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30-day writing challenge: Day 30

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by ejridener in Challenge, College, Family, student, Uncategorized

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challenge, equal rights, fun, highs, hint, inspiration, lows, Michael Scott, personal, school, summer, technology, The Office, victory, writing

Day 30: Your highs and lows for the month

Well, this is the end of the road for this challenge.

I can honestly say I had some fun with this. I’m not joking when I saw I had low expectations for this challenge seeing as I have a tendency to forget things easily and I had a strong feeling I’d be skipping posts. Thankfully, I did every post on time and finished all 30 days.

Michael Scott, "The Office"

Michael Scott, “The Office”

Most of the lows came from moments of writer’s block or trying to find the best videos to link to songs and trailers. Seeing as I’ve been using WordPress for a while, I’m used to the format of the posts and how to use the settings.

I experienced a great deal of highs. Sometimes it was watching my mom try to figure out what would be in the daily post and other times it was typing furiously trying to finish before I fell asleep on my keyboard. I had fun doing this and even more fun seeing people “Like” a post because someone other than family and myself were getting something out of the challenge. One writer even asked if she could steal the idea to which I responded I stole it from another blogger via Google Images.

I think by ding a writing challenge helps you remind yourself who you are in a time when your head is spinning from work, school and reality. I’ll probably do another challenge at some point in a few months but for now I’ll focus on blogging about projects I’m working on or things going on around the world.

See ya writing challenge, it’s been real.

Here’s a hint: soon there will a post about the big equal rights victory from last week.

30-day writing challenge: Day 26

27 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by ejridener in Challenge, Life, Uncategorized

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bugs, challenge, desire, heat, improvement, lake, Michael Scott, outdoors, sun, travel, writing

Day 26: Write about an area in your life that you’d like to improve

I have flaws. Frankly, none of them jump out as things I’d like to improve except one.

My lack of desire to be outdoors.

I hate the idea of bugs and creepy-crawlies. I hate the sun and heat. I love the rain but not the mud that it leaves behind. Basically put, my idea of roughing it is a hotel with subpar air conditioning.

Michael Scott, "The Office."

Michael Scott, “The Office.”

I’ve been camping once in my life and I nearly melted from the sticky August heat. I’ve hiked around a mountain side and through a near death trap trail to a waterfall at Yosemite National Park. Being from Michigan, a state with a wide variety of outdoor friendly activities that many enjoy, you’d think I basically lived at a Cabelas stocking up for my next outdoor adventure by a lake.

Nope. No I am not.

Plenty of people I know take weekend adventures to this campsite or that hunting camp while I stay home in my cryptically cold bedroom preserving my paleness and clutching a vintage book. I’m mostly fine with it but there are times I feel like I’m missing something.

Maybe I’m just not adventurous enough but I think it boils down to needing to overcome my disgust of bugs and heat.

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