Okay, I know it's only been weeks (lol) since I last posted but to me, it feels like it's been months. Looking at my blog archive since January this year, I realize how distant I've become. A quarter of the year is over and I realize all I've been posting about have been centered on the events I've gone to, unsolicited advice on how to live your lives, and everything remotely me. It might surprise you, but OhPenda dot Com is a personal blog (that's why I have all the good reasons to get worked up that my posts are becoming less and less narcissistic). My blog feels foreign to me, and although I've had positive feedback about this "new direction the blog is going", I choose to ignore that because this blog is not meant for your happiness, but for mine (so bushwhacks! Oh wait, I typed in muahahaha but it got auto corrected to bushwhacks -- what on earth?) Plus more people have said that they've missed my [alleged] deadpan writing than the other category (nursing has robbed me off my wordplay).
So now, after over eight months deprived of any egotistical writing, I return with a self-indulgent post as per your nonrequest!
Let's start with a game I like to call "In the span of 8 months..."
In the span of 8 months, I managed to get my blog in a Helsinki-based online school paper.
Before I got kicked out off the HerCampus network (because I didnt comply with the monthly Google Analytics reporting), I met several friends and one of those is this wonderful Finnish girl Laura who was looking for bloggers who earn from their blog. She wrote an article about it an yay, you know what happens.
In the span of 8 months, I managed to read only 10 novels.
And I only set 40 as my goodreads goal this year. To say that I'm despicable is a huge understatement.
In the span of 8 months, I managed to involve in Missionary work.
So I went to a nearby town, by no means was it Bangladesh or Kazakhstan, but it was really great. Helped me grow as a Christian and experience things that I've only ever heard about. Definitely stuff to tell the kiddos when I have them someday.
In the span of 8 months, I managed to get contacted by a PR group to do a campaign with a national (they have international counterparts as well) brand.
Although it wasn't pushed through because of internal reasons, I was really flattered to have been considered. I did kind of choke on my spit when we negotiated terms (aka $$$) though. UPDATE THOUGH! I'm collaborating with another national brand this October, I'll be helping them with a campaign and they'll be helping me with my bills (aka mobile phone bills).
In the span of 8 months, I think I might have harmed 0 mosquitoes.
No, I'm not turning into a radical animal rights activist. I've found absolutely no fly or mosquito to kill this year and I'm not sure if the mosquitoes are massacring each other or if I've committed a homicide, unbeknownst to myself. And no, my deep, crazy, tortured artist friends, mosquito isn't metaphor for anything.
In the span of 8 months, this blog managed to get nominated for a local newspaper's blog awards (in the LIFESTYLE category)
I just received an email from a Gold Star person last month (or was it two months ago?), informing me of the news. They do me a great honor! But perhaps this is what precipitated this post in the first place. With a sudden jolt to the head, I realize that my more recent readers have come to associate this blog as a lifestyle blog slash (mostly) food blog. I StumbledUpon (not the social medium) a very interesting personal blog (mimi smarypants) and was suddenly nostalgic about my over-sharing days. Sigh.
In the span of 8 months, I've decided to go Southern belle on everyone and obsess over Country music. Yes, folks. I said it to your metropolitan faces, I wanna be a cowgirl and marry a good Christian guy who makes that bacon roll by roll. For the whole month of August, I've been countrilizing (the process of making everything Country) every singable tune, getting in touch with my hillbilly bone and educating myself in the art of honky tonk, yeehaw and drawl. My playlist include tunes from Randy Travis, Chris Young, Miranda Lambert et Blake Shelton, Scotty McCreery and Josh Turner.
In the span of 8 months, I managed to get myself hooked to a catchy song by teenaged boys.
This year, I regret to inform everyone that I've officially retired from my previous post as a teenager (I can't say I hadn't seen it coming), but there's something about a "plane ticket and a shiny diamond ring" with my name on it that that I can't refuse. This, however, happened only in the span of 8 days.
So 8 things in the span of 8 months so far. I'm tempted to add another one to make it nine but the compulsion is too strong. IT MUST BE PARALLEL. ORDER. ORDER!
Well, we've finally come to a point where I pretend to care about what you think about the current state of my blog. So! Should I continue talking about everything under the sun or about everything under the sun that's under my head? Which would probably mean they'll be less under the sun as my head can get, but you know what I mean! (If you don't, then reread!)
Lol, seriously though. What cha think?
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