Reacting to my Very First Blog Post!

Hello hello!

Before celebrating my 10-year blog anniversary tomorrow, I wanted to share with you guys my very first tea review. I also wanted to react to it! With this, I had to go way back to find some of my very first few posts, which I archived back in 2020 due to wanting to pretend some of the first posts never happened (...yes, they were that bad. You're about to see).

Well, since it's been so long, let's take a look at my very first review!

For this, we have to go back to the end of Janurary 17th , 2016 where I uploaded my very first tea review. The tea was a small 100g tea cake from Yunnan Sourcing, and upon finding this in my archives, this is what I found...

....Jesus Christ. I JUST started this and I'm already dying. Was this really the first introduction to my blog? Really? And the Pokemon reference?

"It's a tea session, but with more ass..."

Oh good Lord. Shoot me.

Oh my GOD. I don't know where to start. Why did I break the cake in half? And how did I create so much tea dust with it?! Even if I wanted to, I'm not sure I could even create so much tea dust if doing this now!

Also, why did I call the tea cake a 'mofo'?!

And 'Yo snoop, got any papers?'

I'm literally cringing so hard I could vomit.

Yeah, I'm also pissed off at you for wasting 8 grams of tea. Congrats, you managed to irritate future-you.

Ok, I want to pause here and question, why I didn't write the entire review like this? There's something solid here with the way I described the tasing notes. I'm glad there's a glimpse of me taking this seriously, but why didn't I keep doing it that way?

But also, why did I ever call a tea 'boring'?! I'd never do that.

I mean, I did.

But goodness...

Well, we got Rosanne Barr and Harry Potter in one review... I'm just, Im at a loss for words. I went on a ramble about wathcing Roseanne, and saying I'm 'anal about chipolte'. I think around this time, there was an E-Coli outbreak at Chipolte and several of their restaruants had to shut down? Something to that regard? Don't quote me.

Really, don't. This is all embarrassing.

Make it stop.

"Gurl are we on the RMS Titanic?"

Yes because right now I've been sinking with embarrassment. Thank GOD that's the end because I literally can't read any more of this.

Back when I posted this, I shared it on Reddit and the comment section was divided (here's the link if you want to look).

The top comment said my style was insufferable, and you know, I completely agree.

It's really interesting to see where I started, and how I grew into becoming the writer I am today. I really don't remember this review, or even remember why I went with this style. I did find my voice eventually, but I guess you could say I was learning in public.

While I'll never do an exercise like this without pepto again, I'm glad that you guys stuck around with me for over 9 years. I would have never imagined continuing my blog to this point, and can't wait to see how I'll continue to evolve.

With love,

~Cody

aka The Oolong Drrnk

"Blissfully Tea Drunk"

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