Goodbye, NaBloPoMo

A month of posting every day wraps up with this very post.  It's been a fun challenge and I'm glad I did it.  An added bonus is that my daily readership has more than quadrupled since I started the challenge, which isn't saying much because it was only sitting at about 6-10 readers daily.  Ha ha.

I supposed that depending on who you ask I didn't quite suceed.  I faltered due to Harry Potter with only 6 posts to go.  I didn't clue in that going to the 10 p.m. show meant that I wouldn't be home in time to blog before midnight.  I did blog before bed that night though, so in another way I think I suceeded.  Depends how letter of the law you want to be about the whole matter.

A few of my reader friends have been asking what I'm going to do with my blog now that it's over, and I'm not exactly sure.  Hopefully I can just ride on the momentum of this past month and post more regularly.  We shall see. 

One thing that blogging every day has made me realize is that I don't have very many friends who blog, and those who do don't do it regularly.  It's a bummer.  I like reading the blogs of my friends.  I read lots of random people ones but it's not the same.  I have blogs of my friends on a reader and every time I logged in in November it was always Kerry's posts because nobody else was posting.  It was nice that Kerry was NaBloPoMo-ing it up as well though.  And she actually succeeded I think, so WAY TO GO KER.  Also to Nicki.  Whooo.  It was much more fun knowing you two ladies were in it with me.

NaBloPoMo

I have been challenged by a coworker to join the ridiculous sounding "NaBloPoMo".  In a nutshell, blog every day for the month of November.  Since I'm always toying with the idea of giving up blogging entirely but spend equal amounts of time toying with the idea of buckling down and actually blogging more regularly, I figured it was worth accepting the challenge.

The timing is right because I was thinking this weekend that there is quite a span of unrecorded years in my life right now.  I journalled like a maniac through university and as embarrassing as some of it is to read now, it's nice to be able to go back and visit my old self in that way. 

In the past five or so years, other than a few spotty journal entries, the major written record I have of my activities and interests is actually my old blog posts.  So, maybe it's time to pick up again with a bit more momentum before I can't remember how I spent my youth.  Otherwise, I won't have anything to look back on and be embarrassed about!

For more information about NaBloPoMo, click HERE.

If I fail miserably, be gentle with me.