to explain my lack of posting.. just incase anyone happened to notice...

Just like everyone else.. I post in spurts.. sometimes spending more time posting than lurking.. and visa versa. Lately tho, since the first of the year especially, I have found my posting to become even less and less regular often lurking for days at a time.

Recently I read a thread (the originator of the thread escapes me at the moment, tho it doesn't really matter) where someone took issue with there being an over-abundance of "downer" threads. Anyway, it was that thread that made me reluctant to post about what has kept me quiet and away.....

My absence (or more appropriately, my silence) has been caused by an event that has caused me to completely reevaluate many aspects of my life....

On New Years Eve, I suffered what the doctors believe to be a MILD stroke (TIA). (Yes, I know that at age 33 I am damn young to be having a stroke) Fortunately, it did not leave me with any permanent problems and altho the doctors are clueless as to what caused it , they have me on medication in hopes that it won't happen again.

This event, as scarey as it was, has caused me to re-evalute many things in my life. Not only does it make me more concerned for my son's future as well as my own, but the inner core of me that has been missing companionship seems to be screaming. The strangest part of that is that over the past month I had been getting to know a gentleman that lives about 5 hours away and knowing that he was very eager to meet... I turned him down... LOL.. I am crazy. LOL... oh well..

Anyway.. I just wanted to explain my absence.. and to thank the few of you who have been helping me along the way...

HUGS