Life's crunch periods

Yes, I know, I know. I've been gone for a really long time. And yes, there's not much in the way of excuses, other than to say that life decided to speed up in the past month, and in doing so has been throwing things my way that have taken priority over blogging.

For example, there has been extensive travel - to LA for my brother-in-law's wedding, back to Chicago, back to LA for more wedding events, and then straight on to Orlando for Abbott's National Sales Meeting. There has been backing out of contracts for the home we wanted to purchase (and therefore the restart of a housing hunt for us). There has been the tentative initiation of the training needed to run the Chicago Marathon in October of this year. There has been the fruitless search for my next assignment at work (the nature of a rotational program inevitably means that you find your own next gig). There has been a mad scramble to register for baby items, buy baby furniture, read baby books, take baby classes, and in general have this upcoming addition to our family take over our world before it's even here. Oh, and the need to buy a car has also made itself apparent.

So, in short, things have been busy. But in the midst of all this "busy"-ness I've come to the realization that putting pen to paper (or tapping keys on a keyboard), is a wonderful way to organize the thoughts swirling around my head and shove them into categories and containers where I can tackle them in a more orderly manner. Besides, my misadventures hopefully keep you guys entertained.

So I'm back, and will be posting as things promise to get even crazier in the days to come. Take care!