If you haven't been keeping up, NaBloPoMo is short for National Blog Posting Month, during which the goal is to post every day for 30 days. Period.
Simple. Just simple enough that I knew there was no way in hell I could do it. I generally post 3-4 times a week, rarely on weekends, and sometimes not even that often. I've been known to disappear into real life for days on end, my blog left to wither and flail about on its own. I knew that NaBloPoMo was beyond my ambitions.
However, I love buttons, I love social networking (sort of, well, eh), and I love challenges. I also love to cheat because seriously, I'll follow their rules when the blog police show up on my virtual doorstep to enforce them. Hence, GoBloMeMoFo was born.
Jennifer at Playgroups Are No Place For Children coined the term. Fussypants designed the wicked buttons and dreamed up the animal cruelty threats, and I hit the "publish" button. What you got there, folks, was one glorious month of guest posts from my fabulous readers.
Because NaBloPoMo can GoBloMeMoFo, we were playing it our way over here. Cheating or not. We still posted.
And we met a lot of people. And that was the point. I scooped up some crazy great new readers from my guest bloggers' audiences and I hope they snagged a few of mine, as well. Our own little scrappy social network of cheaters. I love it.
I will post the final two GoBloMeMoFo guest posts right after this one by yours truly. I know I'm sort of squooshing two in at the last minute, but I'm going to give them the whole weekend to roam free before I start smashing them under my piles of words, so be sure to read them both, please.
If you submitted a guest post but it didn't get published or asked to sign up but didn't get to in time, I sincerely apologize and ask for your continued patience. Although GoBloMeMoFo is over, I still host some awesome Squatters here every Saturday, so I hope you'll allow me to slip you in as a Saturday Squatter instead. Deal? I underestimated the response and I truly apologize, but you'll still get a cool button and a place on a permanent page over here. Hmmm, I better get to updating that page...
Speaking of slacking, I know I haven't been posting much this month, but I can't begin to tell you how much I have not even been spitting in the direction of my computer. If I ever do sit down here, it's to work on my eBay store for the holidays or to grab a guest post to publish. Then there's that whole trying to get a house thing...
By the way, we've made it past the first mortgage hurdle and are just waiting to hear back from the underwriter. Fingers crossed, people. Fingers crossed. Knock on wood. Burn a bra. Whatever works. I want this house. I want a home. Damn it.
Thanks again to all of my bad-ass nice GoBloMeMoFo guest bloggers, to all of their daring readers who have stuck around over here, and to all of you that have taken the time to click their links and get to know some new blogs.
GoBloMeMoFo guest bloggers, you seriously are bad-ass nice! Display your badges with pride!
Until next year, GoBloMeMoFo!!!
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