The Curse of Nefertiti – Blog

For those of you who missed me, my blog was down hence the reason for my brief hiatus.

Granted I COULD have emailed Gary at any time; explained the situation and he would have fixed it immediately. However, if you look out your window you will notice that large mountain off in the distance? That’s the one I’m currently buried under so I never actually emailed him about the problem. Besides the non-working blog gave me a “valid” reason to have one less thing on my “to do” list…

As luck would have it Gary discovered my blog wasn’t operational on Saturday and you can imagine his surprise when he called to tell me about it and my response was “I know…” versus a shocked “Oh my God, REALLY?!?”

What can I say… I needed a break and McDonald’s just wasn’t doing it for me…

In other news, I have recently re-discovered the joys of baking. My family and close friends are now leaning forward and squinting at their computer screens; their mouths agape with shock. Don’t forget to breathe people… I DON’T know CPR!

Banana bread seems to be the only thing I’m interested in baking and I know that now my family and close friends are going to be emailing me wondering where THEIR loaf is.

For those of you who don’t know me that well… I get on these baking or cooking… um… kicks every now and then. When I’m on one of these “kicks” it will generally only last three or four months and then I’m done with baking or cooking for about another five years.

You guys better hope you get some bread because five years from now will be 2015 and everybody knows the world will supposedly end on December 21, 2012. Bottom-line if you don’t receive a loaf during my current baking phase you’re screwed!

And finally, my mother is graduating from college on May 13^th. I’m very, very proud of her. She will now hold two degrees which will allow her to become… drum roll please… a school teacher!

Mm Hmm… Apparently mom forgot what a handful small children are or else time really does make one forgetful… For the record “I” was an angel… My two brothers were not! *snicker*

Anyway, I’m very proud of her and yes mom, you WILL be receiving a loaf of my Banana bread!

Until next time…

So I was sitting here a few nights ago attempting to write this blog but I kept getting distracted by a soft scraping noise emanating from my kitchen. You can imagine my surprise? Yes, let’s just call it “surprise” when I entered the kitchen and saw a pair of round eyes staring in at me through one of the windows. Apparently a stray feline thought my house looked like a great place to call home. I can see the headlines now…

“Neighborhood stray cat breaks into author’s house. Causes fatal heart attack! Story at eleven…”

On a more serious note… The past few weeks I’ve been trying to find the time to sit and write about what’s been going on in my life. As you can see that didn’t work out too well for me and now I’m receiving emails asking things like “WHERE ARE YOUR BLOGS?!?” Wow! I figured I better get to it and apparently I better make it snappy! However, it’s been about a month since I last posted; a lot has happened during that time so I will break this up into several postings over the next few days.

I guess I should start with the reason behind my brief sabbatical. Some of you are already aware of this but many of you are not. I lost my grandmother on February 27^th and I didn’t take the news very well. I knew it was coming. I’m very thankful her passing was peaceful but it still didn’t ease the pain of her loss. I was actually out doing some notary work when I received the multiple calls to let me know she was gone and thankfully I was able to hold myself together until I was done and made it home. Then the waterworks started and I cried for four hours straight. Hellooo migraine!

I attempted to do some writing as a sort of release for my emotions but obviously that didn’t work out too well for me either. *sigh* Writer’s block sucks and so the only thing I actually managed to get written and only because I HAD to were a few book reviews and one posting for the state capitals blog I write up every few weeks.

On the bright side though… Spring is here. The sun is shining. The birds are singing. The flowers are blooming. The words are beginning to flow from the proverbial pen again but even better than that; my desire to write has finally returned.