blogging

Wow, if I don't blog today, the month of February will pass by without a single blog entry! The horrors! I don't think that's ever happened to me in the eight and a half years of blogging.

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EIGHT YEARS, peeps!!! That is eight years of blogging. On this day eight years ago, I wrote my first blog entry. (now forever lost in the cyber black hole of deletion.)

I had just started grad school (the first time) when I started the blog. It has taken me through grad school, the move from New Orleans to Philly, and the addition of two kids.

I used to blog every day. Sometimes many times a day. I don't know why this habit has gotten away from me. Next week will mark my eighth anniversary of blogging. Eight years of my life, marked down in this electronic journal. No, I don't really journal elsewhere. I have a few private essays of sorts tucked away on paper in blank books I find whenever we move. But this is pretty much it. And I miss my daily dates with the blog. I also miss knowing that the little things are recorded somewhere, as I have a terrible memory. So I'm going to try something new, the blitz blog entry.

A bunch of my fellow mothering peeps have been writing posts every week about "real" moments, not just the shiny, happy blogpost-worthy moments, of motherhood. I fully intended to participate, but, to be honest, usually on Mondays, I don't feel up to facing reality. Either I'm in a really good mood, and don't want to think about "real." Or I'm too grumpy, I couldn't show that side of myself on the internet.

First of all, the blog carnival: Ministry of Reality Monday. (do we even have blog carnivals anymore? not even sure what to call it. A meme? But anyway, a bunch of my mom peeps are doing it) For those of us who don't always post the shiny and happy on the blog. For more background read here.

So, this my Reality Monday story.

Cool new bloggy template!!!! (so if you're reading in a feed reader, come on over and check out the real deal.) hubby is still tweaking some, but it's nice to have a fresh, new look around here.

Tomorrow begins December. Aka Month o' Madness. Handmade Holidays is freaking my mind out right now. But, I will give a little attention to this little corner of the internet, because tomorrow begins the December Photo Project!!!! WOOOHOO! Don't forget to sign up.

ok, this is a little awkward. I said I was blog 'most every day in Nov. And I didn't. I just kind of dropped off the face of the planet. Well, bygones and all that. She's back. Hubby's helping me with a new template. And it's going to look purty around here. I need to write for my sake. I'm not going to commit to every day, because there is not something to say everyday. And I was getting annoyed by that. I suppose the point of committing is finding something to say every day. Well, I'm too tired for that.

Right now the biggest things going on in my head are:

So November is supposed to be National Blog Writing Month, because you know we all have extra time to blog with the holidays coming up. But I've been wanting to blog more. And since the baby is napping and I'm waiting for the Advil to kick the headache, I don't feel like cleaning at the moment, so you get a blog entry.

I know it's been a little slow over here on Asteroid B612. I had hoped that the December Photo Project would kick up my momentum a little, but after the new year I kind of dropped off a little. I do want to blog a little more, just a matter of making myself write, which is so important. But we've also been busy working behind the scenes in blogosphere. When I switched to using Drupal, one of the things that allows me is multiple blogs, closely connected. We have, essentially, one Drupal to rule them all.

I'm tweeting.

My life is more tweetish anyway. The Blog is of highest eminence, though. Facebook and Twitter are just Sideshow Bobs.