Posted by Lilly in HNT, Navel-Gazing, real life | 27 Comments
The Difference a Year Makes
One year.
286 posts.
2,667 comments.
50 sex toys for review.
106 blogs in my feed reader.
111 people that I follow in Twitter.
247 people that follow me in Twitter.*
131,400 visits and 276,300 page views
Countless wonderful people that I have emailed, IM’d, @’d, some I have met and called…..some particular ones have made this all the best year ever. I met R because of this blog and in fact it’s been about a year coming up that I’ve known him. Coy Pink, BadBadGirl, Naughty Secretary and R are all people I speak to daily or weekly. Still others I communicate with nearly daily through Twitter. Just about every single one of those people over there in my sidebar are people I most definitely call “friend”. I am rich with friendships. I am blessed.
On June 15th, 2008, I read my first sex blog. It appealed to me on so many levels and I thought “I wonder if I can do this?” I thought it over for a day, what “angle” I could take, what I could write about.I settled on an exhibitionistic/voyeuristic slant and jumped in with both feet. I had so much to say and I had to force myself to not post all at once! The first two real posts came out on the same day, the 17th.
At that point my exposure to blogs was still limited and I hadn’t read more than a half dozen. As I read more blogs, I expanded my own writing. I joined in HNT pretty quick – I was pointed in that direction by a few people on a certain social site who led me to believe it was a sex blogger thing, for sexy risque photos. I later learned that that’s not accurate.
I have bared a lot here, in writings and confessionals and photos. I have had fun. There have been a few heartaches but it’s been mostly filled with wonderfulness. Yes, I’m getting kinda sentimental here; I looked back at the early posts and comments and I smiled. There’s a few faithful readers that I miss. I’ve had a few screw-ups and a few loses but I’ve gained so much more. Dare I say….I’ve changed. For the better, definitely.
It’s all been….priceless. It’s more than a blog to me now. I won’t be going anywhere anytime soon because I just can’t imagine walking away from the community and the friends.
Thank you…
Edit: I forgot to add another set of numbers that I actually really proud of. I’ve gotten the Sugasm Top 3 pick 7 times now, and Fleshbotted 7 times. A Sugasm Editor’s pick and a couple nods from Sexoteric round it out. It’s really the Sugasm picks that mean the most though because my peers voted on it.
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You can also consider this my HNT post, just early. Since when do I follow rules, right? ;)
A worktime bathroom request shot that I thought I’d share…
* I’d likely have over 700 but my updates are protected and I become a suspicious grumpy old (wo)man when it comes to people I don’t know following me on Twitter so I decline a lot.
Congrats on a year! Happy blogoversary! ^_^
You are one of several that I am glad to have met online.
~ Aww thank you, I feel the same!
right on, happy blogoversary. I am very happy to have found you. I started only a few months after you and discovered sex blogs (Sugarbutch) at about the same time. Wow, time flies, huh?
keep it up, hotstuff
~Time DOES fly. It doesn’t seem like a year. Thanks :)
Damn, that is a LOT of posts in one year! Congrats!
~ it is??? I know I started dying down after a few months. I know of people with way more, lol. But then again, I’ve been accused of being wordy once or twice :)
No, thank you!
Happy blogoversary!
Oh, I forgot…
For the technical help you’ve given me on occasion, I could have sworn that you were blogging for longer than that!
~ Nope, just a major geekette ;)
Happy Anniversary, and great pic….
Happy blogoversary
Love, love, love the HNT!! Happy blog anniversary Lilly!
Happy anniversary gorgeous.
~ thank you sweetheart *hugs*
THAT’s the way to celebrate one’s blogoversary!
Happy blogoversary and early HNT! Yours was one of the first blogs I started reading when I began my own sex blogging journey, and I have been following you-and enjoying your pics & writings-ever since. :-)
Jade
~ awesome and thank you :) it’s very surreal to think that I’m in the position for other new bloggers that veterans were for me a year ago.
b/a/y—checking your blog often makes my day complete, and i’m proud and pleased to be a sidebar person
~ oh geez thank you, that makes me smile :)
Congrats baby girl. I would tell you to come over to my site because I linked to you regarding your blogoversary…but you already did…so nanana and ((hugs))…
~ hugs back at ya, wonderful lady :)
Happy Blogaversary!
HHNT!
Congrats on the blogaversary! And YUMMY pic Love…..you have fabulous boobs! xo
Yay for you and your blog! Your blog was one of the first that I read when I discovered sex blogs. I thought then, as I do now, that you are super sexy and sassy. I’m proud now to call you my friend. You are a beautiful person! Keep up the amazing work on the blog. You inspire me!
~ When you first told me you read mine before you started yours I was so surprised cuz you never commented, never said anything. In fact. -I- had to find -you- on HNT!!! You sneaky little minx. Love ya hon!
Awww Happy Blogoversary sweet girl!
That is a wickedly impressive set of stats there and something to be very proud of. I for one am grateful you joined the blogging world. This is one of my favie sites to visit. Like you the people I have on my sidebar are special. And damn you can write well!
And the HNT … daaaaamn you haz sexy beewbies.
~ awww thank you! I’m always still shocked and all whenever I see anybody linking to me. It’s still weird.
Happy Blogoversary!
I appreciate the little advice you’ve offered me before and I think you’re definitely a kick ass chick. Some of the things you have written have inspired me and plenty of other things have made me think and made me laugh as well. I’m glad I found your blog and I’m happy you’ll continue to share with all of us.
And happy HNT! What a great shot of your awesome cleavage. ;)
~ Thanks chica :) I’m no expert but I give help wherever I can.
A year’s worth of consistently solid writing from a very pretty lady
Congratulations on your achievements. You have every reason to be proud of yourslf, your accomplishments and those magnificent tits! :)
Lucky “R”, Lucky “R”
~ Thank you. I’m not sure I’d say R is lucky though, lol, he deals with a lot of crap from me.
:) Yay for a year, here’s to another one! Cheers!
~ I finally feel “real” now in the realm of bloggers :)
Congrats! I really appreciate your frankness, along with the fact that some of your kinks align quite nicely with mine :)
And that pic?? Oh my! I could very happily lose myself on those bountiful mounds of soft creamy goodness. (and I can still hear the sound of your moans… thanks for that too!)
~ I like it, quite a lot in fact, that I’ve got this medium of no sugar-coating, no bullshit. It’s awesomely freeing.
Whew. You had me worried there for a second. You better not stop blogging. I’ll find you . . . and growl at you. Menacingly.
~ *giggles* That’s, at once, funny and somewhat arousing.
Awesome girl. Happy blogaversery!
Don’t thank us, thank you for keeping us aroused for a year and the boobie pics too!!!!
Wow, that’s a lot for such a short time. Way to go.
~ I know, isn’t it? I’m kinda chuffed about all that.
Congrats. I haven’t been reading long but I really enjoy your posts.
~ Why thank you! I hope you stick around!
Best wishes to you and thanks for all that you have shared; we all enjoy it soooo much!
~ That’s nice to hear; and hey stranger, haven’t heard from you in a bit!
~ Also….that’s 4 pink avatars in a row. I don’t know why that tickles me.
Happy Blogiversary doll! Those are great stats and I’m with you on the friendships, it’s a great community and so much fun to be a part of it. I like that you have noticed your growth over the year. I, too feel the same way, that I have grown tremendously through my writing. And I am with you on the screw ups! Takes those sometimes to learn valuable lessons, doesn’t it?
Congratulations!!
xo~Sadie
~ agreed. you don’t learn till you get burned. and sometimes…..even then it takes numerous burns.