Thirteen Reasons I am sad to say goodbye I excitedly logged onto Thursday 13 this week only to see the following message, "There will be no fowarding address, and no change of hands in the Thursday Thirteen management. As the founder and creator, I get the heartwrenching decision of finalizing and closing the door to this baby of mine that I’ve nurtured for the last 81 weeks of my life." Yup, Thursday Thirteen is shutting down. So, without ado, here is my final Thursday 13. 1. I found interesting blogs I never would have otherwise discovered. 2. Thursday 13 felt like an online community and I found myself eagerly anticipating the list of some of its members. 3. I began to make lists in my head all week of 13 various things, wondering which I would use on Thursday. 4. Sometimes, 13 seems like a long list and sometimes, it was much too short. 5. Hopefully, Thursday 13 helped to find Kaos, a homeless dog, a loving place to call home. Or at least made people aware of her need for one. 6. No matter how wonderful or miserable my Thursday had become, someone else had a list the was happier or sadder. It made me feel normal. 7. People are really funny - even when they don't mean to be. 8. I used the code to start teaching myself a little HTML. 9. I learned about what people like to read on blogs and began altering non-Thursday Thirteen blogs to fit those topics. 10. Thursday Thirteen added a little color to my otherwise two-tone blog. (See, I am not that good at HTML yet...) 11. Because other posts are typed on word and cut and pasted into blogger, but this one is written into the template, I got really good at shielding my computer screen at work from prying eyes. 12. Writing the Thursday Thirteen always reminded me of every other thing I had to do that day. 13. I would get really excited everytime I remembered it was Thursday in time to participate in the Thursday 13!

This is the final Thursday 13, as the owner of the site is shutting it down. So, while I would love to have comments and hear from other 13'ers, there will be no link to them posted on this page this week. Just when I was getting into it too....