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NaBloPoMo

(Hee... it just asked if I wanted to correct "NaBloPoMo" to "Abominable.")

I can't remember if I've actually done NaBloPoMo before. I'm pretty sure I haven't, because I usually go to visit my parents for Thanksgiving and wouldn't have taken my old laptop with me because it would have fallen to pieces on the trip. (By year 6 of its life, that laptop wasn't rating so high in the key category for a laptop -- portability. ) Anyway, I don't blog from their home computer because I'm too lazy to cover my trails, so now I'm positive I never decided to do NaBloPoMo before.

That's going to change this year, because I'm going to use NaBloPoMo as motivation to check off some of the items from my 101 in 1001 list:

14. Stay within Spark calories for the entire week, 4X. (I've done this once already.)
24. Post every day for a month. (The entire point of NaBloPoMo.)
25. Link a Flickr account to my website. (This is turning out to be more of a pain in the butt than I had expected. My version of MT is so outdated, I can't link it to Flickr, so I need to back up my whole site, upgrade to a more recent version of MT, and then hopefully link it up from there. For now, I am using the inferior Google Photos, which is fine for sharing albums, but not as nice and neat as posting photos to my blog. Until I get it linked up, you can see my Flickr photos here.)
26. Post 10-photo based entries. (I'm halfway there already.)
35. Update my address book. (Need to do this before it's holiday card season.)
70. Donate food to a food bank.

I also love Slynnro's NoImYoSeMo, which stands for November Improve Yourself Month. I'm going to add a few self-improvement goals for November that are not on my 101 in 1001 list:

  • Do the dishes and wipe down the counters in the kitchen every night before bed. (They are currently a disaster, so this is going to SUCK tonight.)
  • Wipe down the bathroom counters every night.
  • Take vitamins every day.
  • Floss every day.
  • Be better about keeping in touch with out-of-town friends.
  • Go to the gym/workout 5X a week. Even on Thanksgiving week! (Perhaps, especially on Thanksgiving week.)
  • Actually bring my bags full of clothes to donate to Goodwill.
  • Donate my old suits.
  • Come up with my holiday shopping list and budget.



  • Comments:

    Trust me, you'll be amazed at what just writing it down can do for your motivation!

    Posted by: Slynnro | November 3, 2009 12:17 AM



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