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This is the first time I’ve ever announced or decided to celebrate – but this blog is now SIX years old. It’s weird to me to think the blog has been around this long. The first two years hardly count though since 2006 had only 5 posts and 2007 had only 6 posts (ooo, one more than the year before). 2008 is when posting started to happen regularly.
It makes me cringe a little to read the old posts and see the old photos, like this one:
The pink cookie looks pretty washed out. Actually… now I kind of want to try making some pink cookies. Hmm.
Even after six years there’s still so much to learn and so many ways to improve. There are still so many more places to visit and so many more desserts to bake!
Thank you for reading my little blog and joining me on this journey. As a thank you I’m doing a little giveaway!
In the spirit of adventure, I am giving away a $30 gift card from Gift Rocket to be used at your favorite restaurant (or that hole in the wall that you’ve passed by a thousand times and are curious about but have never actually gone in there).
To enter:
1. Leave a comment about what restaurant you’d like to try out with the Gift Rocket gift card.
2. For an additional entry, “Like” This Tasty Life on Facebook
3. For another entry, post about this entry on Twitter (or, follow me on Twitter @kyten).
4. For a final entry, follow this blog via your favorite RSS feed (note: if you already follow, that’s okay! Just leave as a separate comment).
Please leave a separate comment for each of the above. Giveaway ends next Tuesday, May 29th at 8PM PST. Good luck and thanks for reading 
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A very happy anniversary to your blog, Mary. I can share with you the embarrassment of my early, EARLY posts. Let’s just account that to growing pains of maintaining a blog. Look at it this way: if we didn’t have those embarrassing horrible posts from the start, we wouldn’t see where we came from to measure our growth.
I have no idea what Gift Rocket is but I would probably use it to buy some decadent dessert at Heaven Sent.
I just followed you! (I had no idea you had a FB page until now!)
And I just tweeted. Hat trick!
I’ve really been wanting to try Saltbox! It sounds really interesting. But also, your post on the Hungry Stick has been haunting me all week…
and I already follow you on RSS–does that count?
AND and, I have liked you on Facebook!
I would love to try anything new in San Diego. Always up for something new!
And I already follow you on RSS
Whoops. Forgot to say I follow you on RSS. Goodbye hat trick.
Steakhouses are someplace I never think to “just go”, but with a $30 gift certificate I’d love to give one a try! Maybe I’d put it towards a splurge at Fleming’s!
Also, I follow your RSS feed!
Congratulations!
Congrats Lady! Can’t believe it’s been that long.
I’ve been wanting to try a real meal (I grabbed a beer there once while waiting on a smog check) at Kaiserhof for what seems like forever. Sauerbraten!
Happy Blogaversary to you! 6 Years is a long time! Looking forward to many more years!
re: $30 giftcard….hmmmm, i would probably spend it at 2540 Bistro or Alexander’s (based on your recent post).
Congrats Mary!!
Those old photos just might become your favorite ones one day. It’s pre-instagram cool!
Hope you and Jake are doing well. Cheers
i want to try Applebees! I hear the food is delish! Thanks for a super giveaway!
I follow you on twitter @anashct3
tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/anashct3/status/205272472034082819
Thanks for this lovely giveaway!
Email: anashct1 [at] yahoo [dot] com
I subscribe via google reader as “anashct [at] gmail [dot] com
email: anashct1 [at] yahoo [dot] com
A Mexican restaurant called La Milpa is what I’d use it for.
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Happy Blogiversary to you, by the way!
I follow you on Facebook as Carolsue Anderson.
Digicats {at} Sbcglobal {dot} Net
I also follow you on Twitter as MsCarolsueA
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I subscribe with Yahoo Reader also (Carol Ezovski)
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I can dig it, 6 years in the Food Blogosphere and you havent written a book about food or started your own show? you slippin Mary, j/k lol. Congratulations on your 6TH Anniversary. If i could pick any restaurant to go to it would be Alexanders on 30th, cuz it looks so classy.
Maybe my favorite restaurant…Urban Solace!
or something I wanna try from your blog =D
Applebee’s
thanks for the chance!
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Happy Blogiversary! I think if I won, I’d finally go to Pearl Chinese Cuisine.
Also I already follow your RSS feed!
I would use it at Olive Garden
I follow TastyLife on Facebook as Jennifer Keefer
I would love to use it at Cheesecake Factory. My mom has never been there so it’d be fun to treat her for her birthday. Thanks for the chance!
I tweeted https://twitter.com/DeeGee13/status/206618580010278912
I like you on fb as Dee G
Happy Blogga-versary Mary!
A very merry blogiversary to you! I’ve never heard of Gift Rocket, but I’d probably go to Sushi Ota. or maybe get dessert. hmmm. tough choice!
Tweet tweet https://twitter.com/StuffedWitFluff/status/207529864323014657
And of course you’re on my Google Reader!
And just “liked” you on FB =)