And on the 30th Day They Quit
by Wendy on November 30, 2009
in Uncategorized
It’s the 30th and most importantly LAST day of NaBloPoMo. As far as quantity I only missed one day but I feel I owe you all an apology for missing on quality more often than not. I feel I accomplished the goal of making blogging happen but not the real goal of making my blog better, and I’m not sure there’s much point to that. When even I’m bored by me, why should you come back? I think I may have had better posts if I hadn’t been pushing to get something, anything up every day. So hopefully I’ll be able to maintain some consistency and capture better thoughts in the future.
Some of the ones that got away–things I should have blogged:
- AJ’s recent hairstyles/process
- things I’m thankful for
- missing Oregon / differences between places
- our new church / letting go of our “home” church
- new friends and old friends in a semi-new place
- how my thoughts on adoption have evolved
- all the awesome ideas you guys had at the beginning of the month
Maybe you’ll see some of these soon. Or maybe I’ll take the month off!
You better not take a whole month off! You owe me . . . ! And tomorrow is “our” day, so you HAVE to write! (The three exclamation marks should let you know I’m serious.)
I’m definitely with you on how quality suffers when quantity drives it. Inspiration doesn’t work like that. I have definitely appreciated being “forced” to write, though I find myself spending the day considering what to write about instead of struck by something to talk about. I’m hoping to maintain some sort of frequency with my blogging, but I am also hoping to be worth reading (by me if no one else!).
Both of you ladies better continue blogging. I read each and every post and feel like I know a little more of your lives by doing so.
I, for one, would really like to hear on how your thoughts on adoption have changed…you know, when you have time – between editing, raising AJ, Christmas, AJ’s birthday, etc, etc, etc…
I know what you mean. Blogging everyday has become a chore. But what I found was that if I didn’t write everyday I couldn’t get to those one or two interesting posts I actually had. I think there has to be a balancing act. I don’t know. Maybe don’t post the boring ones? (How well would that work for me, the lady of multiple boring posts?)
Hope you all are feeling better.
Please, please, please do NOT stop the blogs!! I enjoy even the “boring” ones as it allows me a peek at your lives. BTW — I’d love to hear/read more abou the Jedi Council, er, Tall People’s Alliance, AKA the Western Conservatives…