I’m going to jump right in to say that I didn’t expect to take nearly two months off from the blog.  It just kind of happened.  My work life was way busier than expected at the close of the year.  And since my day-to-day job keeps a roof over my head, clothes on my body, and a steering wheel in my hands…it took the front seat. And as soon as my nice, holiday vacation started, I got a cold that made me feel like an army of Mucinex cartoon germs had hostilely taken over.  The only interest I had in writing was via text and/or Facebook messages that were heavily…