What does a life look like broken up into a thousand pieces?
Much like this blog I suspect. 
I began writing online in 2002. I couldn’t design my own websites at work – everything was template driven – and I’d been on webmonkey and learned html so I wanted to see if I could do it.
The first thing to do was come up with a sexy domain name. It was going to be a family website so I wanted something that represented us without using our real names. I started playing with the meanings of our names and ended up with redsultana.
This is what redsultana.com looked like back then:
It wasn’t until 2004 when I met James that I started using a blogging platform – Blogger.
Here’s one of my favourite posts from August 2004 – my first month using “proper” blogware. We’d seen this Hong Kong politician on the telly and we still quote her today. I wonder where she is now?
In 2005 we took some time off and spent part of that time in Italy. Oh Italy! It was fantastic. I want to live there.
In 2006 I turned 40. That still sounds old to me. 40 might be the new 30 but I still needed to get glasses.
And Groover won a trip to Ireland to watch the Wallabies get thrashed by the Irish at Landsdowne Road.
In 2007, I moved my blog to WordPress and opened up to the blogging world. I’ve met some great people both online and off. And I’ve enjoyed sharing my photos and observations and endless book reviews with you. Your comments so often make me laugh! (As does this photo of my two at Ennuin Station.)
And so we come to 2008. Where I met even more bloggers through Aussie Bloggers – even face to face.
Will I stop blogging? I can’t see it myself. I enjoy the daily discipline of putting my thoughts in some kind of order – what would I do with all those things that rush about my head at night if I had no one to tell them to?
So thank you. Thank you for being part of my life through this blog – from the beginning or from today – it’s lovely to have you drop in. And you know how I feel about the drop in!
To celebrate this milestone I’ve saved up 1000 entrecard credits which I’d like to share with you. Simply say hi in comments to be in the running and I’ll draw someone’s name out of the hat. It might be yours.
For those of you who don’t have a blog – say hi anyway.
To the next 1000 and beyond!
*chinks glass*
Damn it… really must watch that binge drinking…
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Congratulations!! I came about your website from the revolution website when looking for a theme for my site. Since then I’ve been reading your posts. You are so entertaining and it just feels good to sit down and read your post. We just got back from holiday so I had some catching up to do. Just so you know you are the only site I visit religiously. (I’ll let you know if I ever cheat on you!)
Have fun,
Angela
Congratulations! When so many bloggers are celebrating their 100 or 200 posts here you are with 1000! That is so impressive.
Yours was one of the first blog I followed regularly and was an inspiration to try it for myself and build a community. Plus you’re the only blogger I’ve met face to face!
Looking forward to the next 1000 posts!
Many congratulations on 1000 posts.. Wow!
I love coming by and never know what to expect from my visit.
I *Clink* my cup of tay to yours – the most Radiant Blog on the Net!!
Ken
BTW, I meant to say no need to include me in the Entrecard giveaway – I am going to bow out of it as soon as I re-design my blog – I just find it too labour intensive and don’t get that much out of it really. I have a few credits saved up myself – I have to decide what to do with them too!
Hey, congratulations on 1000 posts. I also turned 40 in 2006 and I also moved to Wordpress in 2007. I don’t have Entrecard so don’t count me in on that one.
Congragulations on the successful posts. Sometimes I’ll bet your mind feels like its fractured and no two thoughts are compatible. I’m having one of those nights so if this comments is disjointed. I’m sorry, I call this my chemo brain..and they told me could be up to a year after my last treatment (June 30th) before I’ll have the old brain back…which is really old..I’m 62 in July..;
Nice blog, I really enjoy stopping here…
Dorothy from grammology
remember to call your gram
grammology.com
Wow. You must be one of the blogging pioneers.
1000 posts? Incredible. What an achievement.
(And I don’t even know what entrecard credits are…so don’t count me in on that one either!)
Wow, 1000 posts? Well done you!
That would take me at least 4 years at my current rate. Well, another 3 anyway.
Here’s to another 1000 more
I look forward to them 
You are my hero lady sultana!
we sat down at my pc together
we converted blogger to wordpress
you are a shining star in blogland
your entries are real
and gentle
and funny
through your blog i’ve been introduced to others
who are out there so you’re a linker a joiner too
like some of your other fans i am your loyal one
or rather you are my regular
i look for a redsultana hit each day
you are a woman of talents blogging just one of these
and we see your shininess here in your blog
mum, worker, drinker, reader, lover, friend, kid, fashionista, shoe wearer, outback woman, blogger.
you are my blogging inspiration!
congrats on 1,000 lady!
*snort* fashionista!
Thank you all for your kind words – I really must do this 1000 blog thing more often. I have a grin from ear to ear.
Congratulations Cello.
As I sit in an airport lounge in Tokyo, with weird face-mask wearing locals, I count my lucky stars I stumbledupon you, you allowed me to cross-post and we ended up linking up.
Your (gracious) readers have all commented on the elements I fell in love with. Your wit, your intellect, your bolshiness, your irreverent and sometimes politically incorrect views, your tenacity and dedication, your unswerving loyalty to family and friends, your passion, your smile and even your frailities.
Redsultana is but a reflection of a soul and personality that truly shines. What we all read here (yes..I read them all!) is sound-grab of a truly wonderful person, mother and friend.
It comes across in all your posts – you don’t “blog” Redsultana, you are Redsultana.
Here’s hoping I still get a mention in post 10,000. Here’s a suggestion – How do you tell your partner he smells like an old person?
Until then, keep blogging, keep binge drinking with me and never EVER take life too seriously.
I love you.
Groover
Wow you must really miss me and you’ve not been gone 24 hours!
I love you right back.
xx
Congratulations on the 1000th post mark!!!
Congratulations on your millenium! And I thought I was so hot with 250 posts…
Congrats Cellobella. An AWESOME achievement and interesting to read an overview of your blogging life thus far.
Looking forward the next 1000 posts. 
I’m totally impressed that you started blogging without a platform!
1000 posts is impressive CB. A veritable history of blogging on one site. I just wonder how often you revisit blogs from the past and what was the maximum days between posts. An everyday commitment is hard to sustain. It is a great dsicipline. someone ought to be setting up a national blogging archive so that future generations will be able to take a temperature check of the age.
I have lost my first 50 or 60 posts using obsolete technolgy and not saving stuff somewhere else, so the integrity of your archive is terrific (the photo gallery is, however, a bit jittery).
Hello Cellobella. This is like visiting someone’s home – seeing your creativity. It’s a beautiful insight into your life. I love your pictures (insights by themselves) and the whole feel of your blog.
Always nice to come and visit. Like an old friend. All the best as you move forward with your blog.
That’s amazing to have written so much! Congrats on such a feat!
Amazing. That’s a lot of posts. I have been blogging for about two years…I don’t see myself stopping, either. It is addictive. Found you through entrecard…you have a nice blog!
congratulations on 1000 posts… very impressive CB.
I enjoy the pieces of your life and I enjoy your humour, wit and informative posts.
And the winner is… (as drawn by Holphin!)… Colin!
Thank you all for your kind comments and for reading my blog.
