Welcome to Winter and the End of NaBloPoMo

Whoa -- it is December, people.

DECEMBER.

Coloured lights are decked out on houses, parking lots of filled with evergreens prepped for baubles (and more lights), and OMG the retail store promotions.....

As I type, a few lazy flurries are spiraling outside the window. See now, this is the awesome part of winter. We can still get that rush of excitement to see snow, and we aren't in the middle of holiday burnout yet.

And what else could be just as awesome....?

.... the end of NaBloPoMo, and the knowledge I have more or less survived it. I admit, I was disappointed when I realized I'd missed one post. Even when I slogged through a tough week in terms of school assignments and 5 AM shifts (and still managed to post even little blurbs about it), I still managed to miss one. Bah.

That aside, I managed to stumble across some content or leads I was thrilled to uncover. I find projects like NaBloPoMo remind writers to scour all possible outlets for topics. The project itself tunes you into stories around you in a new way. It's simple to cruise through the day and not take note of the details, but when you imagine readers waiting to share those observations with you, the whole show gets a new light to it.

Anyhow, rambles -- I figure I ought to do a recap of the past month to take stock.

TOTAL POSTS: 29 posts.

Average Rate of Posts: 0.96....

Tunes for Tuesdays Profiles:

• Miz Moffatt's Karaoke Edition
• Yoko Kanno

And the highlights of November 2010:

• I just about lost myself to another deluge of science fiction obsession. I get bouts of it every now and then, and it tends to coincide with winter closing in. I shared my frothing over the soon-to-be-released action-fantasy flick, Sucker Punch; I speculated on what childhood sci fi shows and films contributed to the current obsession with space; and I even wrote out my recent conversation with the rather erratic film, Daybreakers, that I was rather amused with.
• LITERATURE: Damn. Another theme I came close to losing myself over. The lure is a dangerous one. I speculated on the Existential Hand Down the Pants of Can Lit; I recommended a few recent reads to fellow bloggers; and I analyzed the troubling portrayals of bi-identified characters in Damon Galgut's Man Booker Prize-nominated novel, In a Strange Room.
• I shared some of the frets and faults from 2010, and I even discussed What Makes a Lesbian Heart Weep.
• I lapsed into a fun, filler survey, and then I found an in-depth, 99-question Sunday survey hiding on this very laptop (I have Part One and Part Two of the latter survey up so far with a whole lot more to come!)
• The Moffatt household received some STUNNING NEWS, and I can't share it until this weekend. Paf, I hate the wait....
• ... And then I became a lazy blogger what with assignments crashing in.

So there, another November come and gone. Even when I flaked out toward the end of the month, I still hit on some neat topics. I have more than one post I'm proud over, and that's more than a writer can ask for.

Here's to another NaBloPoMo, and here's to the start of the 2010 holiday season.

August?!

Egads.

Surprising how the seasons sneak up on a mild-mannered, negligent blogette such as myself.

I am pleased to report there are five weeks left in the current administrative work contract and that, come September, I will be attending a fine Canadian educational establishment to learn the rigours of the publishing world.

*Confetti*

So, progress = yes. The months of reeling over what to do and where to go and how to focus myself are now resolving, at least a touch. I admit, the act of choosing and the commitment in the decision have offered a sort of calm. It is done. I am traveling toward that choice. Mmm, fresh start out of the ashes of this summer. Sheer brilliance, I tell you.

I have more to mull over in different facets, but those ramblings are best saved for another time and another place. As for blogging, I come prepared with topics for this week and with the hope I won't let another three-week stretch of silence mar this space.

So, until then, I will doff my hat and return to the last few chapters of Ray Bradbury's, From The Dust Returned.

NaBloPoMo: MAD DASH!

Come on, ladies -- it's the final push in the 2009 National Blog Posting Month. Just one more post and I have done it. I have persevered despite the late evenings. I have scoured all media outlets for potential topics. I have even cultivated the ramblings in my paper journal to furnish this blog with enough content for a solid month.

And here it is.

I am in the last stretch of the journey.

As with any conclusion, it's best to take stock of one's accomplishments:

TOTAL POSTS (including this conclusion): 33 posts

Average Rate of Posts: 1 per day

Tunes for Tuesdays Profiles:

• Brenda Holloway
• Amanda Palmer
• KT Tunstall w/ Billy Bragg
• PJ Harvey

So here it is, the highlights of November 2009:

• Declared an e-crush on a fellow blogette
• Divulged my Brain Crack to the Blogoverse and started planning to make it real
• Discussed the allure of transgendered individuals and indulged my drag alter-ego
• Experienced the heart-breaking downfall of The Doctor
• FINALLY watched The Fountain
• Got wasted.... twice
• Outlined the goals I hope to accomplish for 2010
• Achieved my 100th Post on Cute, Queer Canadian
• Attended my first Bachelorette Party/male strip club and lived to tell the tale
• Discovered that writing is where my heart is at

I know I never posted about that last topic, but it's true nonetheless. I think this month made me realise just how important writing is to me. It's so easy to lose track of the things you love during the mundane actions of the day-to-day, but this challenge has rekindled the excitement I have for the written word.

It's been a wild November and I am certain December will introduce even wilder times. The threat of a snow squall is hovering over the GTA and there's talk of 15-20 cm of snow later this week. Winter's here, kids.

What better way to fight off the frost than to blog your adventures for the world at large?

Do stay tuned.