WE did it!

As I mentioned several times over the last month, I don't know what possessed me to do NaBloPoMo this January. There was a theme -- "best" -- which I thought might be fun to write about, but I don't think I ever even used the word.

But I did carry on. My conclusions are:

1.) It is probably good for anyone who wants to keep blogging to do NaBloPoMo once a year. It does get a certain momentum going, even if post quality can suffer.

2.) I don't think I would ever want to make La France Profonde a daily blog, but after a 31-day string of posts, getting back to posting twice a week seems feasible, if not straight out easy.

3. NaBloPoMo is best done with a few others. Of course one can find myriad "others" by going to the official site, but I was lucky enough to have two contacts just fall into place: longtime blogging (and now Facebook) buddy tut-tut from Inside the Shell, and Claudine from Good Things, whom I had run into in comments columns. Both of these ladies commented on every single post of mine, no matter how lame, and I did the same...not that THEY wrote any lame posts, of course!

The "best" thing about NaBloPoMo in my book is finishing it! Cheers!

Out and about and oops

It's not that I exactly forgot to post yesterday, I just forgot that the day's schedule wouldn't allow me to do so in the evening -- and it didn't even cross my mind in the morning.

Yesterday I got home from a cultural outing (photo and explanation to come...) past midnight, so even if I had mustered up the energy to write something yesterday, officially it would have been today already.

So, tant pis. I will chime this evening to make up for the "lost post."

NaBloPoMo -- over halfway through

I hate to say it right out loud, and I am saying it out loud as I write, but NaBloPoMo has been a bit on the hellish side.

I have never had any desire for La France Profonde to become a DAILY blog, and find it a little frustrating that the (very) few good posts I have written this month get quickly covered up by slop like what I'm typing tonight.

But I will persevere -- we are more than halfway through!

What a week!

This week has been crazy. The weather has wreaked havoc on driving conditions, our bunny died, I have had several evening meetings. Basically, I'm feeling behind on everything.

And here I am doing NaBloPoMo PLUS I have signed up, rather insanely I must admit, for a 6-week EVO class called Images4Education that started Monday.

I don't even know what EVO stands for, but the class platform is on Ning -- I hardly understand what that is either, but I'm starting to navigate the Ning thing...

Image courtesy of Hallmark by the way. Click here if you want to buy a "What a Week sound button" -- whatever that is.

Weekend = gone

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Sorry, I don't even have time to make a blog of mine, much less a graph...

Gla-gla-gla

The world from my window today

The French expression for "Brrrrrr...." is "gla-gla-gla." It's an utterance I've never adopted -- would you want to say "gla-gla-gla" if you were freezing, as we are right now in Aveyron?

I was just wondering how other non-native French speakers feel about "gla-gla-gla." For me it somehow doesn't cut it.

Brrrrr...I do like snow, but there is something ominous about this cold snap and its fine flakes that are already starting to form drifts. As I write, half of our deck is totally visible; the other half has accumulated all of the snow. There's a chilly wind factor going on here -- a definite sign that this is not your typical peaceful snowfall.

Last night the snow stopped around midnight and it wasn't snowing in the morning, but the sky had that dull grey look to it that cold (that was a typo, but it is so Freudian, I'm keeping it!) me there was more to come. I was right. We will see what tomorrow brings!