As I clicked the link for my blog for the first time in several months, I will admit it made me nervous.  My heart skipped a beat, and like usual I feel little pricklies of sweat forming on my skin.  (I'm hot-blooded or something, so get over it I can't help that I sweat.  All the time.)

I have been writing a little these days, but I have been mostly reading, as far as the department of literature goes.  What I have really been doing with my time is making things.  I finally (after many tangles, throwings of yarn over my balcony, and just a light glisten in my eyes) taught myself to crochet.  And am now obsessed.  Call me a granny, but I pretty much feel like I could save the world with knit/crochet.  Well maybe not.  I am highly regretting my choice to make most of my Christmas presents this year because I am pretty sure that I am instilling premature arthritis into my fingers.  But I cannot bring myself to buy those support sleeves that I see in the crochet aisle of craft stores.  Oh god.  That is when I have gone off the deep end and someone have a serious talk with me....

A lot has happened to me in between my last post and this one.  Which is sad, because I know I should be writing more.  Let me just catch you up on my top five, Buzzfeed style.


5.  Getting half my thyroid gland removed.
         
            The benefit of this is that I have an interesting scar on my neck and tell all my students when            
            they ask that I am a pirate.


4.  Moving into an apartment.
           
            The best thing about this is that I can be a hermit without my parents telling me to get a life and
            be "social."  Which I am usually highly averse to.  The downside: the sasquatches that live
            above me.  Correction, the furniture building sasquatches that live above me.  There is no other
            way they could make so much ungodly noise.


3.  The combination of Hulu and Netflix. 

            Seriously, what else do hermits need in this world?

2.5.  Finishing the Game of Thrones series.
             
            Yes this is 2.5 because I remembered that it's kind of a big deal.  I was totally Daenerys for
            Halloween.  And I have found that being called Khaleesi is probably the best thing ever.

2.  Revamping my Etsy Shop this summer.

             I love that I can make and sell things.  That means that I don't have to keep them all.

1.  The addiction of creating things.

              This really extends throughout my life.  Writing, making handmade books, painting, drawing,  
              cooking, knitting and crocheting.  I've gotten so wrapped up in all of it that I dream about it.
              Constantly.


I miss writing, because even though I am still creating, I am not telling all of the stories that are pent up inside me.  And trust me, if I want to ever sleep again, they cannot stay here, in my head.  But I have some ideas and lots of things in the prelim stages.  Look for some more soon.  Peace.