absence makes my heart grow fonder

I have a confession to make.

I haven't been feeling the whole blogging thing lately. I'm sure it was pretty apparent...my lack of posts, lack of returning comments, lack of anything and everything.

Long story short, life has been coming at me from all directions and I have been overwhelmed, stressed, and feeling pretty beat up. For the past few weeks I've been trying to tread through the muck one step at a time and it's been really, really difficult. Each day came with different sets of emotions and frankly, it's EXHAUSTING.

So you can see why and how blogging took a back seat. The last thing on my mind was taking photos of my outfits and waxing poetic about the latest trends and recent acquisitions.

I just didn't give a damn.

But apparently some of you did. I can't tell you how touching and heart warming it was to receive some of your emails asking if I was ok and if I needed anything. I've received direct messages on Twitter wondering what's up. Your words of kindness and encouragement really motivated me to bring this blog back into priority status.

And I've missed you. I really have.

Odd how I don't know any of you...I've never met you face to face...and our exchanges involve urls and .coms and electronic machines, both handheld and not. But we're friends, aren't we? In this crazy world called the blogoshpere, we've managed to find our similarities, our common ground, mutual respect, and most surprisingly we've come to care about each other. We've shared birthdays and anniversaries, triumphs and failures, happiness and despair...offering each other cyber hugs and shoulders to cry on. God knows only bloggers understand the plight of other fellow bloggers. And it's this support system that has translated into friendships I never expected and friendships I've come to cherish.

I want to thank all of you, each and every one of you - the ones who have been with me since the beginning, the ones who read this blog w/out commenting, and the ones who have newly discovered my blog - for being such amazing people and for sticking with me. As much as I appreciate your comments and your visits and correspondence, I appreciate your friendships even more. And the day I do close the doors on this site, I'll be happy walking away knowing I have met incredible people and developed friendships I know will grow and last.

And one day, if by chance we do actually meet, I hope we can greet each other with warms hugs.