Time Flies!

Pssst! Yeah you. Psssst! Can you hear me? Is there anyone around? Just nod if you can hear me.... I've missed you...oh blog-land. Although I took a break for personal reasons, I did come to realize that I was becoming a bit overwhelmed by the whole blogging world, as well. Although I adore food and photography and writing, I think I was being somehow consumed. I've met so many amazing...truly amazing...people since I discovered this fabulous world of food blogging....surprisingly, not just foodies. Well, maybe foodies at heart, just not all food bloggers. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to all my friends who sent me letters, messages and words of support over the past three months...be it through a comment, an email, a Twitter message, Facebook or good old snail mail...I never felt forgotten. Your words of support, encouragement and love always kept me warm and smiling. I know everybody knows how fast life goes by...and although I kept every message and letter together in one spot, I didn't get around to thanking everybody or getting back in touch...because there was sooooo much that I wanted to say, but I didn't know how to say it all...so I let time pass and I feel like an asshole for not letting each one of you know how much I appreciate you. Thank you so much for being there for me. I will be coming back with actual food-related posts...just wanted to say a quick hello...if just to kick myself in the butt because it's so easy to let another minute, hour, day go by with best intentions blowing in the wind. I will be "limiting" myself as well. I have to. In order to stay sane, I have to. My posts will not have as many pictures...at least not step by step ones. Seriously, there were times when it took me a couple of days just to get one post in satisfactory condition. I have this obsession with perfection. Not that I thought my posts were perfection. Whoa. Not even close. BUT, they were as perfect as I could make them with what I have and what I know. I feel the need to teach and explain and I love showing step by step...and I'll probably find a few things that I feel I must explain that way, but in the interest of self and family and time...I will be going for mainly "end result" photos. Trying. Will power. Must find some. Also, even though there are literally hundreds of blogs in my reader, I know that I cannot visit and comment on all of them every day. I want to. I want to support those I know and love...or just see potential in. But I can't. At least not the way I used to. See, my family loves me more than my computer does. And I love them more than I love my computer. I will keep reading, but probably won't be commenting as much. I went the whole last 3 months just reading your posts. Less frequently, yes...but still dropping by to feed my need. I think I only commented once in all that time. And although I want to, I will be holding back on the commenting in the future, as well. I will comment, but I will no longer have a comment space under my posts. I need you and hope you still want to read my posts...but from this day forth, girlichef will be comment free. I will still have links and show support in any way I can, but I know that you all know how much time commenting takes...and I want to free up your time, as well as mine! I still want to talk to you, so please, catch up with me anytime by email (girlichef at yahoo dot com) or Twitter or Facebook or phone or in person....but I'll be comment free from now on. I've missed you all and am ecstatic to be back!