Oh my gosh! I can't believe that I started this blog exactly one year ago today. April 28th, 2020. Last year might have been a dumpster fire, but even though it was a big pain for all of us, at the same time I posted 54 blogs, and they are all positive. I don't write and post more because I like to think of my blog like a little snack, and especially for me, if I have the same snack all of the time, everyday, I get tired of it and find a new snack. I don't want to post too much. I have tons and tons of topics I to write still.
My dad was a Sophomore English Teacher for his career, and every time the kids came into his class, they grabbed a notebook, and they have to free write a journal entry, and my dad would post a topic, or they could choose their own, or come up with their own, as long as it was about a single topic, and they didn't stop writing during the fifteen minutes. They were required to write at least half of a page in small print. When he retired, I was helping him clear things about of his old school room, and I found seven papers with nothing but journal entry topics, and I thought that they would make a great blog someday, so I took them.
I have them in a cupboard in my computer desk and workstation. It actually surprised me that I have never had to use them. Things from my own life in the past, or maybe even the present, have all made some great topics. I started out with a list to name thirty songs that had a topic, but everything else is just my life and thoughts, whether good or bad, they came from my experiences and head, so I don't apologize. It's me being honest with myself and honest with all of you. That makes me happy in a weird way.
Although I am honest, it doesn't mean I write and share everything about my life. I promised that my blog would be positive, and I feel like I have accomplished that. If there were a couple with a negative impression, like last year in May, I wrote about the whole George Floyd incident, and how tons of people went out to protest, and how that same day, we sent men into space to test a rocket that will be used to take non-astronaut people into space for a trip. We have science and Technology that is amazing, but I felt that our country took a step forward, and then two back when the protesters were out there. I didn't mean it to be negative. I wanted to share my feelings about that because, A- The rocket launch was so cool and historic, but the protesting was awful because it wasn't peaceful. It was meant to help you, and myself, to discover the good and bad within ourselves. I am proud of the posts that have super cool quotes or thoughts I have to make us all think, how can we be better.
I have loved this blog, and I'm sorry my posts aren't happening more. It is fun to go back and read them to remember what I was thinking. Some of them I even forgot. I wanted to do a new Baseball movie podcast for the Freaking Film Fanatic, but it was way too big for a podcast, and I promised that I would write it, and I still plan to. I have the list saved in the Notepad program. I promise it will happen.
There was another post I wanted to write, but when I noticed my blog was exactly one year old today, I had to write this one. I still might write the other one and post two tonight, but we'll see. If not, tomorrow for sure.
I am grateful and humbled that you all still follow my blog, and I really hope you are all safe and have been getting your vaccinations. It took me forever to get an appointment, but I finally did on Star Wars Day, May the 4th. I'm going at noon, and then May 25th will be when I go back for the most important shot, the second one. If you got your first shot, if it's not the Johnson and Johnson shot, GET YOUR SECOND SHOT!!!!! I know a lot of people who got the first one and don't plan on getting the second. the first one won't work if you don't get the second one. I don't know why it took them so long to let me get my shots. I couldn't schedule any until a week ago. Anyway, I love you all. Thank you for an incredible year, even though the actual year was bad, I hope that you all found some good in the world, and thanks again for visiting my blog.
Nate!
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