Happy Birthday to Blooooooooog...

Yay! Happy birthday to this, my first blog!

Okay, I admit, I missed it by a few weeks. It was actually the very beginning of June last year, and I'm not catching it until halfway through the month this year. But I think I've got a good excuse... see, the only reason I'm noticing that it's been a year since I started this blog is because of a bizarre and massive experience of deja vu. Today, it is well over 90 degrees out there in Syracuse... we've had a few hot days already, but this is the first ugly, humid, sweltering one that has made me consciously think to myself "I hate hot weather, and I can't stand being outside when it's over-hot like this", and hurriedly make plans to return to the comfort of my climate controlled home environment (A/C on strong right now, plus both the standalone fans and ceiling variety). Now, that made me feel deja-vu, because one of the very first rants I spewed forth onto this, my very first blog, was last year in June, when I took the opportunity to complain about how the rest of the world delights in calling this "good" weather, when I think it's some of the worst, and views rain and cool as "bad" weather, when it's what I'm longing for on a day like this.

So, anyway, I guess whatever the reason, happy birthday to blog! Yay! It's been an up and down year here, with some periods when I got a bit too busy to write, and some "feast" periods when I found something new to post almost daily. Of course, I've also begun several other blogs since then... a blog to reflect on my poker exploits, the Hold or Fold blog... a blog for discussing our regular poker tournament, the Poker Frog Blog... a blog for the extra-curricular theatre organization I run for the kids at the high school, the C.A.S.T. Blog... a sadly rarely used blog for recording my experiences in battling my weight (I hope I'll have more cause to post there this summer), entitled the Blubber Battle Blog... and even, most recently, a Relay Novel project for the Off On a Tangent comedy group, aptly entitled Off-On-A-Tangent Blog (tho nobody else has yet expanded on my story... *sigh*). Soon, I'll be posting a blog to support work on the Scene One summer show, too. Blogging has really turned out to be a great way to make it seem like I'm producing something... only if it's rarely read (though I have actually heard replies from THREE different people I know! How about that!!!).

Here's to you, blog... giving me someplace to rest my ranting insanity. Speaking of which... what is wrong with people? We went out to lunch today with my grandfather and my father (and lots of other family too) to celebrate Father's Day... and when we left the restaurant, my dad found his car had been hit in the parking lot by someone who just took off. Geesh... Happy Father's Day! May I someday have the ability to put things in calm perspective like he does...