How I Started Blogging
Would you believe that I’ve been blogging for 13 years?! You read that right. One. Three. Thirteen years.
Somewhere between eighth and ninth grade I discovered DeadJournal. I would spend hours each night filling my online diary with the happening of the day. Eventually, I discovered LiveJournal, which was the more colorful and less depressing version of DeadJournal, and I made the transition. I wish I could remember my user names to go back and find old posts, but I haven’t the slightest clue, and my forever email address isn’t the used to access the sites.
From LiveJournal, I graduated to my own domain. All the cool kids were doing, so I purchased my own site that I would design the layouts for, complete with a cute little iframe blog. I’d post sporadically. Mostly I was concerned with cool html pages and posting lame graphics. Even back then, I made some pretty good blogging friends. There was no Twitter or Instagram though, so as soon as that page died, the friendships pretty much did too.
Then, in 2012, while John was deployed, I discovered Army Wife 101. I loved what she was doing, and thought maybe I could do the same. I had a few years of experience as a military so why not start a blog to share all my info about being an Army wife. Turns out I don’t know as much as I thought I did. While I do occasionally post military related topics, I tend to focus on my life in general. Although I don’t typically blog about what I set out intending to blog about, I love how this page has shaped itself and the friends that I’ve made in the process.