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I'm back from hiatus - new look to my blog and hopefully some new keen insights and observations about books, about life, about anything. Since I've written last, a lot has happened. Remember those pesky migraines I was having? Well, turns out that it was symptomatic of a larger problem in my body with my thyroid. I have an over active thyroid which basically means that I produce too much of the hormone and when that happens, every system in the body goes into overdrive. My heart rate was crazy, my blood pressure abnormally high for a fit, healthy eater, I was hot all the time even in the dead of winter, exhausted but had insomnia, was in the bathroom constantly (is that an over share? maybe but I don't care), bloated and fat and so irritable that people started being afraid of me at work. So maybe after hearing all that, you can understand why I didn't write for 3 months. I could barely drag myself to work never mind try to be witty and creative on my off time which I largely spent either sleeping or staring at a TV screen. Thankfully after a few adjustments with medications and countless blood tests, I am feeling normal again. Well almost...the medications also make me a little nuts but that is the price to pay for getting my body back to functioning the way it should. In the midst of all that, I got certified as a fitness nutrition specialist. I have absolutely NO clue as to how I passed that test being so sick but I did and I'm proud of myself for hanging in there. My job sucks as usual but I don't want to waste words on that. The happy news is that we are going on vacation on Saturday...woo hoo! Its been almost 2 years since I've had a full week off and it couldn't have come at a better time. My plan is to sit on a beach by day alternating between staring at the ocean and reading crappy books and sleeping a lot by night sipping wine and eating good seafood. I've read a few books since the last time I wrote so I will get to those a bit later.

Happy to be back writing. I missed it. Stay tuned for my upcoming reviews on books, tv shows and pop culture. You know I have a lot to say!

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