Alexis and Joanna, today marks a huge milestone for me. This post is my 28th, which means I have completed my first month of blog posts. This may not seem like a big deal but for me, it’s huge. You see, I have a tendency to start stuff and not finish it. For example, in the 10 years that I was the video editor for Reality Student Ministries, I only completed one of the many video series I began. To be honest, the only things I seem to be able to finish are video games…and up until recently, even those were hit and miss.
When I considered beginning this blog, I was hesitant to tell anyone about it. I didn’t want it to be another project I started and abandoned. I decided to take it slow and begin by writing a post every day for a week, just to see if I could. When I accomplished that, I decided to share this blog with the world. And here we are, four weeks later. Thus far, I have only missed one night. Not too shabby, huh?
Along the way, I have learned a couple of interesting things. First, I learned that the old adage about writing is true, “writers need to write.” By imposing a daily posting schedule, I needed to write about something each day. Granted, I gave myself some training wheels by assigning topics to each day. However, some days I just didn’t feel like writing about say, video games. The only way I could overcome that was to sit down and just start typing. After about an hour of typing and re-typing, I could finally get something on the screen. (Whether it was good or not, I’m probably not the one to judge.)
The other thing I learned was that I couldn’t really predict what people would want to read about. A little later, I’ll be posting about some of the most viewed articles. Jenn and I attempted to predict what would attract people’s attention. In some cases, we were correct. But there are some we didn’t expect to be quite as popular. Whenever you girls read this, you’ve got to let me know what you liked. I’ll literally have been wating years to find out.
For the rest of you, I am going to be ending my one month celebratory post by going over the three posts that have received the most attention (or as it has been referred to by Jeff of bestjeffever.com, my greatest hits). Hopefully, I have gained some new readers and you may have missed these. Let’s start with the post that has the most hits: “Welcome to our Family Time,” my initial post describing the blog and its intentions. The title is a reference to the theme song of my favorite Disneyland parade. As I alluded to earlier, this post describes the reason and format for the blog. If you are curious as to what my post will be about that day, refer back to this post to find out.
Next up is the first post in my ongoing write-up of the history of Ultimate Championship Wrestling. Secret Origins Part I: From Humble Beginnings tells the story of how the concept of UCW evolved from a video series about puppets into the phenomenon it is today. Well, maybe phenomenon is overstating it a bit. Nevertheless, according to the numbers, the story is at least very interesting. And if you agree, as of this writing, there are two more parts of the story, with more on the way.
Finally, there is the post that I think is the perfect way to end my lunar-versary. Heavenly Israeli Bunches details the many reasons that I love my wife. The title stems from the term that Jennifer used to describe how much she loved me. In a sermon, Pastor C explained that bunches of grapes in Israel at the time of Joshua were larger than normal. Jenn took that and explained that the grapes in Heaven would be even larger. Hence the amount of love Jenn had for me. If you can handle the sappiness, give it a try.
Thanks for reading this and for checking out the blog over the last month. They say that when you do something for 30 days, it becomes a habit. In about two days, this blog will become a permanent fixture of my life…and nothing would make me happier.
