Valediction

Saying good-bye.
I never thought this would be so hard to do. But do it I must.

First thank you all for your numerous comments on my last post. I appreciate it.

Next a quick update on what's happening in my life.
These last few weeks have been exhausting. After me being under weather, Damien had the flu or the swine flu. We don't know which, because they don't test it anymore. However if he didn't have it before we were in the waiting room of the childrens' clinic for over 2 hours filled with kids looking just as feverish as Damien, he probably had it afterwards. The little guy was under the weather for 3 days, but has been doing pretty good since.
After that wonderful episode in our life, I went on a little team building mission with my colleagues and boss. We went two days to Paris. God, I love Paris and I'm not talking about that annoying little Hilton bitch. It truly is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Instead of taking the metro like normal sane humans, we walked from one highlight to the next. And we didn't just do the inner city ones either. After those two days I actually had sore muscles. Can you believe it? I walk every fucking day to work and back and here I am legs aching after two days of walking in Paris. At least I'm sure everybody else felt the same or worse. Yet again I didn't get a chance to go into the Louvre (we only passed on the outside), and we didn't make it to Père Lachaise (in the humble opinion of this enthusiastic graveyard tourist, the world's third most beautiful cemetery after London's Highgate and New Orleans' Lafayette). I so wanted to kiss Oscar Wilde's grave again. I did that once 15 years ago, and I haven't regretted it since. This time around my personal Paris highlight was watching the Eiffel tower at night at the full hour - it twinkles! Ya just gotta love that ;-)

Since being back from Paris, work is crazy. And with Christmas around the corner life at home is crazy too.

Now that you know why I haven't been around lately, I'll come to the hard part, why I won't be around in the future. Well, I will be posting every now and then, but from here on out it will only be about my life, interests, vamps, and my opinion about what's going on. And every now and then I will get up on my little soapbox aka this blog and will tell the world what I think about it. So if you're interested in that, please stay. If you are looking for freebies, sorry, you won't be finding them here anymore. For those of you who want to do some own hunting, I have decided to share by Google reader list for a couple of weeks. You can find it in the sidebar. Happy hunting :-) I hope you find it as fun as I once did. *edit havinf troubles uploading my reader list, blogger isn't to will to upload 1000+ links. I'll keep trying though*
After 3 years of basically freebie hunting every evening, I no longer feel happy and relaxed while doing it. It has become another item on my to do list. And since that is already way too fucking long as it is, I have decided now is the time to call it quits.
These last weeks I have enjoyed reading every evening, and have done some writing too. I finished my first short story for a contest and am looking forward to finding out what others think about it. At the moment that is what makes me happy. I also have the outline for a second story written out, so I hope to start on that soon.
Picking up writing again, has not only made me happy, it has also improved my English - helped me get back into an "English" state of mind, opposed to a German one. I have started to dream in English again. I love that, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Also reading and in addition to writing fanfiction smut, as I do, - that rated M(ature) warning is there for a reason - has definitely not hurt our mommy-and-daddy-alone-time. No complaints from Chris so far ;-)

As this is for some of us a crossing and our paths will no longer connect, I want to say good-bye and thank you. I had a wonderful time. Scrapbooking was an important part of my life and I hope I will come to love it again. The digi scrapping community is not only tightly knit, caring and compassionate, but also a fabulous bunch of ladies and a few good men who I am glad I got to know better. I truly enjoyed the ride. Thank you.

Since I don't have any words of wisdom to leave you with, and you already know my favorite Eric Northman quote, here is one of my all time favorites by Robert Cody:
"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."

Stay frosty
Cheers, Angie aka IkeaGoddess