Blogiversary ~ twelve years

Nancy bought this cake for her twelfth blogiversary in June, and I saved the picture to use today.  I've been blogging since January 30, 2007.  Sometimes I've even managed to post about it on the right date.

• 2007 ... My first post was about Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake.
• 2008 ... Missed my "end of January" blogiversary by a day.
• 2009 ... Completely missed the day because I was sick.
• 2010 ... Nailed the day with a blogiversary post.
• 2011 ... Went to church and remembered my blogiversary.
• 2012 ... Scheduled post for "1:30 AM" to match the 1-30 date.
• 2013 ... Forgot it again, maybe because I was healing from this.
• 2014 ... Remembered on my seventh blogiversary
• 2015 ... and on my eighth blogiversary.
• 2016 ... Nothing.  On 2-2-16 I posted about hippos and children.
• 2017 ... Remembered my tenth blogiversary, an important year.
• 2018 ... Posted TWOsday without once thinking "blogiversary."
• 2019 ... Today's post was scheduled back on Nancy's blogiversary.

And that, dear hearts, is how I managed to post on the right day this year.  I planned ahead, way ahead, months ahead.  And once again, I scheduled it to post at 1:30 AM to coincide with the 1-30 date.  Having composed this in early June of last year, I have no idea what will be happening on this date more than seven months later.  We shall see.

To blog or not to blog, that is the question.

In my case, blogging is more like:

I blog, therefore I am.

Does that sound familiar?  The "comments" part of this cartoon is only correct for social media like Facebook and Twitter.  I have found comments from other book bloggers to be mostly positive.