And, we're back!

Apologies for the three and a half year hiatus. Apparently I've been busy. Between moving to Waterloo, buying a house, building another house, working my tail off, getting married and having a baby (what!?! I'm still in shock), I haven't had a lot of time to write just for the pure fun of it. And God help me if I consider Facebook posting as writing.

I haven't lost the itch, though. Especially being on maternity leave. I woke up one morning and my brain literally felt like it needed a good scratch so I figured it was time to put fingers to keyboard. My first thought was to write a book.....seriously. "I'll just sit down and hammer out a couple of chapters between feeding Norah and putting up the next load of laundry..." and it was going really well until I ran out of "interesting" metaphors after two paragraphs. I say "interesting" in quotation marks because, I re-read what I wrote and, comparing my mind to a farmer's field awash with morning sunlight is.....ugh, I need to keep working at this.

So, here we are again. Hopefully blogging will help me flex my mental muscles and get my writing fix so that maybe one day I'll be able to knock off a novel. But I'm definitely not the "Proverbial Girl" of this blog's original title. No girl here unless you count my toothless sidekick Norah. Nor do I take myself quite so seriously. We will need to find a new title that better reflects my current situation and accumulated experiences of the past three or four years. Here are some initial thoughts (some better than others), votes or suggestions welcome:

1. Dear Life...where did you go?
2. Tales from the couch
3. Do you know what my baby did today?

....and I can't think of anything else right now. Let's put a pin in that and we'll come back to brainstorming titles in my next post. For now, I'll settle for an updated blog design.

I think this is good for a re-blogging attempt. If you're tuning back in, thanks for sticking with me. If you're new to reading my ramblings, welcome and I hope you enjoy what you find.