Today was a crazy ride and our morning coffee chat had to be postponed to a virtual coffee date over zoom tonight. Fitting right along an extended online meeting day. I am tired but I have enough energy for a chat with my lovely friends. I will reach for my ginger mango tea though and skip the coffee.
If you and I had coffee…
…I ask you if you will join NaBloPoMo in November. I am already planning my posts for NaBloPoM. Of course I will join San again. It will be my eighth year participating. I love this blogging month and the community and the spirit. I know it will be a lot of work. A lot of reading since the community grew such a huge bit. Juli had the great idea to prepare the posts ahead of time and then focus on commenting. That is such a good strategy. I am working on a few posts but also like writing in a spur of a moment and spinning off of ideas from others during the months.
If you and I had coffee…
…I tell you about my new book page here on the blog. Leading up to November I usually try to get the blog running and tweak a few things here and there. During the last weekends I finally tackled a project I had in my mind ever since updating this blog. I wanted to have a better page for all book related things. I finally set it up. It is not yet perfect as there are few layout issues I need to solve but don’t know how yet. Let me know what you think.
If you and I had coffee…
…I admit defeat on my 100dayproject 2024. I managed to create my pieces until day 78 in June. And then life happened. My plan to pick it back up again didn’t really pan out and so I have not done anything since June. A couple weeks ago I admitted to myself I will not finish. And I finally moved all charcoals and papers away from my desk.
I love looking at charcoal paintings. And I have all the material at hand. But I realized through this project that I am not very good at it and most importantly it doesn’t bing me as much joy as previous projects – like my black-out poetry or my colorful circles or even the lineart. So here I am calling it finished.
If you and I had coffee…
…I share that my sister and I have already signed up for this years Operation Christmas Child. If you are a long time blog reader you know it’s a little tradition my sister and I have. We volunteer for checking and packing the shoeboxes. Last year we had to cancel last minutes because my sister had an out of town business trip and all slots were already booked. I hope this year we can stick to the scheduled date. I still have the three boxes from last year all packed up here. I had donated money so I basically paid twice last year. I am debating if I do boxes this year.
If you and I had coffee…
…I share with you my image from the office window.
I am tired and cut our gathering a bit short today. It’s been a long day infant of a screen. I will get myself a hot water bottle and hop under covers. I’ll try to read a few pages but most likely doze up. But then it is after 11 pm.
How is your October going? Will you participate in NaBloPoMo? Do you think of Christmas already? What do you think about my new book page?
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I need to start thinking about Christmas gifts. Gah. I’m usually further ahead with my planning/buying by this point.
I will do NaBloPoMo, but I haven’t prepped at all. One thing I will be doing this year is NOT posting on Sundays. It only seems right to take that day off since it’s My Year of Shmita and it means one fewer post a week to prepare! Cheating? Maybe a bit, but I can spin it as upholding a year-long goal :)
I don’t think k it’s cheating at all. And it’s a good way to uphold your yearly goal.
Gah don’t get me started on Christmas presents. I dread that every year.
Even if you didn’t finish your 100 days project, I would definitely count 78 days as a WIN, congratulations!
I was preparing a post yesterday for NaBloPoMo, and my daughter said that was going against the meaning of it, which was to write every day in November. I don’t care, I will go and comment every day in November, though I likely won’t get to every blog every day, as you said, the group is getting too big. In the old days when NaBloPoMo was hundreds of people, you didn’t even TRY to hit them all.
I guess your daughter is right that the original idea was to establish a habit of writing daily but I say we make our own rules. And writing blog comments is writing to. I fear a few blogs will fall to the wayside on my end that I can’t catch up on daily. I am already sorry.
I am HOARDING ideas for NaBloPoMo right now. If anyone asks a question on their blog or posts a meme, I write it down. I do blog most weekdays anyway, but somehow adding in the weekend days makes it seem so much more daunting. PLUS! How to keep up on commenting? It will be a challenge. I’m happy you’ll be joining in – can’t wait to read you every day.
The writing I can do but the commenting and paying everyone a visit is hard. I can’t catch up now so it will be a lot but I just love it. I will try to catch up on my blog reading beforehand. Probably should start right this second.
Nice chat, Tobia! I think that doing 78 days of the 100-day project is amazing! I did a 100-day project once, and it was so difficult and stressful that I swore I’d never do that to myself again! Therefore, I’m not taking part in NaBloPoMo. I haven’t thought about Christmas at all!
It’s definitely a good why to spend my time on 78 days. And I learned that that medium is not has fun as others.
So good you know what stress you out and not included in your daily life. I have no idea about Christmas either.
I think I am going to do NaBloPoMo – I’ve been going back and forth, but I do love the challenge of posting every day of November! Although the real challenge is keeping up with commenting, eeks! I need to figure out a system for that this year.
I agree, commenting becomes the real challenge these days.
Thanks for the virtual coffee date. I am a long time reader and first time commenter (originally from Germany, living in NL). I enjoy reading your blog and I came – I think via a comment on a post on the Secret Santa (mug) swap of theinbetweenismine.
Thank you so much for being here and commenting. So happy you find something fun here. I am still trying to figure out if NL refers to Netherlands or a state. San’s mug swap is so much fun.
The Netherlands :-) in a small town about 50km from the German border.