7 Year Ish

This blog officially turned 7 recently. Some thoughts about that:

1. This has lasted longer than any home, job or relationship I've had (and has arguably received more attention than some of that latter category).

2. The whole "pretty girl" sign off was an homage to Gossip Girl, a show that has now been off the air for 2 years.

3. On top of that, most people would probably concur at this point, that I am no longer a girl. I guess by most definitions of adulthood and legal responsibility--drinking, smoking, driving, age of consent -- I was already an adult when I began this. But perhaps, I could still claim to be in the Britney Spears realm of "not a girl, no yet a woman". After all, when I wrote my first posts, I was back in my childhood home, waiting to start graduate school, feeling about 12. These days, I am only referred to as a girl in group emails about nauseating bachelorette parties, linked to excessively detailed google doodles.

4. Since the start of this blog a terrible thing has taken hold in the collective consciousness and it is called The Google Doodle.

5. I think in the last 7 years Britney's career has experience a lot of change and growth.

6.  Mine, not so much. A little bit, but I'm still waiting on the call for a live show in Vegas.

7. This would be the time for a blog sabbatical, except I've pretty much been on one for the last 2 years anyway.

8. Sorry about that.

9. In biblical times, I believe people rotated crops every 7 years. So maybe it's time to shake some things up.

10. No, I am not going to call myself Pretty Woman.

11. Maybe now is also the time to set some goals for the next 7 years.

12. In 7 years, will the internet still exist? Will Skynet have taken over?

13. Will Blogger-come-Blogspot-come-Google Overlordship still be running these sites? Or housing them? Sourcing them?

14. Will I  finally have learned the relevant technical lingo of the day by then?

15. Will that lingo be obsolete by the time I have learned it?

16. Will I have moved on to enumerating lists with Roman numerals? Or perhaps eschew numerical values altogether and stick to bullet points?

17. Perhaps, most importantly, will The Real Housewives franchise still be a thing?

18. Maybe, kind of like this blog and -for better or worse- like me, not much will really have changed.

Yours Always,
Pretty Girl