After the catastrophe a while back when I lost my entire blog due to cutting and pasting in an entry from a Word document, I’ve been very careful about writing my entries directly into my blog.  (I did briefly follow my brother’s advice to type entries into Notepad and cut and paste from there, but found that annoying and time-consuming.)  Today was the first time I’ve had an issue with directly typing into WordPress:  I just lost an entire entry when I clicked on “save and continue editing.”  Poof – gone.  Poof – I was logged off.  Poof – my blood pressure went up.

The really frustrating thing?  I had spent quite a while on this entry and had actually worked on word choice and taken far more pride in my writing than I usually do.  It wasn’t my standard quickie blog post – it was well-written.  And now it’s gone.  Oh the frustration.  Maybe I can recreate it after I eat breakfast.  Maybe.  Grrrrrr.

(for the record, I don’t think this lost post was due to WordPress, but rather our inconsistent wireless signal)

Just a note that I’m on vacation until Monday the 23rd, and have decided to take a bit of a break from blog writing - I haven’t felt inspired to write on this vacation, and readership appears to have dwindled anyway, so a break seems justified and wise.

Join me again on Monday, February 23, and I promise to share some thoughts on the many books that I’ve read this week.

Just when I’d gotten back into the blogging groove, I got slammed with a nasty cold that laid me out for a few days.

I’ll try to post an entry of substance tomorrow.  There’s certainly plenty to share!

It’s been one month since my last post – an unplanned hiatus, and a rather long one.  I know it would have been far more polite to have posted a little note saying something like, “This blog will be on vacation for one month,” but, truly, I didn’t really intend to be silent this long.  And, unlike some blog vacations, this hiatus wasn’t because I was burned out, but rather because for once I wasn’t burned out.  Last year was a loooong, tough year, with lots of evening tutoring and seemingly endless hours of my free time spent creating lesson plans for all those new storytimes, on top of the sometimes painful adjustment period of the first full school year in our new on-the-school-campus library building.  Frankly, when July hit and I wasn’t madly making storytime plans, and I wasn’t out tutoring most every weeknight, and school wasn’t in session, I finally took a deep breath and relaxed.  Lots of evening meals out on our deck (when the rain held off, of course) and much needed and much enjoyed quality time with my husband.  Not to forget all those home improvement projects that we indulge in during the summer (our living room is finally painted!  as are our kitchen and our foyer!  woo-hoo!).

So what’s been going on?  Tune in again tomorrow for the first of a series of posts on what happened over the summer, and what will be happening at the library this school year…

Between doing the taxes and tutoring three nights a week and preparing for storytimes and book groups and attending the Joe Jackson concert a week ago, I simply haven’t had the time to write a post recently.  But I do promise to put up a new post tomorrow evening, since the 5th grade book group will be over by then (I need to finish reading that book tonight). 

I know that if I had more time available to me I’d still find ways to fill it, but it really does feel like there just isn’t enough time to do everything that I want to do. 

No post of any substance today – I’m still battling a streaming, miserable cold, and just don’t have the energy to write anything interesting or intelligent.

I do, however, have several posts in draft form, and once I’m better I’ll be writing about the following:  Storytime Update, Airborn by Kenneth Oppel, High School Musical 2, American Idol (of course!), The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan, and Magic by Scott Jameson.  Check back in a day or two for one of these exciting offerings! 

In the meantime, I think I’ll take a nap.

Blog vacation, that is.  We currently have the most fabulous houseguest in the world, and so that I can enjoy her company, I won’t be posting again until next week.  But there’s a possibility of a cool video post next week, provided all concerned parties give their permission.