That’s right, this entry marks the 100th post of Musings of a Procrastinating Author, and we’re gonna have a monster party full of statistic analysis, goodies for you AND me, waxing and waning about nothing in particular, and a lot of fandom related gifs. SO LET’S PARTY.

First, the statistics. I started this blog on Livejournal to talk about writing and to promote my works/name a couple of years ago but posted very sparingly. Well, that changed about a year ago when I “discovered” Blogger and decided to move shop there. I imported my Livejournal version (although I still mirror most posts there) and the rest was history. There were still moments of not posting much due to, well, a lot of “problems” in 2010/early 2011 and the fact that I moved across the world. But now that I’m settled posting is just another thing, man.

But you don’t care about hte history. You just want the cold, hard facts.

Like how I’ve been holding out that, for only 35 followers at the time of posting this, and having 100 entries, I have 16,873 page views, not including my own.

I didn’t think this was much until I saw people with journals with more comments, followers, entries etc celebrating just 1000 views. Oh. WELL. Well, damn. Where are all these views coming from? AND WHY AREN’T PEOPLE FAWNING OVER MY JOURNAL, HUH.

This is why Blogger has that nifty stats page, though. They tell you what posts have the most views and where your traffic is coming from. So…let’s see…my two most visited entries can be seen in the lower side bar…the one about irony, and the meme one about making maps.

Why?

Blogger says my top key search terms ARE:

Troll’d. Especially by the Russians.

So, people aren’t visiting my blog because I’m awesome, it’s because they think irony and JRR Tolkien are awesome. Oh, well. I will agree with at least one of those things being totally awesome. But on the other hand, I ‘ve been getting a lot of views recently from other sources, such as twitter and facebook where I post links to my entries, so yay! Also, getting views from other blogs linking to me! It’s, like, happening you guys! I’m a real blogger now!

Aw, so many warm fuzzies. Of course, none o fthis would be possible unless I had people following, commenting, and making me excited to blog about my biggest passion in life. (I would write stories regardless, but you now, validation for extracurriculars are BOMBIN’) So I’d like to thank you, yes YOU reading this right now for being amazing and awesome and giving me the warm fuzzies. Even if you only came here to steal a map of Middle Earth. Because, well, I do what I can to rope you in.

That said, I said I had goodies for me AND you, so let’s get to it!

First, for me! Leah over at Leah Writes Pretty Fierce gave me two Blogger awards today (look at her fantastic timing, what a swell chapess~) and they’re my first awards! I received The Versatile Blogger award and The Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award, posted below for your viewing pleasure.

I think I’m supposed to do something with them, but let’s save that for next week when I have, you know, some more time and this isn’t just party post. As much as I love party posts, well, you know…

MOVING ON. Now it’s time for my gift to you!

To thank you all for putting up with my SHAMELESS CHARACTER spam, I now present you the original blank file for your own character-profilin’ pleasure. This is a sheet I came up with on my own, but no need to credit if you post something somewhere. I like this one myself because it’s detailed, but not so exorbitantly so that it takes half a day just to fill it out for one character – if I stay focused it takes me about a half hour to 45 minutes to fill out. Anyway, here you go~

Party over. Back to work.