I'm back!

It’s been six months since I posted.  The last time I posted, in April, I was “swimming to Saudi.”  Well, I didn’t make it.  I only made 3000 meters.  I’ve been trying to improve my swimming since, and this last month I broke 3000 meters.  So while I’d like to complete and win a swim challenge, my goals are much smaller now–just to beat whatever I did the last month.  Maybe someday I’ll be a good enough swimmer to win a challenge.

The reason I left my blog was because I just had too many other things to do.  Something had to slide.  I realized I couldn’t do everything.  Plus I was bored with it.  So I took the summer off and worked on other projects I had to do, like earning my EXW (expeditionary warfare) qualification and studying for my Navy advancement test.  The results: I did earn my EXW qualification!  So now I have a shiny pin to wear on my uniform.  And as for the advancement test, I don’t find that out until the end of November.

I’m thinking of changing the look of this blog.  I like this theme, but the header picture thing isn’t working for some reason.  Also I probably won’t blog very often.  My goal is twice a week, but it may only be once a week.  That might change in December, depending on my schedule.  Last year I posted every day in December.  I did an Advent Calendar of Christmas hymns and carols with special note of the Advent Sundays.  It was a lot of fun, and time permitting, I’d like to do it again.  After our trip to Rome last December (making sure posts got up on time when on vacation with limited internet access was challenging) I thought I might do an Advent theme of Renaissance paintings.  They’re beautiful, there’s a lot of them, and they’re in the public domain.  I’ll have to wait and see.

Current projects include a few things for work and participating in Nanowrimo this November.  So during November I might not post at all.  If that’s the case, just check back in December.  If you want to look me up on the Nanowrimo website, my username is rbicha.