I got my philosphy. (#1000)

The thought that I would make it to one thousand posts on this blog never crossed my mind when I started it almost seven years ago on a music-related whim. I was an avid reader of musician Matthew Good's blog at the time, and he would link to his fans' blogs, so I thought, hmmm, maybe I should start one of these blog things. And now here we are.

My first post was a whole lot of nothing. However, it's funny reading my second post and knowing the future of many of the random things that I mentioned, like:

a) I'm still listening to Kathleen Edwards... and saw her last weekend.

b) The colleague who had the Lululemon bag that I liked is now a really close friend of mine. I barely knew her back then. I still have the bubblegum pink version of that bag, and want to replace it because it's rather godawful, but it's the perfect size for a weekend bag and I use it all the time when I visit my parents. (It'll get used this weekend again.)

c) Apparently I was watching the new American version of The Office at that time. Ironically, I watched a bit of it tonight.

d) I mentioned a ficus plant (Benny) that I owned and eventually killed because it dropped leaves everywhere and I couldn't take it anymore. I haven't owned a plant since.

However, it's really fun to reflect on how even though I'm the same music-loving, sitcom-enjoying person that I was back then, I've definitely grown and changed and done a lot of exciting things over the years.

1000 posts ago, I was a new teacher at my school, who actually just had a temporary contract for that school year. The stars aligned in my favour, and I've been at the same place ever since and have grown a lot in my career. Moreover, I truly do love the students at my school, and have made so many good friends among my colleagues among the way.

1000 posts ago, I hadn't really traveled anywhere. Since then I've been to Australia, Cuba, England, Wales, Ireland, Montreal, New York, Texas, San Francisco, the Maritimes, New York (again), Paris, Scotland, London, Paris (again), Nice, Monaco (for an hour), Italy (for four hours), Cape Cod, Boston, Barcelona, London (again), Chicago, Utah, New York (again), and I'm heading off to Paris (again) in about three weeks. Well done me.

1000 posts ago, I went to shows every now and then. Now I go to tonnes of shows.

1000 posts ago, I lived with a human roommate. Now, I live with a feline roommate in a different apartment one subway stop north of where I used to live.

1000 posts ago, I had a lot of awesome friends. Now, I still have the vast majority of those friends (maybe a couple have drifted off), but I have so many more wonderful friends, many of whom I've met directly from this blog. Yesterday was my birthday, and I got so many nice wishes from my blogger friends. I've met up with many of you guys for coffee, drinks, or dinner, gone to shows with some of you, did SXSW in Austin with one of you, some of you have crashed on my couch and/or floor, I terrified one of you with my driving skills in Vancouver, I've crashed on couches and now guest bedrooms in someone's London flats, and have had awesome MSN/phone/Skype conversations with many of you too. Heck, I sort of kind of met my boyfriend through this blog. (Actually, I would say it was a set of Joel Plaskett concert photos that brought us together initially, but we're both bloggers.) I am so thankful for all of these people that have been brought into my life through this fluffly little blog.

Today I was thinking, oh crap, what am I going to do for my 1000th post, and this song came up on shuffle on my iPod. I think it's a great way to send out a 1000th post.



p.s. My dear blog buddy Claire is going to hit her 1000th post this week too! Isn't that crazy that we've done it around the same time??