Today is my birthday. It is also the fifth anniversary of my blog, as I started Citizen of the Month on March 7, 2005.
While I enjoy my writing here, my greatest achievement with this blog is — getting to know you. I am proud of the weird assortment of people that have found their way here — essayists and photographers, geeks and knitters, religious Jews and Christian daddybloggers, somber artists and humorists, college professors and the unemployed, health fanatics and the heavily medicated, serious businesswomen and women who color their pubic hair blue, the popular and the not popular.
My lack of a niche IS my niche.
My writing was a bit off this year. I’ve had better years. But then again, you didn’t pay me much.
I am hoping for great things during my sixth of blogging… and in my new year of life. Things have been a little dark lately, and I would like to see more sunshine. In fact, I just found this amazing video that is opening my mind to new and exciting ways to further my blog success. I hope you enjoy it as well —
Thanks! xoxo
Happy Birthday Neil,
I wish you and your penis health, wealth and all of the yummy goodness your great big heart desires!
Happy birthday, Neilochka. I know there’s great things in your future, so I don’t worry much….I only lovingly nag on occasion for inspiration. 🙂
I learned a lot from your blog last year. Wishing you all kinds of success and a happy birthday.
Happy Birthday and congrats on your 5th blogoversary.
I hope 2010 is your best year yet.
Happy birthday, Neil! Hope this year kicks the collective asses of all previous years, both blog-wise and lifewise.
Neil,
Happy days ahead! Hm … I wonder. Am I part of your weird assortment?
May the dark lift and light of your choosing filter in.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary Neil! May your blog, and you, continue on for many, many more years.
Happy Birthday and Happy Blogiversary from the residents of Chez V!
5 years. You were one of the first blogs I followed when I was a younger, childless and inebriated blogger. Ah how things have changed since then. Happy Birthday Neil! Let the sun shine. Bisous xx L
Happy Birthday Neil! I didn’t remember your blog had started the year before I had started mine, but I do remember fondly when I participated in the surprise avalanche of letters for your birthday, and can’t tell anymore what year that was, maybe three years ago?
I wish you to find your way through both your writing and your life. I’d like to tell you that I relate to a lot which is certainly the best indication that your writing reaches its goal, but it doesn’t do any good to yourself. I only hope that having the loving support of your readers can ease your pain and fuel you with motivation.
Happy Birthday! and many more.
Neil! Congratulations on your fine accomplishment. Success and humor are the best combination. You manage to hold both so effortlessly. “Thank You” for your hard work. Oh, Happy Birthday for the third time…or was it the fifth?! 😉
Neil! Congratulations on your fine accomplishment. Success and humor are the best combination. You manage to hold both so effortlessly. “Thank You†for your hard work. Oh, Happy Birthday for the third time…or was it the fifth?! 😉
Ya’ll should totally invite that guy in the video to blogher.
And happy anniversary/birthday.
Hi Neil! For some reason I thought your blog has been around for much longer, probably because it seems like such an integral part of life. Happy birthday and blogiversary and may the coming year be the best yet.
Happy Birthday, Neil! They didn’t pay me much this year either, the bastards. 😉
Happy Birthday, Neil! I hope you have a nice day and feel celebrated. Congratulations on the Blogiversary. I love your “lack of niche” niche. More people than not can relate to it. Thank you!
“My lack of a niche IS my niche.” Brilliant! Have a wonderful, wonderful birthday, Neil. If they gave an award for the most beloved blogger, you’d win it hands down.
Hey Neil, Happy Birthday–I’m a newer reader, but you are one of the few blogs that doesn’t feel like it’s been filtered through whatever writing mechanism most others (mine included) are–meaning your writing is very open, honest, funny and sometimes raw. It’s no wonder you’re a blogger’s blogger. xo B.
Happy Birthday, Neil. I’ll buy you a waffle if we manage to be in the same city at the same time, okay?
Happy birthday! And, I have some blue hair dye, but I am most decidedly not the person you were referring to…
Happy Birthday, Neil!
Happy Birthday and Blogoversary Neil. I remember when it all started, how you stuck your hard in that blogging cake and… 😉
I have stuck around five years keep it up and I’ll be around for some more.
I’m so glad I watched that whole video! The end is classic. I really hope you follow through, because we definitely don’t want to see you fatter, losing your hair and even more in debt in 2011! ;o)
You know I love you and wish nothing but the best for you in this coming year. Happy Birthday, my friend. xoxo
popping out from my reader to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEIL!!! And 5 years of blogging? congrats and cheers to another year.
Happy birthday and happy blogiversary! XO
I don’t comment often but I read every day. I hope you have an excellent birthday
“My lack of a niche IS my niche.”. FINALLY. This is what I have been telling you forever. And it’s just the way I like it.
Happy, happy, happy birthday, Neil. So glad to know you.
Happy BDay! I’m proud to say I’m not the Blue Pube Person. Where I do fit in that spectrum, who knows.
Mazel Tov!
5 years of writing is no small feat. Happy Blogiversary.
I am so glad that I found you in this, your fifth year. Your writing has made me laugh and think and squirm uncomfortably and sometimes cry….I am wishing you the most lovely of birthdays and hoping for a lift in the darkness, new opportunities and words and connections and a whole lotta’ love. you are pretty damn awesome, neil.
happy birthday. 🙂 amiee
That is some fan club you’ve got there Neil … can I join too? Seriously, I hope that someone, somewhere, makes this day special for you. Happy Birthday and Blogiversary!
Happy Birthday and anniversary! Looking towards reading you more this year!!!
Happy Blogiversary!!
Happy Birthday, congrats on your blogiversary, and here’s to lighter days in your future!
Happy Birthday!
Only five years? Feh! Talk to me when your blog is five years and FOUR MONTHS old! Not to mention when you yourself have reached the esteemed age of 48-and-a-half!
Ah, well. It is good to have young friends. Keeps me young! Happy blog-i-versary, Neilochka. Long may you reign, and never, ever rein it in!
Hey, Neil, have a great day and great blog year!
Happy belated birthday both to you and your blog. I would write more, but clearly I have to sign up for the program that video was hawking before I become so stressed that I gain/lose weight and begin to lose my hair.
Happy blogiversay/birthday!
I know I’m a day late but happy birthday to you and your blog. I like you. And it. Carry on.
Happy birthday, Neil. Hope you had a great day. Five years in the blogosphere is cause for celebration – you’re like a founding member!
Happy (belated) Birthday, Neil! Wishing you much more sunshine, brighter days ahead.
Belated happy Neil-day, sir! Congrats for sticking it out (as the old lady said to the sailor) for a BIG 5 YEARS. I know how hard it can be (as the old lady said…), and etc.
your use of xoxo is progress, yes?
These women who talk about dying intimate hair blue have no shame. Internet hussies they are.
Happy bloggie birthday a few days late Neil. Keep on keeping on because yours is a voice the world should hear.