Intermission

Hey all! Just wanted to hop on here quickly and let you know I haven't forgotten about my blog. I've been very busy lately with the holidays and work and it has seemed impossible to carve out enough time to write a blog that wasn't complete gibberish.

I'll be back soon enough, I'm sure. Writing this blog is like having an exercise routine - you have to be disciplined about it, and we all know how disciplined I am. Things have been happening that I've wanted to write about, but every time I think to sit down and expel all my fabulous thoughts, an email comes, the phone rings or there are cookies to be baked.

By the way, the party went fabulously. People enjoyed the cookies, or so I'm told. We also discovered that Jack makes a mind-bending punch. I, as usual, over-prepared intensely, so I had about 3,000 dozen cookies left over that were sent with Mom and Jack to their respective offices and I'm saving the left-over beer and wine for our Super Bowl Party, for which I will be baking NOTHING. In fact, I may never bake again.

The holidays were also wonderful. Mom, Jack and my brother Levi came down and we ate, drank, played games, opened presents, saw movies (Avatar is a revelation, especially in 3-D. Sherlock Holmes is entertaining in a fluffy sort of way.) and generally had a good time.

Now I'm settling into my usual post-holiday funk, amplified by the fact that 2010 is the year I turn 30 and I still haven't figured out what (or even who) I want to be when I grow up. I know age is just a number and certainly 30 isn't old, but I had a lot of things I wanted to accomplish by this point that I haven't. (There are a lot of things I HAVE accomplished that seem somewhat diminished by the un-accomplished. It's like that prayer that talks about what I have done and what I've left undone. It's the undone that bothers me.)

So, I'm going to wade back into my accounting work and try to set aside time each day to blog (and work out!). We'll see how it goes. Hope your holidays were wonderful and that you have something properly celebratory planned for New Year's.