Reflections From The Pond

Today I celebrate my second blogging anniversary.

I have been blogging about WoW for two years! Two years!

I can’t really believe that, it seems to have passed so quickly. And somehow, so much has happened during these years. I’ve had so much fun and the odd piece of heartache and pain as well, and this blog has served me well throughout it all as an outlet for my feelings and my wandering interests in the WoW world.

The Blog

My first post was spawned after having read on WoWInsider about druid blogger, BigBearButt was there and Phaelia and some others I sadly can’t remember anymore. I liked reading their posts and I though, hey, I want to blog too!

I spent some time thinking about a good name, and finally I settled on Reflections From The Pond.

I started out at Blogspot, and I had been blogging there for almost a year to the day, when something horrible happened. The horribleness was sorted eventually, but the entire thing had seriously dented my faith in Blogspot, and in January 2009 I moved to this self-hosted Wordpress site, where I have been hanging out since.

My focus for the blog is and have always been the World of Warcraft, but often I found fiddling with the blog’s appearance and different widgets as fun as actually playing, so I have actually learned a bit about html and php without actually intending too.

In these two years I have published 163 posts (164 with this one), and I have 79 drafts not yet published. Some of those are unpublished because I lost interest for the topic, some because I ended up rambling in circles and not getting anything said, some are unposted because I wrote them when I was seriously upset but calmed down during the writing and left them in the drafts drawer because they were mean or evil or plain down whining.

The posts have spanned a variety of subjects, from detailed class reviews to macro and addons guides to more general silliness and tearful drama, and I have not yet managed to stick to a publishing schedule of any kind.

My favourite post are the silly ones, like  Star Wars Spirit of Redemption and Where does the druid’s gear go? and Mae WoW, or the slightly wistful ones like Through the Dark Portal or Life After WoW.

The most popular one, or at least the one with most hits, is the one about Vareesa’s Copper Coin, which also was a fun one to research and write (which reminds me, I still have a few posts left to do in that coin series – might get an energy injection for that now that my shammy’s levelling fishing).

All in all, it has been a long strange trip for me these last two years, and I plan to reminisce a little about this and what has made the journey worthwile in a few coming posts, but for now I will just say:

Happy Second Anniversary Blog!

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