Celebrating a milestone with an important-looking title
On February 2, 2005 I wrote my first post here on creolened.com:
I was the last one to get bell bottom jeans in grade 5 and now I’m the last person on the Internet to have a blog.
Me, back when I had hair
Today, April 22, 2024, I am writing this, my 5,000th post, just in time for blogging to become a bit of a fad again.
5,000 posts seems like a lot. It is a lot, I suppose. It’s less impressive when you spread it out over the 19 years this blog has been around (263 per year). But it’s still a decent-sized number. If someone gave me $5,000 it would make my socks roll up and down a bit. If someone put 5,000 marbles in my bed, it would be very annoying to deal with. If the sea level rose 5,000 feet, I would be typing this on a boat and probably living in some real-life version of Waterworld.
You get the idea. 5,000 is a good number.
A single Fun Fact
Fun fact: In 2005 I wrote seven posts, in 2006 I wrote eight. My average has improved since then (this is post #159 for 2024).
I’m not going to offer words of wisdom or reflect on what the blog has meant to me, or anything like that. It’s an outlet for me. I like writing. I often have inane thoughts. A blog is a perfect place to put these thoughts down, because if you aren’t sharing your inane thoughts with the world, what are you going to do with them? Tell your cat? I don’t even have a cat any more (I did in 2005).
I will apologize for keeping the blog mired in design hell for so long. I really ought to spiff it up, slim it down, or something.
The inevitable list
What I will do, instead, is offer a list, because I like lists:
- I recommend taking a look at the page Tags (all of them). I abuse the WordPress tags function horribly, which is why my blog has hundreds of them, but some of the weirder ones can yield entertaining and/or amusing, but also sometimes horrifying results.
- I apologize for all the running posts. They’re not very interesting, except to me. But I did start adding pretty photos to them, at least.
- The Creative category is where you’ll find my drawings and such. Some of them are not bad.
- Writing Prompts is where I either write based on a prompt, or create my own lists of prompts (as established, I like lists). My prompts are almost exclusively absurd.
- Check out my horrible attempt to take swimming lessons from 2009:
- Dude, your package is showing
- How not to swim
- The Old Man and the Straw (sadly, it ends without closure here. I did not attend any other lessons)
- My favourite movie review: Movie review: Prometheus (I did not like it)
- Possibly my favourite book review, or at least the longest: Book review: Abandon (I kind of liked it, but also hated it)
- A creepy story based on a prompt, told in large part through text messages: 1,000 creative writing prompts: 7 of 1,000
- My favourite cat GIF:
