this blog is now 3 years old. i started it in january 2006 when it hit me that, sadly, i have a scattered family and 2 children that i rarely see. distance is when you can't have sunday dinners with your family and our lives start to disconnect.
i have made 1175 posts to it so far, in the dark early mornings while most people are still fast asleep. it is quite a diary.
lots and lots of photos, many that made me smile, many wee early mornings spent daydreaming out loud, babbling on and on about nothing and everything that goes on in my life, sometimes ridiculously silly, sometimes very meaningful, spilling my thoughts out about interests, goals and plans i had and still do.. many i never got around to or just plain forgot about, writing and writing and never really knowing what the next day would bring to me or what i'd write about tomorrow...taking pictures, thousands of pictures of anything and everything that fascinated me and rattled my brain, made me smile and basically just recording this ordinary and sometimes not so ordinary life of mine like an open book.
over the course of the past 3 years i've often thought that much of these writings have had far too much of an "it's all about me" attitude, as if i must really think i am something actually worth reading about. well, i don't really know how else you're supposed to write a diary unless you write about yourself. maybe it's a good thing though, i suppose, to have something to talk about and write about and to share... and i've found that writing down all these thoughts does help to clear whatever path you might have.
anyway, 3 years have passed, seemingly rather quickly for some reason and for the most part almost everyday has "quite interesting". life is funny. i still look forward to getting up early every morning...and trying to make the most of the life i have.

these are the days of my life and i feel blessed.