It is over 4 years since I began exploring myself and my thoughts here on The Couch.
COUCH NOTE: MY BLOGGOVERSARY IS MARCH 16TH...
Tuneage Tutelage posts about music figures and bands like The Doors
Monday Matinees that came from my dark side and others done just for fun
Concert Reviews like the time Nancy and I saw B.B. King
Posts that contained Photography I took/take,
Meeting and Marrying My Love Nancy and the resulting celebration,
Birthday Greetings, and all the rest.
As of today 1,105 posts worth of Vinny.
In the beginning I was Yoursbond, then Bond, then I outed my true identity and Doctor Blogstein christened me Vinny Bond. I have only used one profile picture the entire time. As a matter of fact, one of my newer readers, the open, honest writer TECHNOBABE from "Technobabe's Adventures" even mentioned in one of her first comments that she had seen "the kid photo" around and decided to find her way here...very cool
In the beginning I wrote all my posts without using the word I. I always used the word "WE" as in myself and The Couch.
See, there is another example of something I continue to do. Capitalizing the words The Couch. Have you ever noticed it? I even find myself doing it in emails when talking about The couch (can't help it...my fingers insist on using caps).
Two areas I have avoided at all costs are my ex-marriage and work.
There was a post about work, written the first week I was here in Memphis and at the advice of a very wise man, I deleted it the next day.
I began The Couch while I was still living in NJ and married. I did not have a full-time job and freelanced sporadically. Things were tough. Money was tough. My marriage was tough.
Reviews of American Idol became stream of consciousness rants and posts making fun of celebrities kids names.
The cycle has been like a roller coaster. Readers shoot high up only to fall back down and then swoosh high again.
I have met some incredible people. Some were able to attend the celebration of Nancy and my marriage...more were invited but could not attend.
It has not been all good of course. There are four people I considered friends with whom I no longer have even a passing relationship. Three of them I could tell you the reasons the loss happened, but in the end it did happen. The fourth, well I can't answer that question, and probably never will. One day they turned on me and it was over. It is sad indeed. But as in real life, friends come and go.
We all have friends who do not understand our need to be A BLOGGER.
As I sit here I think of other subjects I could link to, my journey through the interview process and subsequent move to Memphis; some political posts; food posts post introducing new musicians which evolved into Music On The Couch, and more.
One of the problems is I have so many labels. Way more than I ever needed I guess. What about you...do you use the same basic group of labels or do you own a few hundred like me?
And now I have extended the "franchise" by breaking away those main subjects which have been found here since the beginning. You can see the links just below my header...have I done a good job moving everything or being current? Not a chance.
But I have good intentions, and that is a plus, right?
I do know I miss this when I take breaks. I also know there are days my mind refuses to allow me to leave anything of substance here.
I do know that I am a BLOGGER...I love being a BLOGGER and I hope to blog until the very last second I am able (which could mean a post on a weekend, the horrors!.
I do not bill myself as a comic or a philosopher nor will I try and tell you how to raise your kids. You will get some wit, some facts culled from reliable sources, some snarkiness at times and hopefully in the end I have not made you regret the 10 minutes you took out of your day.
Thank you, those who read and comment, those who read and don't, those who got here today because you were interested in buying a leather couch and Google fed you here and somehow you made your way to the end of today's pearls of wisdom!
Just Thanks!
COUCH NOTE: MY BLOGGOVERSARY IS MARCH 16TH...
Tuneage Tutelage posts about music figures and bands like The Doors
Monday Matinees that came from my dark side and others done just for fun
Concert Reviews like the time Nancy and I saw B.B. King
Posts that contained Photography I took/take,
Meeting and Marrying My Love Nancy and the resulting celebration,
Birthday Greetings, and all the rest.
As of today 1,105 posts worth of Vinny.
In the beginning I was Yoursbond, then Bond, then I outed my true identity and Doctor Blogstein christened me Vinny Bond. I have only used one profile picture the entire time. As a matter of fact, one of my newer readers, the open, honest writer TECHNOBABE from "Technobabe's Adventures" even mentioned in one of her first comments that she had seen "the kid photo" around and decided to find her way here...very cool
In the beginning I wrote all my posts without using the word I. I always used the word "WE" as in myself and The Couch.
See, there is another example of something I continue to do. Capitalizing the words The Couch. Have you ever noticed it? I even find myself doing it in emails when talking about The couch (can't help it...my fingers insist on using caps).
Two areas I have avoided at all costs are my ex-marriage and work.
There was a post about work, written the first week I was here in Memphis and at the advice of a very wise man, I deleted it the next day.
I began The Couch while I was still living in NJ and married. I did not have a full-time job and freelanced sporadically. Things were tough. Money was tough. My marriage was tough.
Reviews of American Idol became stream of consciousness rants and posts making fun of celebrities kids names.
The cycle has been like a roller coaster. Readers shoot high up only to fall back down and then swoosh high again.
I have met some incredible people. Some were able to attend the celebration of Nancy and my marriage...more were invited but could not attend.
It has not been all good of course. There are four people I considered friends with whom I no longer have even a passing relationship. Three of them I could tell you the reasons the loss happened, but in the end it did happen. The fourth, well I can't answer that question, and probably never will. One day they turned on me and it was over. It is sad indeed. But as in real life, friends come and go.
We all have friends who do not understand our need to be A BLOGGER.
As I sit here I think of other subjects I could link to, my journey through the interview process and subsequent move to Memphis; some political posts; food posts post introducing new musicians which evolved into Music On The Couch, and more.
One of the problems is I have so many labels. Way more than I ever needed I guess. What about you...do you use the same basic group of labels or do you own a few hundred like me?
And now I have extended the "franchise" by breaking away those main subjects which have been found here since the beginning. You can see the links just below my header...have I done a good job moving everything or being current? Not a chance.
But I have good intentions, and that is a plus, right?
I do know I miss this when I take breaks. I also know there are days my mind refuses to allow me to leave anything of substance here.
I do know that I am a BLOGGER...I love being a BLOGGER and I hope to blog until the very last second I am able (which could mean a post on a weekend, the horrors!.
I do not bill myself as a comic or a philosopher nor will I try and tell you how to raise your kids. You will get some wit, some facts culled from reliable sources, some snarkiness at times and hopefully in the end I have not made you regret the 10 minutes you took out of your day.
Thank you, those who read and comment, those who read and don't, those who got here today because you were interested in buying a leather couch and Google fed you here and somehow you made your way to the end of today's pearls of wisdom!
Just Thanks!
