NaBloPoMo

I'm so excited to say that this will be my third year participating in the National Blog Posting Month. (NaBloPoMo) It's now a project that runs year round, but November is the official month. The goal is to write a blog post a day for the entire month. You are not to write things in advance and schedule them to post, but to physically sit down and discipline yourself to write one post a day.

My goal for this month is to continue my photo of the day (I do schedule those, so those don't count for NaBloPoMo) but to get my daily blog post written before 8pm instead of so late in the evening. Right now it's almost 11:15pm Eastern Time and I feel so rushed.

I've had blog post ideas running through my head all day and I've even been at the computer for a couple of hours today, but I didn't start anything. Now that I'm trying to wind down I realize that my thoughts have not been transcribed! This happens nearly every night. And to tell you the truth I get a laugh out of it. It's like a big surprise every night!

Yes, I am easily amused -  ha!ha!

I'm now trying to remember what I wanted to talk about, but I keep getting distracted.  I'm watching The Women of SNL on TV and keep cracking up.  I haven't watched SNL in years, but I love the specials because of course they have found the funniest clips to showcase.  I missed the Betty White episode so I was pleased that they started off with one of the skits from that episode.    Funny stuff.

So this month I've still got some road trip pictures, some more fall in Michigan stuff, a few more niece photos, dishtowel love, a Saturn Rocket, a purple princess room, cloud photos and a little bit of food.  This is all in addition to the wanderings I will do this month.

It's always a pleasure to have you visit.
Kristin

Another Month in the books

I've done it. I've posted every day in March.

I did the same thing in February, January, December and November.

I have officially been keeping track since I joined NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month.) I thought that it was going to be a way to be able to keep up with people that posted something every day. There is this giant blogroll of people to ask to be linked in to participate.

I like to go through a lot of the blogs on NaBloPoMo each month and am shocked to see how many don't post every day. I just went through about 10 blogs tonight and a few of them haven't posted since the middle of the month.

So, it isn't a place to find LOTS of people who are serious about posting each day, but it is a great incentive for me. I want to blog every day. Even last week when I felt like I couldn't even see straight, let alone blog anything, I became happy and engaged when I sat down to write. NaBloPoMo has been wonderful for me and I am pleased as punch to be a part of it.

I'm a bit concerned about May though. My goal at the beginning of the year was to blog one thing each day of 2009. We are going to Ireland and the Isle of Man and I have decided I'm not taking my computer. I expect that I will write something each day, but it won't be a blog post unless we happen to stumble upon an internet cafe at an appropriate time in our travels. The rules of NaBloPoMo state that if you don't have access to a computer, physically handwriting the post counts, but I'm not sure if I can count that. So anyway, I'll see what I can do. I don't want to incur weird fees on my Blackberry, so I'll have to look into that closer, as that might be a way to blog from overseas.

I just wanted to toot my own horn. Toot Toot!



This is something I made from Wordle.net - I took a page of my blog and pasted it into the create section and then clicked random until I liked it. I think it's funny that DAY is such a huge part of the graphic. I guess posting each day is important to me - Look - it's right there in the middle!

Each day is important and I wish you all a great one.

Kristin

Blogging and Journaling

I started this blog on my 40th Birthday (October 18th) 2006. I wrote exactly two posts that year. I wrote one post in 2007, but I see I've edited it so now it just says "What a year, what a year." LOL I guess I wasn't thrilled with what I wrote.

However, in the beginning of 2008 I started looking for goal sheets, planners, something that could help me focus. I seemed to be all over the place and not doing anything particularly well. I was always in the middle of 90 things and nothing was what I wanted to do. During my travels on the Internet, I came across this blog that listed 101 Things To Do in 1001 Days. This gal had all sorts of big plans and little plans in this list & it looked very interesting and something I might like to do as well. I found the original site, Day Zero, and read through other peoples lists. I spent the next week or two working on my own list of 101 things. In order to be listed on the original blog over at Day Zero, I needed to have a blog. So, I posted my list here and have been keeping up with my blog ever since.

Some of the things I wanted to do were changes in how I do things, like putting away my laundry. A few of the items were vacations I wanted to take. I accomplished one of those vacations this summer when I went to Nebraska with my Mother, Sister and baby niece, Stella. Some of my Things To Do are projects that I want to complete both at home and in business. Others are books I want to read or personal fitness goals.

I am going to have to rewrite a few of them as the time table has passed and I haven't accomplished the goals. A few of the items are not as exciting to me now that I am a diagnosed diabetic - so making a month of menus isn't going to be as fun and I'd rather have something else in its place. I never saw the list as being concrete, you can't change it, type of list. I'm so glad otherwise it would be a huge disappointment if I missed a deadline & wouldn't be as motivating to continue. So those items where the deadline has passed, I'm going to just move the date and actually put the item on a post-it note so it will be in the forefront rather than background noise.

I used to have this list on my desk, but ever since I got my laptop table and put it in the livingroom, I haven't seen my desk in ages! lol

The other thing I started at the beginning of the year is my journal, #41 on my 101 Things to Do list. My 1st Journaling post talks about the journal I bought. It is a journal that lasts 11 years. It is just a few lines to write each day and I have been real consistent with it. I have gone a few days without journaling, but with just 4 lines it was real easy to catch up whenever I got behind. I love the Journal 10+ and am so glad that I finally started it.


This month I joined in with the NaBloPoMo group that asks all members to post every day for thirty days. I've been real consistent with my blog posting, so I thought joining the group would be something fun and not too stressful!


I also thought that maybe I could write up some extra posts talking about my 101 Things To Do list this month and next while I'm in the NaBloPoMo group. Added incentive.

I'm so happy to have visitors that come by and read and comment. I'm also happy to have lurkers who just read. Hi Lurkers!! Thanks for your participation in this fun world of blogging.

Have a great weekend!
Kristin

National Blog Posting Month

I was cruising around the internet last night. I was probably reading blogs and clicking on links in the side bars, reading blogs that are highlighted, stuff like that when I came upon this funny sounding name. NaBloPoMo. Huh? It was a website, so I clicked on the link - like this one...NaBloPoMo and was taken to a website where the idea is for bloggers to write on their blogs every day of the month. Their acronym means National Blog Posting Month, but what I've discovered is that each month is National Blog Posting Month.

For those folks who actually have a professional looking blog site with sidebars where they can put in advertisements or buttons, they show the world they are part of NaBloPoMo. Or a part of Secret Santa or Mommy bloggers, etc. I can't do that right now, so every so often I'll just let you know that I'm still in the game.

While I was on the NaBloPoMo site I was directed to a site called ImageChef to make up some cool badges. The ones you see here today are from ImageChef and I had a blast playing with a lot of the images and putting my name into them. ImageChef is free and you can put the images on your blog or websites with no copyright worries.

I have signed up and will be a part of National Blog Posting Month for November. According to my Google Reader stats I post about 9.1 times per week. I don't think I'll have trouble getting fun information out into blogland. However, this month, I will be on vacation for about 9 days - so I will have hurdles to get over. I will succeed.

So enjoy this month with me and have a great day!

Hope you had a happy Halloween!
Kristin