Blogging Anniversary...

Thanks to all for the inquiries and well wishes concerning my health. I am feeling much better than earlier in the week; however, I have a nasty sounding cough and large amounts of mucous still coming from my nasal passages. At least I am not running a fever, something which makes everyone feel very poorly.

A Special Thanks goes to "My Neighbor Sue", who fixed dinner for me the other night and brought it over from across the street.

*God Bless You, Sue!*


I am truly blessed.


After a week of being either at work or in bed...


Last evening I was prepared to get caught up on my blogging friends' posts and make my 411th post of the last 365 days.

However...

A veterinarian from a practice in a neighboring city called requesting an emergency ultrasound last night. So I went back to work and got home at about 2am this morning.

I was tired... midnight had passed...

So I went to bed.


The desire to celebrate had been drained from me.


Yesterday was the First Year Anniversary of my very first blogging post, Intestinal Foreign Bodies...


While exploring the blogging community I have made some awesome friends and learned a lot of things.

There's quite a bit to know about internet self-publishing, and I have found that I run short on time on trying to learn the tricks of the trade.

A few things I would like to know, if anyone is so inclined to share, is how do you get colored text into your posts and how do you make those lines through your words? Or how about those colored boxes with text inside of them?


Is there a free online school for this stuff?

How do you figure it all out?


I have finally mastered italics and bold, but I'm afraid that's the main extent of my HTML prowess.

Well...

I did discover blockquotes recently.

It was a while before I discovered that you could "see" who was stopping by your blog as well as "how they were getting there".

Intrigued by my *Sitemeter*, I believe that I spend more time looking at it than I do my own blog.

~laugh~

While it was some time before I got the site counter 'installed', I still feel that I would probably be short of 10,000 visits for my first year of blogging even it had been on my blog from "Day One".


As of midnight last night, I have had 9,336 visits.


Believe me guys when I say from the heart,

Thank you so much for your patronage and friendship!

So far, blogging has been a great hobby for me...

And it's cheaper than buying gas.


And no...

I'm not addicted.


later...