We'll hello there, my lovelies! I haven't posted or commented in some time, and I figured it was about time I take a minute or two to be sociable again. I hope you are all doing well, and would like to say I have been too...But the last few months have been a bit extra. Just extra in all aspects. The good times where unexpected but wonderful, the bad times have been heartbreaking and uncontrollable. It has all been so hectic, drama and choices and insight, coming at me like the tide, wave after wave. Unrelenting. I know that is the way of life, ups and downs, back and forth. But it seemed to have picked up the pace and was hurling everything it had at me as fast as it could. At about this point in the story, I would usually have had a nervous breakdown and gotten lost in my mind. But behold! I am a natural work of art! I am like a tiny, shiny little stone. I was once rough and drab. But the constant barrage of waves has polished me right up! Now I sparkle and gleam! I am a beautiful thing. Made so by an ocean of tears and grit. And who knows, maybe once I'm all done being polished, I'll shine like the sun...oh, and thanks a bunch to the lot of you, it was talking on here with many of you that kept me out of my maze of a mind in the beginning of this little tale.