Life as Betsy

I must be out of my mind

The Friday before Christmas, a random group of friends and I gathered, like we often do around holidays, at some local, not-so-seedy bar in Vancouver. Seeing as how it is Vancouver, there are only about five to pick from that would fall into the "not so seedy" category. That generally means they are not located anywhere in Hazel Dell or along Mill Plain Blvd and often, they are closer to the waterfront.

So just like many other holidays, we drank and mingled and ran into people we never thought we’d see (or have to see) again. It was, as it always is, refreshing and fun and typically leaves me wondering "What is the point in a high school reunion?" There were the noticable absences (No Jessica this year.) but generally there were the same familiar faces and it was good to say hello and spread some cheer.

While mingling, I spoke with my friend Jake, who’s first question to me (refreshingly was not "How’s married life?") was "Do you blog every single day or something?". Jake is a writer too, though he is more thoughtful and conservative about his usage. When he blogs, you know it is something to read because it doesn’t happen all that often. So I am sure just randomly passing my page on a frequent basis, you would notice the blog titles changing. A lot.

I received an email last week from the group the generally made up NaBloPoMo, inviting me to join Blog 365. As in blogging for 365 days. In a row. And after thinking it over all weekend, I decided to do it. To sign up. Because I am childless and work completely different hours than my husband and somewhat masochistic, obviously.

The lovely perimeters of this challenge state that it doesn’t always have to be words and so there are time where it will be just a picture or a link or a list or whatever. And you can back post, as long as what you are posting was written or taken the day it was supposed to be posted. And February 29th is a free day.

There are a lot of things I am planning on tackling in 2008 and between posting every day and taking pictures every day, you’ll be able to come along with me. Aren’t you excited???

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