I lifted this idea from I once was HP who I found in the comments section of one of Neonatal Doc’s posts:

  1. Daughter #2 is a hypochondriac in the sweetest of ways.
  2. Daughter #1 came home from school today with a notice from the principal of the upper grades announcing the fifth graders would be studing the human body.
  3. My sister-in-law is an immigrant.
  4. This woman is a genius: Bellaband
  5. The dog on the other side of the fence is still there.
  6. I hope to God at the end of her days she was never treated like the Ida in this obstetrician’s recollection of her medical internship.
  7. When we moved to the Front Range the first thing my brother-in-law decided was the kids all needed knives.
  8. I dare you to buy one of these for my Christmas present: Vulva puppets.
  9. I had my first math class today.
  10. The second day of the conference was less intense than Day 1.
  11. It will be really hard for me to come up with a minimum of one post per day for the month of November.
  12. Last week our math instructor told us he would be giving us a test today in the second hour after the first hour of lecture.

Those are the first sentences of the first posts for each month of the year 2006. The dog in #5 is gone, but was quickly replaced with two more dogs who were evicted along with their owners for not paying the rent (rumors). There is a new dog living over there. The homeowner who uses it for income property clearly gives not one shite about the neighborhood.

Today’s Holidailies assignment is to share why you blog. I just noticed there are writing ideas for daily posts on the Holidailies site. Clearly I do not need help when it comes to an invitation to blather on. Now then, I blog because I am a sheep and all the cool kids do it. I blogged before there were official blogs, blog software, and blog servers. Back when the blogosphere was a mere twinkle in the eye of the web. I blogged back when we had to type uphill in the snow both ways using only Notepad and html. None of this php, nonsense. Being the visionary I am, I gave it up in favor of … well nothing. My husband wishes I’d give up everything and be a writer. Of what, I don’t know. I write about nothing and Seinfeld already covered that.

I started this blog in July 2005 right about the time blogging was going out of style and all the BlogAds were purchased (buy one if you want to get in on a good deal; link top left). A friend turned me on to Dooce.com and I read it and laughed out loud and thought… SO? I figured out what Typepad was And started my own blog. Again. I’m a good blogger and making money at it. So far in Google AdSense money, I’ve earned $32.78. FOR THE YEAR. Whew, doggie. I hardly know which bar to spend it in first.