs. I have revealed WAY too much in these pages. I imagine I have pissed off my share of people on occasion, (and yeah, totally sorry) and I have made some friends that I think will be around for the rest of my life, blog or not.
I love keeping this website. I love that I can be something I am not at all in real life. In real life, you see, I have MANNERS. I am shy. Like, really badly shy. I am not Captain Mom, or Captain Wife, I am not too terribly funny, and I am certainly not hot. But you don’t know any of that, do you? Except fuck, now you do.
Anyway, here’s to 1,000 posts. And here’s to 1,000 more. I really hope at least 3 of you are willing to stay around for that. I hope the next 1,000 doesn’t take me so damn long to kick out, but I imagine it will, because these things tend to go in cycles and I am well past time to burn out.
I thought that in closing I would leave you with my favorite posts I’ve read over the past 3 1/2 years. I’ve spent a while now just thinking. I tried really hard to remember something someone had written, and remember how it moved me, either to laugh or to cry or to hurl. There were a few that really stood out in my mind, but almost none of them as much as Anne’s Baby Jesus Posts, and certainly none more than my BFF, I dare say my soulmate Molly’s post on parenting her son and her post on giving him medications, and I add this one with the disclaimer that she has fought an amazing, hard, massive uphill battle to get The Kid’s diagnosis of BiPolar overturned, and that it the smartest, bravest thing I think she and The Kid have EVER done, and I strongly caution anyone with a child who is leaning in that direction to read Molly’s entire blog start to finish, but it doesn’t change the fact that this post made my cry for, oh, days. Really, just go read them now.
So, thank you to all of you, every one of you that has shared this crazy thing called parenting with me. Thanks to the ones who have no real reason to read it, and you know who you are, but you do anyway. Thanks to the moms who have traveled this road with me. Thanks to the readers who have turned into real life friends. Thanks to the real life friends and family who have never given me shit in person for writing such trite things on the internet, to the amazing men and women I have met, thanks for your stories and your comments and your bits of you that you share. Thanks to all of you for holding me up when I’m down, for being a part of my life, for sticking with me through thick and thin. Because it means more than you’ll ever know.
(PS: 1000 seems like a good time to update the old blogroll. If you click that Rolling With My Homies page up there, and don’t see your link, leave a comment and I’ll fix that this week)
Fin.
Comments close after 5 days. Because Spam sucks. 69 Comments to “The 1,000th Post Recap”
Congratulations on #1000!! So exciting and what an incredible journey it has been for you!!!
Alison’s last blog post..Because I Said So
Congratulations on your 1000th! Wish I could have been here earlier, but I was still learning about this whole, what are they calling it? “Internet?” thing.
Those baby Jesus posts are certainly unique, I always suspected that Ritz was devil food. And I have never read Soapy Water before, but the medication post is unbelievable and really tough to read (from an emotional standpoint). I knew halfway through that Molly was a way stronger person than I will ever hope to be.
Here here to your milestone…looking forward to reading much more!
PS - No balloons? No dancing girls?
Matt’s last blog post..Teaching Your Child Corporate Politics
Definitely cool. 1000 posts is something to celebrate. Good luck on the next 1000.
AmyM’s last blog post..Highly suspect
I’m addicted. Keep the love coming.
Here’s to 1,000 more *clink*
Lunanik’s last blog post..Lakshmi
Congratulations! 1000 posts, and getting better every day. You are my blogging hero.
Oh, and as for being willing to stick around? You’ll have to seriously kick my ass if you want to get rid of me. Just so you know.
Latte Mommy’s last blog post..Mmm…Chocolate…
Happy Y1K! You’re like, more than a whole decimal ahead of me. I’ll never catch up now!
NukeDad’s last blog post..Careful With That Punctuation, Sport
I’ll be here to read the next 1000. Congratulations on a very significant milestone. Looking forward to the future!
Jeremy (Discovering Dad)’s last blog post..What Dads Really Think - Moms Want to Know - New Series
Whoa, 1000? That’s awesome. Congrats and all that.
MomBabe’s last blog post..I had to do it.
Wow! 1000 posts. That’s nuts! I could never imagine writing that many posts… I was impressed with the amount I’ve written already.
At least until now. Congrats on 1,000 of them… and I plan on being here to read your next 1,000 and more.
BTW, I’m not in your blog roll.
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Dad Speed’s last blog post..Ask Dr Dad
I find it VERY hard to believe that your not funny in your everyday life outside of your blog. Cause your blog oozes funny and witty the vast majority of the time. Congrats on 1000.
Diane’s last blog post..Airport security…turning into a nightmare
Congrats on 1000 posts! I am a recent reader so haven’t lived with you through most of that, but I really enjoy your writing. If I wasn’t a busy mom I would probably go through and read all your archives.
If you are adding random lurkers to the blogroll, I’d love to be included.
Carrie’s last blog post..June Pictures
1000 is quite significant.
Well done.
Xbox4NappyRash’s last blog post..Excuse me, waiter…
Wow. Congrats on 1000!
It’s easier to be who we would like to be on our blogs isn’t it? I know that I share more through my posts than I probably do in person. I can’t express thoughts and feelings that I normally wouldn’t do. Keep up the great work. Can’t wait to read more!
celticbuffy’s last blog post..House Buying Hell
1000 wow. Congratulations love. I’m hoping I can look back on mine and see an amazing transformation one day too. :)
Maria’s last blog post..Dance, Dance. [II]
I totally just made that about me and I’m sorry. I suck. Wait - that’s about me too. Shit.
Ok: you rock. You’re marvelous and loved and gorgeous and sweet and coming to San Francisco in 2 1/2 weeks you just don’t know it yet.
Maria’s last blog post..Dance, Dance. [II]
Wow, 1000 is pretty awesome. For what it’s worth you don’t look a day over 100. 100 posts that is . Congratulations.
Chuck’s last blog post..Time
Happy 1K! I’m glad you’re out here. Even if I’m a kinda sucky commenter I’ll be here the instant you hit publish for the next 1000, just like I always am.
Kelliqua’s last blog post..Roadtrip Courtesy of AtomicTumor
Congratulations!! I think the 1000th post is the perfect time to come out of lurking…..I’ve been reading for a while, long enough, I don’t even remember how I came here anymore. I wish I had the time to go back and read all of your posts, like I usually do when I add a new blog to my list, but 3 1/2 years is a long time. I would love to be included on your blogroll if you don’t mind having a recently outed lurker on there. :) I promise I won’t be a stranger.
abunslife’s last blog post..Out on the town, part I
Oh my god I miss you. Thanks.
And listen folks. She’s lying. Mr. Lady is VERY hot. Like, I seriously don’t know how we’ve kept our friendship platonic all these years.
molly_g’s last blog post..I think she might be trying to tell me something…
You make me smile! Please don’t burn out….
PS…You’re not roll’n with this homie…will you roll with this homie?
Tammy’s last blog post..Fitness Friday
Congrats, dollface.
The Retropolitan’s last blog post..It’s All In The Tempo
Wow!
The Super Bongo’s last blog post..Popularity
Congrats! You and your blog are awesome! Keep it comin’.
Nola’s last blog post..A Cool Saturday Morning
Congrats! I only hope to make it to be as awesome as MrL.
A Whole Lot of Nothing’s last blog post..eDrama
I haven’t been reading your blog for very long but it is one of the first ones I read when I get the chance. I love your writing and your honesty. I started my own blog not that long ago and I am hoping that I like you will keep it up. I still don’t quite know what the hell I am doing but I am writing and loving it. You have survived many things…you are a strong women…sharing your life, in this way, has most likely helped many people. I hope you keep writing…at least another thousand!
Lori’s last blog post..Very much alive
I second Molly’s assesment: Mr. Lady is freaking unbelievably hot. I don’t know how I will be able to keep from making out with her when I get to see her at the end of July. Fuck it, I probably will make out with her.
Happy 1000th, darling! Congrats!
Blog or no blog, you are stuck with me now! Love, Love, Love You!
HAPPY 1,000th POST!
Secret Agent Mama’s last blog post..Project 365 (311/365)
Wowza. 1000. I don’t think I’ve even farted 1000 times in my life. How do you do it?? And do it so well???
BusyDad’s last blog post..Rollin’ on tha Eastside… the Far Eastside
Happy 1000. And you mean you’re not really hot?!
Neil’s last blog post..The 2AM Rapper
You were the second blog I ever read. I remember the day. J was two months old. He was in my lap, sleeping. I was a raging insomniac. Why sleep when you knew it wouldn’t last long.
I started my blog a month later.
And here is to 1000 more . . .
Oh, and you may be shy in real life, but you are funny, and, we’ve all seen what you look like, so NOT hot? Not.
LaskiGal’s last blog post..PhotoStory Friday: What I wish for you
Yay, Mr Lady! I’m so glad I found you, even if I did miss the first 950 or so. And btw, I know you’ve posted stuff OTHER places too (like on the AdventureDad series, which is where I first encountered you) so we all know that you’re actually even more accomplished than you’re letting on. ;)
Fawn’s last blog post..Babywearing to the rescue
I have only been stalking you for about six months but I love you!
Congrats on your 1000th post.
tiff’s last blog post..Weekly Winners - hospital, hometime and birthdays, Oh my!
I concur … you rock! 1000 is quite the milestone. Thanks for giving me something to do in the early dawn besides watching Little Einsteins… keep the posts coming. You have a cult following, ya know?
Lori B’s last blog post..Hello world!
Congratulations - it has been such a pleasure reading you!
anne nahm’s last blog post..Cheekbone Implant Surgery and Removal
Thank you. God Bless, Mike.
I only just found your blog a few weeks ago, but from the moment I read the blog title, I was hooked. Turns out, I picked a good time to find you, because of this 1000 post recap. There is no way I could go back and read your archives (though I’ve browsed as often as I can and I still may even attempt it) but having you recap your favorite entries gave me a bit more insight into who you are, and I’m hooked even harder.
Congrats on the 1000. I plan to be around for the next 1000.
Andrea’s last blog post..Casanova
I’m a new follower of yours and I think you are great. I too am painfully shy and writing a blog lets me say some things that normally I would never say. It lets me be me no matter what people think. Mind you only 2 of my friends know about my blog but still I am me.
Tiffany’s last blog post..How I Met the Hubs
Congratulations on Post #1,000! What an accomplishment!
RockyCat’s last blog post..Best. Thing. Ever.
Wait! Definitely Pulitzer stuff, if the world were fair.
ms picket to you’s last blog post..The Conversationalist
God, I love you.
Momo Fali’s last blog post..Inquiring Minds Want To Know
I’m semi-glad you’re not single anymore. Too much temptation.
You know I love you.
XX
Ree’s last blog post..Quick.
“Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see she’s a beautiful girl
She’s a beautiful girl
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me”
___________
Thanks for giving me a way to stay close to you despite the distance.
Love ya.
I htink you did a DAMN fine job for your 1,000 post. You have been through a lot in the past 3 1/2. I wish I had found you sooner. And you, NOT hot? Yea, right! Like we could believe that!
Congratulations!
Robina’s last blog post..Mattress Love and Prison Transfers
*sniffle
I’m not on your roll :(
Congratulations on 1000!
Jennifer’s last blog post..Huh? I’m Living in Fear Apparently
looking forward to 2000.
Congrats on 1000!
dysfunctional mom’s last blog post..What I Love About Camping
Oh and, if you’d like to add me to your blogroll……….I wouldn’t mind. =D
dysfunctional mom’s last blog post..What I Love About Camping
You rock Lady! I’ll stick around for 1,000 more!
Miss’s last blog post..Classy Chaos Challenge #1
Love reading. But you know that. Here’s to another 1000!
Darcie’s last blog post..Just imagine
Happy 1,000. That’s a whooooole lotta archives I still have to read through, but I’ll get there. I swear I will.
BTW, you were just profound enough in my book. I can’t wait to see what you do for 2,000.
xo
P.S. Add me to your blogroll, or I’ll have to stalk you in person. (Now I’m off to check my blogroll to ensure you’re on it before I look like a complete ass for threatening you.)
Deb (Missives From Suburbia)’s last blog post..I Love the Smell of Fear
What-aya-want, a medel or sumth’in?
Audubon Ron’s last blog post..Pastor Feel Good
1000! Way too cool! Congrats… here’s to 10,000 more. :D
Tara R.’s last blog post..Right or left? eyes, brains, oh my?
Congrats on 1,000 posts and congrats on the journeys you’ve been on and the things you’ve overcome. Here’s to more growth, more revelations, more triumphs and more smiles. Here’s to you.
PS - I’m def. not in your blogroll.
Ashley’s last blog post..Coming soon to blogs near you.
Congrats!! I am just starting out and look forward to being able to post a 1000th one. You have done alot in that amount of time. Congrats on not only your blog but on rebuilding your marriage. I look forward to your 2000th post :)
Amy’s last blog post..Mission Complete
I think you are wonderful.
janethesane’s last blog post..Little Miss OCD
Although I’ve only been in the mrladysphere for a couple months, I feel like I’ve known you for much longer. You’ve given me invaluable advice and support for starting my blog, and I can’t tell you how amazed and touched I am by that! I was a total stranger, and you’ve been so generous and sweet from the very beginning. So thank you. I’m so happy I ‘discovered’ you (don’t even remember how now, but I’m sure glad I did) and I will be sitting here, cheering you on, for the next 1000+ posts. I hope you stick around for a long, long time.
You’re wonderful. You’re witty. And yeah, don’t even try to pull off that ‘I’m not really hot’ biznazz. You’re totally hawt. AND funny. But I do know exactly what you mean about being able to open up and be a different version of yourself online-one that you normally wouldn’t let out in your everyday life. It’s great to have an outlet like blogging to do that in, isn’t it?
Thank you for everything. All hail Mr. Lady!
flickrlovr’s last blog post..I’m Stat Obcessed!
Nothing to say today, huh? Liar! Off to check out those posts…
Half-Past Kissin’ Time’s last blog post..Summer’s Harvest Breakfast
Wish I had found you years ago. But seeing I only heard about blogs a year ago… yeah well.
Smootches to one of my favourite chicks in the Blogword/osphere/whatevz
Kelley’s last blog post..Of twits and twats Tuesday
I should be posting a well thought out and meaningful comment, but somehow it isn’t working like that.
Congrats on the 1000. I’m here reading and posting mundanities at the bottom.
*waves*
Oh and I am on the blogroll, but the linky is broken. You seem to have put a www there and no . but you can just remove the www and it will work.
Veronica’s last blog post..A Mismatched Post and a Confession
Bah, you’re the coolest chickie on the Internetz and you knows it. (But it’s cute you’re so demure about it) I’d say congratulations, but I think your readers (myself included) are the lucky ones here, since you’re just crazy enough to keep lovins us up.
And you know we love you for it, yo. ;-)
K8spade’s last blog post..Settle Down There, Tonto
I can promise I will stick around for the next 1000, too! congrats! For me, blogging is like drinking used to be-it makes me feel like I am funnier and prettier and in much better possesion of my senses than I am in real life. Only without the vomiting, the blackouts, and waking up next to someone whose name I don’t know. :)
Kori’s last blog post..No Flashback, Just a Rant
oh, and I am sad because I am not on your blog roll. :( Maybe someday…sigh… :)
Kori’s last blog post..No Flashback, Just a Rant
Congrats on 1000 posts! What an accomplishment! At the rate I’m going it’s going to take another few years to get there… yikes.
Jill’s last blog post..A River Runs Through It…
congrats- I hate leaving the 65 comment cuz who knows if you read it, but I love that you say the blogging is a place where you can be something you aren’t at all! I totally agree. I feel like I am all the things that I express, but I, too, am painfully shy in real life and it’s good to have the balls to get out a little of the real you!
Keep on keepin’ on, girl!
tenakim’s last blog post..It’s vacation time, but not really
who says you are not hot? pleeeez. (your confidence is v. hot) too if i must say so myself.
you keep it real and you make it easy for us to remind ourselves: we’re not crazy. and we can have fun keeping it real.
( i like coming here bc i feel like i can just pick up where i left off…you’re not always showing off like those 20-some yr old bloggers about their favorite cafe crap, wardrobe dilemma or next vacation. it’s like they are trying to prove they have a life where you actually have a life to write about.)
it’s just all real. and that makes it work for me. i am so happy to hear things are great again and i hope they continue to rock on.
Just found your blog coincidentally for the 1000th post. Nice on the recap. Wow what a crazy story, definitely going to take a look into those archives.
skiplovey’s last blog post..Proof that my son is just like his dad
You. Your blog. Completely won me over.
Kim’s last blog post..Fart Rating System
Congrats, girlfriend!
Glad we can stay close, if not by miles, then by cyberspace!
Aimee Greeblemonkey’s last blog post..A Call for the Silver Platters to Reunite!