Stardust

Hey everyone,

As you may have all already guessed (due to my inexplicable absence over the past few of months) Stardust has come to an end. I was kind of putting off ‘officially’ ending the blog in a hope my blogging spirit would conjure itself up again but sadly that isn’t the case.
I haven’t been checking the blog stats and comments regularly and just checking now, was amazed to find that hundreds of you are still visiting the site each day. I really felt that it wasn’t fair to leave everyone hanging like that, especially if people were checking if I had returned, so decided to post about it. A little over a year ago, one of my favourite blogs abruptly ended with no real explanation. It upset me a bit and I was constantly checking, hoping it would return. I promised myself when I started this blog that I wouldn’t do that to my readers - but look where we stand now I’m sorry if anyone has experienced anything similar here, I probably should have announced this MUCH earlier. I apologise.

So that’s the bad news. There is some good news, in some ironically twisted way: over my hiatus the blog soared past the 100K hit mark and is somewhere in the 110-120K range at the moment. So yeah … yay Thanks for that guys!

Just to explain myself (if I haven’t done so already), I’ve basically had little to no time to devote to blogging since I started my new job. Sure, I know most Bloggers are hard working individuals with either full time jobs or educational commitments - so why can I not balance it like other people? I guess I’m one of those people who is a bit of a perfectionist. Any posts I made were meticulously crafted - I tried to make them the best I could and spent far too much time in the process on even the smallest of updates. I can no longer devote that amount of effort and time and I can’t really get passionate about something I don’t put my all into. I did enjoy and love blogging and met some great people, who I sadly admit I have also neglected lately. Ahh~ so many apologies. Sorry!

Also, my fandom for H!P has been wavering lately. As most of you may know, I was a HUGE Kanna fan. When I heard Kanna had left H!P, I felt a strange sense of indifference and it was then that I realised that I just don’t really care as much for H!P as I once did. Not that I don’t still adore the girls and think they are fantastic… I just don’t have that grip anymore, especially for the kids. Morning Musume still has my utmost attention and will as long as they keep the current lineup (got my NR singles recently woooo) but yeah, non-MM doesn’t excite me as much. I hope that my fandom will return one day - perhaps I just need a break? We’ll see.

Thanks again for everyone who visited the blog and commented. It was really all you guys who fueled on my blogging, especially since moving to intlwota.com when more and more people started visiting the blog. It made me happy to see so many comments, I felt like after months and months of blogging for nobody that people were finally enjoying what I was working hard on. It was a great learning experience and just furthered my belief that the online H!P community is all sorts of awesome! On that note: Please be sure to check out International Wota for all that wota goodness (I’m sure everyone is doing so already just wanted to let those out of the loop know what an awesome site it is!) Also check out the blogs in the blogroll on the right. Many of the owners are pals of mine and they are all truly great Bloggers! (also Miracle Sexy Dynamite, the BEST TNX/NGP blog out there!)

Thanks so much readers. I enjoyed out time together.
Peace out, Mars.