Monster Monday & Scaling Back

Metaphoric life lesson: no matter how hard you try to keep your space neat and organized, someone will come along and make a mess of it all over again.

You just deal with it and keep cleaning anyway.

Thanks for the pellets, but I'm kinda busy eating the dust pile you just swept up.

I have an announcement to make. This Saturday will mark the month-iversary of General Overachiever. That's four weeks' worth of daily posts. Wow! Cheers, friends! As I recently confessed to Halley over at Life of Something New, I have fallen in love with the blogging process and all that it entails. The people I've met, the posts I've read and the conversations I've shared with writers, photographers, chefs, book critics, designers, travelers and friends around the globe have all been incredibly inspiring. What an encouraging community to be a part of. It truly is awesome.

With the end of the first month, however, comes the beginning of a new posting schedule. Starting next Monday, I'll only be publishing new material three times a week. The reasons for this are fourfold:

1. I'll soon be spending some much-needed time at home, meaning my main focus will be on catching up with family and a few dear friends.
2. My final college semester will begin shortly after that, as well as the switch to a new job, apartment and general way of life. In short, I gon' be busy.
3. It would be a tragedy to start churning out boring material just for the sake of daily posts.
4. You as a reader probably have better things to do with your time, anyway. If not, try getting out more often.

Sister and mom: just two of many people I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE. If I'd included photos of everyone on the list, this post woud be two pages long.

Also, thank goodness my hair has grown out since these were taken.

My original plan was to continue with Monster Monday, Tuesday Tunes and Thursday: Things that Rock. I'd shorten the amount of time spent on the daily theme to about a paragraph, then follow it with an unrelated topic, as seen in any of the links listed above. But then I thought, "Hey, Claire, why don't you discuss this with the people who actually read your ramblings?"

So...that's what I'm doing.

If you read this blog (bless you, you saintly person), what posts do you like to see? What genuinely makes you want to stick around, and what bores you? Brutal honesty is always appreciated. Because blogging is not about keeping a personal journal. It's about engaging in conversation. What are your thoughts?