Where I've been and going forward.

Well.  I believe I have some explaining to do.

First off, thanks to those who've written -- and I'm sorry that I haven't written back.  When I walked away from the internet a few weeks back, that included, for the most part, my email inbox.  I also apologize to those who were participating in the Big Read -- when I walked away, I walked AWAY. 

Clearly I needed a break. 

Most of us in the blogosphere have dealt with blog angst in some form or another.  I've dealt with it in the past, and it'll pass eventually, but at the moment, I'm just not feeling it.  (IT being a desire to write.)  Compounding the issue is Dread February, which isn't exactly the most inspiring month here in Maine.  And as you may have noticed, I've been particularly sickly this past year, which has dampened my enthusiasm for, well, ANYTHING.  I've hardly read any fiction at all over the last few weeks.

All I've felt like doing in my free time lately are nesting sorts of things:  reading cookbooks and planning my vegetable garden.  (Oh, yeesh -- before anyone starts getting all suspicious:  No, I'm not pregnant.)  My sickliness does have a bright side.  It has resulted in a (quite possibly HELLO, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS) realization:  Up until very recently, my Cheez Doodles and Flavor-Ice diet may have ever-so slightly contributed to my general ill health.  So I've made a huge effort to change my habits, and I've been (I think) succeeding*. 

So that's where I've been.

Going forward, well, we'll see.  I have no plans to stop blogging, but I do think that it'll be a little while before I'm back doing regular daily posts.  And you may be subjected to the occasional freakout about whatever food I've concocted.

The other biggie is that I've been accepted to library school.  Yep.  Finally taking that plunge.  But what with that and other commitments, something has to give:  so I've decided to put the Tallboy on indefinite hiatus.  I feel bad about that, but it is what it is.

Thanks for being understanding.

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*I've been eating vegetables totally voluntarily!  And enjoying them!  Multiple times daily!  And just this week I've made red lentil hummus (their recipe is a bit too salty for me, so next time I'll cut it down a bit) and spinach/cilantro pesto (that one I actually thought needed MORE salt... or something) and I dug out my pasta roller (to make some whole wheat/oat flour pasta (subbed the oat flour for the white), which was lovely) and then there were those coconut-lime bars...

And look at my lovely granola!:

I'm going to make more this morning, actually, as Josh and I pounded the first batch in less than a week.

And my lovely rye bread:

I bought my own copy of That Book so I could stop worrying about getting the library's copy all flour-y.

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