Hellooooooo!
It's Mark here and I'm super excited to bring you this special, 100'th edition post.
This post is special in a bunch of ways. Let me just say it one more time... this is the 100'th post on this blog! 100 posts! Imagine that! In as many days! Well, in one or two more, I'd actually guess. We'll just say that we've been perfect.
Also, this is special in the sense that we're both writing on this post. I called dibs on writing most of this one, but Laura has gone ahead and added her input as well, which will be scattered throughout this post.
To commemorate this day, we've decided that it might be cool to look back on our best- and worst- posts so far.
Let's start off with Laura, who's gonna list her favourite posts that she's written.
1.What I Would do if I Could - I included this one because it was the first post I wrote on here, and I'm a bit sentimental. It was where I outlined my ideas and (unofficially) introduced myself. I was so excited to start this blog, and this post was where I got to do that!
2. What I would do as a Job - I liked this post because it was fun to brainstorm all of the possibilities and explore what I want to do. Since I'm in university, I'm struggling with that, and writing down ten concrete options was a nice way to help myself narrow down my future plans.
3. What I Would Teach Everyone in the World - I liked this one because the things that I would teach were all very important to me. I started with one that was less important, of course, but this was a post that was quite personal (and a little wistful). It's nice to imagine being able to change the world for the better.
4.What I Would do if I'd Never Heard of Christmas Before - I had a blast writing this one, which is why it made the list! I really don't have too much else to say about it.
5. What I Would do if I Could Talk to my Junior High Self - This made the list because this is the most personal thing I've written on here. As anyone who read this probably gathered, Junior High was a difficult time for me, and it was very interesting for me to look at how much I've changed since then.
Okay! It's Mark once more. I'm going to agree with almost all of the posts on this list. I've now gone through the entire list of our posts and picked my top five, but let me tell you... it was more difficult then expected! I had ten or eleven posts I wanted to feature. Now however, I think I've narrowed it down to my top five.
Note; I, to, would have picked the first post on the blog, but considering the number of great posts by Laura that had yet to be featured on this list, I've omitted my first post and her first post.
Okay, in no particular order...
1. What I Would Do if I Could Quit School - There were some definite truths in this one, which I agreed with. And this was only the third post written on the blog!
2. What I Would Do if I was a Pigeon - This one is so Laura. For those of you who haven't figured this out, Laura is rather in love with pigeons. I don't know what it is about them, but she could go on for hours about the distinct colours on a pigeons neck. ;) If you're looking for pure Laura-ness, head over to that post.
3. What I Would Do if I was a Hermit - This post is underrated! When I was cruising through all of our posts, this one caught my eye, and so I clicked on it. And what do you know, I rediscovered it and loved it. In my mind, this is on of the most entertaining posts on the blog. The little, few-word sentences listing the downward spiral of hermit-ness are hilarious! Definitely give it a shot if you haven't seen it already.
4. What I Would Teach Everyone in the World - Out of all the posts on the blog, this one was one of the most personal, I thought. I tried to make my own version of this one, but I don't believe that I ever posted it. Why? Because Laura summed up everything I wanted to say so perfectly in this post.
5. What I Would Do if I Could Eliminate one Human Emotion - Laura hit the nail on the head once more. A very thoughtful, honest post.
I honestly had such a hard time deciding which posts I wanted to write about. There were so many good ones! Now, let's switch back to Laura as we switch the focus over to my posts.
1. What I Would do if My Sisters were Here - reading this one made me melt a little inside. It also made me miss Mark more than ever, but it also reminded me how much I loved him and my sister. I'm a lucky gal to have such wonderful siblings.
2. What I Would do if I had 100 Words with which to Write a Blog Post - I thought this was a really cool idea! It reminded me for the millionth time why I invited you to co-blog with me: because you have a wonderfully creative mind and think outside the box.
3. What I Would do if I Could Meet Any Ten People in the World - I thought many of your choices were very intelligent. I particularly enjoyed your fun fact for me about Leonardo da Vinci... I think he and I would have been good friends! This post was just well-written over all, and reminded me, again that you are a) a very talented writer, b) an awesomely kind person and c) way too mature and wise for your age. Anyway, I'll stop gushing now in case I've gone into embarrassing big sister mode, but, seriously, it brings a tear to my eye.
4. What I Would do if I Could Fly - This one just made me giggle because it went in a direction I wasn't expecting at all!
5. What I Would do if I Wasn't Writing this Blog Post - The post where it all began for Mark!
6. What I Would do if I Could Live in Any Time Period - The post in which Mark - yet again - reminds me of his innate wisdom.
You put down six posts, sis! Not that I'm complaining. I'll take any compliment you want to throw my way ;).
Also, I was shocked to see What I Would do if I had 100 Words with which to Write a Blog Post on the list! I consider that the worst post on the blog! When I wrote that one I was super tired and just wanted to create a very short post so that I could get to bed. I just decided that I'd give myself a reason for making it so short, and so I made the quickest post I possibly could. If that made the top 6, what does it say about my other posts?
And now for my personal top five, again in no particular order;
1. What I Would Do if I Could Live in Any Time Period - I felt that I did a good job with this one. This may have been mainly because I felt all smart quoting books and speeches, but oh well.
2. What I Would Do if I Could Meet Any Ten People in the World - This was technically three posts, but I enjoyed writing all of them. Thats all I've got for you on that one.
3. What I Would Do if I Recounted my Acting Career (and why Joining a Play is the Best Thing you'll Ever Do) - I put this here just so that I can say it once more; acting is awesome.
4. What I Would Do if I Could Write a Letter to Peter Jackson Concerning the Hobbit Movies - It was just fun to rant at this guy. Those movies were awful.
5. What I Would Do as a Job (Top Ten) (Part II) - Again, this one was fun to write. I wonder if I could combine all ten of those jobs into one? I could be a professional soccer player in the space-leagues and write books about it, while cooking famous stuff on the ISS, and playing the oboe in my free time for tips... oh, this is never going to work. Seriously, though, they should install a soccer field on the ISS and make a youtube video of them playing in zero-g. I'd watch it.
And those are our lists! Seriously, go check those posts out. I'll have links up soon, but for now... there's more to come tonight. It's time for some shout-outs from Laura. Says she;
Shoutout to that awesome, religiously faithful Russian robot. Shoutout to my beloved brother and co-blogger Mark. Shoutout to my computer for not dying yet. Shoutout to my brain for being totally weird and having fun ideas. Shoutout to my fingers for reliably typing. Shoutout to my glasses so I can see what I'm typing.
And now for my own shout-outs. First of all, thank you to those two Canadian people who seem to give us most of our views. Wait...
Thank you to the american people and robots for your 218 views. It's because of you we have some weak faith that a real person is actually reading our blog.
Thank you to the following countries for your views; France, with 13 views, Germany with 5, Poland with 3, Indonesia with 2, and Belarus, the UK, Ireland, Malaysia, and Russia for your 1 view each. There may have been more countries but the blog only records the top few countries.
Also, thank you to google for letting people search us up. Apparently, people have found our blog by searching "If I had $100 writing," "what to do in harry potter land," and "who lived in the Louvre." Thank you, people who searched those phrases. I don't know why you then flipped to the 100'th google search results page and found us, but oh well.
I also want to thank the academy, and my parents. I want to thank both of my sisters. I want to thank my cat. And now, I'm going to stop, which I'm sure will make you thank me for doing so.
Finally, a few announcements. First of all, I have something rather exciting possibly planned, which I'd like to talk over with Laura. Second of all, I hope to have Julia guest blogging at one point, as I think it's high time you were introduced to her. Lastly, I'd like to set the record straight and say that right now we have 790 views. Lets see how that compares at post 200!
Until then, thanks so much for reading this, and all our other posts, and we'll see you soon.
-Mark (and, I'm sure, Laura).
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