Do You Celebrate a Blog Birthday or Blog Anniversary...and What is the Traditional Gift for Both?

Today, JP and the MegaBeast is a year old. Or as I like to call it, “it’s been a year of virtually free therapy with the internet.” Because, let’s be honest…that’s what it really is. When I started this whole “blogging” thing, I just needed a place to vent. To say what was on my mind without having to say it to any particular person. I starting blogging because Sarah told me it would be good for me.

And it has.

In the beginning, the MegaBeast represented all the frustrations, etc in my life that just needed to be dealt with. Over the past year, the MegaBeast has continued to represent any and all of my frustrations in life. Most recently that frustration is my mother in-law. I can picture some raised eyebrows out there at my sarcastic approach to my life…but folks, I have to laugh and poke fun at my life so that I can put it all in perspective. I’m learning how to deal with the difficult people in my life…to stand up for myself…to move away from being such a doormat…to remember what is REALLY important and what truly is not. I love being able to laugh at the silly parts of my life. I love that even though I have crazy stories about crazy people in my life (or just my crazy life) that I can still (eventually) laugh at the craziness and remember that I truly am so blessed. I have SO much to be grateful for and I am.

Through this crazy blogging world, I’ve also learned that I like to write. I’m not saying I’m good at it…but I have found that I like telling stories. It has become a release for me. It has been a way for me to be creative and truthful all at the same time. It has been fun to go back and see how my writing has evolved over the past year…good or bad. I love that I am creating a type of journal that I would never have if I wasn’t blogging it. Oh, my poor children.

But one of the best parts of this blogging stuff is the other bloggers. I LOVE reading those blogs I’ve come to love. I LOVE learning that other people go through VERY similar situations and understanding the “other side of the story” sometimes. I feel like I have this new network of friends, even though I’ve never actually met most of these people and they probably have no clue how much I enjoy them and their blogs. I fear I’ve become like a stalker to those blogs that entertain me. Do they have restraining orders for blog stalkers? I’m harmless. Really. But I do sometimes snort when I laugh at some of your posts.

It’s weird that it’s been a year. It’s weird that I still love to do this. Hell, whoever reads JP and the MegaBeast must thing I’m SO weird. But that’s okay.

Thanks for letting me play along.