NaBlo what now?

So, many of my friends from the Internets participate in NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. I think it's a little insane, but highly admirable. God knows I couldn't do that.

So through the lovely Meghan, I learned about a highly amusing alternative - NaBloPoMo. Being a sucker for insane acronyms, I decided to learn more about this insanity - National Blog Posting Month. Basically, you have to post at least once a day. Every day. For the entire month of November.

The only time this may be a challenge will be Baltimore Weekend (aka THE BEST WEEKEND EVER), as I'll be too busy tearing up the town and playing with Garth to pay the Internets much mind, or possibly Thanksgiving. But these days, I eat up any challenge!

So, I guess I should make it worthwhile or productive or something...some people use NaBloPoMo to keep a record of progress on goals they should be accomplishing, things they're learning, etc., and I thought, hey...I have goals. Sort of.

When I got back from New York, all empowered and inspired, I actually made a list. A kind of long, detailed list. I'd bought a blue spiral notebook intending to use it as a place to write out minimum-one-page responses to plays I'd read / progress on other stuff. Even though I already have a ginormous private journal on Microsoft Word. (And with these two things, I still started this blog. I'm starting to consider the possibility that I'm obsessed...with myself...)

I'll spare you from the uncensored nerd-ery of that list, but here's basically what I wanted to do...

Tuesday, August 28th

1. Eat better / Learn to cook!
2. Exercise & such
3. PORTFOLIO (immediate accomplishment tragically thwarted by upheaval of homelessness and move)
4. Read...plays, books I own, literature
5. Write...about what I read, about everything else
6. Use Netflix if I'm going to pay for it...see movies I should be ashamed of not having seen!
7. Budget...use OCD passion for organization and tables in Word to freaking keep track of what I spend

The beginning of the "school year" (whether you go to school or not) always feels more like a new year than New Years Day does. For me, anyway. It just occured to me that I wrote that on the first day of school (or did they start on Monday? that would make it less cool) for my CNU loves. Anyway, I suffer from the same thing that everyone on earth does...you make resolutions, you set goals, and you inevitably disappoint yourself, even if you don't completely fail.

Well, the amazing thing is...I've been doing every single thing on that list. Consistently. True, I haven't finished my portfolio in the 45 days I promised Garth I would on my last day in New York, but my homelessness made that challenging! It's disappointing that I'm not further along, but I'm not ignoring it. Completely. Some goals started out strong and are tapering a bit...the reading/writing about what I read has become a challenge as of late.. Some goals I wasn't able to fully get a handle on right away...it took me until October to really get in the habit of keeping a record of my finances, but I did it and I'm keeping up with it consistently, for the first time ever.

So...um...I guess what I'm saying is that I'm happy to have a head start on "accomplishing my goals." I don't know, I'm talking to Ben on Googletalk and it's destroying my concentration. It's just as well, I'm entirely too long-winded anyway. I was seriously just intending on writing like two pararaphs! How does this happen???

Finally, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BIG SISTER!!! Megan is 25 today. She's officially been gracing the planet with her presence for a quarter of a century. That's kind of insane.



Still hot in a bathing suit.