Twice now I’ve been nominated for the First Post Challenge. The first time by the lovely and talented Joey (you can find her challenge post here) and the second by the lovely and talented Willow (you can find her challenge post here) Yes, they’re both lovely and talented. You should get to know them if you don’t already! Thank you both so much, my lovely and talented friends, for thinking of me. 😀
I thought since today is my official 3rd Anniversary of Blogging (as opposed to my unofficial one, when I actually started writing posts on a regular basis) I’d choose this as the day to accept the challenge.
The rules are:
Copy-paste, link, pingback, etc. your first post.
Identify the post: introduction, story, poem.
Explain why it was your first post.
Nominate five other bloggers.
My first post, written July 26th, 2012:
Whatever am I doing here?
It’s a question that is asked by everyone once in a while, by some more often than others: what in the world am I doing here? And oh how we struggle with the answer!
My answer for the moment is, I am here to write, to please myself.
How about you?
That’s it. Short and sweet.
It was obviously an introduction post; more to introduce me to blogging than to introduce bloggers to me. I had no idea what I was doing, nor did I have any clue what I would eventually get out of WordPress. To say I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement of epic proportions. I do remember being told once upon a time that if I wanted to be a published author I had to get out of my room and onto social media. This blog was the first thing I ever put my real name on. It was one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever made in terms of being online. Now I’m very happy I took the plunge.
So now how do I choose five blogs among the hundreds I adore, and whose first posts I’d love to read? How about the last five people to comment on my blog? That works for me. 😀
They would be my dear friends:
and Dale Cooper
Of course anyone else reading this who would like to participate, please go right ahead. It’s on me!
So there we go! Here’s to another three years of glorious blogging. Cheers!
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August 3, 2015 at 2:47 pm
Congrats on your three years! Now this is an award that seems interesting.
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August 3, 2015 at 9:51 pm
It is an interesting project – you should do it! Thanks, Kristin. 🙂
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August 3, 2015 at 10:19 pm
I think I will. I’ve been so slack about posting lately, I need to post something that won’t go off into research and more research.
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August 3, 2015 at 11:10 pm
Yep, I hear ya. 🙂
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July 28, 2015 at 1:28 pm
A first post so definitely yours! 😉
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August 2, 2015 at 10:29 am
I know, right? I was surprised to find my “voice” hasn’t changed.
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July 27, 2015 at 4:47 pm
Happy third!! Wow I’ve never been nominated for anything…well…hmmm anything recent and legal anyway…
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July 27, 2015 at 6:07 pm
I don’t even know what my first post was…I lost everything.
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July 27, 2015 at 10:47 pm
Haha! You’re so funny. Thanks so much. 😀 You could always make do with the first post you do have… 😀
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July 27, 2015 at 2:39 pm
Well that’s jolly nice of you.
The only problem is, my first post got somehow deleted a couple of years back (something that still irks me, as I seem to recall it was rather good) so I’m not sure how this would work. Any suggestions?
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July 27, 2015 at 10:49 pm
Use the first post you do have… you can always explain when you post your challenge what the actual idea behind the lost first post was. 🙂
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July 28, 2015 at 6:28 am
Ok, sounds like a plan.
I think the second post references the first anyway.
Thanks, haven’t had an award for a while?
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July 27, 2015 at 1:33 pm
Happy 3rd Anniversary Linda. 🙂
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July 27, 2015 at 10:50 pm
Thank you, Edwina! 😀
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July 27, 2015 at 10:11 am
Congratulations on three years!
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July 27, 2015 at 10:50 pm
Thank you, Joanne! 😀
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July 27, 2015 at 3:48 am
Happy anniversary, Linda. Look how far you’ve come!
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July 27, 2015 at 10:51 pm
I have come a long way. Thank you, Keith! 😀
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July 26, 2015 at 11:49 pm
Too funny – today is my 3 yr anniversary of when I registered my blog too! Congrats on sticking around and getting it going (which you did LONG before me ha ha!). Marianne
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July 27, 2015 at 10:52 pm
Hey, congratulations to you too, Marianne! I actually didn’t write another post for 6 months after my first one, so there ya go. 😀
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July 26, 2015 at 11:33 pm
Happy Blogversary Linda 🙂
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July 27, 2015 at 10:53 pm
Thank you, KG! 😀
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July 26, 2015 at 9:41 pm
Happy Third Blogversary Linda!
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July 27, 2015 at 10:53 pm
Thank you, Paul! 😀
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July 26, 2015 at 7:15 pm
Thanks Linda. I have to figure out when to run my first post. I was nominated before so I think I’ll do the second.
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July 27, 2015 at 10:54 pm
Sure, that works! 😀
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July 26, 2015 at 6:44 pm
lol!! Short and sweet does it ey 😀 I think..( I THINK) Mine was sentence?!(I sure as hell bloody changed that up as I went along!) Hope all good your end Ma’am Linda – Ma’am 😉
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July 27, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Crazy days, my dear. Crazy. You should do this challenge – I’d love to read your first… sentence. 😀
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July 28, 2015 at 6:07 am
hahahaha – yeah… ‘Sticks and stones shall break our bones – words shall shape our souls’ There go 😛
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July 26, 2015 at 6:36 pm
Thanks for the nomination, Linda. Ordinarily I don’t accept challenges or awards that require me to nominate others. But for you, well, it’s tempting. I’ll think about it.
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July 27, 2015 at 11:03 pm
Oooh, please do. 😀 Thank you, Glazed!
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July 26, 2015 at 6:11 pm
Three years Linda and you haven’t aged a day…..congrats for hanging in this long…..
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July 26, 2015 at 6:12 pm
Oh, I so wish I hadn’t, Michael. Thanks so much my dear. 😀
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July 26, 2015 at 6:13 pm
My pleasure, have a good day….
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July 26, 2015 at 6:16 pm
You too, Michael. 🙂
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