This past Saturday was my 1st blogoversary here at Hey Smalls! I had planned on doing a whole day of posts to commemorate the occasion, but then I got sucked into a Mad Men marathon instead. Oops! (It ended up being all for nothing anyway, because I’m still a whole season behind! Thank goodness for DVR!!)
On top of this place being a whole year old, I’m also coming up to my 100th post!! (this is #95). I was really hoping I could make both happen on Saturday, but no dice.
To recap what the last year has been for me, let’s start with a few details about the blog itself.
- Hey Smalls was originally named “Flickers of Memories” and was meant to be a place where I talked about Scrapbooking and photography. (That was until I realized I didn’t have much to say about either of those subjects!!)
- Flickers of Memories began on July 24, 2009, with a post titled and so it begins…
- FOM was originally created on blogspot.com, but moved to self-hosted wordpress on January 9, 2010. This is also the day it changed it’s name to Hey Smalls!
Now, to put into words what this blog has actually meant to me, is probably going to be impossible. But I’ll try!!
2009 was a hellish year for me. I changed jobs a million times, moved in with a boyfriend of 6 months (and his mom!) and was overall just not very happy! I thought that maybe by blogging, I would find an outlet and clear my head. I had no idea back then, what this would become.
If you had asked me a year ago if I thought I could come up with something to write every single day for a month? I would have called you crazy.
If you had asked me a year ago if I thought I would guest post for six weeks about my health? I would have called you crazy.
If you had asked me a year ago if I thought I’d head to Vegas completely by myself? I would have called you crazy.
If you had asked me a year ago if I thought I’d partake in a journey to find myself? I would have called you crazy.
Needless to say, a lot has changed in the last year. I’m not the person I was in 2009. Hell, I’m not the person I was in early 2010! I’ve learned that blogging isn’t about throwing thoughts out to an empty abyss. It’s about community, friendship, and connecting. It’s about finding people in the world who think and feel the way you do, and support your ideas. It’s about finding what inspires you. It’s about having 19 people convince you to do something you otherwise would never even consider. It’s about having that one place, all to yourself, to be completely and 100% honest and true to who you are. That’s what blogging has meant to me this past year.
So I want to thank you. For being here for me, for taking the time to read my rambling thoughts, and for sticking by me when I’ve needed you the most. Whether I’ve met you already, or plan to meet you in the (near) future, I’m so grateful to have you in my life.
Here’s to another year of growing, changing, and becoming exactly who I’m meant to be, all while sharing the ride with you!
xoxo
~ Lindsey Marie
