Fifty for Fifi

Some of you reading may know that Fi and I met via a blogging challenge.

More than a decade ago now (2011 to be precise), I decided to join a transtasman library industry blogging challenge to blog every day of June, known as #blogjune.

Participants would register their interest and a list was posted by the organisers. From there on it was up to participants to either follow and read who they wanted to or to follow the blogjune hashtag on Twitter.

I went to the list and opened up dozens of blogs in new tabs. Some I just couldn’t get into, others I could so I set up to add them to my RSS aggregator. One of them, of course, was Fi.

Did I drop all to pursue her there and then? Absolutely not. Did I notice her? Absolutely. At the end of that first month in June 2011, she dropped a post with a video. The video was of her singing “Dream a Little Dream of Me”. I was touched by her vulnerability and bravery. As a musician and performer myself, the way she put herself out there was inspiring.

After that, mutual follows and growing friendship and now here we are, 9 years married last week.

So what’s the story here, then?

A blogging challenge is how we met, so a blogging challenge is how I’ll celebrate her life so far. Please join us in that celebration. The challenge is to create fifty (plus a couple more) days of blogging to celebrate my now wife’s 50 years of living. Each day will include a song from a year of her life going from 1975 to 2025. There will be musings around that song and our life together. Simple? Simple.