Hello, everyone!  What have you all been up to?  My life got a kick in the hectic pants with a heavier than usual workload, an illness that I called the “five-day malaise,” and a whirlwind work trip. All of those things have kept me from Work Play and Chardonnay.  I’m hoping to make up for that over the next few weeks with lots and lots of posts. Let it be known…”lots” for this blog is defined as “two a week.” Despite all of the work and the bout of the illin’, I was able to get a quick girls trip in with my bestie Nicole of An American Introvert in London. …