On exactly this day, August 28th, 2014 (which was half a decade ago), I created my first post on this Blogger blog. It wasn't my first blog post ever, despite its title. That sounds weird, but that's since This and That, Here and There didn't get its start on Blogger. I started blogging about half a year before that, on a platform called Squidoo. I was just a third-grader then, but clearly still loved writing about anything I was obsessed with. I didn't get many views, but that didn't matter to me at all (views still  don't really matter to me nowadays). I was heartbroken when I found out that summer that my blog would be lost forever. Squidoo was being bought by another company, HubPages (which I should've predicted when I saw the ads that suddenly appeared on all Squidoo blogs indicating that the company was in deep financial disdain). As a result, I was unable to continue to blog until I completed the transfer from my blog from Squidoo to HubPages. ...

To celebrate the TTHT Blog reaching the landmark goal of 100 thousand views, here is the (long overdue) ultimate special post! It will double as the history of my blog, and a behind-the-scenes post, and you may  just learn some little known facts about me and my blog along the way. Without further ado, here is the complete history and evolution of my blog, from 2014 to now! History of My Blog Humble Beginnings Four years ago, I started blogging. I was just a 3rd grader, and knew little of computers or writing. All I knew was one thing: I wanted to make my own website. Inspired by YouTubers and online newspapers, I asked my dad if I could make my own. He spent some time looking for a free, easy to use site for blogging, and came across... Squidoo. That's right. My first blog wasn't on Blogspot. Squidoo, a small website builder, was all I really needed to get right into the swing of things. I wrote about whatever my 8-year old mind felt like writing about,...

Two weeks have passed since I reached 30,000 views. In that time I gained an additional 4,000 views. And yet... I still haven't made my special post for it yet! In case you remember, a month ago I made a post with a link to a Google Form where anyone could ask me questions and I may answer them once I reach 30 thousand views. The time has come to do so! First of all, I would like to say a big fat THANK YOU to all of those who helped me get to this goal. Without your help and support, my blog would never had reached to the point it has now! In fact, I may have given up blogging in the beginning if I had never reached my first words. So to emphasize this, I may as well bold and italicize it: THANK YOU!!! Due to the amount of submissions I received, I can not show them all in this post. Also, not all of them were even questions. (Yes, I'm pointing to you, those people who just spammed stuff like "john cena blah blah shrek" as their response!) This po...