Riot and Frolic

To celebrate nine years of the blog, here's some fun facts and greatest hits for you:

• after over 750 posts, half a million views, and quite a few guest stints, you'd think I'd have run out of things to say, BUT I HAVE NOT.
• this blog is older than five of my children.
• the longest gap from one post to the next was five months and fifteen days.  At the beginning, I WAS BLOGGING DAILY. 
• an estimated 25% of the total posts were written one-handed, while holding a baby in the other arm.
• what started as an extension of my Facebook profile in response to people asking me details about my food and craft projects quickly turned into a mostly-ballroom blog when I quit teaching to be a stay-at-home, professionally-dancing mom [we say how that turned out] and had been secretly compiling all the questions people asked me outlying questions about ballrooming. 
• there has always been a hot guy at the end of each post.  That started as an homage to my 13-year-old, journaling-self that delegated quite a few pages to magazine cutouts and what would now be called fan-fic about my favorite celebrities at the time. TRADITION!
• The top five posts of all time are:

1. Things You Can Control at a Ballroom Dance Competition
2. The Learning Curve with Crappy Graphs
3. Why: Tanning for Ballroom Dance Competitions
4. 18 Signs You're a Ballroom Dancer
5. Between Bronze and Open

• And two personal favorites:

1. Men's Furnishing – a flow chart
2. Dancing Badly – my first flow chart

Hope you all are staying safe and sane.  See you soon?