Like, Whoa, Man.

Holy Toledo! (Looking at my last blog post...) Does that say January?! As in 11 months ago? How is it even possible that I haven't blogged in 11 months? Shameful, I tell you. I can remember back in March thinking "Man, I really need to blog. 2 months is a LONG time!" And then in June, and then in August... well, you get the gist. ;)

Before my card-making days, I once bought a card for a friend that said something to the effect of,"It's been a long time... Guess I've been doing all my complaining to someone else!" and I think that's pretty much the truth in this case. I got very overwhelmed and am just now trying to start to dig myself out (just in time to be buried by the holidays!). Here's a little of what I've been up to in the last almost-year:

In January, my husband accepted a new job clear across the country in Maryland. That started the ball rolling. We put our house on the market (sniff, sniff. I LOVED that house) and sold it within 2 weeks of it being on the market (yikes!). That made everything a lot more hectic, because it pushed up our move date about 2 months. So there were several trips out to Maryland in a hurry to house hunt. Then we bought a house, packed up all our belongings, and boarded a plane (with cats in hand! Another first!) to our new home. We stopped in at my mom's for a week along the way while we waited for all our stuff to get from Utah to Maryland. What an ordeal. I swear that I am n.e.v.e.r. moving again. So. Much. Work.

Once we got here, the fun didn't stop. First was the unpacking... and you can guess how fun that was. Then there was a whole lot of yard clean-up. The old owners left several gigantic brush piles in the back yard that we had to clear out. I started to pull branches out myself, until I pulled out one that had a black widow spider on it!!! Then I called in the big guns (my husband) to do the rest. :) Then we started having basement water-proofing issues, so we had to call in a company for that. Then the insurance company found something that they considered a safety hazard, so we had to have a deck built to be in compliance with that. Then we had to have *extensive* plaster repair done on our little 1950's house and have the whole house painted. Well, you get the idea. It has just been one (dusty, messy, time-consuming, infuriating) project after another.

Thrown in there, we also took a cruise to Bermuda with my in-laws, and I started a bunch of classes. I got pretty serious about yoga for a while. It's fizzled a bit, but I'm planning to get back into it with a vengeance very soon. I've also been taking belly-dancing and salsa classes and doing physical therapy 3 times a week. I am determined to rehab my back/hip!

And... that's it in a nutshell.

Anyhow, this is a paper-crafting blog, so I thought I'd share a card from a looooong time ago that I never got around to sharing (because I wasn't blogging). And since it's a perfectly rainy day, I thought this one was appropriate:





Heheh that little MFT girl just makes me smile.

Hope you have all had a great year! :) Hopefully I can keep up with this and keep in touch more now that I've taken the plunge.