Life's Whirlwind Adventures

Or you didn't because you follow me on Facebook/ Instagram/ Twitter and saw my life there, but I had stopped blogging for a bit. A lot happened to lead me to make this choice, to stop blogging.  Mostly I felt like there was so little in my life that I could actually control and wanted to share, so I just stopped.  For me blogging is a public journal, something I do that I want to share with others because I think it will make someone smile, or get people to question things or get a conversation started, I also blog for myself because it's a form of journalling and I need journals in my life. I am still dealing with my depression, mild as it is, I've found that my depression has really hit home in my writing. I'm working to be more succinct in what I write, not going for the descriptive, maybe you've noticed that as well. Part of it is because I just don't want to go into it, and another part is I'm writing a lot of this much later than when it happened s...

I've been avoiding my blogging for some time now, it's been weird, I went from blogging all the time to not, and when I would sit down because I had time to blog, I'd just sit and stare at the flashing cursor on the screen and NOTHING!! I'd tell myself I'd have time on the weekend, or time after I put my kids to bed, but the reality was I just never made the time.  I could have made the time, there was time in my day to devote to writing, to devote to things I love, but I pushed them all aside.  I wasn't depressed, I just had no interest in doing things I loved, even going to my exercise class. There was always some excuse why I couldn't go. I was in a FUNK! I hate being in funks, it's so hard and tiresome trying to get out of them, and for me they always sneak up out of no where.  I mean I was uber stressed out from my job that I left August 13, and I think that definitely added to my overall motivation, or lack there of.  Then I started a ne...