Aaaaaaaand DONE.

I signed up for NaBloPoMo because I wanted to get back into the swing of blogging. I had a slow September and October, and this was just the thing to get me back on my blogging feet. Plus, there's the opportunity to win prizes.

But what I didn't consider is that the only thing that's not fun for me about blogging is the occasional sense of obligation. Feeling obliged to post, to post a certain way, to not post about this or that, etc. Blogging is most fun when it's on my terms. For much of the month, I was posting because I said I was going to, not because I wanted to. So in hindsight, I'm not sure what I was thinking.

Plus, because of time constraints and such, I didn't get to reply to many comments left here. Worse yet, I didn't have as much time as I had hoped to comment at other sites (particularly Cadiz, Jon, Sarah, and RaJ, fellow NaBloPoMo participants). While I was posting every day, I actually feel more detached from the blog world than I did before I started.

In spite of all the complaining, there were some good things about the month. As a lover of numbers and blog stats, I was excited by the number of comments and visitors from November. There were more than twice as many comments received here in November than in October. The hit count went up more in November than it did in September and October combined. And, with the exception of the part where you guys left me for dead and rationed out my material possessions, the quality of comments has been fantastic, so it's not just about numbers.

Anyway, I'll be taking a much needed weekend off from posting. That is, unless I find out on Sunday that I won one of the NaBloPoMo prizes. Have a good one.

Fin.