Monday, May 24, 2010

Blogiversary: Four Years Later

-Born May 24, 2006.-

Happy Birthday, Vanilla Garlic.

I owe you so much. You have brought me friends, buddies, family, acquaintances, work, income, love, a career, passion, talent, persistence, joy, education, frustration, excitement, surprise, memories, travel, experience, direction, sadness, panic, wonder, burns, cuts, greenery, aches, pains, excitement, cupcakes, sun, wine, goats, roosters, elderberries, farming, kumquats, candy making, rhubarb, long days cooking, long nights writing, reading, connection, networking, confidence, sake, wine, beer, vacations, overnighters, dinners, lunches, breakfasts, brunches, snacks, butchery, cheesemongering, skills, talks with friends at midnight, coworkers, publishers, editors, insight, thought process, critique, tons of garlic, tons of vanilla, charity, volunteering, harassment, students, solicitation, pick-up lines, research, idiots, hunger, drive, intrigue, frosting, chocolate, cookbooks, photography, teaching, plenty of cheese, theft by cat, dates, foraging, jamming, stir-fry, drinks at five in the morning, and hope.

Dear blog, you gave me my life back when it was broken. You are one of my greatest accomplishments. Thank you for the most amazing four years of my life. Here is to many, many more.

-Garrett

22 comments:

  1. Congratulations on four years of blogging! I've enjoyed following your adventures through the blog.

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  2. Congratulations! Four years is a long time in blogworld, for sure.

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  3. happy birthday, blog! ^^

    dear blog, please don't die any time soon of some rare and virulent tropical disease because i enjoy reading you too much. O_O;;

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  4. Well done! I'm a bit smug to think that I've read four years worth of posts, and rest assured, I'm eager for at least another four! :)

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  5. I've been following the blog since almost the beginning, and it always makes my day brighter when I see a new post. Thanks for making this one of my favorite places on the net.

    Congrats!

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  6. Congrats! It's hard work and time consuming but the love of feed and feeding people outweigh it.

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  7. Happy blog birthday Garrett! :)

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  8. Congratulations! You have a wonderful blog...extremely funny and informative. You are my escape while at work...but, that's between you and me. No one else needs to know. Keep up the fantastic work! *.*

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  9. Congrats! I've only been reading a relatively short time, but I have thoroughly enjoyed every post, and have learned a few things too! Thanks! :D

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  10. Congrats! You are now officially older than the majority of food blogs, and you've always been better than most. May there be many more.

    -- Hank

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  11. Congratulations on your 4 year anniversary - quite an accomplishment! Glad that it has enriched your life. :-)

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  12. I've been hooked since the 'yeasty cat farts' post :)

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  13. That entry made me tear up a little. Thanks for writing!

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  14. Congratulations! You and Vanilla Garlic are such an inspiration for me with Cultivating Domesticity. Impeccable style with a bit of snark. Love it.

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  15. Congratulations, Garrett! You and Vanilla Garlic are such inspiration for me with Cultivating Domesticity. Impeccable style with a twinge of snark. Love it.
    Here's to many more.

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  16. Congratulations! Four years of high quality blogging certainly proves you can write, be funny and informative and have staying power (first typed: saying power, that too of course!)

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  17. Happy Blogoversary!!! Congrats!

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  18. oh wow 4 yrs happy belated bday! you've come so far and i love your blog :) xx

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  19. Here's to YOU, blog! Thank you for keeping Garrett kinda/sorta/maybe/somewhat sane over the past 4 years. I can't wait to see what you have in store for us...

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  20. Has it been four years already? Wow, congratulations! Thank you Garrett for the humor you infuse in everything you do. Here's to many more years of this fabulous blog!

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~Garrett