Today is my blog’s one year anniversary! Happy Anniversary Obsolescence Project!
Mamiya featured in Day 22
If you read this blog regularly, you will know I am slightly disappointed with myself for not reaching 365 Object Posts (ie: on topic posts about obsolescing things with photographs) in 365 days, but that due to various things – a freaky ocular migraine, being run down, and a headache that won’t go away, plus some good news (!), I had to quell my inner tally tyrant and let that goal go.
I will oblige it and eventually do a thorough accounting of posts – as I made some errors – ie: certain Days got the same # due to sloppiness. But WordPress does show that I’ve published 359 posts in 365 days, so in all I’m only short by a few posts. In terms of OP Object Posts, I’m short by ~13 (to be verified).
I started this blog with the goal of 30 posts in 30 days. That blew by in no time. And I then decided to go on until I ran out of objects. With the exception of the purchase of some 8-track cassette tapes and one photographic flash gun, I did not purchase any “new” things for the blog (promised Mr OP) and I still haven’t run out of things! So the posting goal was switched to 365.
I will get there, just not today.
On another note… one of the reasons I missed out on 4, that’s FOUR, consecutive days of posting…..
I got married to Mr. OP in Vegas 12 days ago!
We eloped essentially, although we had 5 days of pre-planning. I plan to also do another OT post about getting married in Vegas, but I’ve promised myself to keep off the box as much as possible until this eye/headache thing goes away, so I’m keeping it short.
We found a sweet little chapel and had 2 friends as witnesses, who didn’t know we were getting married. We arrived on Saturday night at 11pm and surprised them with the news.
We drove out (in a limo!) to Red Rock Valley after the ceremony. Stunning.
Mr. OP and I have lived together for over 10 years, so it’s not like it’s that new, and yet in fact, it’s very special, and different to be married.
Cheers!
p.s. I have really super curly hair, but straightened it for the occasion. It being the desert, the effect lasted longer than the usual 20 minutes! (I live in the “rainforest” aka Vancouver – so make that 10 minutes).
What a lovely post! Huge congratulations – to my mind this is the absolute best way to get married – much happiness to you both. And congrats on the blogaversary – I hope you carry on for at least another year, I love coming here!
Thanks Cath! It was a fun way to get married. I have phase II in mind, but right now the focus is on the finish line – 5 more posts! 🙂
Woohoo! Congratulations!! 😀
Congrats to you both! What a perfectly lovely excuse for not indulging the post-tally-beast!! Me & Mine got hitched after several years together too – and you’re right, it is a lovely, special transition.
Thanks Sydney. It was a decent enough excuse:) Nice to hear of your transition as well. Cheers
Congratulations! Lovely post. 🙂
Thanks Ashley!
Wow, lots of congratulations on your wedding and your one year of blogging, how exciting!!!
Thanks so much Jen!
Best. Post. Ever.
Congratulations Deanne (and Mr O.P.)! What a lovely little story about your wedding—so nice to share that. Next I guess we can expect a photo of some ‘singledom’ obsolescence. Something with ‘Miss…’ in the title? 🙂
Thanks Ben! Singledom obsolescence – cute:)
Congratulations! How brilliant! You make such a cool couple – and what a great way to get hitched. Ace! 🙂
Thanks Richard! It was great:) Cheers
awesome!
Thanks John!
congratulations to both of you!
i can see you both look a little surprised that you got married 😉
Thanks Inge! Surprised – I suppose we were:)
Congratulations to the both of you. Nice to see some pictures. All my best, FM
Thanks FM. Yes, I enjoy seeing pix of other bloggers too – then they are less “imaginary friends”:)
I have put a picture up once or twice, but blink and you missed it. I’m much more imaginary again now.
🙂 And you’ve got the moniker too – so a double anonymity. Back in the day I used to blog anonymously, (and do art projects that way too – but then I missed out on all the fame and fortune!);)
But, seriously you are a very good writer (by profession I’m thinking?) so do you ever show your blog as portfolio -or you have different material for that.
Yes I use anonymity as I write about really personal stuff some times and so it’s the only way I can try and control how most the people I know don’t see it. Those I have told don’t seem that interested anyway. No fame, nor fortune, not through this blog.
Thank you for your compliment, but you’re not quite right. I am a “failed scientist” after studying for years to become a doctor (of chemistry), but then life in the real world was boring and the jobs were awful. I quit that job to become the writer, which I had been working on for a number of years in my spare time. It’s no profession yet (still) and have had some small knock-backs but then I wrote my own 8 part series for TV from scratch and tried to get a local TV company interested. They weren’t, but to be fair it’s not really their sort of thing. So now I’m left with a series that I don’t know if it’s good or not, and most TV companies won’t accept submissions, but I’ve not panicked and have started work on a new, more serious (even less frivolous), short series about, well, the end of the world. Shhh! I’m quite excited about that. In my own opinion I am getting better all the time. And that’s why I am also a “failing writer”.
And so my “portfolio” (not that I really have one) are all scripts (with a couple of short films on DVD), but some of the stuff I blog about I wanted to get down, as a sort of autobiography (which sounds silly, I know), so that stuff is preserved for my kids… which I don’t have. And that’s why I blog, although I would be interested in writing that sort of stuff professionally, but as I’ve found getting any sort of writing gig is just hard work.
Complex! Good to hear about the new work. I hear you – getting gigs is hard work, in the creative field. Onwards!
Congratulations on your marriage, and happy blogoversary! I hope you never run out of obsolete objects, or up to date love. 🙂
Thank you Sandra! That is a very sweet and cleverly said sentiment. Cheers