I'm back, 2015 style.

WELL... I'm back behind the keyboard, staring at this empty square where I'm meant to write something meaningful - or at least something that ya'll will want to read all the way through...  I haven't been in this place in an entire year's time.  So I'm feeling a bit at a loss for what to say.  I'm not quite sure where I should pick up; I'm not quite sure how to go about getting my groove back.  

I've been trying to remember exactly why I stepped back at the end of 2013, and there are a few reasons.  The biggest reason is that there were some big changes in the blogging platform I use, and the back end of writing this blog became unrecognizable to me - I couldn't navigate, I couldn't compose posts like I wanted to, I couldn't figure out how to make edits that I needed to to all of the random bits and pieces of my blog.  It was getting away from me and I couldn't figure out how to maintain my artistic control over my space, so I became frustrated to the point that my posts became fewer and fewer until there were none.  

Another smaller reason, but one that festered over time, was that when I would actually write something a little bit more detailed about goings-on in my personal life, it felt like they would come back to snap at my heels in one way or another in my real world.  Something completely harmless would be totally misconstrued as me being exaggerated, negative, or even in one instance, as bragging.  And that obviously caused me frustration because, as my space, if I'm not able to freely share great news or bumps in the road that I'm facing, then what's the point of sitting here and sharing at all?

But I've been thinking for months about coming back to the arena and writing once more.  It seems fitting that I ring in the first post in 367 days on the first day of 2015.  "A new day, a new begining," as Sister Alice used to tell us Catholic school kids as we walked into our elementary school building each new morning.  So here I am, cozy at my kitchen table, mimosa in hand, twinkly lights still draped throughout my house and Christmas-y candles still burning, looking back on the year past and looking forward to some really exciting things I have planned for 2015.  (<-- Like seriously, I wish I could just tell you already!)

So here I am.  I've learned a lot in 2014.  A handful of those qualms of my younger self have been outgrown in the past year, and I'm more comfortable in my own skin than I ever have been.  Oh, and I've been pushing myself to advance on the technology front, so hopefully I'll be able to tackle the back end part of the blog this year.

Cheers.  To you, to me, + to 2015.

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