Twas Brillig

Yeah, okay. Generally, when there’s a bandwagon, I run away from it screaming. If “everyone’s doing it,” I try very hard not to do it at all. I’m ME, and I’m all I’ve got, so I try to make the most of it. Turning me into someone or something else would seem like a complete waste of myself. This is perhaps why I have never read a Harry Potter book.

Oh, don’t look at me like that.

Or, perhaps, why I never owned a pair of Birkenstocks. (Seriously, who looks like the idiot now?)

Occasionally, though, something comes along and I just can’t resist. I know, I KNOW everyone’s doing it. But I hereby announce that I’m officially throwing my hat into the NaBloPoMo ring.

There was a time, not so long ago, that we here (and when I say “we” I just mean *I*, of course) posted every single day ANYWAY. It’s just how things were done here. But then life happened, if that’s what you want to call it, and I’m lucky if I manage to throw up more than two posts a week. And guess what! I’ve missed the every day thing. It just seemed like it was time to do something drastic to help me get back on my bloggy feet. And so, it’s official.

Now, how in the crap am I going to pull this off? Well, I’m going to start writing drafts, for one. That way when life happens again, I can just hit “publish” and be done. That’s assuming I can think of things to write and leave in draft form. Yeah… that’s totally not gonna happen. Still, it’s a good idea, right?I’m also going to go back and look through the topic-suggestions I bummed off all of you a few weeks back. Many of you may have seen that my dear friend Luisa from Novembrance has asked for topic ideas (a “scavenger hunt,” she calls it) for NaBloPoMo and that she’s created a spreadsheet for her November posts. Hahahaha. Oh, you can always trust Novey-Lu (as I affectionately call her) to be way more organized and brilliant than I am. I kinda like the idea, and she has given me her blessing to steal it, though you and I both know that no spreadsheets will be used, as I have zero knack for organization of any kind. So, if you think of any more topics for me, you just let me know. It can be silly (like, “use the word ‘gopher’ in a sentence”) or a direct question (like, “what is the weirdest thing you ever found while flossing your teeth?”) and there will, of course, be linky love for those whose topics I use. I know, I know. You feel like you just did this for me, and it’s true—you did. But look at how much fun we had! I mean, my last topic-begging led to me posting my Donny Osmond story once and for all, which was actually picked up by the official Donny Osmond Fanclub Website. HAHAHAHAHA. Just think of the jewels I may still have in the recesses of my memory that will make grown women who are still obsessed with teen idols giggle like school girls! (Hey, did I ever tell you about the time David Cassidy hugged me? Dead serious. He’s forty years older and two feet shorter than me—and I was wearing platforms, because I’m pretty sure that there’s a law that if you go to a David Cassidy concert, you need to be wearing platforms— so perhaps there was some awkwardness. But he totally hugged me. Hmmmm, maybe I need to tell that story.)

Hmmm, I seem to have strayed from the point of my post. What was it again? Ahhh, yes. NaBloPoMo. And me needing you. I need you!

Hey look! I’m already TOTALLY ROCKING at NaBloPoMo! Of course, it’s only the first day…

Okay. The end.

(No spreadsheets were harmed in the making of this post.)