Look Back and Cringe
Posted in The Life of the Historian and tagged with Blogness, North Carolina, Photos on June 24, 2009This post is a part of 20SB’s Looking Back Blog Carnival, and Ben & Jerry’s is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers!
Trying to choose a blog post from my first two months blogging has been difficult…they’re all so bad! It makes me very thankful that I’ve grown as a blogger in the last 3 years, but it’s still a bit painful to look back.
I decided to choose “Two Homes Away from My Home Away from Home” because it’s fairly representative of where I started out as a blogger, basically using the blog as an online journal. It was originally published June 2, 2006. I couldn’t help but include some commentary as well. Enjoy…if you can!
It’s been 11 months since I moved out here. I know that’s not a big marker, but it feels like it to me. [For whatever reason, 11 months was a really big deal, but 1 year wasn't as much.] So much has changed in these 11 months; it seems like yesterday when I was crying over leaving behind dorms, friends, BSU, car, church. [Oh yeah, this was the summer that I studied rhetorical devices. This one, omission of a conjuction, is called asyndeton.]
Lately I’ve been blessed with deeper friendships with a few different people here in NC. It’s a total answer to prayer! Just last week I was praying for more gospel-centered relationships. I don’t want to merely exchange pleasantries with the believers around me…
This week I’ll be housesitting for two different houses. At the one I simply will be caring for the cats, but at the other I will be caring for a dog, 2 finches, and some plants while I stay there. It’ll be nice to have a little mini-vacation right in Wake Forest. [It was nice to get "away"...but that dog was a bit of a pill!]
What did I tell you…fairly boring! As a cherry on top of the ice cream, here’s a picture from that time:
See, I was embracing the Tarheels early in my North Carolina life.
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June 24th, 2009 at 12:58 am
haha. oh man, i feel the same way when i look back on my older posts…
don’t get me started on pictures
June 24th, 2009 at 2:37 am
I don’t think it was boring…it was about your life and what you were going through… love the fact you embraced the Tar Heels so early on! Ha ha
June 24th, 2009 at 6:47 am
You definitely have developed your voice in the past few years, Ronnica… :)
June 24th, 2009 at 7:52 am
I can think back further than you…I couldn’t believe you were moving to North Carolina…good for you. And now I have found a way to keep up with you every day…and I am learning…it took quite awhile.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Actually, that post is not half bad for a beginner!
And I do like the photo of you!
June 24th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
You know the funny part…I don’t think I’ve changed much!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
I just traveled to Chapel Hill for the first time since I moved to NC two years ago – and I definitely snapped a photo of that sign – and it was gorgeous! Such a beautiful place.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
@Julie: Yeah, I knew I’d be a Tarheel fan before I got here.
@Iva: Thanks, I agree. Hopefully it’ll continue to develop!
@Britni: I don’t think that I’ve changed very much, but my writing definitely has.
@MinD: It is such a pretty campus. I had a friend in town at the time, so I took her by.