My blog is being noticed... Yipee!

Did you hear something? No? Not at all? Well…let me tell you what I can hear… I can hear drum rolls.

Why? Because one amateur blogger is celebrating her blog and that amateur blogger is me :)

I have earlier talked about how I came back to blogging after a long break and this time I was determined. I made a promise to write and write, even if no one read it.

But the problem is I am a Leo. If any of you readers are Leo you know about the problem. We love attention. We are people’s people and cannot mind our own business ever. And importantly though we never admit we need approvals and appraisals. At least I do.

So well, being a Leo that I am, I wouldn’t write a line in my personal diary without thinking that someday someone might read it so here we are talking about a blog.

Many of you, who have been supportive through and through know some of my attention seeking post. Two months back, I pleaded to “I don’t know whom” through my post “Koi to mera blog padho”. I was desperate over daily views and kept wondering and studying how my page views went up and down (also blogged about it)

Then came the UBC. I got the push, and challenged myself to finish the challenge. Writing a post each day, posting it and then sharing it at indiblogger and facebook. I somehow managed to survive the challenge.

However, (another Leo trait) I wasn’t happy with the number of views. Some of my post would go totally ignored and I once again felt sad. At the same time, I would see posts on the homepage of indiblogger with 40-90 votes under “today’s popular posts” and the Leo in me would think…when?

Great men have said patience is one of the biggest virtues. So here I was, patiently writing, posting, reading, commenting and voting. But if I had some real patience, I wouldn’t be a Leo.

Well! It was Friday morning when I opened my browser and indiblogger in the office, I saw one of my posts up there (Yeah, I open blog pages before I open my outlook). I was elated.

Yesterday was Saturday, I woke up late and started with my Saturday ritual of idling in front of my browser, and there I saw the second one. I jumped out of my bed and did a small dance out of happiness.

And finally it was today…today evening I saw my post up on the most popular list for a while.

This time I couldn’t control. I decided to celebrate, and there is no better way to celebrate than writing about it.

So here I am, blowing my own trumpet about how my little amateur blog has created an existence of its own. (of course, I haven’t won an award) and there are many whose posts are permanently up there but this was a milestone moment for me and a feeling of small happiness that I wanted to share with all my friends here.