It's been a while

… but here I am.

I haven’t blogged consistently in an epoch. This is because:

• I seem to be bad at blogging when there’s actual stuff happening in my life. 
• When I get home I don’t want to look at a computer
• I have a cat to play with
• energy needs to be conserved and put towards warmth

But, I’ve been told that I need to keep it up and I’m also finding that I’ve been missing it. Blogging means you pick out smaller aspects of life to relate and analyze – and in doing so it makes the whole feel that much more manageable. That said, I’m currently stuck not knowing where to re-begin. Maybe I should recap.

Since September I have:

• Got a job (non-profit volunteer management…familiar territory which has proved a good way of reacquainting myself with that old ‘friend’ work.)
• Started driving EVERY day INTO the CITY, often at 6.30 AM in order to avoid RUSH HOUR. 
• Got a cat… this has been the highlight of my life to date. He’s incredibly cute until he gets tired of being cute and starts attacking. He will likely feature highly in future blog posts. He doesn’t have a name…blame Jeremy. 
• Discovered that my new and wonderful house does not have insulation. This is also likely to feature…
• Become a master fire-lighter
•  Hosted a three course house-warming party for 50, Christmas for 14 and had eleven friends / family come to stay for nights / weekends / fortnights
• Watched a best friend get married
• Watched my little sister get married
•  Met with my agent (face-to-face for the first time) and a publisher who loved my book but not enough to publish it…yet…(she says, fingers crossed and recrossed behind her back)
• Begun to re-edit my book in the hopes that said publisher will love it more.

 Consider this as line drawn beneath the silence and I shall henceforth re-start blogging about all the minutiae that make life meaningful.