NaBloPoMo

I’m just now realizing the enormity of this whole NaBloPoMo thing.? What a big deal it was to get through thirty days, posting every single day.? I know I should talk about how hard it was but… it wasn’t.? Not really.? Not that there weren’t days where I sat before the empty posting screen wondering, “What the FREAK am I going to write about??”? The point is, something always came to me.? I honestly thought there’d be more meme’s, more photos, more fluff.? And maybe there should have been judging from the roughness of some of my posts.

Mr. Toast was wisely decreed that tomorrow is NaNoMoFoBloPo Day.? That stands for National No More Forced Blog Posting Day.? Of course, I didn’t feel as forced as much as I thought I would.? But that doesn’t mean that I won’t totally enjoy a day off of the posting.? If for no other reason than to gather my thoughts around me and enjoy the blessed silence of my own incoherent ramblings.

So here’s to everyone who took part in this challenge.? I know it wasn’t easy.? And some people really blew my socks off with their “stick-to-it’iveness” (totally a made up word but whatever).? Let us all rest and enjoy being alone (for once in a month) with our thoughts.

Today was great.? Except for the part where they turned off our power. Yeah.? That’s always fun.? Apparently when Kile was talking to the guy at the power company last week and paying the bill and the guy assured Kile that there wouldn’t be anyone turning off our power, he was totally lying.? Luckily, the whole thing got cleared up rather quickly.? But we were without power for about an hour earlier this evening.? And for computer addicts like us, that’s a rough gig.

But the great part is that I’m more than halfway done with my Christmas shopping.? I hate Christmas shopping and being closer to finished makes me VERY happy.

And what a fantastic way to end NaBloPoMo.? For the record, I did manage one post a day every day for the entire month.? And considering that my postings for the last several months have been few and far between, that’s a pretty fantastic accomplishment.? I’m pretty proud of myself.? I’m hoping that from here on out, I can keep it up.? I really do enjoy blogging and this exercise has reminded me of that.? So thanks to Fussy for putting this on, I’m so glad I took part!

I’m feeling vastly better today than I was yesterday. Yes, I want a super-duper, mega-cool cellphone. Of course I do. I’m a technophile geek. It’s only to be expected, right? Yes, I was probably being more than a little selfish in wanting to spend a good chunk of what little money we have this month to buy something for myself. And not only that, it’s not even something that fully addresses what I really want, which is an mp3 player. So, the tentative plan is to get a cheap phone of some sort (though I still get hung up on the details and hate all the free phones right now) and then eventually get an mp3 player, perhaps even an iPod. Good plan? I think so.

So I’m feeling a lot more chipper today. I have a brighter outlook on the holidays. My grinchiness has been affecting my mood, somewhat. I feel a lot more willing to embrace the season now, for at least today. I’m sure that’ll change tomorrow when Kile and I hit Walmart to do some Christmas shopping. Nothing spoils a holiday mood quicker than a trip to Walmart.

And the war rages on. 90% of this war is being waged against myself, which is just silly.? My cell phone service contract is up, and should I choose, I can upgrade my phone with Cingular at a handsome discount.? Nice, huh?? And just in time since the battery on my other phone has gone kaput.? I accidentally “over-charged” it and the battery hasn’t been able to hold any sort of charge ever since.? I can still plug it in and use it while it’s plugged in, so that’s something.? I haven’t historically used the cell a lot, but in the interest of saving some money, we recently cut our long-distance service way back on the landline.? This was done, assuming that we would just use our cell phones to make long distance calls.? You following me?

For the last year or more I’ve wanted to get a Motorola Razr phone.? I don’t know why, except that I’m a trend lemming.? They seemed cool to me.? And I figured if I was making some money with my design business, I could get one as a treat to myself.? This month was pretty bare on the business front but we’ve recently brought in some $ so I took another look at my cell phone options.? And I thought I was being very compromising when I expanded my search from the Razr’s to include other phones.? I finally narrowed it down to the LG CU500 and the Cingular Sync (otherwise known as the Samsung a707).? I decided the Samsung was my favorite.? You think that’d be end of the story, right?

Well, I knew Kile was thinking we shouldn’t spend the money on it.? Even though I’d already said it could be my birthday present (and probably Christmas present as well).? It’s true, we should probably save back the money.? The solution would then to be to get one of the free phones Cingular is offering right now.? Just my luck, those phones all but turn my stomach.? Maybe that’s because I spent the better part of the last week immersed in such features as 3g networks, 2 megapixel cameras, mp3 players… suddenly a little vga camera and some stupid java games seem hardly worth the effort.

I’m being a brat.? I know it.? It’s just, neither of us have had any chance to do anything for ourselves lately.? I haven’t had my hair cut in months.? We needed to save the extra money that month and every month since.? Have I mentioned my hair looks like donkey dung and is actually FALLING OUT IN CLUMPS?? Anyhow.? I bought a pair of jeans a couple months back for $15 from Walmart because my other pre-pregnancy jeans were falling off they were so large.? And I still feel guilty about doing that because of the look I got when I wore them and Kile realized they were new. I was just so looking forward to doing something unabashedly for myself.

It’s selfish.? I know it’s selfish.? But I’m in a funk right now anyhow and you know how women are with retail therapy.? It probably wouldn’t help anyhow, that’s the kicker.? Oh well.? Ho hum.? Moving on.? Cellphone-less, of course.