The Friendaversary

We make up words, I admit. Heck, I am a wordsmith for all I know! So it was fun to have a chance to chat with my good friend Jason Sanders recently and mention about the fact that our Friendaversary is coming up. Yes, I made up this word (or maybe we made it up together?)

Jason and I met and became friends at last year’s Twestival, which this year is on March 24th, 2011, and again organized by another good friend of mine, Rebecca Bollwitt).

I don’t really think Rebecca and I actually have a friendaversary date set in our calendars, although I would fathom that perhaps our friendaversary would be the end of July every year (as we both did Blogathon 2007 and that sort of triggered our friendship).

With other good friends, like Arieanna and Ianiv Schweber, Derek and Airdrie Miller, Beth Snow, Tod Maffin, Isabella Mori, I’d say my friendaversary falls around Northern Voice (as is the case with many of my other friends from the blogging community).

With my friends Gus and Russ I don’t have a specific friendaversary date, but I do have a very fond memory of when Gus took Russ and I for dinner after my 2008 Blogathon.

And of course, I do have a specific friendaversary with Minna Van and Jay Catalan and the rest of the team at The Network Hub, which is April of 2008. Almost 3 years I’ve been at The Network Hub. Can you imagine? My, how time flies! I can even remember the very first time I set foot at The Network Hub, which was in April of 2008 when I liveblogged one of the very first Third Tuesday that I ever attended. I am so glad I did, because I managed to build a very strong friendship with the whole Network Hub team (even more so with Minna and Jay). So here is my question to you – do you ever celebrate your ‘friendaversaries’?