I've been blogging here at JU for 2 years today.  Coincidentally, this is my nine hindred and ninety-ninth article.

Almost a thousand articles.  Wow. That's a lot of ado about nothing, huh?  Sure, there have been some decent articles in there, but like that dietary information on some of the stuff you buy at the store says, 75% of it has been filler.

2 years is a long time too.  When I first started writing, my husband had just gone back to Greenland after 3 weeks leave and I was facing another 7 months alone.  Since then he's come back, we've PCS'd, he's deployed again and has even managed to fit a TDY or two in. 

I was also recovering from a car accident that had happened 3 months prior.  My broken bones were still new enough to ache at night, and my back was giving me hell. Since then I've had surgery to try and fix my back - which failed - and I'm getting used to a different kind of 'normal' than what was 'normal' back when I first set up this blog.

Things have changed here too.  New people come and go....sometimes they stay and make a name for themselves, like LW.  Sometimes they stay for a while, wow us all with their writing then leave unexpectedly, like Mignuna.  Sometimes new people show up, piss us all off, beg for forgiveness, promise they won't do it again, and then promptly turn around and piss people off again and have to be threatened with exile before they can get a handle on themselves... like Lucas.

The one thing that HASN'T changed is the sense of community that's here at JU.  We really do have something special here; none of the other blog sites that I've come across have anything close to the community that we have here.  We've done some spectacular things...we've helped people out with money and clothing and computers and housing when they needed it, we've helped pay people's vet bills for them, we've seen births and deaths and marriages and engagements and deployments and reunions and everything that life has to offer.  Who would've thought that a bunch of people from all over the world would be able to come together in cyberspace and achieve remarkable things together? 

Wow.  Two years.  Here's to many more....cheers, JU.