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(photo from last year's Vegas extravaganza - courtesy of Amanda!)

This weekend, I am attending Bloggers in Sin City for the second year in a row. Last year, it pretty much changed my life forever - if I may be so dramatic. I'm thrilled and nervous and giddy and awkward and every other little thing that one feels before heading out to meet a bunch of people they've never actually met. I'm happy that I live close enough to make something like this happen, and that I get to spend an entire weekend surrounded by people I love to bits and pieces.

I'm sure the weekend will involve too much giggling, wine and snuggles. Which I'm totally down for. Obviously.

I'm also nervous. Which I've learned to embrace. I've been going through photos of the fairly small get-together this whole thing was last year, and I keep thinking things like, "What if I don't know many people?" "What if nobody knows me?" "Why don't I fit into that dress anymore AHHHHHH HAAAATEEEE." But I know that it will be the same thing as last year - when all the nerves turned into a weekend full of complete and utter happiness.

That's what I'm hoping for, at least.

Also, I know I've taken a bit of a step back from the blogging world lately - and I always feel weird trying to rationalize it, yet also feel like perhaps I should explain why I've disappeared off the face of the internet for any given amount of time.

Let's just say that the new job has been quite the adjustment. I recently went from a cush job that was incredibly simple and familiar (considering I'd been there five years), to a new job in an incredible industry that I adore (I even had my own cubicle - yessss!), to a promotion that provided me my own office, a salaried position and an incredible amount of responsibility. I guess that I'm still learning to adjust a little bit. I feel a bit like a sponge in my desire to soak up every tiny bit of knowledge I can...and I'm pretty much in love with the job.

However, it has definitely taken a bit of time away from my crafting, blogging, and sitting-around-and-watching-reality-TV time. Oh, and email. I have received so many incredibly thoughtful, encouraging and all-around lovely emails lately. I promise that I will get around to answering them all very soon! I put a lot of pressure on myself to keep up with things like this, and I hate when I fall short. Please know that every single comment, email and "tweet" pretty much make me melt with happiness - and even if I don't have time to acknowledge every one, they are tucked away in my heart for the moments in my day where I feel my head may explode. (Moments like that happen more than I'd like to admit, actually.)

So, Vegas. This weekend. It's incredibly needed, let's just say that. And I'll make sure to have a complete update on things once I get back home! Oh, and for the record, I'm excited that I get to have my own Vegas shenanigan after Jay was able to spend a weekend there for a bachelor party a couple weeks ago. Seriously, Jay's friends need to stop getting married, because I'm so over this bachelor party business. I know that Jay getting Creed lyrics tattooed somewhere on his body is more likely than him getting all up in some random showgirl's business - but, whatever. A wife can't help but want to give her husband the stink-eye after that many days out with the guys in Vegas. Honestly.

I definitely need to have some good stories for Jay when I get home. That's all I have to say about that.

In short, I'm ready for this weekend. Amen and goodnight.

(Also, I wrote this post after two glasses of some sort of sparkling wine. Don't judge me.)