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Bandwagons, Flotsam / Jetsam, National Blog Posting Month

It’s eggnog day

Today we drove home from my brother’s house after spending a rather nice Thanksgiving with his family, my mom and a few of my brother’s friends. The day grew progressively busier after that, but in that slow, gentle holiday way. I didn’t have any eggnog on hand — a serious oversight, considering that the day after Thanksgiving is the first acceptable day for the drinking of eggnog — so Pete and I went to the grocery store and to run a couple of other errands. By the time we got home, Rockford and Poppy had decorated most of the house for Christmas.

The rest of the day consisted of a run to Target and then an impromptu trip to see “The Penguins of Madagascar,” which meant that we had popcorn and gummy bears for dinner. And then we got home and did a bit more decorating before we did our traditional Lay On The Floor And Listen To Christmas Music While We Look At The Christmas Tree routine, and suddenly it was 11:15pm and I hadn’t yet posted.

And now I have posted, and NaBloPoMo rolls on.

Happy kick-off to the holidays, friends.

Bandwagons, National Blog Posting Month

Three posts that never saw the light of day

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My computer has been on its last legs for awhile. On Friday I tried to update the operating system, and I think I may have pushed it over the edge altogether. I can’t access any of my photos now, and it takes a good 30 seconds for the text I’ve typed to show up on the screen. I’m going to take the computer over to the fix-it shop sometime this week to see if they can retrieve my pictures and then I’m going to try to blog using the iPad for awhile. And then maybe someday I’ll get a new laptop.

Anyway, yesterday Vikki at Up Popped a Fox wrote about the stuff languishing in her Drafts folder. That sounded like a fine way to spend a day of NaBloPoMo, so I’m copying her today. Desperate copying of ideas is the true spirit of NaBloPoMo, after all.

So here are a few gems from my Drafts folder:

Here I am not blogging on my blog
Bloggity bloggy, I am not blogging.
That’s the entire file.

My Blissdom 2013 notebook: “Uninterrupted Thought” with Megan Jordan
I have a problem, and it is technology.
There’s more of this one. It’s nearly a fully formed post, and I’m not sure why I never posted it.


I made a pretty sweet, Pinterest-able graphic with a cringe-worthy BuzzFeed-esque title, but I never actually wrote the thing.

On a positive note, this exercise may actually lead to two posts later this month.