joy magnetism: Year 3, Roll of the dice

Magnet #1096 - Joy in Las Vegas

Not sure if I picked up this magnet myself, or if someone gave it to me, but I figured it was appropriate for me beating the odds. Did you know that something like 95% of all blogs are abandoned? Or that most blogs are abandoned within months of inception?

On February 22, 2008, I giggled to myself, having figured out a way to avoid creating a superdorky Excel spreadsheet to inventory all the magnets in my ever-growing collection. Instead, I created this superdorky magnetblog called joy magnetism. (A name, which made me giggle even harder, as I said to myself, joy magnetism. Geddit?)

Three years later, here I sit, writing about my 1,096th magnet.

Who woulda bet that I could have stuck this out this long?

Or shoot, have this many magnets to talk about?

Thanks very much, everyone who has ever read, posted, or contributed to the blog and/or the collection!

Two years later...

Magnet #731 - Joy to the world

This night two years ago, I decided to start a blog.

Nope, I still don't believe that I have two years' worth of magnets to keep this joy magnetism going. Probably helps that I keep making things that aren't magnets, like this little plaque a friend gave me, into magnets.

Anyway, you'll see a bit of a color palette change, though I'm not entirely happy with it, and reserve the right to switch it up. Probably won't happen before March 23rd, when I'll be able to sleep again, but we'll see.

Thanks to all of you who have read, commented, encouraged and even reviled me; thanks for sending me magnets and contributing content; thanks for hanging out with me for these last 730 magnets!