So this is my 900th blog post here at The Urban Daddy.
A lot has happened in the time it has taken me to write 900 posts here. 3 children, 8 years of marriage, a lot of education and thankfully, my writing has improved too. I’ve noticed that people actually read stuff I have written and I’ve started a professional tax / management / social media blog which has just over 100 posts on it, so I won’t bore all of you with that kind of yucky stuff here.
This post was actually ready last Monday, but I decided to wait until Thursday so I could capitalize on the Thursday Thirteen theme, but along the way I got my ass thoroughly kicked by a flu which has been slowly rolling through our household. My son Stewie started with it – received an anti-biotic – and still 5 weeks later coughs like a chain-smoker. Then my wife and daughter got hit around the same time, Boo had horribly goopy and runny eyes and had trouble sleeping at night. My wife, the woman who laughs off strep throat, had it and tried to rest where possible but both of them still cough and sniffle 4 weeks later.
As for me… It killed me. I’m on day 8, 5 of those days without a voice which has never happened to me before, and for three of those days my head is stuffed and I cannot hear out of my left ear. It throws off my balance. But the coughing is the worst and at times I felt like I was going to herniate another disc in my back. I think my abs might be in better shape after this, to be honest, but I’ve been pretty useless for over a week – fever, chills, sweats, exhausted… I’m so done with being sick.
So instead of letting another day fly by, I am tossing up this post, which is a list of the 13 most memorable posts to me, on this blog. I hope you will take some time and check back to some of the earlier ones to see how much has changed along the way.
So please sit back, turn the calendar back to 2004, and be prepared to read the 13 most memorable posts to this Urban Daddy of his first 900 posts.
1) This is my first post on this blog. Have to start somewhere, right.
2) Linus was born and we missed a major world tragedy in the process. Had to write about it.
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2004/12/28/we-had-a-baby-while-the-world-suffered/
3) The re-birth of my blog and my first angry rant at the TTC and other stupidities. I got great feedback on this post and it gave me confidence to be myself online, to blog smartly and continue to point out how much I detest stupidity.
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2006/05/29/ttc-the-betterway/
4) My first Thursday Thirteen from way back in 2006. (Loved the templates back then).
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/thursday-thirteen-i-hope/
5) Owie!!! Our kitten arrived and back then it seemed like a great introduction to the family. Now my kids look at that kitten, then look over at the adult-sized cat on the couch and wonder how that happened. “Did Owie eat that little kitten?”
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/whew/
6) I reposted this speech from the United Nations, an organization I believe is corrupt, useless and anti-Israel and by doing this I pretty much came out as being Jewish – something I had not really done before just because I didn’t feel like fielding comments from bigots and racists. Since that powerful post, and I hope that you do read this post, I have posted more and more as a means to educate people and to continue to stand up for what is right, just and fair.
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2006/08/04/very-powerful-speech/
7) Child #2 Arrives! Hello Stewie.
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/its-a-boy/
8) First post about me… I guess in always hiding behind a name, it was easy to never post about myself, but this post changed everything. Since this post, I even got a name; Warren.
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/thursday-thirteen-8/
9) I posted about the day I completed my graduate school for my MBA which I started 3 days after Linus was born. Work… School… Children. Exhaustion. It was a great ride, a ton of work and an opportunity to finally leave the government for the private sector. I owe my wife and family a ton of gratitude for putting up with me studying while at the cottage, late nights at the kitchen table and for being downright cranky and surely during the process. I also got a ton of A’s and a couple A+’s which I had never achieved before so that was sweet too.
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/i-am-so-done/
10) This was my first “overheard on a Monday” post where I realized after a couple years that if I arrived at the office before 7:30am, that I could listen to my two neighbours talk about their weekends. I used to tune them out and get right to work until one day I realized they were talking nonsense, something about double-reverse osmosis, so I called them on it – brought in my wife the chemistry teacher to back me up, and from there I had gems for my blog like no one else. These are must read posts, as well.
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/overheard-on-a-monday-returns/
11) The First Urban Daddy Official Canadian Coffee Shop Rankings. I’m on year 4 currently and have received feedback and Twitter love from all the main chains, Country Style, Starbucks Canada, Java Joes, Tim Hortons and Timothy’s.
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/urban-daddys-coffee-shop-rankings-2009/
12) Boo is born! Insert huge sigh of relief that this one is a girl, and please book the vasectomy appointment…
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/its-a-girl/
13) My absolutely most popular post ever. On the Ontario election. My views on this post were 10000% more than any other post, and some of my comments were tweeted along the live election feed of CP24. I felt engaged. Now, however, that total mocks me, as I get closer and closer to it, but it will be a long time before I can reach it again.
Thank you for being along for the first 900, and I look forward to many more posts and some great comments and contributions from all of you.
Honourable mentions:
My many posts on the Canadian Live-in Caregiver Program.
My series of posts on IVF, highlighted below for their critical importance in this day and age;
https://urbandaddy.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/so-why-the-interest-in-ivf/
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The Urban Daddy® 
Congrats on the 900th post. How brilliant to look back on past blogs, a real memory jogger.
Hope your feeling better very soon.
Here’s to the next 900 😀
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Thank you so much for the kind comment. I started to think about 900 as being a milestone until I posted my #833rd post and I noticed others were posting #5432 or #4099. That was when I knew it had to be a catchy topic and I started to think about something I would hate having to do – going back and reading through all my old posts – I must have corrected 90 of them.
I could correct 810 more if I had the time. LOL.
Slowly getting back on my feet, thanks for asking.
Warren
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