End of Year Musings
Hello, friends, I am back. We had the most amazing and wonderful adventure, and we are refreshed and happy to be back sleeping in our own bed again.
So of course, one of the first things I do when I get back is go through all my e-mail and then take a quick look at the blog. Even in my absence, the stats stayed high – until Christmas Day, when they dropped to about half. . . and there they stay. (Big grin) If this hadn’t happened last year, too, I would be shocked, but remember last year when I published all those great Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes? Those are what has pumped up the statistics. Most days in November and December, the Christmas Punch – Rum, and Rumless and the Christmas Divinity Candy have pumped those stats up above the thousand visitors / day mark several times.
Last year, it took me until September to match my December statistics. I wonder if I will ever match this December’s?
Like many bloggers, I write this blog for the sheer joy of writing. I don’t want to be a person who watches my stats, and at the same time, it interests me what interests YOU, the reader. What interests me also is that many times the most visited entries keep getting visits months later, even over a year later, and from time to time these earlier entries get a comment. I have seen the same thing on Jewaira’s blog, and although we are very different bloggers, she is still my primary blog-role-model. She is a blogger who, through sheer imagination and good writing has kept a loyal and enthusiastic readership. . . I want to be Jewaira when I grow up, bloggily speaking.
Don’t we all do a little personal inventory as the old year ends and the new year is about to begin? I’m not big on resolutions, but I am big on behavioral changes, and this week is a good week to muse, to ruminate, to think about what I want the future year to look like.
Is there some area YOU would like to explore in the new year? Some aspect of your character you would like to develop? Some talent you would like to give an opportunity to grow?
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hey babe… i wish you get all that you want :*
Chicki! How are you? Glad to see you.
Fortunately, all I want is simple joys – that my son and his wife are happy, that AdventureMan and I keep our good health and our spirit of exploration, that we live our lives with dignity, not forgetting to have some fun . . . simple things!
Mate..I wish you all the best and glad to know that you had a great Christmas break 🙂
hehe there is a lot i need to work on… but i dont do that resolution stuff… i never stick to it.. just another day for me 🙂
oh and welcome back 🙂 good to know u had a fun time 🙂
Thanks, Fast Lane. I hope this coming year is a far better year for you and your broken heart. Hang in there.
Thank you, Fonzy! We had a GREAT time. Thanks for the welcome back 🙂
Welcome back, Intlxpatr 🙂
Am blushing furiously from the mention of my name above… but it is an honour nonetheless to be mentioned by you dear IntlXpatr.
What a wonderful blog you have created!
I want next year to be different in many ways but I won’t say how. I fear the broadcasting of resolutions lest they fail before the first attempt.
I’ll have to start all over again to exhibit behavioral changes! It will take time(in years) but I believe I’m getting there 🙂
ooooh, Lady J, we are not mentioning the “R” word here! Only focusing on minor behavioral changes we might be able to successfully make. Like at Lent last year, I successfully broke myself of the habit of yelling a very very bad word at stupid drivers on the road. This year, I am going to try to break myself of THINKING that same word. I can only succeed with small steps, those “r” things are just a set up for failure in my case.
Joel – yep. Years. Me, too.
Welcome back :)!
Yes, there’s something.
Learning to use Photoshop and doing Selfportraits again 🙂
Very easy 😉
Ah yes, and do the view tours that are left on my list before we leave Kuwait and I will regret not to have been there 😉
Oh wow, RM, ambitious! The weather is great right now for those view tours of Kuwait – are you thinking you will be leaving soon?
Maybe end of February, with us one never knows…
Holy smokes! That soon? Hope you were out touring and shooting today; it was GORGEOUS!
Yepp:
http://nicoleb.org/b2/index.php/a-wonderful-start?blog=1
😉
Oh Nicole, what a great day!