I have totally lost my mind. This
month I signed up for both National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo)
and National Novel Writing Month (NaNo). Essentially this means I am
an idiot. During NaBloPoMo I am supposed to write a blog post every
day during the month except weekends. There is a huge possibility
that I made up the rule excepting weekends, but I can do that because
I'm a grown up now. During NaNo, I am supposed to get 50,000 words
written in a single month (November) of a novel. Ideally this would
have finished the novel I have been randomly working on for a year or
so. The result of combining these two activities is that I have
managed to not accomplish either one. I am a study in How to Not
Get Things Done. I have only managed a little over 37,000 words on
my novel and I have written maybe half of the blog posts that I
should have by now.
My nightstand is covered in empty Diet
Coke cans – the ones that haven't fallen on the floor – and I
think I have mainly been living on bananas when I remember to eat at
all. I will get really sick at night after taking my medicine and
then it will occur to me that I can't recall eating at all that day.
I'll get up and eat a banana and grab another Diet Coke and run back
to stare at the computer screen. I think I've cooked for my family
about three times... I'm not sure they live here anymore, come to
think of it. I'm only vaguely aware of the dog when he has to go out
and then I forget he's out there until night when he sends me an
angry text message saying he's cold and is planning on biting me if I
don't let him in soon. This morning I was hugging my children
goodbye before school and called them the wrong names.
I haven't walked or exercised all
month, and at this point it would probably be too much of a shock to
my system to attempt it. The last time I was outside it was decently
warm and walking was nice. Now then it is colder than a witch's
titty in a brass bra (thank you Grandma) and I'm certain my body
would get so cold that every pore and orifice I have would seal
itself shut against the cold and I'd never be able to pee again. Not
only that, I'm almost positive that I am part vampire at this point
and were I to saunter off into the sunlight I would spontaneously
combust and disintegrate into a pile of ashes. Either that or I
would start to madly sparkle and I would be heartily disappointed.
Neither seems worth the risk. I have managed to brush my teeth most
days and I have showered at least twice this month, so I know hygiene
is covered.
I have been social two times this
month. I went to a friend's house and saw The Hobbit and went to a
different friend's house so she could have a thyroid biopsy done.
The procedure, which I chronicled in A Pain in the Neck, no doubt
scarred me for life as I ended up watching the whole thing, but
watching The Hobbit was a lot of fun. I seriously had to make myself
leave my laptop at home though when I went out for fun. I kept
thinking, “Oh, I can write for just a little while. No one will
mind”. I firmly told myself I was being a workaholic pain in the
butt and left the laptop at home, but I did take it with me when I
went with my friend for her “surgery” and instead found myself
hugging my poor computer tightly to my body as I watched helplessly
from a chair while a person dressed like a doctor poked around inside
my friend's neck. There was no writing to be done that day. I
mostly watched TV shows from the 80's and tried to un-see what had
been seen.
I haven't called my mother or my best
friends. I just wished my brother a happy birthday one day too late
because I have lost a day somewhere. I am madly trying to schedule
some time to catch up on the Dr. Who seasons because I am only part
of the way through season six and my son will actually kill me if I
haven't caught up on it before I take him and his girlfriend to see
it in the theater on the 25th (This gives me 4 days to
watch one and a half seasons of an hour long TV show). I had
entirely forgotten about Thanksgiving because – true story – many
of the bloggers that I follow live in Canada. They have already had
Thanksgiving there and I somehow managed to make myself think that
since they had celebrated it, that was one less thing I had to do (or
something like that). I think I just saw everyone's posts and
pictures and somewhere in the back of my head was thinking “Wow,
Thanksgiving this year was great! It seemed kind of short, but I had
such a good time. I wonder why I don't have any leftovers?” Also,
I went to put on deodorant the other day and stuck a water bottle in
my armpit.
So, if you have any sense at all you
should never ever sign up for both NaBloPoMo and NaNo at the same
time. It is the most bang-your-head-against-the-wall, nerve
wracking, what-was-I-thinking thing you can ever do to yourself.
Other people can inflict pain and frustration on you and you can hate
them and blame them until you die, but when you do do it to yourself,
you can only blame yourself – unless you can blame your mother. It
is absolutely maddening and I promise you, swear on a stack of
bibles, that I will do it again next year!
Blogher November NaBloPoMo
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