Knit is a Four-Letter Word

It’s the first day of Holidailies … introduce yourself and your website.

I’m Amanda Page, aka Emender Poige (to the American ear, that’s how my Australian accent sounds.)

I’ve been blogging since it was online journalling, way back in the deep dark ages of late early 1996/early 1997. If you count all of the entries and laid them end to end, they might stretch halfway into 2011. It’s been a long time, but not prolific. And on a bunch of platforms that went away, as did a chunk of the entries. Litweb, Newsguy, Cyber-e-net, Diary-X, Geocities.

But I’ve been in every Holidailies since at least 2003 (blast from the past – check out the 2003 page. Considering 7 years in internet time is like counting in dog years, there’s still a surprising number of people there that I still know and “see.”

After being online for such a long time, sometimes it can be hard to write – have I said it before, did I say it better the first time, should I be saying it now.

That is why I love Holidailies – once a year, I and a bunch of other writers push past that, and we write. I get to read a bunch of excellent entries, and I get to flex the writing muscle that doesn’t get a lot of use.

You’ve seen the word clouds on the blogs, it’s a plugin that I haven’t quite gotten around to working out.

Here’s my manual cloud – these are words you’ll expect to see a lot of over the course of Holidailies

Jeff. Australia. Australian. Knit. Knitting. Crochet. Crocheting. Yarn. cats. Adelaide. Hoover. Lucky. Cooking. Books. Christmas. Cards. Late. Tired. Bed.