Hey there, everyone.

The 22nd of February 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of this blog. Well, it started on Blogger under a terrible name which, if you’ve checked the ‘About’ page, you’ll know about. But yeah. Ten years. What initially was going to be random-thoughts-on-a-daily-basis blog then turned into a concrete thing that came from the idea of “I like music, and I’m sure I could write about it on a daily occurrence. I should write about the songs on my iPod Touch.” And so I did. I was writing posts on the same day as they were posted almost every day for a long, long time. That then turned into every other day. Now I’m writing posts two months in advance. It’s just so much more manageable.

I’m glad I did start it. Gives me something to think about for the length of time I take to write each post. My writing back in those early was very melodramatic, exaggerated. I really wanted to get that feeling across that I very much cared for these songs. There are a lot of exclamation marks, smiley faces… uppercase letters. Very teenage. I don’t go back to those usually. Thank goodness, I’ve reeled it in a bit. There was a hiatus for a large period from 2015-2017 as I worked for a year and completed my final year of uni, and there was a lot of growing that happened in that time. Since then, I’m much more happier with the posts I’ve done on here, and even then I feel like I could add more to what I write.

So if you want to witness a naive, awkward 17-year-old slowly transition into a much-less-awkward-but-still-always-sort-of-there 27-year-old, here’s the very first post I made on that day. So innocent. I’d much rather be my age than 17 again.