It's been a while, eh? I've been crazy busy with a lot of stuff in the past few months, but most of all I haven't felt the need to write. In a good way. Writing has always been my preferred method for working things out for myself. Coil bound notebook and a nice pen, and I'm set for some serious self-therapy.

I haven't needed it. I've actually been living a 'normal' life. Well, as normal as I'll ever get. I've been working for myself, and actually getting paid for it. I've been working at my mom's house doing renovations. I have my daughter for more time each week. Life's gotten gradually busier and it's GREAT.

The more balanced my life gets the more grateful I am to the therapists that worked with me. I don't think I realized then that the ultimate goal was to teach me how to do it ALL for myself. Teaching me how to ask myself the hard questions, how to dig for the roots of things, how to be self-aware at all times no matter what kind of emotional space I was in. They taught me how to do that, and it's working. Rock ON. :)

I'm a soapmaker now, btw. I make *really* nice soaps and I sell them too! I've been working on a webpage for my soap company, SkyWorks. Go Admire. It's not live yet, I've gotten stumped on a few details. But all in all I'm VERY proud of myself with this page. It's the first 'serious' website I've designed all by my little self.

The whole in business for myself thing is very strange, but it's been a lot of fun. Mike's been great about the whole thing, especially considering he's somewhat jaded on the concept of being a small business owner. He's been keeping me reined in a lot. We agreed when I had to make the "Sell soap or quit soaping" decision that I wasn't going to go big business mentality. He's cool with it growing tho… if it gradually gets bigger and I have to grow along with it, that's fine.

So. I'm alive and kicking. ;)