National Blog Posting Month – You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll hurl!

Welcome to National Blog Posting Month at martinis for breakfast!  I figure with four days of it under my belt (including today) that those of you who have made space for me in your reader or (god help you) subscribe via email have caught on by now that something is up with the more frequent posting.  So before I give you the background on National Blog Posting Month and how I got mixed up in it all, let me apologize in advance for clogging your in-box.

OK – so here are the only two things you need to know about National Blog Posting Month:

1. You post every day for the month of November (Yup.  That’s 30 days, 30 posts).
2. It has the most horrible acronym.  Ever.  It is: NaBloPoMo.  Ridiculous.  (Although I haven’t managed to come up with anything better, so I really can’t complain).

When I signed up for NaBloPoMo (ridiculous) over at BlogHer (check me out!  I am #1066 on the blog roll!), I made a silent vow about how I would NOT be using the acronym, only to find that ‘National Blog Posting Month’ takes up 27 out of 140 precious characters on the Twitter (@girlwithflask).  That’s 20% of your allowed characters right there.  That’s 27 characters you could be using for more productive tweets such as: ‘Help – I can’t find the bar’ and ‘Rub some vodka on it Pronto’ or ‘Has anyone seen my flask???’.

Anyway.

As evidenced by my two measly posts in October, I spent a great deal of time leading up to NaBloPoMo (ridiculous) dithering about whether to do it or not.  With a nudge from Finola, and a whole-hearted ‘go fooorrr it…’ from the tipsy trick-or-treat parent ‘supervisors’, I woke up on November 1 with a post in the works (Thun-DER!).  And I decided to go for it (Thun-DER!).

So in addition to the other spontaneous and not so well-thought out decisions that have made up the history of this blog, here I am – a participant in NaBloPoMo!  Ready to reconnect with my blog and my readers.  And maybe (just maybe!) I can grow my blog a bit.  This is where you come in!

While the prospect of creating thirty consecutive daily posts that are funny/interesting/informative or entertaining is a bit intimidating, it will be way more fun (and motivating!) if I know that you’re reading along with me.  Even better if you can leave a comment!  I have always wondered if I have any ‘lurkers’ out there – people who faithfully read, but have yet to leave a comment.  NaBloPoMo (ridiculous) is the time to say hi!

So I look forward to spending the the next 30 (well, 26 now) days with you!  You’ll laugh!  You’ll cry!  You’ll hurl!

Remember:  there are three easy ways to get the random musings each day during NaBloPoMo.  At the top of the right sidebar you will icons that make it easty to add martinis for breakfast to your reader (RSS), subscrive via email (god help you) or follow me on the Twitter: @girlwithflask.