It looks like Friday will see my 50000th hit for the blog. I know this is peanuts for the more popular writers, but I like that I have a couple hundred readers who come back again and again. In a little over a week, I should reach my 500th post as well. This is unbelievable to me. I guess I can say I've written a book of sorts. A scrapbook if you will, of the life I've led over the past couple years. One of my favorite "emotions" is a sense of accomplishment, and that is what I'm feeling now.
It hasn't brought any money my way, but it has brought some things that money can't buy. Comeraderie for one, and the chance to bond with people that I wouldn't otherwise have had the chance to. It's amazing how much affinity I have for all the folks on my blog list on the left. I carry them in my thoughts and wonder about their days as I go through mine. It's a whole big love practice, and for that I am grateful.
I flirt from time to time with quitting the blog. But then I remember the big blog family that I'd have to say goodbye to and I just can't. So I guess y'all are stuck with me for a while. I'm sendy big sloppy kisses to everyone. (God I'm sentimental this morning. Who says men can't get hormonal?)
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Congrats, Torn.
I think and speak about my on-line friends, and enjoy the comeraderie as well.
Keep it up!
Big sloppy kisses backatcha. (And a couple for Spouse, too)
If you ever quit blogging, I'm gonna hafta get my cousin Guido to come up there and put the hurt on ya. :)
Congratulations on all of your blogging accomplishments! I think I can safely say that all of us on your blogroll are glad to know you too.
Back at ya, and please empty the house of all remaining tenants so that when your NYC blogger family arrives we can all stay in the same place
Can't imagine a morning without Tornwordo... I am glad you are here and I love reading you! I am proud to be part of the couple hundred readers!
I don't have a blog because I have no life to write about, maybe someday. Still I love reading your blog each day. Congrats on the 50000th hit and 500th blog. Fabulous!I hope you will accept a big sloppy kiss and a hug from a guy who's not on your blog roll but loves to read your blog every day. Hugs and more!
Congrats on the milestones!
I love that I can look back to 2 years ago, and see what I was living. Good blogs can make great books!
I think I would cry if I woke up one morning and you were gone.
I love to get the big sloppy kisses :P
Anyway, I have one word for wanted some money to your pocket, AdSense!
You saw it everytime you login to blogspot to blog, rea dit up and sign up on it. I am sure you are popular enough to make some money :)
It might be peanuts size but better than nothing eh?
Sloppy kisses for you too! Don't quit, I read your blog every day and don't comment, so don't make this my first and last comment.
Wow....50000! I was overjoyed to reach 15000 a few days ago.
Congrats on all that!
HUGS and stuff..
Yep, totally enjoy your blog.....
Love you too...you are always one of the first blogs I visit :-)
So, are you going to offer a prize to your 50,000th hit? I think you should. Contests are always fun.
There is a whole culture of the blog world that non-bloggers just might never understand. You get to glimpse into the lives of people you might not otherwise meet. I love my blog friends! Thanks for being one of them!
Well, sir, I sure would miss you if Sticky Crows closed up.
Congrats on the 50000th hit! I bet it will be doubled before you know it.
I'm another reader of yours that does not have a blog of his own.
I just might start one soon, but being ADD I have trouble both starting and keeping up to date with any project.
I do love to read about your life as written here, and I would miss you terribly if you stopped.
So thank you for being there for me every day, and keep up the good work.
yay! someone besides me who's hormonal!
I think a 500th post/ 50000 hits retrospective would be a fun thing to read for those of us who are relatively new readers :-)
congratulations and *smooch*
Wow, many congrats on your milestones!
Yours was one of the first blogs I started reading. The blogosphere wouldn't be the same without you, so I personally thank you for sticking around (oops).
And whoever did say that men can't get hormonal hasn't met me. Sloppy kisses back!
Aww. Thats so sweet. I've loved reading your blog over the past year and the best part of blogging is connectin with people you would have never connected with otherwise.
Woo hoo! Congrats!
We can celebrate your 50,000th visitor and I can celebrate my 18th visitor, all in one weekend.
It's win-win.
Where's that bottle of champagne...
Wow 50,000 hits, that's amazing! Not surprising of course, you are one of my favorite reads!
Congrats :)
I wondered about that warm, wet sensation I felt as I was preparing to rise this morning.
It was most welcome, actually.
Warmest congratulations.
i was at the same place with my blog a while back. i couldn't leave the community. couldn't drop out.
but then, one by one, the others left. that little cadre that, for whatever reason, found solace in the details of one another's days. they began to leave. so i took my turn and left, too.
now, months later, i find myself starting from scratch. plugging away not because of the community, but because i genuinely like writing this little journal. and the fact that others might look at it and like what they read is icing on the cake.
so hang in there. don't think of it as something you're doing for the community. think of it as something you're doing for yourself. and we, the community, will continue to appreciate it. :)
Congrats on the benchmark. And 500 posts? I still haven't gotten there. You are so prolific! Don't you dare go anywhere, we would be desolate without the snippits and video clips, etc.
Wow.
500 posts is a lot.
Good for you!
You know I read you cover to cover. What I like is that we can never read the last page.
Keep it up Torn!
You know I read you every day. Usually in the morning. I think sometimes you read mine as I'm reading yours. I like to get a comment from you just as I send one to you.
It makes me laugh and I like to know that we are reading and probably drinking coffee together.
I got the chance to meet you, and I'm not surprised about the 50,000 hits.
Thanks for being here on Sticky Crows, and thanks for being in my life.
You're a good man!?
Big warm bear hugs to you and I'll treat you to DairyQueen when they reopen next spring.
Joel
I don't think I was ever the one who said men can't hormonal. As I've actually met men.
I think it is one of the coolest things how we have all found each other through this bizarre blog web. One of the reasons I love traveling is that you meet people you never would have come across in your normal everyday life. Blogs are a lot like that. Only I don't have to endure airports and body cavity searches to connect with my blog friends.
For that, I am grateful.
No quitting! We want you to keep blogging!
So. What everyone else said. Ditto.
early congrats as your still at 49,787... i love reading your blog, don't go anywhere...
Some people are obsessed with comments and ad placement. It's good to know that there are others who are also rational about the social aspects of blogging. Though I hardly ever get comments on my blog, I still like reading others' and occasionally commenting on them. It's good that you don't let anything keep you from blogging.
Congrats on 50000 hits and 500 posts!
As for closing up shop -- don't. Too many of us are addicted to our daily dose of the Sticky.
Oh, we love you too!
And hope you stick around for a while yet :)
Congrats! It's been a pleasure. Thanks for sharing your life with us. :)
Woot woot~! congrats buddy!
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