Sunday

four years of bookmarkd


FOUR YEARS!! AA!!! I honestly didn't think I'd have this blog for 4 whole YEARS. (especially since i ditched it for like... 9 months)

When my blog turned 4 years old on the 5th but I forgot to post something... oops??

This blog has been through the entirety of middle school with me, and it saw me go into high school and become a teenager and GAH. I'm tearing up.


me rn

4 years ago on February 5th, 2014, I made the Adventures of a Wonder Kid.


9 year old me, fascinated with the whole concept of activism and wanting to talk about things that mattered to me.

I originally made this blog as a way to publish a newspaper that I had began writing for myself? I had been fascinated with writing newspapers. My friend and I even put out a newspaper for our 5th grade class that year.

And then people started reading my blog, and I got comments, followers, made friends. It still fills me with happiness to think of little me swelling with pride at her very first comment.

Then I became My Amazing Life Being 10. Which, in retrospect, is honestly not the best blog name considering it could only last for a year. 

I got a camera! I took pictures and they ACTUALLY looked good! I did DIY's... somehow... and now I can't make anything with tools to save my life. 

AND I WROTE MY FIRST NOVEL. It was 30,000 words, written in the span of a month (first NaNo attempt!) but it was SOMETHING. 

it was a bad something.



I even tried my hand at fashion. Did it work? Hell no. Did I enjoy it? Hell yeah.
 

AND THEN CAME A LITTLE BIT OF SUNSHINE!

Ah. The good days. And a better name than before :') And my... *shudders* emo phase. (I got through it. Anyone can. Takes some time and a good hair dye)

I talked about books, about my life, about the randomest things, and I kept growing, and so did my blog! (i really thought i was all high and mighty for a few months there)

I left blogging, and then I came back as

BOOKMARKD!

The best I have ever been, living and loving everything about blogging :') I turned 10, 11, 12, 13, and almost 14 with this blog, and it has made me so happy, everything about it has. It gave me a voice, and I will forever be thankful.

I have way too many people to thank, and it would take me another 4 years to list them all out, so I'm going to thank every single person who ever read/commented, and every person I interacted with or helped me out <33

*deep sigh* for the past three years I've done a stat thing, and while i DON'T THINK IT'S TOO IMPORTANT, i'm going to do it, for the sake of tradition.

year one
14,287 PAGEVIEWS
838 COMMENTS
34 FOLLOWERS
196 POSTS


year two
62,000 PAGEVIEWS
?? COMMENTS
132 FOLLOWERS
358 POSTS


year three 
104,110 PAGEVIEWS
4595 COMMENTS
174 FOLLOWERS
469 POSTS


year four
127, 239 PAGEVIEWS
5040 COMMENTS
191 FOLLOWERS
498 POSTS

My baby is off to kindergarten now! Awh. Look at her go. Gah she's grown so much, and I HAVE TOO! If you go back and look at my first post, you'll see how much my writing style, my everything has changed??? Even from LAST YEAR I've changed.

I actually wrote my first post on a notepad... and I planned it out and everything... that concept is foreign to me now.

OKAY OKAY I better go before I cry on my computer :')



thank you so so much everyone, and here's to another ???? years!! <3


Mkay bye, Thanks for reading, peace out y'all whatever you want hehe,
Noor

7 comments:

  1. EEEEEEEPPPPPP HAPPY FOUR YEARS, NOOR! <3 You are such an amazing blogger/person, and I can't wait to grow with you in this lovely blogging community. :)

    xx Kenzie

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  2. This is absolutely fabulous! Congrats on 4 years! I'm so glad that you've been blogging this long! Ever since I started blogging you've been who I aspire to be, and who I look up to (tbh I even did a school paper about you in 4th grade because I wanted my blog to be as good as yours). I hope that you continue to keep blogging about books and writing because even if you never read my blog anymore, idk WHERE I'd be without yours.

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  3. CONGRATS! That is AMAZING!!! I've only been hear for year four, but your blog is awesome. <3

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  4. Congrats on sticking with it, four years is quite an achievement.

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  5. Noor.. AHHH congrats on 4 years!! wOW, I actually can't put in words how ridiculous that seems to me - we've been blogger friends since Adventures Of A Wonder Kid and I cannot believe it has been FOUR YEARS since that first email you sent me asking about guest post swapping.

    Congrats for sticking at it, and for creating such interesting and witty content since day 1. Also thank you for being such an amazing blogger friend - even though we literally never talk anymore (which is so sad btw), you have been a brilliant friend, always offering advice, chatting to me and reading my posts so THANK U GIRL!!

    here's to more amazing years of bookmarkd!!

    Lexie x
    www.whatlexieloves.blogspot.com

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  6. wow! four years is amazing noor! i think you've done an awesome job on enlightening the blogosphere with some wonderful words for that long - i don't remember how long i've been reading, but your blog was definitely an influence on me starting my own. :))

    also, i've nominated you for the liebster award, if you'd like to do it:
    https://thesehopefulhappenings.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/the-liebster-award/

    - charli :))

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  7. AHHHH CONGRATS NOOR THATS CRAZY!

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