List #259: Where I Was While I Was Away

I know. It's been a long while since I last blogged. In the last year and a half so many things in my life have morphed and changed that often I don't quite know what to share and how to share it. It's why you haven't heard too much about my life, the Boyfriend, and the (now) Toddler. It's all a balancing game of how much is too much and what's appropriate and what I'm comfortable with. And sometimes, I really just don't know how I feel on any given day.

But I'm ready to get my blogging game back on track. I've been journaling a little since I've been gone and I've learned one thing about myself:  I am my better self when I'm writing my thoughts. And I think sometimes I'm even better when I'm sharing them.

So to start off, I'll catch you up on where I've been while I was away:

• Oakland
• Downtown
• My library
• Other libraries
• Sitting on the right side of a bus
• Sitting on the left side of a bus
• Walking through Schenley Park
• Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh
• Phipps Conservatory
• Charleston, WV
• On the side of the highway in WV for 3 hours
• Sunset Beach, NC
• Eating Thanksgiving dinner on a beach
• Reading on a porch
• Watching television on the couch
• Sitting on the floor playing with a Toddler
• My family's house
• His family's house
• Extended families' houses
• Putting up and taking down Christmas lights
• Under lots of blankets
• Sitting in a movie theater
• Restaurants. Restaurants. Restaurants. 
• Laughing with friends at parties
• Target.
• Lowe's
• Giant Eagle
• In bed dreaming 
• In bed having nightmares
• Sitting in my new desk chair
• The Benedum Center 
• The Strip District
• The North Shore
• Casinos
• A wedding
• A bridal shower
• Not Pawnee, Indiana

So dear readers, where have you been lately?