This is a few hours early, but I don't think I'll remember to post it tomorrow. Also, I posted it VERY early, one month ago today. Ray saw it. The rest of you who did: heh, sorry for the false alarm. This is the real deal.

Funny how time slips away from me. By this time I'd already wanted to get pinkwota.com completely set up on Wordpress. One year ago, Ru and I decided to make this little blog and post rotating reviews and/or good J-Pop downloads to share with our friends who might not otherwise have the desire nor the access. We both started off with nifty little articles chock-full of downloads, and already the potential for our combined J-Pop love became apparent. Now it's a year later. I've gained so many friends, we've all gone through so many things, our Pink Wota family has grown by three other bloggers, we've had guest bloggers, we've seen International Wota's first birthday, we've seen Eggs go solo, units disband, singles fly and singles flop. I've called things wrong, I've called things right. There have been arguments, there have been laughs.

I've done a lot of things around these internets since I first had my 28.8 Prodigy connection back in 1996, but I can say that in all that time not much has been as rewarding to me as a writer and a fangirl than Pink Wota. Sure, fandom is fine in any capacity, but unless you're writing it purposefully with the intention of changing the names later (>__> what, who's doing that? Not me), fanfiction always leaves an empty feeling inside, no matter how much you might love it as your work. I love my work for Pink Wota, and I want to constantly make it better. For myself, as a writer (especially with the advent of Intl Wota Press, which may be my first ticket to true publication. Because this novel doesn't seem to be getting edited. I'd make a joke about a layer of dust, but I wouldn't actually be kidding), and for the readers.

I really hope you all enjoy what's gone on here at Pink Wota v.1. v.2 is on the horizon, mostly because LiveJournal's Domain Aliasing technologies are terrible and I'm not paying for pinkwota.com without any thoughts toward expansion. I may even brave the waters of blogging sites I'm unfamiliar with. I do so hope you'll all follow me when that time comes. Pink Wota's LJ will remain open and active, unless all my fellow bloggers decide they want to follow me with accounts to update on Wordpress (where you can currently find the parked post heralding Pink Wota v.2).



...no cupcakes, sadly. No time for even making a suitable dinner for myself. Grand Opening is tomorrow. Ganbaremasu.