Thelma and Louise are devestatingly beautiful ... sigh ... front end loaders and TEAL ... and I think I would move my house just to have room for them! And the blog prompts are fun!
Here are the topics:
Monday, September 13: Re-upload the first post you ever wrote on your blog. If interested, re-write that post, showing us a before and after look at the piece.
Tuesday, September 14: Re-upload a post you wish more people had read and explain why it was important to you.
Wednesday, September 15: Re-upload a post with a title that you are particularly proud of and explain why.
Thursday, September 16: Write a new post about a woman who inspires you. (As an example, you can see Mama Kat’s recent Women Who Inspire post here.)
Friday, September 17: As your last assignment to jump start your return to blogging, write about what blogging means to you. Why do you blog? What purpose does it serve you and how have you benefited from sharing a piece of yourself online this way?
And here are Thelma and Louise ... sighhhhhhhh ...
You can thank the awesome sponsors of Thelma & Louise here: Standards of Excellence, Westar Kitchen and Bath, and Florida Builder Appliances. Truly - SPONSORS ROCK!
So get over to SITS - check out the rules and get your blog on!
Now to get MY blog on ... I went back and scavenged for the first post I ever made into the official blogosphere ... and it is almost five years ago! Beehive Blog was my new blog for Utah that I started in Fall of 2009 although it now contains posts from my London Yankee blog that started in 2007 which I began when I moved to London. Funny enough, my blogs are very place oriented and in that vein ... my first public blog post was about moving to Arizona in October of 2005 from Florida. I set the blog up to keep in touch with family and friends.
Dated October 26, 2005:
Big Hello from the Land of Cactus and Coyotes!
One week after arrival I am still assimilating the new environment! And watching with no small amount of nausea what happened in Florida... Hurricane Wilma left her category 3 mark... I have not heard from anyone except my parents and that was bad enough. What divine forces were at work that we got out of there 4 days before she rolled in?
Here in Arizona, I am working on firsts! And they are cool (I think) and very foreign (to this East Coast chickie)...
Saw my FIRST saguaro Cactus and they are HUGE!
Heard Coyotes Howling in time with the fire sirens - HA!
I watch the sun set behind the White Tank Mountains - every evening! and then the STARS! WOW...
Hiked in the White Tanks and actually bought a pair of hiking boots!
Enjoying the dipping temps (who would have thought?!?!) - it was 56F this morning!
SO...suffice to say...I am settling in...Job in Florida is so totally on hold as they have NO communication at all and the office was almost completely destroyed so I am job searching and just booked my third interview...
I think I might like it here! More Later.........HI TO EVERYONE!!!!!!! And please please please Pray for everyone in Florida!
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Fast Forward to Present Day ... and some of my thoughts on this post ...
There are a bunch of things that are bittersweet about this post. Hurricane Katrina had just hit a few months prior which was the impetus for this move to Arizona where my brother and his family lived. I picked a date out of thin air in the beginning of September and it turned out that my son and I left Florida only four days before Hurricane Wilma devastated South Florida. My Mom and Dad were there for Wilma and it was horrific. The house we had rented lost most of its roof so divine intervention was at play for sure.
I loved seeing the pics again, especially now that my son (standing with me in the middle pic) is 13 and taller than me. Phoenix was good to us and my love of Utah is in part because it has some of the things I really loved about Arizona - the friendly people, the western sentiment, the DRY, and the mountains.
I wished there were some more details in the post and that the pictures were better but honestly, blogs are blogs and we capture that moment ... and it is very evocative for me.
OK SITS Chicks and other blogsters - What was your first blog post evah? Leave me a comment so I can check it out!
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