Year in Overview: 2009

The end is near. Of the year, I mean. It was the year when this blog evolved from a poor-in-all-aspects place to the unpol­ished dia­mond it is now. From now on, it means to pol­ish it~

The Key Moments of We Love Maids

So, what exactly happened? Besides that Eugen watched more than 50 series, of course. I think there are a few key moments:

• We, back then con­sist­ing only of Eugen alone, move to our landlord’s county, the Kokido Kombine
• The first large per-post income of com­ments, includ­ing more fam­ous blog­gers, happens
• Naga­hara Aiko, back then known as Tsuki, our mas­cot, is born
• We dive into the purple spec­trum, or This Blog’s Design’s Birthday
• Aizen joins
• Llora and Ammy join
• We par­ti­cip­ate in two shit­storms: The Fan­art Ordeal and the OEG
• We release 3 Word­Press plu­gins: The Anime Tag­ging & Drop­down Wid­get; WT Co-authors; and the Do you read..? widget
• Eugen has almost writ­ten a Diary of an Anime Lived post
• We migrate from MyAnimeList.net to Melative.com
• We release Mel­Book for Melative
• This blog throws a stone at the win­dow of the webdesign-o-sphere with a sur­pris­en­gly pop­u­lar web­design post
• We par­ti­cip­ate in the 12 Moments of Anime 2009 post series

If said brief, exclud­ing all epis­odics, reviews, and everything else nobody cares about, this is it. I am thank­ful to our loyal read­ers, my co-authors, every­body who did a guest post for us for everything you have done — we wouldn’t reach the point we are at without your motivation.

Per­son­ally

Speak­ing per­son­ally and appar­ently for­get­ting that I spoke in third-person about myself in the above text, this year was one of the best of my life thus far. I have improved my Eng­lish from a col­lec­tion of words in ran­dom order to a level (so other people say at least) indis­tin­guish­able from a nat­ive speaker, with a more or less unique way of writ­ing, speak­ing, and blog­ging. Another won­der­ful hap­pen­ing of this year is more private, and I don’t want to talk about it to wider masses. I can just say that a beau­ti­ful feel­ing filled up my chest, not to com­pare to any­thing before in my whole life. But at the same time it’s so frail I’m afraid to breathe at it. I just hope that everything will work out and do my best for it.

As for the future

In the future, I will leave this place to Llora and Ammy more and more often. To Aizen too if he finds what to blog about. It’s not me giv­ing up or not hav­ing time — it’s that I became less inter­ested in blog­ging. I will set up a port­fo­lio page and become a hire­able web­designer instead. I’m not sure if I want to become a web­designer at the end, but while I’m still going to school it’s a nice income that isn’t unfun to do at that. Main thing when hir­ing me is, set a dead­line. Oth­er­wise I’ll slack off. I learned that from my own experience.

Also I will still be respons­ible for admin­is­trat­ing this place.

If you want to pub­lish your ori­ginal post here, to attract atten­tion to your main blog for example, you still have to con­tact me. Allowed themes are everything from the anib­lo­gop­shere and from the webdesign-o-sphere.

This as a sidenote.

Con­clud­ing

And in else, yes, this was a good year. I hope that the next one will be even bet­ter with the fruits of this one turn­ing into healthy trees.

I wish a happy new year to every­one, and to one espe­cially. May the luck and the hap­pi­ness be with you.

Ran­dom

Ah, and the most vis­ited and book­marked post for this year is the product of my acci­den­tial ingeni­os­ity and too much free time (back then): Hier­archy Of A Forum. (As of 30^th Decem­ber, it was vis­ited ~12k times and book­marked by ~125 people on StumbleUpon)