Oblogitory, v2.0

Oblogitory turns one year old today. I didn't have any special t-shirts made like I planned, so I'll just have to find another way to make my three readers happy. I didn't even think that I'd be writing on this thing for this long. It started out as a little alternative to writing in my journal. WARNING: I'm gonna talk about the drugs again!

It was during the aftermath of my crystal meth addiction. A little more than two months of not using drugs played all sorts of nasty tricks on my poor brain, and I quickly plunged into a bad little state of depression. Apparently, when you quit cold turkey from a three year binge of an array of drugs administered through various orifices and veins, the brain cells that do survive don't quite fall back into place the way they normally do. Through it all, I had my writing. I still keep my journal and I saw how bad it was during my drug use. I wrote all sorts of nonsensical things and my handwriting was extremely shaky because it was hard to hold the pen steady when your arm is trembling after a fresh injection.

I decided to concentrate on the blog because the writing speaks out on a couple of different levels other than the effect of the actual words that are typed. Every entry that I post says that I was coherent enough to log into my system and remember my password and spell the words correctly. Every entry that I post tells the world that I'm all here. I don't do it to build a fan base, and I could care less about the impact my writing has on the world. It does make me happy when people e-mail me, wondering about what the next entry would be like.

Anniversaries tend to make people think about things in retrospect, and everything comes full circle. I can safely say that in the year that I've been blogging, I have come out on top. Here's to a fabulous year of stupid gym folk and sidewalk shenanigans, and many more years of quirky little blog entries!