It’s been a year since Tololy’s Box was born and I can’t believe it’s been that long.

Last summer I decided to start a public blog, this was some sort of “phase two” of my blogging life. I had read that to perfect your writing you need to write on a daily basis, so I grabbed myself an account at Blogspot.com and announced the birth of Tololy’s Box like this:

Hello anonymous readership!
I think I should share some basic info about myself with you…just to let you form a mental image about the person behind the words.

Back in 1984, I celebrated my coming to life with a cry and a slap on the butt.
I think I’m as human as they come. A humble balance of good and bad, saint and sinner…
I am a Jordanian/Circassian young woman…and I study Modern Languages (namely Italian/English/Hebrew/Japanese) … I chose this major simply because it was,at the time that I got to pick,the most reasonable option. I had had a notion some four years earlier that I would like to study Italian… well when I got squeezed I chose it. I am ever so glad I did, this major is culturally enriching in ways I never imagined possible.

I am currently in the states but I’m heading home soon… and it’s odd how much I miss home. It’s true what they say, you don’t realise what you got till it’s gone.
Enough of all the puffed up talk. I love animals. I just terribly adore them, mainly felines & reptiles… chances are I’ll have a cat or a reptile pet any time of the year.

I have a taste for the finer things in life,I love art history and mythology and I always try to read up about them..but you can never read enough now can you? Literature interests me and some of it affects me deeply, I read Arabic and English literature…Oscar Wilde and Khalil Gibran being my all-time favorites.
I must also confess that I enjoy intelligent people immensely…A good brainy conversation is such a rare thing , I’m both blessed and lucky because I came across some extremely intelligent people in my life… and they just keep me going.

Now my blog will probably contain entries that deal with issues on the personal level,be they inner thoughts and/or feelings or some events that I find personal and would like to share with you, my readership. It will contain entries that deal with life in general and others that quote articles or link to websites… I might even post some of my writings here! Just about anything and everything….

I started blogging in January,2004 on a different site. This was the right time to move my blog, I thought, a week ago, and here I am. On a last note,this is an introductory entry so don’t quote me just yet!

The first two comments I got on that entry were from Roba and Lina, and that was such a nice gesture from them.

What’s very fascinating to me is how I have come to grow and document that growth, so to speak, through my Box. I could physically feel the changes my personality and my writing, as well as my choice of topics, have undergone in the space of this year. This is my social experiment.

Do you remember how the old Tololy’s Box used to look like? In case you’re not old school, or you have a poor memory, this will help refresh it for you:

Ah, the scent and feel of the old days, it’s pure beauty. Today I celebrate with you year one of Tololy’s Box’s life, which will extend until I run out of ideas; a highly hypothetical situation like I told Kinzi my friend.

I have been committed to posting one entry a day throughout most of the past year but now with the new pace my own life has taken, the Box will follow a new routine. I will try to blog twice or three times a week, but that is not a rule. I will no longer limit myself in posting rules, that challenge is over and won.

What’s left for me to say is to thank each and every person who has taken the time, at any point, to read into the Box. Your time is a great gift, one I would never have dared ask for. That is not to forget your support and the amazing exchange of knowledge that you afforded me. I am much obliged to all who read my mind, all who commented on it, and all who dropped me their minds.

Welcome to Tololy’s Box, dear anonymous readership.

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