{i think it sucks}

1.  glee.  how does glee get away with the "kids" drinking alcohol?  last i remembered you're not 21 in highschool.  and if you are, i guess there are bigger problems then you drinking.  i mean kids watch this show right?  kind of dumb.  makes me really kind of over the show.  i just can't watch highschool kids drinking beer and playing strip poker in a hotel room anymore.  i think it sucks.

2.  i'm returning my new glasses today.  i got them without the anti-reflective stuff and it was a mistake.  so now i'm exchanging them which means i'll be without glasses for probably another month.  and you know what?  i kind of actually need my glasses.  boo.  i think this sucks too.

3.  i get down on myself when i open my blog dashboard and there aren't any comments.  i know i shouldn't.  i mean i write this thing for me.  but it's nice to know what people think about what i have to say.  i just don't know how to properly break into the blogging world.  i feel like i felt when i wanted to be a photographer.  iinadequate.  and that my friend, is dumb.  i'm not looking to be a famous blogger.  i just want to make some bloggy friends.  and i have.  i've met some great people this last year or so.  but still, that 0?  that 0 over there next to comments awaiting moderation....i think it sucks.

4.  my tooth broke the other day.  like i bit into a piece of lettuce that was wrapped around chicken salad broke.  and then later i bit a piece of gum and the rest of it broke off.  there is quite literally just a tiny piece of my tooth left.  my family has bad teeth.  but i will take blame for part of it.  i definitely don't go to the dentist often enough.  it's definitely been on the bottom of my list forever.  not anymore.  i'm going to start taking care of my teeth better.  i'm going to start going to the dentist more often.  cause you know what?  broken teeth i think they suck too.

{pretty package swap}

i participated in a pretty package swap over at {sherry's blog}.  we signed up to participate and then sherry matched us up.  the idea was that you sent out a package to a fellow blogger.  we were given about a $15 limit and our package had to be wrapped "pretty".

i was matched up with {ciara}.  i didn't take picture of what i sent her unfortunately but i did take pics of what she sent me.  i love it!

here it is....all pretty. {she did a much better job with the pretty than i did!}

i got some smarties, a love journal, a scarf {that she made!} and a little camera stamp {that she also made!} i love it all!

thanks so much for being my package swap ciara! and thanks to sherry for setting it all up! :)

{how people have found me}

i love checking the stats on my blog and with the year coming to a close it thought it would be fun to do a post with some statistics if you will about my little corner of the internet.  :)

i love checking out what country people are visiting from. apparently this week someone in Slovakia found me. Hi Slovakia!!!! i've also had visitors from United States, Russia, France, Brazil, Latvia, Ukraine, Canada, Germany, Slovakia & Thailand this week.

my all time most popular post is {the engagement story...aka the 100th post!}  with 68 views. 

the next most popular post is my {10 on 10 : december} with 51 views.

i've gotten the most traffic from my wonderfully talented friend {misti}'s blog.  we did a photo challenge together.  :)

probably my most favorite stat to look at is the "search keywords".  this i'm assuming is what people have typed into a search engine that has brought them to my blog. 

please mommy no more daddies - 8 {makes sense...it's the title}

pleasemommynomoredaddies.blogspot.com - 7 {again, makes sense}

pleasemommynomoredaddies - 5  {last time, makes sense}

and the water was soooooooo - 2 {i'm guessing this came up to my post about hurricane irene...but who searches that??} 

fun before the - 2  {storm!  hurricane irene again}

says that this was taken on - 2 {i have no idea}

target vig night - 2 {swansea's vig night!}

"cupcake charlie's" and "funfetti" - 1 {and cause i'm a fat kid}

so yeah.  i've been blogging since 6/1/2011.  i love it.  i think i'm bad at it, but i love it.  my very first post was in 9/2010 but that doesn't count.  especially since i didn't blog again until 6/1/2011.  i've also posted 229 published blog posts.  that's awesome!!!!

but anywho, if you're a reader, comment already!  i love to know who reads and what you all think.  :)

i hope everyone has a fantastic New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

{a picture from the month i started blogging}