The "Still Goin' Strong" Story

Prelude:  Today I will enter and post my 1000 story!!  I find it hard to believe that I have written 1000 daily stories about my life, or at least something that interests me in my life.  Thanks for sticking with me through all or most of those stories.  I must tell you that about a half-year ago I wrote what follows and what you are about to read.  I thought I had run out of stories, but then someone called and asked when I was going to write about ......... and so it goes.  Well, I filed this story in my "draft" box and thought I could use it when I was totally finished writing.  Didn't happen yet, but here is the story I wrote anyway.....

It was an ordinary day. I sat down in front of the TV around noon yesterday and my wife had one of my favorite movies on the screen. "Julie & Julia" is based on the book by the same name, which is based on the true story by Julie Powell about "The Julie & Julia Project". Julie (Amy Adams) is a government employee working in New York City in the year following 9/11. She, her husband Eric (Chris Messina) and their cat live in an apartment above a pizza parlor. All of her friends are successful in their careers. Julie is not. Of course, we all know who Julia Child is!  Meryl Streep was a fantastic Julia Child, who started out as a bored housewife in Paris looking to fill her time and ended up being a major influence on American cuisine. One evening, while bemoaning the lack of meaning in her life, Julie picks up Julia Child's cookbook and decides to cook all 524 recipes in the book in a year, while blogging about her experience. At first, no one is interested, but as time goes by, Julie gets more and more followers of her blog. If it had not been for this movie that we saw in 2009 with our friends Jerry and Just Sue in State College, you may not be reading this today. After leaving the movie theatre I told Carol, "I'm going to write a blog just like Julie did."  She naturally asked me about what and I said, "About me!"  "Won't take too many days for that," she replied. She was kind enough to help me set up the blog on Blogspot, just like Julie did, and after 874 stories I am still writing. See why it is one of my favorite movies of all time! And last I checked the counter telling how many times someone has pulled the site up on their computer was 20,446. That is just mind-boggling to me! Thanks for reading along!!  I am now finally out of ideas, but check back every so often and I may have a few more tales to tell.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.

So, you see how it all began.  As of today I have posted 1000 stories and still goin' strong.  Hits number over 29,000 and some days over 100 or more of you check in to see what I'm up to.  Hey, thanks for letting me share with you my life.  Last week I went to work at the high school where I used to teach and encountered one of my former co-workers.  As soon as he saw me he said, "Hey, LDub."  I immediately knew he had tuned into my blog.  Said he found it while googling some topic and found I had written about it.  I hear stories all the time from many who have happened on the site while looking for something else.  Glad you were able to find me.  See you tomorrow.  It was another ........... you know by now!