Today is my third anniversary here at JU (thanks to 'miah for reminding me; I have a 103 degree fever so I'm not really coherent right now.  I'm not going to work today; I'm not risking infecting my patients with what I think is the 'flu.  That could be a disaster).

Three years ago today, I was searching the 'net, looking for a place to start up a knitting blog.  I Googled 'free blog sites' and the first place that showed up was JU.  I liked the layout, I liked the community, so I started a blog here.  I was living alone at the time; Dave was in  Greenland finishing up a year long tour.  He'd just gone back, actually - he'd been home for 3 weeks on mid-tour leave - and I was incredibly lonely.  So, I blogged about it, and it just kind of took off.

Here I am, three years and 1249 articles later (this is the 1250th article).  I'm not as enthusiastic as I once was, but I still like to blog here.  It's the community that I love, and it's the community that keeps me coming back.  I've 'met' people from all walks of life, I've argued with some and fallen in love with others; I've helped people out, I've knitted things for people I've never met in person and who I may never GET to meet; I've been on the recieving end of that help and it's all been a wonderful, diverse, exciting time.

Happy 3rd Anniversary, JU.  May we have many more years together.