Oh, I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made [NABLOPOMO] say goodbye

Um, yay?

I have posted every day for a month, thanks to National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), the brainchild of M. Kennedy. It will be very nice to not type NaBloPoMo for another 11 months.

I have to say it wasn’t as hard as my “Post a Picture a Day Project for a Year”* (which lasted for one month). In fact, I feel remarkably hardy and fit — I visualize a strong and brawny spandex-clad speed skater shup-shupping to the finish line. (I have that visualization every once in a while, when I’ve gotten some big project done in an efficient manner.)

I don’t know the significance of writing daily for 30 days. The dark n cynical side of me says that this project was easy because I have too much time on my hands and a desire to avoid cleaning my house or crafting the crafts that need to be done by the holidays, dammit!

The softer side of me says this project was easy because I like to write. That there might be a therapeutic aspect to it. That I enjoy the discipline of it. That I’m a little lonely and it’s a way to say “helloooo out there”.

I also really, really like the people that I know read this blog on a regular basis. You’re a special bunch, and I am a little choked up thinking of all the nice things you have said to me, and that you enjoy the weird little bits of things clinking around in my cranium.

If you poke around the NaBloPoMo participant blogs, you’ll find quite a bit of introspection like this. We’re all grieving, just a little!

[And wondering anxiously who, who will win a fabulous prize? If I get this, I will freak out with happiness! Animals dressed as humans!]

Does this mean we’ll immediately jump into the copycat December daily-posting challenges? Mais non, mon ami. I shall take a few days to allow my brain to recharge, just a bit, but then I’ll be pestering you again. Besides, I just figured out how to use the “Blog This” feature on flickr, so it will be uber-easy to show you some keen snaps. (Ã…, I’m coming home! Brush off your eyeballs!)

If you’d like to give me a little holiday gift (after I have so selflessly discharged the useless contents of my brain, just for you), admit on record your guilty pleasures — if I can ‘fess to my Mike Wallace obsession, Kerri her love for Regency gowns (that’s such a good one), and Dagda’s righteous candy corn lust, you should feel free to unload, too. I can’t believe fun it is, reading about loved ones’ oddities.. oh wait! That’s why you read my blog!

Now I get it.

*PoPicDaProYe

Photo: Look I’m a Speed Skater, by flickr user Mangilao30. Thanks for letting me use it!

And now, one last time :