Remember that short dating blog that I did last year? That was by far the most interested people were in reading my blog. I know people connect to more human stories - my human stories about the Bears not covering last week just won't cut it for the average reader I guess.
In all seriousness, I appreciate any reader that comes to my site and spends a few minutes every week (or even every month) taking a look at my opinion/thoughts on whatever the topic may be. The political blog I wrote last week was by far my most shared blog I ever wrote. I can't say I'll write a ton of those - if I had to guess, maybe one or two more before the election to be honest.
I've been straying away from the personal blogs lately because I get so hyped up on football season coming around that I lose some of my focus about other things around me. I'm going to try changing that.
Tonight's topic, however briefly I may address it, comes as the one year mark of my dating site adventure officially coming to an end. Anyone with a Facebook and who looked at my page today saw that Jen and I just celebrated our one-year anniversary, which went very well. I usually end up going overboard with days like this - so naturally I gave her a rose at midnight, bought ourselves a Galaxy 10.1 tablet, made breakfast for dinner, sent her flowers to her work and also spelled out "I heart U" in Coke Zero, Fresca and 312 cans - all of which were consumed in the apartment in the past 3 days - on our living room floor. The cans are still sitting there btw.
The guys reading this are hating me because their girls who are reading this are hating them - at least that's what I'm aiming for. I don't think you have to go as extreme as I did, nor do I think you should limit it to just special days (like anniversary, Valentine's Day, crap like that) - which I don't. Just make sure you don't take your relationships with anyone (including friendships, bonds w/ family, etc) for granted.
Heading back to the dating relationship topic...the longer you are in a relationship with someone, the more settled you become, which may make you less spontaneous. I wasn't sure at first what I wanted to do for our one year, but knew I wanted to do something special. I'm usually pretty good at this stuff but was taking a while to come up with an original idea, something that would be something new from the Bolek arsenal.
I think I need to heed my own advice and start being a little more spontaneous with people, show them I care and that I won't take them for granted.
As the second year of me and Jen's great relationship begins, I'll need to keep this in mind. Spontaneous, random stuff are the stories we tell (or at least the stories we prefer to tell), not the boring routine. Most of you don't need to know how much sports I consume on a weekly basis or who my favorite bet is for the week (unless you're looking to completely fade my pick, which I understand). It's the randomness that people enjoy talking about AND hearing about.
I hope to keep things fresh and make the second year just as new and fun as the first year was.
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