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Beware the Ides of March. I always found it bewildering how a month can herald such doom and gloom. Why not October – its Halloween Month (!) or November for its All Soul’s Day or Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)? Why March?
Shakespeare had some ideas about picking March. And boy did he communicate the idea extraordinarily well with the assassination of a great historical figure planned and carried out by his trusted friends.
I started having thoughts about this thing when two years ago, I stopped blogging here.
I had too much going on in my life then. A year later, still on the month of March, I seriously tried to resume back where I left off but the “migration” of this blog away from the domain www.myscrapworks.com (a website for traditional paper scrapping) took much time and hair-pulling from my end. I ended up spending close to US$400 just to be able to bring this blog to its proper domain – for digital scrapbooking.
That left me all out of energy and money to continue.Last month, I decided I want to start again after 24 months of blogging hiatus. And what do you know? The database that maintains this blog not only crashed but was completely erased. Never has that happened before in all the 12 years I have been working on the net!
So I again had to hire the services of someone (a great guy from Germany) to restore everything from the “grave.” And now here I am.
What’s with March? I have no idea. But why some people would choose to think it heralds doom and gloom, payback time and everything nasty, my efforts of starting over seems to point to me that I have opted to make it a month to start-over again and again and again.
Am I a bit wiser 24 months after… I believe so. Am I tougher? Nah. I still break easily (LOL!) but I define strength not by being able to overcome what strikes me down but by being able to keep rising up again and learning from the experience. Am I going to start creating digital stuff again. Yup. But as always share the stories that go with each piece…
Glad to be home after 24 months. While I hope I’m not coming home to an “empty” blog devoid of great friends I made along the way there’s always the thought of making new ones… or simply blogging into thin air – blogging for blogging’s sake. Hellooooo? Is anybody home?
I am.
April 16, 2011 8:31 pm
Mabelle –
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY I AM YOU ARE BACK!!! I put your url in my google reader and anxiously awaited the day you WOULD return…I had faith. I knew you would. I have been following you since day 1 and have missed you! Not sure if you remember me or not…but we had great conversations! I miss your posts and the great commentary that always followed!!!!
Bless you for coming back!
SO HAPPPPPPPY you are back!!!!!!!
Tammy W.
April 16, 2011 8:43 pm
Tammy, I want to CRY!!! Youre the first person I found “home” and you feel like one “big warm hug!” Im JUST SO HAPPY!! =)
April 17, 2011 12:34 am
Mabelle!! Like Tammy, I put your url in google reader and just waited for your return! What a wonderful gift I had this morning when I saw that you had returned! I have missed you! Now let’s get this party started!!
April 17, 2011 1:09 am
Dear Mary, You ladies have no idea how wonderful it is to return home greeted warmly by friends… I was crying when I read Tammy’s post… and now yours… Feel like receiving great big hugs from people I value so much… Thank you.. Thank you so much for being here =)
April 17, 2011 1:27 pm
MISSED YOU!!!!!!! so wonderful for you to be back, was wondering had happen glad your okay ((HUG))..
April 17, 2011 5:14 pm
I missed you too Rene! Very much! =) Great to hear from you. IM SOOOO HAPPY you’re here!
April 17, 2011 2:09 pm
Glad you’re back, Mabelle. Missed you.
(((Hugs)))
April 17, 2011 5:15 pm
And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Kay! =) I hope you and your entire family are ok… ((hugs))
April 17, 2011 2:40 pm
Mabelle! I kept waiting anxiously, worried that something was terribly, horribly wrong, and kept checking back, even doing periodic searches for you on the web, thinking I’d find you somehow.
I am so very thankful to find you “home again”, and I’m sure there are more of us “friends and family” who’ve been hanging out, though maybe not together, just waiting for the day you’d show your pretty face again!
Sending one big hug from the Pacific Northwest!!!
April 17, 2011 5:15 pm
Elaine… I’ve been ANXIOUSLY waiting for you if you will post. =) I was thinking that if I dont hear from you, I will email you a note! =) I MISSED YOU TERRIBLY! I hope all is well and you have more things to smile about. Pacific Northwest? You are where?!? You have to email me!!!
April 17, 2011 2:53 pm
welcome back Mabelle!!
don’t know if you still remember me but I sure remember you– your awesome kits were my first digiscrap purchases! ^__^ can’t wait to see more of your designs.. but one step at a time eh?? hehe!
hope you’re in great health and everything’s alright in your world. til your next post!
April 17, 2011 5:13 pm
Issa, How can I not remember you?! I wanted to see you personally and even wanted to “work” with you on a project remember? Of course I do! I hope all is well with you and you are ok… AND HAPPY! Its soooo nice to see you post here! Im just so happy!
April 17, 2011 6:44 pm
i never gave up. i check back here every month or so, have you in my reader, and you are still linked from my site. Glad you’re back in the house.
April 17, 2011 7:54 pm
And Im glad you never did. =) Its great to hear from you again Denise… I have not forgotten you… and I missed you much! =)
April 17, 2011 8:11 pm
Well, you have had quite an adventure. Yep, i’m here. Fire away.
April 17, 2011 8:26 pm
LOL! And I was about to tell you the same thing! Cant wait to hear your stories Jayleigh =)
April 17, 2011 8:24 pm
Mabelle,
You are back! It wasn’t so long ago that I was wondering what happened and thought that I would probably never find out! So glad to see you back and posting once again!
April 17, 2011 8:29 pm
Donna, It does feel like resurrecting from the grave =) with “more scars” to show for it! LOL! Quite some stories to share from end… Looking forward to yours! =)
April 18, 2011 3:37 am
Yeah! You’re back. I was sooo happy to see the notice in my email that you had posted something new. I’m so glad you didn’t give up. The things you’ve had to go through! I hope that they’re behind you. I’m looking forward to seeing what is new (both creations and stories).
April 18, 2011 10:41 pm
Hi Ann, =) LOL! You ladies should know by now that I don’t give up easily in the face of just about anything. I may not be able to stand up after being hit by something bad (and I’ve been hit really hard) but I can CRAWL =) Haha! So much to share through my digital stuff! Glad to be home with you ladies!
April 18, 2011 11:10 am
So very glad you are back , you have truly been missed! Glad it over now!!!
April 18, 2011 10:57 pm
Hi Stephanie =) Oh my, I sure do wish it were so… but nothing is ever really over. That’ll will never change. The only thing that does is how I look at it. And I chose to look at it as something I can learn from =) Glad you dropped in! =)
April 18, 2011 1:30 pm
I’m still here
And you’re back, yay! Seems like an eternity and many many stories ago…lots of catching up to do 
So glad you’re back.
April 18, 2011 10:58 pm
Indy!!! I MISSED YOU and I want to hear YOUR stories! =) Glad you “came.” ((hugs!))
April 18, 2011 9:18 pm
I took a break from the computer this week-end and look what I found this morning: YOU! I’ve missed you so. Welcome back!
April 18, 2011 11:13 pm
Ileana! =) I missed you! How are you! Im so happy you dropped by! =)
April 24, 2011 12:51 pm
I just got my new computer up and running and opened my email program to find way to many emails waiting for me; it’s only been a week! I glanced at them and then saw your email; what a surprise! It’s so nice to hear from you; missed you!
Hugs,
Lynn