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While rambling in my blog about my blog’s purpose and contemplating participating in NaBloPoMo again to atone for not making any blog posts in the month of June, I saw that July’s NaBloPoMo theme is “Saved”. You don’t need to follow the themes to participate, and I believe the theme is completely open to interpretation. The first thing I thought of was all the stuff I’ve saved and kept over the years. Some of the stuff deserves to be saved. Some of it does not. I decided that I will use the NaBloPoMo theme this month, and post a photo everyday of random stuff I’ve saved.
I hope that it will be interesting to somebody. Please feel free to comment. My blog accepts comments from anybody, but if you haven’t commented before, I have to approve it first.

Inclusion in this blog does not give the stuff a reprieve from being donated or ending up in the trash in the future.

I didn’t even read the email from NaBloPoMo– it was in my junk folder, and I had already hit delete when I noticed it. Anyway, I looked at their site, and I see that they have these categories of blogs… I put mine under “General”. Another problem is that I don’t have a name for my blog. How can I have a blog without a name! Laurushka doesn’t mean anything to anyone… Let’s see… I’ve been calling my Live Journal blog “Dirt Makes You Grow”– after the t-shirts that my friend M and I bought while waiting for the ferry in British Columbia ten years ago. Should I use that? Help!

Here are the categories… see… where would I fit? I don’t even fit in Psychotic Ranting… and I don’t think I want to know what Anonymous Foaming is!
NaBloPoMo Blogroll categories
Books
Cooking / Food
Crafts
Disability
Education
Entertainment
Family
Health
Hobbies
Humor
Niche
Photography
Politics
Religion / Faith
Sex
Shopping
Tech
Travel
Psychotic Ranting / Anonymous Foaming
General

PS… I also see that the theme this month is SAVED. I could post every day about some ridiculous item we have saved, since we are terrible hoarders with a tiny house. That might actually be interesting…

Again, I’ve been neglecting this blog. Someone recently asked me, “What’s your blog about?”

It’s really just a continuation of my private LiveJournal, but without some of the private ranting. The trend in blogs these days is to have a theme. Like cooking blogs, craft blogs, blogs about being librarians, blogs where you attempt to do something within a certain time (like Julie and Julia)… my blog is just me rambling. I usually try to keep my posts on this blog dedicated to a subject, but since I’m still rambling about whatever topic I’m thinking about at the moment, I’m not drawing in any sort of readership. Do I want a readership? I don’t know. I’m not even really sure why I have this blog… I don’t get much feedback here… is that because I’m not consistent in my posting? Is it because it’s easier to comment in facebook? Or maybe I don’t write anything that interesting? If I just wanted to write for myself, I could just keep writing in my Live Journal and not put it out there for the world to see. Why do I write here? Why did I write about my miscarriage here? I know when I wrote about my first miscarriage in 2005 in my Live Journal, it helped me through– I joined a miscarriage community and didn’t feel so alone. Since this laurushka.org blog exists sort of in a vacuum, I don’t feel like *I’m* getting help by writing here… but I do hope that maybe someone going through a miscarriage would stumble on my posts and find comfort. But is is just altruistic reasons? I don’t know. I guess it’s also sort of a writing exercise… writing here, I’m less “stream of consciousness” than I am in my Live Journal. I’m also less whiny. So it’s also a psychological exercise… not that this blog is all shiny and positive… it’s just a different because I know that the public could be reading it.

Well, since I just saw an email from NaBloPoMo in my junkmail folder, I am reminded that today is the first of the month. July is a tough month– we are going on two vacations, and this weekend is July 4th… so I don’t know if I’ll be posting every day. But I saw the email, and thought, it’s 10 PM on July 1st… and realized that my last post was in MAY– I skipped the entire month of June! So here is a halfhearted pledge that I will try to post more often. Maybe even every day this month. But probably not. Maybe I need to figure to figure out my purpose in having this blog to get inspiration to post more often. Or maybe I just need to look at the suggested NaBloPoMo writing prompts for ideas.

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Well, I did it. Here I am, making my final November 2009 post. I did 30 posts, but not in 30 days– since I started November 2nd, I didn’t actually do the whole month.

I’m still not sure what I’m going to do with my blog in the future. I don’t think I will force you to read a post every day anymore. But I don’t want it to languish. I’ll try to keep up the Friday Recipe… but that means I need to learn more recipes!

This was my first post of the month. I guess I kept you hanging on about my zyrtec habit and the swine flu, huh? I decided there really wasn’t that much of a story with the swine flue. We had it, we survived. We hope we don’t get it again. The end. Here is info about what can happen when you get hooked on Zyrtec. It happened to me, and it took me about 3 weeks to get it out of my system and stop itching. I never did pick up my ukulele this month. Maybe if I wasn’t posting so much in my blog, I would have. Haha. And the funk I’ve been in since graduating last December is lifting, so I guess my goal with participating in NaBloPoMo November 2009 has been accomplished.

I will try not to stay away so long next time. But I will be a bit relieved that I don’t HAVE to post every day anymore.

Ciao for now!

Wow, today is November 29th. I really lost count of days this month– I have had to count back on my fingers to the last date I can remember– Monday November 16th, my grandmother’s birthday.

Since November 2nd, I actually did post every day this month, didn’t I? I haven’t necessarily had a lot of substance, but something short everyday- links to pictures, recipes, etc. I don’t really know what else I want this blog to be. I have another blog for sporadic complaining, and I have facebook for keeping in touch with people. I think not posting between May and November was a mistake, but I don’t think I need to keep posting every day. Maybe just once a week? Should I be more personal here? I don’t really want to go into things like job hunting, etc. I stopped using laurushka on my resume, but I’m sure resourceful folks could find this by googling my name, if they wanted. I’ve been meaning to update my website (which this blog is part of) to include some papers I wrote for school. If I did that, it would make it even easier for a resourceful folk to see this blog. Is this site a plus or a minus to a potential employer? I’m just typing as a I think here… I still have one more day to the NaBloPoMo Challenge. Any requests for a final blog posting topic?