Sorry is Such an Important Word

Dear Blog Readers....

I owe you a deep and heartfelt apology. I published one legitimate post and then stopped posting, stopped writing, and let this blog fall to the same fate as a dusty old box filled with knick-knacks that you stick in the back of the closet and then eventually move to the attic, only to uncover again years later and say "Oh, yeah! This! I forgot about this!"

I am sorry. Consider the dusty box recovered. I will blog again. I hope you will forgive me and read it.

I think the best way to re-enter the world of blogging is to start by addressing the passage of time since last I posted and then proceeded to disappear off the face of the internet and leave you high and dry.

My last post was October 1, 2013. It is now January 2015. Well over a year has passed between posts, and so many many things have happened. I moved from Boston to the San Francisco Bay Area, I started a job that really didn't make me happy at all, I dated a really sweet guy for a few months, I left the job that made me so unhappy, I turned 27, I went back to work for my old Boston company and helped open an office in California for them, I worked from home and realized that I don't have a heck of a lot of friends in the area, I also realized that when you spend enough time at home with your cat you start conversing with your cat, and I did a lot of soul searching. Looking back, I would have to say, it was a rough year. I didn't get anything done that I intended to do, and I wasn't very happy. But I recently discovered a new mantra, "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you" and I can definitely say the last year has both challenged and changed me. My promise when the clock struck 12AM on December 31, 2014 was that I would not let 2015 be the same kind of year as the many that have come before. So here goes...I promise not to disappear from the internet again. I promise to explore the challenges, the changes, the good, the bad, the ugly, the funny, the pretty, and the poignant.

--Ellie