4 years of maipenquynh

This year I'm really excited about the blog birthday post! I was knowing that the blog birthday was coming some time in advance. By now, I've put the blog birthday in my birthday calendar so that I don't forget it again (like in the 2nd year) höhö. This year I was inspired by other blog birthdays and thought about what I would like to include in the birthday post. Welcome to the blog birthday post!

When I think about the last year of blogging, there is a lot of gratitude. Grateful that I enjoy it so much. It comprises the whole package of running a blog: The very obvious thing - creating and publishing posts. Then, there's also reading other blogs and gaining insights into other interesting areas; commenting on their posts and replying to comments on my own blog - it's about talking to each other. Fortunately, I even had an offline meeting this year and got to know Miss Booleana in real life - that was wonderful! And eventually, it's also about developping the blog, when there's time and muse.
I found a lot of new blogs in the second half of the year and learnt once again that a post doesn't end at its end, but in the comments section. My feed reader has become a lot bigger and that is very enriching. I realise that, contrary to my question in my first post , the blogosphere is still very active!

I was torn between the question what my blog should or should not be on the last birthday, and this topic came up once again, and eventually there was a a dedicated post. For now, I've found peace with this question. My blog flow is mainly to work according to my mood. Plans are made for the moment in the first place and not so much to realise them. I'm fine with that.

A few figures

Somewhere in between I posted the 100th blog post ! I was aware of it, then the moment was gone and I didn't make a big thing out of it and didn't "celebrate it greatly". If I counted back correctly, the 100th blog post was Internet findings (1). Belated congratulations on the 100th post 🎉

In the 4th year of maipenquynh I posted 52 posts. A quick comparison: For the 3rd year, it was 22 posts. In total, 123 posts have been published in those 4 years of maipenquynh.

Retrospective in categories

Then let's have a look how the posts were distributed among the four blog categories.
Note: One post can be assigned to more than one category.

A little gift to myself: After going through my categories, I am still happy to say: I really like my categories and feel connected to them! ✨

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I'll start with my biggest category Something with Photo.

I counted 42 posts. The format Fotokiosk/nur ein bild is a small format, nonetheless it's a much-loved format of mine. I show you nur ein bild (only one picture)- which shall be in the focus for one moment. Sometimes with more, sometimes with fewer words. In fact, preferably with fewer words.

Then there are photo posts where several photos are shown and where it's fun to me to add a text as a nice companion to the photos. This incluedes posts such as Botanical garden and the Ginkgo tree, Sicily in January or Coriander germling. My highlights were the posts A library tour through Dresden on two wheels and my photo series with 12 parts about Madeira (and Lisbon). The latter has quite pushed up the number of posts but I actually really like the series - both the photos and the texts.

There were also a few ‘behind the scenes’ texts: my photo fail and my conflict whether I want and am able to post photos 'up to date'.

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The category Wundertüte (surprise bag) is on 2nd place with 31 posts. Many posts overlap with the photo posts. In this category, I want to emphasise my posts on the topic darning: My repair date, the patterned blouse and the almost-chameleon and that I am not an ambitious sustainability person and instead darning is just my hobby .

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3rd place, purely in terms of the number of posts, is the category lautgedacht (thinking out loud) with 17 posts. I've been thinking out loud about the calendar motto 'The journey is the reward' and why I should be on the road at home . I'd love to think out loud more often. But thinking is so exhausting xD

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And last but for sure not least: The category Mein Blog und ich (My blog and I) with 6 posts in place. I have installed plugins and tried to document more.

Posts from my heart

I thought about making a top 3 but it's difficult.

Generally, I recommend my tags Fotokiosk/nur ein bild and darning (although there are a few posts which are not that dedicated). But this is a bit too easy, isn't it? Therefore, my picks are:

• A library tour through Dresden on two wheels: It was just so nice to write this post. Indulging in reminiscences and being at places. But also feeling the warm feelings in libraries and being thrown back to other moments of life - sigh.
• on the road at homeA topic that has accompanied me for quite a while. To finally sort it and putting it into words felt so good. And it is a small philosophy of life that has accompanied me more consciously ever since.

Just a top 2. Good, too! 🙂

Wishes

There's only one wish and goal for the new blogging year: to continue blogging with full heart and joy. The way it is right now is really nice. I really feel like blogging, reading, commenting and being in contact these days. Every comment still causes feelings of happiness and every emoji is acknowledged.

This one is to you, to me and to us in this blogosphere! Grateful that we are here together 🎈

• Category: lautgedacht (thinking out loud), Mein Blog und ich (My blog and I)
• Tag: Bloggeburtstag