Anniversary Again?! Blogging Discoveries

Precisely one month ago, I launched this blog - Happy Anniversary!  Okay, okay, I know it's only been a month, and I promise I won't coerce you into celebrating such minutia all the time.  But, kind of like in the early stages of a new relationship when the couple celebrates mini-anniversaries, I'm just so darn excited and want to mark the occasion.

So, what have I discovered in this month of blogging?

• Daily reminders of how much I enjoy writing!
• The joy of "meeting" new and interesting people in the form of blog readers and other bloggers.
• I actually dig Twitter.
• Facebook Pages frustrate me because I can't reach out to friends like you can on a personal page.  Instead, I must wait for them to "Like" the Choosing The Better Life (Island Blog) Facebook page.
• The pleasure of seeing this island and my Better Life through the eyes of new readers.
• I need to carry my camera with me more.
  
• Blogging about my Better Life reinforces a healthy perspective for me and immense gratitude on a daily basis.
• Angel was born to be a star.  Okay, I already knew that.
• Blogging takes more time than I'd imagined.
• "Island busy" still is worlds better than my former life "busy."
• I feel very much "me" when writing here, as opposed to, oh let's say, a legal brief or contract revision.
• Random little bits of related joy, like getting positive feedback from an author whom I've admired and a blogger who inspired me.
• Wikipedia's picture of a hogfish looks just a bit different from the ones I see in the water or on the fish-cleaning bench.
• There's still so much about island living that I've yet to conquer:  better boat skills, cleaning fish, handy-woman prowess, native style cooking, free-diving, identification of indigenous plants and much more!

What have you learned from this blog in the last month?  Thanks for continuing along with me!