NaBloPoMo: The Start

After my yearlong hiatus, I was very excited to be getting back into blogging. There had been days in the hiatus when I missed it so bad, when things hurt or when I was excited. Or when I simply had words and nowhere to put them. When something beautiful happened. When something ugly happened.

But, during the year, I also strengthened my memory-making capacities. With no digital crutch to relay them, I had to hold on to them, to take their details out one by one and etch them into the gyri of my brain.

And when I got back, some of the satisfaction in writing those stories, in transcribing those details--some of it had washed away. But I always wanted to get that feeling back, the rush that comes with finding the right words and knowing that they're here to pick over. And I've achieved it, here, since then--once or twice, at least.

But I want to get back to a habit of at least semi-daily posting, and I remembered how I trained myself into it the first time: NaBloPoMo. Before I had done it the first time, it was so easy to look at my day, my week, and say that nothing notable had happened. But NaBloPoMo helped [forced?] me to pick out the details in a mundane week, to set them here in their own orbit. So I thought it would help again.

I'm going to try to do it without posting videos and songs and links, and the like--if only because I have a place for those things now. But I may slip in the cooking post [it's a much bigger part of my life now], and I might try to put in pieces of things I've written in the past year [not much, honestly, but I want to get back into writing seriously, now that the first two years of this program are over]. May. Might.

In any case, I already have some post ideas in my head, and I will definitely be writing about my Halloween adventures tomorrow. This was my first "adult" Halloween, the first year I've been able to go downtown on Halloween since I moved here. It was (spoiler alert) incredible. But more about that then...