MIA for a Week, Here's Why...

Clearly if you all are keeping up on my weekly posts than you have realized that I missed a week this week. If you were sitting at home, curled up in a ball under your desk, coffee table, bed or kitchen nook with fear than I can help you out and set you at ease fellow word travelers. There were a few reasons why I missed this past Tuesday, here they are (in no particular order) and I shall address each separately for your amusement and edification.

1. My Back went out...AGAIN
2. My Aunt Died
3. I had a lovely summer cold

(again, these are in no particular order)

Ok...it's a slightly heavy list so I shall take some time with each of them and I hope you do not get overwhelmed. I know I was quite overwhelmed with all of this.

1. My back keeps throwing itself out of wack (well really, it's my hips being cranky but tomato/ tomatoe). Each time it happens I am full of frustration, annoyance and pain, so very much pain. Often there is no rhyme or reason except that killer of dreams, that murderer of fun, that villan of vice...STRESS (dum dum dum!). Am I stressed out? Why of course I am! I am mostly unemployed which means I have a very small but sort of steady source of income and am cobbling together bits of jobs to try and make my life have meaning. So far...OK. But if I dont relax and get my big ole butt to yoga, well my hips go creaky and my back goes wonky and Juice gets super duper sad and cranky and has the best pity party ever for herself!

2. My Aunt Linda passed away last Tuesday. She and I had a very complicated relationship. We hadn't spoken for years because after trying to see eye to eye on many things (my life choices and my other family being the BIG TWO) I realized that she would continue to hurt me along with not fully understanding me and I would continue to cause her pain unintentionally. She was a kind, caring and creative woman who I loved dearly. It broke my heart to cut off contact with her and even though she was sick for many months I could never bring myself to open that door again. I knew what would happen and I could not do that to myself or to her in her sickened condition. I have to hope that wherever she is now she knows that I did love her and her loss is something that will make the world a little less brighter than it was.

3. I had a summer cold. Not much more to say about that other than I was dizzy, stuffed up, exhausted and miserable for five days. So needless to say, I did not feel like posting on ye ole blog last week.

So those are my reasons, I apologize for my absence and hope you can forgive me dear reader.

I hope to be back next week with exciting news!

Peace, Sunshine and Cackers (as my 4 year old roomie Jackalope would say),