7 Things

I’ve been trying to get back into regularly writing here on my blog. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m rather sporadic now, especially in comparison to how often I used to blog back in the early days of this blog. I guess that getting back to regularly blogging has something to do with how irregularly I write posts here. I’ve lost a bit of my carefree way of blogging from the early days, and I’d like to get some of that back. It may sound simplistic, but I think that I just need to stop overthinking and just write what I feel because that’s what I did in the beginning and I enjoyed it so much. No pressure, just fun. I just need to let go and be me.

So, in the spirit of being me, I’ve taken a look back at some earlier posts just for fun. I’ve realized that this blog is something of a time capsule. Reading back through some of the earlier years has been revealing. Where has the time gone? 😊

I found an earlier post from the first year when I started blogging, in 2008. It was one of those posts that were popular then which asked you to tell some things about yourself and then you passed it along. There were no ground-breaking revelations in my original post, but it certainly reminded me of a seemingly simpler time in my life and it was nice to visit for a while. If you’d like to read it, you can find it here. 

I thought that I’d offer up another list for now, over a decade later, as I reacquaint myself with my blog. So here goes…nothing ground-breaking again, but I just thought, why not? 😊

7 Things About Me – 2021

1) I love the color blue. I've talked about this previously.

2) I like the number 7. 

3) I love spicy food and I add hot sauce to a variety of things.

4) I love films , documentaries or features, I love them all. 

5) I love books. 

6) I like writing lists.

7) Peonies are my favorite flower.

Peony

Seventh Anniversary

Today is the seventh anniversary of the day that I started this blog. I know that people say this about anniversaries and things all the time, but I can't believe that seven years have passed. I love that this is the seventh for a few reasons that only mean something to me. Lol. They are as follows:

- Seven is my favorite number.
- I was the seventh child in my family.
- In my full name, 'Dorothy', there are seven letters.

I could go on and on :-) I just love seven...it's always meant something to me.

I started this blog on March 4th, and as I've shared on past blog anniversaries and such, things sort of lined up for me to start on that day. I had thought about starting a blog for months before I finally started, but I got up that day and just started. It seemed right because to me that day is a good day to start many things. It's March 4th, but when I say it it reminds me to 'march forth'. So it was a good day to start on this adventure.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that writing this blog in the very beginning saved me. I had been here in England for about two years at that point and honestly it was a tough time. Sometimes those first couple of years here are a blur. I was reeling from losing my mother in 2006 and from uprooting from everything that I knew. And to top it off, in late 2006 I got injured in a car accident. My emotions were all over the place. Don't get me wrong, it's a great experience to live abroad, but it was really tough in the early days.

So to fast forward to 2008, at that point I was coming out of some of the fog. My grief had subsided some, though I'll never stop missing my mom. But I was better. I still missed home, but I was able to see what was around me more and I began to really enjoy the experience of living elsewhere. And I was finally recovered fully from my injury. My heart wasn't so heavy and I was okay :-)

I had always written since I was a child, but I had a dry spell for those two years. So on March 4, 2008,  I decided to start this blog as a way to get into writing again and also I hoped to connect with other people. It helped me to get out of my own head and in the end, it saved me.

I don't have a huge readership, but I'm so grateful for each and every person who visits me here. The numbers don't matter. Thank you to EVERYONE who has ever read my blog! :-)

I plan to keep blogging for as long as I can. I hope to do more and more here as time goes by and I hope that you will visit me again :-)

I hope that this post wasn't too much of a downer. I don't like dredging up some of those tough times here, but I just wanted to provide some background on what it was like when I started this blog. I'm not down at all today actually. I'm rather joyous because I've stuck with this blog even though I don't know what I'm rambling on about sometimes. Lol.

Anyway, thank you for visiting me. I look forward to continuing on this path that I started seven years ago. I hope that you'll join me as I share more about my experiences! :-)

Until next time...