Today is our anniversary. I only remembered a few days ago. Today is the one-year blogaversary of bathingsuitplaces. Last year, I was spending a lot of time with my computer, and I began to get interested in blogging. Lapster suggested that we start a blog. So began the hunt for a good name and several lengthy discussions on what we would write about. He and I had always teased when we discovered something great like new music or a tech gadget that it “touched us right down to our bathing suit places.” Also, I have always felt like the best vacation is the kind in which you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is put your bathing suit on. And so the blog was born . . .

Our first post on January 26, 2006:

Title: First Entry
Posted by Lapster under Technology , Arts , Design , Holiday , Friends & Family , Gadgets , Feminism , Blogs , Creativity , Pure Fun , Activism , Poetry

This site is about stuff so good, it touches you in your bathing suit places… It’s about everything good, anything good. It can be a movie, like ‘Walk the Line‘. It’s whatever you fall in love with, can’t get enough of, and makes you happy. They can be old things, too. Like memories of a trip to places like Glacier National Park or tech gadgets, like this great site http://www.shinyshiny.tv/ (link provided by VTgirl).

As you can see we didn’t’ have any specific ideas we were just going to write about anything and everything for a while. Over the year, we have written about design, science, politics, and gadgets, and on and on. When Lapster first put the site together we discussed colors, style, layout and he was filled with unwavering patience with me. I was a blogging virgin.

So on this our first anniversary I guess I just want to say thank you Lapster. I love you very much. You have been unending in your support of Bsuit and you are an excellent blogger. Every time I say – “I wish bsuit. . .” you make all my website dreams come true. But above and beyond the technical work, it has been a great creative project that we could work on together. I love reading your words, and seeing all the great pictures that you have taken of us and our adventures. I am so lucky to have you in my life as a co-blogger and as a partner.

I love you.

Thanks to all our family and online friends who have read the blog over the past year. I hope we will spend the next year making bsuit even better! Enjoy!