A Peek.

I'm peeking my head back inside my own blog a little sheepishly. I'm ashamed that I left it, and all of my bloggy friends, without notice, and for over three months.

I am so sincerely sorry.

Really, I have no excuse. Except that some things happened that made the blog get away from me, and then, as with many things in life, once I'd begun to neglect it, I had more and more difficulty returning.

I was scared. What was I going to say to you all? How was I going to explain my absence? Could I really make up for three months of no updates?

I'm really not sure. I guess that's up to you all to decide.

I'm also disappointed in myself that I haven't been blogging because I've had an incredibly eventful few months and won't be able to recall it all in retrospect the way I would have if I'd been keeping up with things.

So, here's a very incomplete list of the highlights—both good and bad—of the past three months:

• I broke my foot. "Ouch" doesn't even begin to describe it.
• Subsequently, I hobbled around in a walking cast for nine weeks.
• That means that for about 12 straight weeks, I pouted and felt sorry for myself and my foot. (Oh, yeah. It was broken for three weeks before I went to an orthopaedic physician and got an x-ray.)
• I started back at my second year of grad school.
• I returned to my "normal," non-internship job.
• Fiance and I had season tickets to all the home football games for my grad school, including a game on December 4, where we sat outside in the heavily falling snow for more than five hours.
• We got pumpkins and I attempted to navigate a corn maze in my boot. Not my best life choice ever.
• We celebrated Fiance's birthday.
• I was a very supportive fiancee and tagged along at numerous events for the bands Fiance teaches.
• We had our engagement photos taken.
• My bridesmaids and I continued the search for bridesmaid dresses.
• I also shopped for bridesmaids dresses for Bridesmaid C.'s own wedding.
• I struggled (and am still struggling) with the recent passing of my amazing cousin, Jeff, who fought cancer for 21 months and is now at home with the Lord.
• I spent some quality time with family over Thanksgiving, despite some of that time taking place at Jeff's memorial service.
• I wrapped up a quarter of grad school, which means I'm 67% through to my master's.
• I am so ready (and not ready) for Christmas.

Okay, as I said, that's not at all a comprehensive list. And it saddens me that I have to describe the last three months in bullets instead of blog entries, but that's entirely my fault.

And even worse? I've missed out on all of your blogs and lives for three months, too. Which means I better start reading!

[This post was brought to you in part by my good friend, Emily, who has been not-so-subtly hinting that I get my butt back into blogging mode. Thanks, Em!]

(image from diane)