voxiversary plus plus

In all the rush of October, I completely forgot Vox is now a year old, which means I also forgot my own anniversary of blogging on Vox by weeks. 

My first post on Vox, or, the day-I-started-cheating-on-lj-&-never-looked-back, was on October 6, 2006, with this post.

Now I have almost 300.
(I won't say the exact number because I sort posts out by filters, and of course a few are also fully private).
And I've been featured on the home page twice! (I think).

I have 46 favourite items -- although I could have sworn I favourited more (I don't take the feature too seriously), and unlike some of the others who've written about this, I just cannot pick a favourite out of my favourites. There is no favourite to rule them all.

I stayed on Vox because the neighbours here are wonderful people, the people who write always have something interesting to say, and although people have told me they stuck to x or y because of the layout, customisation or other reasons, but I can't see it as a good enough reason to not stay here and read. It is the material that really stuck to me, (because to be honest, if I wanted good photos I could go to Flickr).

But to be very trivial, the reason I signed on for the beta was for the completely addictive feature of having a (seemingly unlimited) library. It's very predictable bait for someone like me, I think. Other similar features have popped up in other places across the internet since then but this is still the one I keep most up-to-date.

Vox is also the only place I can think of online where I really enjoy the company of women. I know that sounds strange but I've been close to boys since I was 8 years old, I'm always a tomboy at heart and my lack of sophistication and femininity proves it (don't be fooled by the hair which I grew in protest of my father taking me to the barber). I have trouble establishing long-lasting female friendships but I seem to have been doing better in the past two years, and I definitely read more women on Vox than men (although there are a surprising amount of men here, a relief considering LJ is so female and Blogger so male).

For example, I really look up to Cupcate, I enjoy my quiet time in brick & sailor, stalking Wissam (shesaidso), feeling attached to Lili and citizen blue despite having never met, and love reading all the comments people have left me and each other. Most of my girl friends in Malaysia have Vox and I read theirs all the time because I hardly see them.

Am I done celebrating this?
Yes I think so... I still have work to do.

Thank you Vox for everything!

PS: bolded phrases by me, this was not a survey!