It’s time to celebrate my doing bensbitterblog for 1 year now. Oooh let the celebrations begin. Let’s applaud me for doing something for a whole year. Especially something really hard like writing about things that irritate me and make me bitter. I should be so proud of my accomplishment. Let’s be honest. There are at least a thousand things that I have done for at least a year, so congratulations, not at all to me. Let’s just take a look at one or 10 of the thousands of things that I have done for more than a year, most of which have not recieved an anniversary celebration.
I have had 2 kids that have survived 5 years and 8 years with me and Mrs. Bitter Blog has been with me for almost 13. They are the ones that should get a celebration every year to commemerate how long they have been with me. Maybe some year I will do that.
I have been on Itunes for 11 years. I have downloaded overpriced, crappy, garbage albums just so I can get one good song. Thanks for helping me perpetuate that tradition all the way from 8 tracks to cassette tapes, to CD’s and now digitally, Itunes. Maybe I should steal music like everyone else.
I have played Gears of War since September 2011 until now. That is like a year and a half anniversary for a game that I paid $60 for. That should be rewarded with an anniversary.
I had a friend for over a year once. It was a long time ago, though and I can hardly remember what his name was or why I was friends with him(probably because we ate paste together), but kindergarten was a good year. It’s been all downhill since then.
It’s been 4 years since our company discontinued using the Red Solo cups, but not before I took a sleeve of them. It has been 4 years of using cool plastic cups instead of the yucky paper coffee cup stuff they provide now.
I have a pair of Bose over the ear headphones that have been with me for 3 years. Well, until recently. Unfortunately, they were sent to the Hip Hop City in the sky when I got my Beats by Dre headphones for Christmas. The viewing was sad, but the wake was lovely (we were there, but not really “there” as we had our nice new headphones on).
I have had a hamburger twice over a years time at a burger place near the Great Wolf Lodge. It was delicious, but not near big enough. I mean a burger should take at least two days to eat.
I have had my smart phone and haven’t broken my contract with them for over a year(I might just make it two years and complete the contract just to spite them). As a non lover of phones in general and being available by phone 24 hours a day specifically, I have probably managed to use possibly 20 minutes in the year and three months of time. Luckily smart phones have other functions like text ignoring and internet browsing on your couch when you can’t possibly get up and grab your laptop 20 feet away. Happy 1 year and three month anniversary smart phone!
I have been in a Writer’s group for over 3 years. In that time they have told me that my story didn’t make sense, it wasn’t funny, the grammar was terrible, the dialoge shotty, the descriptions nonexistant, the logic unbearable, sentence structure completely wrong and a 175 other things that I can’t remember because my memory for good writing has been numbed by their overbearing criticism. But I am there every two weeks. Because how would I perfect my craft (of bitterness) without them?
Okay that was only 9 things(right? I don’t want to go back and count). But whatever, let’s go ahead and not celebrate a year of blogging about bitterness, because something this easy should not be celebrated. I mean, do I celebrate my many years of couch sitting or TV watching or internet surfing? Yes, yes I do.
Bitter celebration all around. At least Tommy Lee Jones (my new mascot) and grump cat are so excited. Can you see it on their giddy faces? Party time.
Arrrrrgggghhhhhgiversay
Bitter Benniversary
All images except the one of me are from Google.
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Happy anafrikinversary, how bout a mini review on those new headphones.
Best wishes
Mark
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They are awesome headphones especially the color. They don’t really make me bitter so they must be doing something right.
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Purple rules 😉
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It is the color of royals, who tend to be the most bitter of people, so yeah, purple rules.
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Wow an inadvertent play on words that happens to work beautifully. Gotta love it 😉
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yes, you do.
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HIlarious… love the bitter theme and the description of your family. Happy One Year!!
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My family probably wouldn’t agree. They think they should get birthday parties and anniversary celebrations.
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Great year in review! Two days to eat a hamburger – really?! Thanks for liking my blog, and hope you visit again for some more laughs.
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This hamburger was a pounder and I had already eaten before. Love me some laughs.
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There. There. I’m sure it’s not as bad as you say. And can’t you just download the one track you like instead of a whole rubishy album? And well done you for sticking with the bunch of critical nincompoops in your writer’s group. I mean really who cares about gramer setence structure and speling thes daiz?
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You can download just one track…sometimes. Other times, they want you to buy the whole album in order to get the one good song. That is how they always trick you.
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You mentioned a writing course. I took one in California in order to obtain FEEDBACK. They told me I used too many commas,,,,,,,, oh really? How freakin’ illuminating. If they loved my writing or hated it , I will never know. Their PARANOIA about commas bordered on the psychotic. I fooled them, I walked away and never came back. Comma indeed! By the way Happy Anniversay. (You didn’t hear it from me, but I think we all need MORE commas, and Anniversaries.)
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I definitely have a liberal use of commas in my story. Are you writing a book? Still in the process? Our group actually wasn’t that bad. I was way exaggerating. They spread it out a little. We all went to a writer’s conference in Seattle where we got to pitch our book ideas and that was fun. It is taking me forever, but I will get something published. Even if it is just a book about bitterness.
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Your blog melts my bitterness away and I begin to have renewed hope for humanity, the solar system, and nanoparticles.
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My blog is not doing its job then. It needs to cause so much bitterness that all you want to do is destroy humanity. Stop being my blogs ultimate nemesis!
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Wow. Better invisilliz than me. Grrrr.
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Are you getting bitter? Sounds like my blog is doing its job.
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My life is so much better now after reading your blog. I smile more. I wave to the townspeople. I give put more than chili in hobo cups. Soon, the entire world shall change!
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I am so bitter that you life is good. It will all my posts from now on.
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Love your anniversary blog. Can I narrate it for my podcast? I regularly narrate my favorite blogs, PR for you and me. You can listen here, http://kriskkaria.podbean.com/
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Absolutely. So I would be famous? You would leave my website address right?
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I can’t guarantee fame and fortune, sorry. But, I clearly identify the story as your blog in my podcast and I put a link to your blog on my podcast page.
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Great! So I will be famous!
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Its up and going out to my listeners (not sure how many there are), http://kriskkaria.podbean.com/. Your blog address is posted on my podcast page, too.
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thanks! I can’t wait to hear it out loud!
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Congrats on the milestone! You seem way beyond where i was after a year!
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You should have seen me 3 months ago. Complete and total crickets! Did you get the fancy badge from WordPress? Totally worth doing this a year!
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you are always worth reading with attention. Personally, I am glad you are bitter–making me a bittersweet gal, I suppose. Happy Bitt’versary, Buh-Buh-Buh-Bennie and Regrets!! 🙂
(I sounded that out, you know, to get the right number of buzz)
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I am actually glad I could mix this bitterness to make your sweet less enticing. Although I hope soon you will completely join the dark side.
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A year is a long time to be bitter! But congrats!
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Thanks. It takes a lot of work to be this bitter, but it was worth it!
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Dare I say it… but that didn’t sound bitter at all!
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Don’t you dare say that sounded anything but bitter! I smite thee with all my bitterness!
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Okay okay, it sounded less bitter than normal. Better?
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Not better… I am very bitter than you find my bitterness less than bitter this time. I will not rest until you find it more bitter than ever.
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How can I find “but it was worth it!” to NOT be bitter?!
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It definitely wasn’t worth it.
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Perhaps a little more bitter…
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If you say so…
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Happy Anniversary. Now celebrate by stealing some music. It’s the American way!
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With my luck I would probably only be able to steal garbage music like Celine Dion and Yawnni.
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It’s still free.
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Yeah, free to damage my ears.
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The burger photo really spoke to me today. Thanks for that moment.
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And when it spoke to you, what did it say? To me it said, ‘Get me another”.
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I’ve trained mine not to speak just to be silent and delicious.
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Very obedient burger and probably more tasty and less bitter.
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Happy Benniversary! Hoping the next year is even better
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Well, next year will definitely be bitter….
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Congrats on the year! I’ve nominated your blog for an award. Hope that’s okay. You can check it out on the mygaymom.com homepage if you want to participate. Please be bitter either way.
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Happy anniversary ….oops, Benniversasy! (?) I had quite fun here 🙂 Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving the Like.
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You do lovely poems and I don’t. That makes me bitter.
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Congrats, Bitters. Surviving one full year of any anything, especially cell phone contracts, is worth noting. I can’t say I’m as bitter this year as in years past. Perhaps I’m slipping?
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Keep working your best to try to be bitter like me. Sometimes it is hard work, but it is always worth it in the end.
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Thank you, Sensei. Your instructions guide me well.
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I am good at exactly one thing and that is being bitter. So I am doing my best to train my kohi’s.
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wow..a year..a people year even..congrats..our one year is coming up this week..and we are in anniversary party mode..congrats again..lilly
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In cat years? If that is the case, then I’ve only been doing this a few weeks. Or…uh, i can never get the translation right.
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Thank you for being so bitter that you bring me tears of laughter. I revel in your bitterness!
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I just hope that when you cry, they are they bitter tears. And when you laugh it is bitter laughter.
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Bitter is Betterer
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You bitter believe it!
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;(
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TL’s man servant told me to tell you congratulations. Grumpy Cat could not be reached for comment.
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I cannot believe that his manservant would do that. To hear from you, from the servant, from Tommy Lee himself makes me cry bitter tears of bitterness. Thanks for relaying that!
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You did it! I am glad that you are still here being bitter and getting more readers and commenters to complain about! Enjoy and relax! Take a load off! No, I am not meaning anything snotty, but you did say you wished hamburgers were bigger than the one that is the size of a puppy in your face!
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You should definitely stop being so snotty. That burger was only the size of my face. It needs to be a bit bigger to make my digestion system go bitter.
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happy bitterversary ,ben!
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Thanks, for your bitter words!
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lol…i didn’t mean them in a bitter way..i’m sorry. i just like alliteration.. i meant happy anniversary!
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I enjoyed your bitter words.
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oh ok.lol.. i think you are saying you enjoyed my first bitter words. you knew i wasn’t being mean.
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I am the mean one. All others pale in comparison to my meanness.
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lol.i never knew that.
i knew they paled in comparison to your bitterness.
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king of bitter!
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yes you are ! the king of bitter beer.
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No beer here for me. Don’t drink.
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sorry, i thought anniversary party had beer.
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i am really bitter that i can’t edit my comments.i meant to say you are not bitter about burgers, i see…i am bitter . they don’t make veggie burgers that big..
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I’m dreading another year full of bitterness and resentment… but I’m a masochist so I’ll stick around. 😉
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I’m glad that you are dreading it just as much as I am. I’m going to set the bar, at a whole new low. Look forward for things to go way downhill this year on the Bitter Blog.
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Congratulation 1 year is a long time!!! Your blog and your sense of humor are really unique. Happy Anniversary – Read something about party? I join 😉
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You may join the others at the party. As for me, I will be stewing in the corner and watching for things that will make me bitter so I can write about them later.
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Happy one year anniversary. At least you aren’t personally hitting a big year marker, like a 40th birthday. Now that will be something to be bitter about.
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Yeah, being 40 would make me bitter. Good thing I will never reach that age for a month.
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The Phonyon staff found your post to be quite bitter, bordering on acrid. One staffer suggested that, should you ever change your name to Steve, you might consider calling yourself Strident Steve. Enjoy a gin and bitters at your favorite establishment!
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I would like to thank the staff(is it a staff of one?) for using such big words that I will now have to go home and look up. That makes me bitter so I probably fall asleep on the couch while looking up the definitions.
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Rest well, your Bitterness.
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Rest is what I do best. Especially on the couch.
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Congrats on one year!!
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I just bogarted someone’s birthday and claimed that the decorations were for my blogiversary.
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Happy Blogoversary. Your bitterness makes me smile and that probably says something about me, but I am not going to take the time to figure out what because it’s probably not good. In the mean time I am looking forward to year 2!
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I promise the bitterness will only got more seething and intense. Or not. After this year of inconsistent blogging, I will celebrate by sitting and the couch and being lazy.
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Happy Anniversary. Your writing group sounds very supportive — like someone calling the suicide hot line and being placed on Hold.
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Hopefully they don’t read this, because they really are supportive. I kinda threw them under the bus. But they deserve it for making me rewrite stuff.
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