November 1st. The first day of NaBloPoMo. (I seriously don't know how many more times I can type that word. It's starting to be a bit like when you just say "egg" over and over again and you suddenly start to realize how strange it sounds, and then you start wondering if you're mispronouncing it and so you DO start mispronouncing it, and anyway, the point is that every time I type NaBloPoMo I think I mistyped it so I go back and fix it, but then I make it WRONG.) The first day of my wedding month.
I come from a family who has birthday weeks and celebrates Christmas for all but 40 days out of the year, so I think I am exerting great self control when I claim only one month out of the year for my wedding and it's surrounding celebrations. I contemplated taking a blogging hiatus similar to the one I took back in March and April. (3 posts and 4 posts each month respectively. Yikes.) It would be so easy to step away from the computer for a little while and focus on my 6 page spreadsheet of wedding to-do's, make packing lists, and finish painting the bedroom and hanging pictures on the wall before we take off for Baton Rouge in 2 weeks and the wedding preparations begin in full force.
But then I think back to March and April, and how much my life was changing then--officially getting engaged, a wedding shower and engagement party, packing my car to capacity and driving 2,664 miles cross country to our new house, finally ending the distance with Colby after 4 years of flying back and forth for weekend visits. I remember that still, but I wish that I had written more then. Written about how I was feeling. Scared. Excited. Elated. Surprised. Sad. Nervous. Because now it's all faded into one big lump of my life that I can remember fondly, but not specifically.
In 20 years, my hope is that I'll be able to look back at my blog during the month of November 2007, and remember every thought and emotion that I deemed important enough to commit to paper (or computer screen at least.) I want to remember how I felt in those last few weeks of being a "single" woman and the fun I had with my friends at my Baton Rouge bachelorette party. I want to be able to relive the day of the wedding and reread over and over again all most of the details of our few post wedding days in the French Quarter.
Because that's why I blog. I love meeting people across the internet. I love the ease of staying in touch with friends and family that I don't see nearly as often as I wish I could. And I won't lie--I love getting your thoughtful and oftentimes hilarious comments. But the reason I really do this is for me. For posterity. So that someday I, or my children, or my children's children, will be able to look back and remember the life that I had from August 22, 2005 through whenever I decide to throw the towel in on this crazy thing. I do this for me, and having you all along for the ride, to share our joys, our heartbreaks, our laughter and our tears just makes it all that much more fun.
So whether you've been reading since the beginning, or whether you're just starting today for the first time, I hope you enjoy what November holds for me over here at this old website. So, one post down, just 29 more to go!
Oh yeah, when you say NaBloPoMo a lot it DOES sound weird.
Because it was totally a normal word before.
Posted by: TasterSpoon | November 01, 2007 at 06:40 PM
Happy National Blog Posting Month! :D Also, YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED THIS MONTH!!! (Insert lots of girly squeeing here.)
Posted by: Lisa | November 01, 2007 at 07:15 PM
Some of our reasons for blogging are the same. . . except your idea of a "hiatus" is my idea of a productive blogging month! Which is why I'll never do NaBloPoMo (what was wrong with just NBPM?), but I'm glad you and other bloggers in my circle are doing it--more entertainment for me! If they made a NaBloPoWe(ek), I might give it a shot. . .
Posted by: Girl, Dislocated | November 01, 2007 at 07:22 PM
I think it makes perfect sense -- it's like an online scrapbook of your wedding. Plus, it will help you to keep your sanity:)
Posted by: Becky | November 01, 2007 at 08:55 PM
Happy NaBloPoMo! And I agree about being able to look back and possibly my future children looking back on my blog. Oh yeah, and because I have a really horrible memory ;)
Posted by: Michelle | November 01, 2007 at 08:59 PM
Please don't say 2 weeks --
Posted by: The Incubator | November 02, 2007 at 01:12 AM
Eek! You're almost there. Where did the time go?
Posted by: E | November 02, 2007 at 10:08 AM
I like my blog for the same reasons- especially just having something I can look back on to see what I was thinking during particular times in my life. It's really to go back and look over the past three years and think, "wow- I didn't remember anything about that". Shows how much I need to keep up a blog for memories I'd forget otherwise.
Posted by: RisibleGirl | November 03, 2007 at 10:47 PM