10 YEARS!!! Can someone please tell me how it?s been a decade since I wrote my very first blog post" We?re celebrating today with this incredible vegan dessert and a week-long OSG Recipe App sale for charity (deets below).
When I started my blog on October 31, 2008, Eric and I were newly married and living in Toronto while I was working full-time as a researcher and wrapping up my Master?s degree. Life was pretty chaotic, and completing my degree was starting to wear me down (at one point I thought I was just going to cut my losses, throw in the towel, and move on!). This blog was the most amazing creative outlet during a time when my life was lacking the kind of creativity that I absolutely craved. It allowed me to explore a side of myself that I hadn?t since I was a kid (like my love for photography, baking, creative writing/journaling, and just being a goof). My blog?s first tagline was ?Food. Fitness. Fashion. Fun.? Pretty epic, right" lol. I?m grateful to Eric for encouraging me to ?find a hobby? after years of exhausting myself with school and work. He still jokes that my ?hobby? turned into my career, so I need to find a new hobby now. (Fine, I?ll start my own animal farm! YOU WIN!) I find writing therapeutic in soooo many ways. In the early days, I didn?t have more than a handful of readers, and I found it quite easy to talk about my struggles online. I was like no one is going to read this anyway! It was an online journal of sorts, and I wrote about my ...