May NANOBLOMO

Friday, May 1, 2009

here we go again. I mentioned how crappy I did last month and the month before that to be honest but I have decided to press on and try again for this month.

May theme is Sweet.
Things like:
chocolate
lollipops
splenda
Eskimo kisses and
the smell of strawberry jam.

Let's try this again

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Ok, I am going to try this again. Last month I did really good posting but just could not make the one post every single day cut. This month the theme is Growing (Up). I started a change just today that I think would fall into this category. I have fallen into a slump over the last year or so. I think that staying home with my son is the best thing for him and in a lot of ways the best thing for our whole family since I do not have a lot of skills that could bring in a lot of money so we would not be bringing in enough to make it "worth it" to put LG in preschool or daycare so why stretch our family life when it does not really make sense to do so? Even though I know all of this I have been having trouble being happy with myself just staying home taking care of a toddler. I am also having trouble living away from my Mom and Sister and with my Husband on the road for work so much of the time that leaves me alone with the LG a lot. I have been letting the loneliness take over my life so I have just made the decision to take my life back and be happy. I am listening to The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama, which is helping me a lot and I haven't even finished the book yet. I have all of these ideas that I used to believe in but somehow have become all cluttered with life since I had my son. I can tell that because I have moved away from these ideals my whole life is suffering so I have decided to move back to it, to clean out my mind and my life, to stop and smell the roses not just because I want to teach my son that the roses smell good but because I want to slow down and smell them myself.
So hopefully I will have plenty to blog about in April since I will be regrowing bits of myself this month.

NaBloPoMo

Sunday, March 1, 2009

That stands for National Blog Posting Month. It is a off-shoot of the National Novel Writing Month which I took part in (and won) in 2007. No you can't read my novel. I did make it to 50,000 words but after I went back and read it the whole thing was complete crap. Ok not complete crap, the original idea for the story was ok and then it turned into something completely different, there was a murder mystery sort of ascpet but I never said who did it at all or even talked much about police looking for the main characters or anything. Anyway the bottom line is that the whole thing wasn't very thought out and if I ever do it again and to anyone that has ever thought about doing it, have an outline. If I had an outline the whole thing would have gone a lot smoother and probably would have been at the least readable when November 30th rolled around alas I did not have someone (like you have now) giving you such a valuable pointer such as HAVE AN OUTLINE!!

I digress. What this post is all about is announcing to one and all that I will be participating in National Blog Posting Month for March 2009. If you would like more information just click on the badge at the right...down a little bit...a little more...there.