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As I write this it is 6:19 AM. Besides nocturnal Steve and
myself, not a creature is stirring in the crowded Thanksgiving morning Seyfried
house: Sheridan, Ya-Jhu, Aiden, Peter, Rose, Julie and Gil, are nestled all
snug in their beds with, I imagine, visions of drumsticks dancing in their
heads. Dad and daughters are running in the Turkey Trot in Fairmount Park at 9,
a wise move given the amount of groceries they will be consuming later today.
While they are gone, my Kitchen Kapers will resume. I baked
the brown sugar cake layers and made the cranberry-orange jam yesterday, but
now I need to prepare the cranberry buttercream frosting--a first for me, and I’m
a tad worried because the recipe is filled with advisories: “while adding
butter, the frosting will break and curdle. Increase mixer speed and it should
come back together. Frosting will be too runny to use at first, try refrigerating
for 30 minutes,” and so on. Triumph or tragedy? Only time will tell! But can’t
dwell on it for long--the gruyere roasted potatoes must be dealt with, as well
as the lobster flatbread appetizer! Luckily the rest of the fam will handle the
bird, stuffing and veggies, but it’s still capital W Work.
November is always a chock-full month. My church duties increase as the education
year is in full swing, along with preschool chapel times and Advent prayer
center prep and leading adult Bible study every week and on and on…all of which
begs the question: am I out of my ever-loving mind to blog 30 times this
month??
Well yes I am, but that’s not the reason. The reason is,
back in 2016, I discovered National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo for short)
when bloggers everywhere were challenged to blog daily from November 1-30. This
was related in spirit to National Novel Writing Month, also in November, when
you are supposed to write an entire novel (I actually did this, in 2006). So, I
did a blog-a-thon in 2016, then 2017, then 2018 and here were are again. Could
I have achieved this literary feat in, say, the lazy days of August? Of course,
but that would be sensible! It HAS to be November, because…well, it just has to
be!
Ironically, in 2017 the official NaBloPoMo disbanded (though
the November novelists are still going strong). So no more cute badges for my
home page, no more online blogging support group. I am on my own out here in
Blogland, cranking out the posts on top of an insane daily life schedule. At
any point, I could switch months for this exercise, or stop altogether. I sold
an essay the other day (of about the same length as a blog post), for which I
am being well paid…reminding me that I am actually trying to make money writing.
To sum up: 30 posts in 30 days=lots of work, no financial compensation,
during one of my busiest months.
Sounds good to me! Bring
on NaBloPoMo 2020!
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