1000
Today's post kind of snuck up on me. I think it's a pretty big milestone for me. It's my 1000th blog post. Ten to the power of three. A cool grand. My own millenium.
I've never really celebrated any of my "blogoversaries", in truth, this is because I don't really know when to mark the beginning. My very first post was on August 24, 2002, inspired by Julie who had told me about these interesting new knitting blogs. I've always liked the idea of having a journal, but I wasn't sure what to do with a journal that got published in a public place. Like most people's first post there's not much useful in it. I had just set up my Blogger account, and that first post was mostly one of those Testing.... testing... 1...2...3... things. I didn't make another post until the beginning of October, when I finally decided that I was going to talk about both bioinformatics and knitting. Needless to say, the bioinformatics didn't stick around very long, though, of course, my blog name "The Keyboard Biologist" which is completely derivative of my corporate life, stayed in place. I guess it was my way of saying "look out! crafty scientist in the house!"
But reaching 1000 posts, no matter when I started the process, is something easily defined. 1000 posts in 4.5 years -- it surprises even me to think that I've come up with over two hundred posts a year since I started blogging. I "went daily" sometime in 2003 after being inspired by bloggers like Wendy and Bonne Marie. I loved how every morning with my coffee I could open up their webpages and find something new to start the day with. Posting daily was a real jolt to my own creativity and inspired me to do and try new things. This blog started as mostly knitting with the occasional paper craft. Since then I've tried spinning, dyeing, sewing, braiding, tatting, crochet, quilting and even a little bit of rubber stamping, not to mention playing around with HTML and digital photography and some pattern publication. I've knit more socks than I ever imagined were possible, I have a veritable wardrobe of handknit sweaters and tops, and I can't almost even believe that I am about to embark on an unspun fiber to sweater kind of project. In 2002 I would have identified myself as a "geek girl", now I think of myself as a "crafty girl" -- even though I'm probably getting too perilously close to 40 to really be in the girl category much at all.
What's a little funny about the whole thing is that when I started, I was almost always convinced that I would get bored and give it up or just simply run out of things to say. Even though I love to write and love to journal, I figured that there could only possibly be a finite amount I could say about knitting or other crafting projects, and that people would just get bored with hearing my voice. Instead, 1000 posts later, I find myself wondering how I could ever stop doing it. I love going out on my balcony to take pictures of my latest project. I love talking about some "new to me" discovery that fascinated me for an afternoon. I love connecting with people from all over the world who talk to me through comments and email. I love learning from other people who inhabit the community. I love blogging -- it just makes me happy to see my words on electronic paper, to read the comments I get. To know that I might be someone that other people share their morning coffee with. I don't know if I'll always be daily or I'll always be talking about crafts, but I suspect that I will always be blogging.
From my desk to yours, a round a virtual lattes from the Keyboard Biologist to all of you who stop by my little corner of the internet every now and again. Thank you to everyone who has made this a worthwhile and lasting experience. I'm looking forward to seeing where the next 1000 posts take me.
Congratulations on your milestone!
Thank you too, for the lovely way you write and the great detail you go into. Your blog is one that I check daily, so I know what you mean. Thank you for the latte, too - it was most welcome.
I just noticed the time on my last comment - it's actually 8.41 pm on Thursday here in the great land down under (well, 8.43 now).
How can you ever run out of things to say as long as there are sheep (silkworms, camels, yak....) Knitters never tire of looking at yarn, talking about yarn, looking at other people's work. There will always be something different to knit or spin and you can never, ever have too many socks.
Congratulations crafty girl and thank you! Reading your blog is something I look forward to with my morning coffee. I truly enjoy reading about & seeing your knitting, spinning, quilting, thoughts, and your father's woodwork. Thanks for sharing!
Well done and congratulations. I look forward to your words each day.
Congratulations Theresa, here's to a thousand more
WOOHOO! Congratulations! I tip my cup of morning coffee to your accomplishment :)
Congratulations on making this milestone, Teresa. Your blog is one of the things *I* look forward to reading in the morning.
Keep up the good work. Have a great day and thanks for the latte. :-)
Congratulations on your milestone. I have learned so much from your posts. I, too, am looking forward to the next 1000.
I do drink my coffee with you every morning. Cheers!
Congratulations. :)
Wow, congrats on your milleieum :-)
You are so right about not running out of things to say. I thought I would be the same, but as soon as I open up the blogg my fiongers just seem to type:-)
Wow, congrats on your milleieum :-)
You are so right about not running out of things to say. I thought I would be the same, but as soon as I open up the blog my fingers just seem to type:-)
Happy 1K, Theresa. Here's to many more. (Mmm. Thanks for the latte.)
It's true about blogging and so many things -- the more you do it, the better it gets. I know I can't wait for the next day to come to see what the world offers me by way of cheers, tears, laughs, and infinite inspiration.
Thanks for sharing and allowing me to be part of your world.
Congratulations on your 1000th post!
Happy 1000th post! Thanks for the virtual latte and for sharing your knitting and life adventures.
Congratulations! I too, am lifting my coffee to you. Thank you for being a regular part of my morning.
1000! That's amazing! I'll add my thanks to others for adding to my morning coffee routine. ;-) Congratulations!
Here's to the next 1000! Thank you!
Raising my cup of coffee to you. Congratulations on the milestone, and thank you for helping start my days wiht a pleasant and creative beginning!
Cheers! And I do love me a latte...
Thanks for the latte, congrats!
congrats! thanks for sharing with us!
Congratz! I've enjoyed reading your blog and thanks for the latte.
congratulations! i've enjoyed your blog for a few months now, going back and reading older posts and keeping you filed neatly in my bloglines. thanks for having a such a great voice and being a spot of inspiration to me as i begin my knitting life.
COngratulations and thanks for the latte--low cal! Yours is one of the first blogs I started reading, I have always enjoyed it and was glad to find other knitting science people!
Happy 10^3! Thanks for sharing the past 999 posts. And the latte. Can't wait to see more quilting....
Congrats, I am finding the same thing myself, I started blogging in Oct & while I don't get many comments, new challenges have come through having the website & blog (invites to craft & art shows etc) & I'm finding them inspiring and fun. Thank you for being an inspiration. I'm off to starbucks to grab a latte to take on the school field trip!
Congrats!
I've recently started blogging and, like you, find it gives my creativity a kick in the pants in the morning. Thanks for being part of my inspiration!
Happy 1000! And thanks for sharing your crafty adventures with the rest of us.
Congrats! One thousand posts does seem like a pretty wild milestone indeed!
And may I just say - that is a pretty pretty latte there. :)
Congratulations! And thanks for the latte. I may just have to go get me a real one now...
Oh, hey - did I tell you I'm taking a woodworking class? (I had to find alternative methods to learn since your Dad said no to the adoption. Pity that) Starts next Thursday. Really basic I'm guessing, but I've got to start somewhere.
Congratulations, Theresa! Gosh, your blog was the first I ever read, so I am so glad that you are sticking around for the long haul. You are one of the addresses on my Bloglines that I will never delete! Have a happy blogiversary!
Thanks for sharing your writing, knitting, spinning, and all of the other crafty things you do with us. I enjoy having this little corner of the internet to come to every couple of days with my cup of coffee.
I am really interested in exploring this topic you raised today further about what makes blogging so fulfilling in a creative sense to those of you who do it. I have been reading knitting and spinning blogs for over four years now, and as a Professor of English, I find them to really be very similar to the kind of writing and discussion that I remember from my graduate school days. Your post today confirmed some of the theories I have had about this subject. I also think that readers like me get the same sense of satisfaction from reading your posts and commenting upon them as we might get from engaging in the types of discussions that take place in a post-graduate setting.
Congrats on your 1000th post! I just started blogging so I can appreciate everything you described. It helps to keep me motivated to create things so I can share them with the world (or at least as much of the world who wanders by my little blog :P)
Enjoy your latte!
Wow! That IS a milestone! I've enjoyed reading your blog and learned A LOT from your about spinning and yarn structure, not to mention homebrew! Thanks!
Thanks for the coffee. And I enjoy reading your posts as much as it sounds like you enjoy writing them.
Congratulations on your big 1000! Hope you enjoyed your latte while I'm sitting here with my mocha before heading out for lunch with a couple of knitters.
Congrats! I'm a regular reader of your blog and enjoy it very much!
1000 is quite an accomplishment and i couldn't agree more with the points you make.
there is something about posting that not only inspires one to try new things, but to follow through with one's intentions (i.e. (put your money where your mouth is), which, left unsaid, would likely never be realized.
the knitters of the online [and otherwise] world are amazing, kind and interesting people. i look forward to the next 1000 posts!
Congratulations Theresa! 1000 posts is an impressive number!
Oh how inspiring! I was also wondering if I'll ever get bored with blogging, but there is always something to talk about and there is always something to knit;)
Congratulations!
Congratulations! That looks like one yummy latte, and there's Heartbreaker just below it looking yummy as well. Good job.
1000 posts = fun times for all. The world is a better place because of the nice things people do. Thank you for the thoughts you share.
Tiffanie
p.s. I love your origami boxes. I have the same book. What a small world we live in.
Congradulations!!
Looking forward to the next 1000 blog entries.
Happy millenium! I love checking in with you every day, you're always up to something fun. I also love the links you provide. They're wonderful. I'm hoping to order some of those luxury sock batts, and maybe something from Crown Mountain... yum! Hoisting a coffee cup back atcha...
I will have Hot Chocolate with you and congrats!
I'll take this milestone as an occasion to delurk and say I really enjoy reading your blog. Thank you for taking the time to share. As a new spindle spinner, your journey into spinning is very inspiring to me.
Congratulations! I love to read your blog. It was one of my first. And I have to tell you that it inspired me to start one of my own. Thanks for sharing with us!
Congratulations and thanks for everything! Including the yummy looking latte.
Happy 1000th, Theresa!
I don't usually comment, but I wanted to say congratulations and that I love your blog. (I like to think of myself as a crafty geek girl too.) =)
And thanks for the latte - not just for the latte but also for the lovely origami boxes in the background. If they're from the book I think they're from (Origami boxes by Tomoko Fuse), that's the book that I received as a gift way back when in high school and that kicked off a serious origami addiction for a few years. Hmm, now I feel the need to dig out my origami books and fold up a couple of those boxes! (The triangle one was always my favorite.)
Thanks so much for sharing a bit of yourself with us. We are richer for it. Happy 1,000, Crafty Girl!
I'm not one for coffee (does that make me strange?) but I do sit with a glass of water as I read. I love your blog and look forward to seeing what you're up to every day. I've been inspired by your projects. And even though I don't do a lot of the crafts that you do, I enjoy reading what you have to say about them. Your writing is always so clear and your photographs are gorgeous. Congratulations on the milestone and here's to the next 1000! :)
I found your blog way back when I was embarking on knitting the Lavold vest that was in Knitter's magazine. I was simply looking for others who had made it, to see if there were any issues. What impressed me was the level of detail you included in your posts about making the vest, all the way through the blocking of it. Your documenting that vest made making mine easier, and the amount of detail in each of your posts is what makes me stop by just about every day (I suspect it has to do with your "geek girl" characteristics, and I can relate... someone described me as "not a high-level type of person," which I took as a compliment--I am detail-oriented and driven, and proud of it!)
So, thank you for the thoughtful, useful, detailed blog!
I do enjoy your posts each day. Though I've only been reading since June or so. The fact that you can find a post each day inspires me so, but I never feel as though I have enough to say. I think I should take your lead and stretch my creative boundaries.
Thanks for all the inspiration over the last 2 years I have been reading your blog. You inspired my re-introduction to knitting after a 20 year lapse. I feel lucky to "know" someone with so much joie de vivre. By the way, how did you make that latte?
congratulations on your 1000 posts!
Thank YOU for making this such a terrific place to come by and visit.
*klink* :o)
congrats! and thanks for the virual latte!
i am glad i found your blog and have continued coming here for your great entries and pictures!
Spinner, Knitter, biologist, it's like we are karmically connected! heehee!
again, Congrats! :o)
Congrats on the post milestone and best wishes for thousands more.
I'm delurking to thank you for your 1000 inspirational posts (so far)! Even an obscure rural Canadian like me can feel like part of "the group" by reading your blog. It takes a special kind of person to share with so many diverse people like your readers, and to captivate them so thoroughly! Thanks for helping to make the knitting world a better place!
Yum! Thanks for the virtual latte. And congratulations on your 1000th post, and for being a blogger for so long! I'm in the technology field and only started this year.
Yours was one of the first blog I ever read - it used to make me crazy when you missed a day :)
Congrats on your milestone and thanks for all you share Theresa!
Congratulations, from one "crafty scientist" to another!
Congratulations on your 1000th post and thank you for being an inspiration to me!
Congratulations! I've been enjoying your blog for about a year - looking forward to many more interesting posts!
Happy 1000th! Glad you're here - I appreciate your eye for color and your clear descriptions of the process of your spinning/knitting adventures. Thanks for sharing!
Congratulations on the milestone! Yours is a blog I enjoy reading very much! I wish I had you address to send a bloggiversary gift. ;)
Happy 1000! Being a three-times-a-week blogger, its gonna take me awhile longer to hit that number. You stud, you.
:)
Happy 1000th! I have bookmarked a number of your posts for reference, and always enjoy your blog. I also envy you your Dad!
Happy Millenium. That's huge!!
Congrats on 1000! I enjoy your blog and look forward to many more postings.
Congratulations! I'm always glad to read your posts. I've been inspired several times.
Blog ON! 1000 down a million to go - happy blog-iversary!
Wow!
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing a bit of you life with me. :)
Congratulations! I have enjoyed reading your blog for over a year now. I am looking forward to the next 1000 :)
Merry Millennial Post! Thanks for the coffee. I need it. I've enjoyed reading, and hope to read your next thousand.
You are indeed part of my morning coffee ritual. If you're ever in Ottawa look me up. I owe you one.
Here's to the next 1000 posts, Theresa!
Congratulations, Theresa! You were one of the greatest inspirators for me when I started blogging myself a couple of years ago! I stop by every now and then - and by coincidence just today because I just finished my "let there be dragon socks" and had to make a link to your blog! Happy bloggiversary again and keep on blogging, people around the world enjoy your blog so much!
Congratulations! I also drink my morning coffee while I read your blog, and thanks for all the inspiration! I enjoy seeing all your projects - even if they are things I'm not interested in doing myself. It allows me to me peek a bit into other crafting worlds. Looking forward to the next 1000!
Belatedly - happy milestone! It's always a joy to see where your crafting adventures take you. Thanks for sharing them.
A bit late for coffee but here nonetheless! :)
Happy 1000th post!!
Congratulations! I usually enjoy your blog with my afternoon tea here in Finland. :)
Happy 1000th post!!! I only recently found your blog because I am still relatively new to the blog/knitting world, but I certainly enjoy reading your posts and stepping into your world for a few moments.