A celebration of my own labor

Or, I work hard-ish y’all!

Okay, well not that hard...

Photo credit: j3net

For labor day I thought it would be fun to take a look back over my most and least popular posts.

5 Most Viewed:

1. A WHOLE  chicken in a CAN what can I say? This is the post that will never die.
2. Pork brains in milk gravy although this one only has about 1/4 of the page views of CiaC, it gets more search traffic and might one day catch up. You know, because of the algebra and crap. There is probably a way to figure out when this will happen but my guess is we shouldn’t worry about it because we’ll all be dead by then.
3. People who need pupa are the pluckiest people I’m surprised this one wasn’t more popular as it had a video. Eh, you never know what the people will like.
4. Durian Candy a nice post, but nothing special. I think it got a major boost from being suggested at the bottom of CiaC
5. The Museum of Snack Foods just a list of all the MoSF posts I’d written to that date.

So it would appear that the only things I write worth reading are grody food posts. I like to think people come for the canned foods but stay for my other posts. Like these:

5 Posts I think deserve more credit:

1. All my Why I Hate My Message Board posts (WIHMMB for short). You know, I’m too close to them to really be able to judge their quality, but they are the whole reason I started a blog in the first place and as such they deserve to be read.
2. 6 Things I Secretly Hope are Included in Life Coaching it didn’t quite go that way, but it was almost as fun. This post was written around the time I felt like my blog was really starting to take off and reach a wider audience.
3. This is how we learned to be writers this post is about my high school days and how important writing was to me then. I was working on a series but it sort of fizzled out. This post is on my mind today because I’m working on another post related to this for this week.
4. Is racism the new N-word? I think I could have written this better, but I loved that it seemed to spark a lot of discussion. I don’t think we’re ready to stop talking about race in this country, not by a long shot.
5. Money, money, money, MONEY from my plausible explanations for inexplicable crap series. I don’t know if it’s one of my best posts, but it’s one of the few that my husband has spontaneously complimented me about, which means a lot to me.

I feel for the people who find my blog on accident while looking for something more useful.

5 popular search terms used to find this blog

(note each term got at least 50 visits over the last year)

1. Slanket coupon – I keep looking for one to add to my slanket post but so far no luck.
2. ascii lolcat – good ol’ ascii lolcat! It’s been good for 4-5 visits a week since I put it up.
3. creepy songs – I think people are looking for haunted house music and get Corey Hart instead.
4. 5 things I’m addicted to – I’m baffled that anyone would search for this particular phrase but people do a few times a week
5. lazy people – Heh, my mom was right about me. You look up lazy people on Google and I pop up!

Thanks everyone for reading this blog and making it so much fun! Hope everyone who celebrates it has a great and restful labor day weekend!