Over the next thirty days or so there will be a few significant milestones that we're going to reach on this journey. I won't give them all away ahead of time and I'll try not to get too sentimental as I write about them.
Today is the first one. It's the one year anniversary of my very first blog! How this blogging thing all started I really can't remember. I do remember Beth and I talking about documenting what we were embarking on and somehow the word blog came up. Setting up a blog page was pretty easy and off I went into the world of blogging. That first blog was titled "Countdown to Retirement". I do remember after writing it thinking "that was kind of fun, maybe I'll do one every now and then". Well, I do get a little stats page that I can view and according to it this is my 160th blog over the past year! I guess it's become a hobby.
I've never envisioned myself as a writer, still don't and I'm sure everyone reading this is in agreement with that self assessment. I'm simply trying to tell our story in my own words. I hope along the way you are amused, informed, and maybe inspired or maybe you're just curious about "what are those idiots up to now".
One other stat that I get is a "page view" stat. I have no idea who is reading this unless they leave a comment (which isn't that easy) or tell one of us they read it. This page view summary just tells how many different times the various blogs have been viewed. Over the past year there have been over 8,500 page views! While that number is a few million less than the number of people who click on a new instagram picture of Kim Kardashian showing her butt (hopefully that's none of you) I'm very proud of it.
Thanks for coming along for the ride!
