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this is my away message.

September 17th, 2007 @ 10:56 am | Comments
Filed Under: life

Since it’s been over a week since I’ve posted anything, and even longer since I’ve posted anything WORTH READING, I think it’s time I make the obligatory ‘haitus’ post. I just have so much going on right now, and even more on the horizon, that putting coherent thoughts together to write something entertaining for The Internet makes me want to crumble into a puddle of mush.

Things That Are Going On Now, Or In The Next Couple Of Months:

1. Being a mom. I am having so much fun with Maggie right now, and every day it gets better. She’ll be 6 months old next Friday, and soon she’ll be on the move and my whole world will shift. I just want to enjoy this time now and focus on her as much as I can.

2. Work. Ah, work. Lots of jobs which is great and I’m so happy for the success I’m having. BUT MAN! Does it keep me busy. There are always emails to respond to, files to upload for clients, designs to modify, content to format, sites to build. And I will be starting a new job in the coming months that is my biggest and most involved yet, so I’ll be needing to put my online-time focus somewhere other than my blog.

3. Me. Yes, I’m a mom. But I’m allowed to focus on myself now and then, right? I have 25 baby-pounds to lose very very badly, and I’ve already started my quest. I signed up for Weight Watchers Online 2 weeks ago and I’ve already lost 4 pounds. I’m working out 3 or 4 days a week, alternating walks outside with Maggie (strapped in the Baby Bjorn for extra weight!) and the exercise bike and the BowFlex. I’m starting to feel some improvement and almost starting to see some. Finding the time for workouts isn’t easy, but I’m trying my best. On top of this, I’m trying to get myself organized to cook more frequent and better meals for us.

4. Kitchen Remodel. FINALLY! We’re getting close to purchasing some of the items for our kitchen remodel and will hopefully be starting it very, very soon. We’re going to be doing some of the work ourselves, so this will be keeping us pretty busy for a while. I also have some other house projects, including outside yard work stuff, and painting our downstairs family room area. Because I don’t have ENOUGH to do, I like to squeeze it all in together.

4. Various other things: family time, possibly a weekend trip out of town, Halloween costumes to plan, getting caught up on my scrapbooks and photo albums, and of course: FALL TV STARTS SOON! All of these things right now just have way more appeal than keeping up with a blog.

BUT! That doesn’t mean I won’t be around. I mean, let’s be honest, we all know we’re addicted to the internet. I’ll still be reading my Google feeds and keeping up with all of you lovely people. And I’ll still be posting photos to Flickr, putting some videos up at Vimeo, and also at Group Recipes, a site I found (via Melissa) for sharing and posting recipes. And, I’ll probably even be posting to Twitter now and then- a sentence or two here and there is about I can handle.

Who knows when I’ll be back! I’ll probably have a new design when I do (the previous one had been up for over 6 months- which I believe is a personal record for me!) So however long it takes me to get something together and all that… 3 weeks? 4 months? Next year? Your guess is as good as mine!

Until then, entertain yourselves with my blogroll down there- those ladies are much more interesting than me, anyway :)

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