On Hiatus
I have a work project that made me realise that, having to juggle between the project and blogging for last two or three weeks, it's not working. So I have to choose between the project and this blog, and I choose the project because a) I just don't have the ability to squeeze my brain all day long and then squeeze some more for this blog, and b) the project earns me money. :) The work contract will end this December, so I expect to return to blog around that time. Until then, I'll stick to leaving comments at various blogs in romance blogland, generally making a pest of myself. To anyone who wants the reader interview series to continue, please do feel free to adopt the idea for their reader blogs. It'd be fun! See you this December. :) Be good, be bad & be safe.
posted by lost at 9/12/2005 06:56:00 am
50 Comments:
Màili! I count on you for good book finds. Mannnnnnnnn. Now I'm going to have to do my own legwork :P Good for you on finding the project, though, and come play at my house any time you like.
9/12/2005 10:37:00 am
Wow, that is a huge haitus. Good Luck with your work. Hey, paying gigs are hard to come by so have fun!
I'll miss you, hope you'll drop by every once in a while and comment away ;)
CindyS
9/12/2005 11:58:00 am
Does this count as conclusive proof of the theological speculation that money is the root of all evil?
December? *Whimper*
Hope the work goes well.
9/12/2005 12:36:00 pm
I totally sympathise with the prioritising thing. *sigh* Life's a bitch sometimes.
Hope the work goes well, and that we'll find some way to fill the Maili shaped home in the meantime... :-(
9/12/2005 01:11:00 pm
Good luck with the project. I hear you about the paying job thing...that habit of three meals a day we develop. ;)
9/12/2005 02:58:00 pm
*December*??
Aaagh!
Well, please be very fruitful with your project and stop by to comment whenever you wish.
We love you Maili (But I think we shold consider welcoming her back to her own blog with lots of fake Scottish brogue.)
Suisan, the wee Sassenach
9/12/2005 03:56:00 pm
I just realized something... Maili announced her hiatus after publishing my interview. Hmm... Curioser and curioser.
:)
9/12/2005 04:34:00 pm
Maili- Just a quick hug goodbye. I hope you find your sabbatical refreshing. I'm looking forwawrd to the winter more than ever!
9/12/2005 05:51:00 pm
Hope your project goes well. See you around X-mas. :-)
9/12/2005 06:26:00 pm
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
9/12/2005 07:47:00 pm
We'll miss you Maili, but if you're still going to be out and about on the various message boards and blogs, it won't be too bad. :-) Till December, then!
9/12/2005 08:44:00 pm
December is such a long time Godammit!!
I know how you feel though, I'm finding it harder and harder to blog daily. Oh well, I'll be having my own hiatus from Sunday anyway!!
See ya in December Bird!
9/12/2005 09:47:00 pm
Good luck with your new work project.
Come back to us when you can--we'll all miss you.
9/12/2005 10:20:00 pm
Aaaahhh, we are so going to miss you! You will simply have to keep in touch somehow - and best of luck with your projects.
December seems such a long ways away though :(
9/12/2005 10:46:00 pm
nooooooo is right. I love your blog posts *sobbing*
I'm going to have to wait until December for you to blog about what you thought about the Tara Janzen book?
I'm going to hope you're like an addict and will have cravings and withdrawal symptoms and come back earler than that. And that is totally the selfish part of me speaking but I'm woman enough to admit it ;)
9/12/2005 10:48:00 pm
Nooooooooo...... well, I hope you at least stay in touch during that time you're on hiatus.
Or..well, I'll sick some men in kilts on you. Non-Scotsmen with really bad fake accents.
9/13/2005 12:34:00 am
*cue wailing and tearing of hair* NOOOOOO!
Smart Bitches better be one of the blogs you pester.
Good luck with the job, and waiting impatiently for December.
9/13/2005 02:13:00 am
p.s. If you're not back by December, I WILL dedicate a week to posts that go on and on about awesome and accurate Scottish historical romances are. I'll even come here and leave comments praising Braveheart for its immaculate research, much as the thought pains me.
9/13/2005 02:15:00 am
Will you really be able to stay away that long? ;)
I'm with Candy. If you don't start posting again in December, watch for the odes to Scottish romances to begin.
Hope you get a lot accomplished!
9/13/2005 07:00:00 pm
but what if we pay you? I can send you socks.
9/14/2005 02:32:00 am
Bam - thanks. Good luck with your school, and please do let us know when you'll post those reviews/updates. Knowing myself, I'll visit your blogs every day, twice a day. :)
Gabrielle - Aww, now I'll rely on you to find me good book finds. Hur hur. Cheers for the invite. I'll def take up on it, hanging around and going la la at your cats. :D [Again, congrats on becoming a finalist. Yay! :D]
CindyS - Heheh. Thanks for your well wishes and I'll def drop by to say hi [while babble away :D]. Yeah, it's a huge haitus. It still hasn't quite hit me yet. Ack.
MarianneMcA - LOL!! Cheers for your well wishes. :)
Anna Lucia - Amen to that. Ooh, please do. Maybe we can finish writing up that Braveheart drinking game. I plan to test it on a guinea pig that doesn't know it's volunteered to be one: my husband. :D
Amy - aw, bless you. Well, I'm not too sure about the habit of three meals a day we developed. Unless you meant three mental square meals per day, e.g. books? If so, AMEN TO THAT!
Suisan - cheers for that. Now I have the time on my mitts, I'll drop by more often, so I depend on you to fill it with some good stuff. :) Fake Scottish brogue ... wha-? What did I do to deserve THAT?! *cries*
Bam - *...*
Amanda - cheers for the quick hug, but I'll still be seeing you, anyway. :D
Jordan - aw, thanks and bless.
Meljean - *alarmed* What's wrong? Has Missy finally found a hidden box of stories you/she wrote during your/her childhood?
Vanessa - Heh! You'll def see me around, making a pest of myself. Hur hur. Yup, 'til December! :>
KarenS - ah, but I'm a wimp. You have a bloody *business* to run yet you've managed so far and so well. That makes you an heroine in my eyes. Hm, while you [will] prance about under the Floridian sun, I depend on you to dig up some cool anecdotes, photos and the answer to a question why Pluto is a dog and Goofy isn't. :D Cheers and have a great time, mite.
Tara Marie - bless and thanks for your well wishes. I'll swing by to say hi every day. :P
Kristie - no, you won't miss me because I'll be right there, hanging around your blog. :D Thanks for your well wishes. :>
AngieW - I know! I completely forgot that I wanted to blog about Kathy Love's FANGS FOR THE MEMORIES and Janzen's CRAZY HOT when I made the announcement. Stupid, stupid. Oh, I could be your guest book reviewer! :D Uh, wait. Is this your invisible tactic to destroy my will power to stay away from blogging? :>
Nicole - Aw, I'll be in tou-- what?! You'd dare to sic non-Scotsmen with really bad fake accents on me? You bloody cow! You are no friend of mine! Well, not any more, anyway! *sniff*
Candy - hi, Miss Drama Queen, nice to see you here. :D As you can probably see, I'm already there, making a pest of myself. You might have to think about getting a bouncer to keep me out of there. Thanks for the well wishes, mite.
Candy - I. Can't. Believe. You. Would. Even. Think. Of. A. Such. Thing. If you dared, I'll beat you to pulp with a 10"-long tartan dildo. I swear I will!
CW - there IS another film that irritates me, but would I reveal the title to you? Oh, no. I'm not that stupid. Even though I have many times proved my IQ matches my age. How long is it to December? About 12,369 miles, I'd think. Why?
Keishon - heh! Well now you know how I feel all those times when -- you know, lack of updates at your blog. Once I actually scratched on my monitor, going, "Where are yeeeeeeeeww?! *cries* Come back, Keeeeeishooooon! I neeeeeed yeeeeeeeeewwww!"
*...* OK, I feel shaken for a moment there, but I'm all right now. Let's move swiftly on.
Alyssa - need you to ask me that? My will power has had already done a runner on me. Twice, may I add. If you dared to do those odes, I'll smash your knee caps with Candy's glass dildo. That's a promise. Thanks for your well wishes, by the way! :D
Kate - Owie. That's a nasty threat. Oh, wait. That's actually a bribe! Hm, it IS getting chilly now.
9/14/2005 03:57:00 am
We'll miss you, Maili (though I'm glad to 'see' you around at the Smart Bitches' place). Hope your project goes well!
9/14/2005 05:18:00 pm
I've no idea how I missed this post, even with bloglines, but I did! I just thought "hmm, what's up with Maili, she hasn't updated for a while" and saw this surprise when I got here!
Anyway, we'll miss you! (we really will. As you see, I was already missing you after only a couple of days)
9/15/2005 07:07:00 pm
Maili! Ack, you're our leader. Who's in charge while your gone? Someone has to keep the recruits (us baby-bloggers) on track. We'll miss your posts.
9/15/2005 08:45:00 pm
When the hell did you get a job? I miss all the good stuff...
9/17/2005 09:41:00 pm
maili--I wanted to reread one of your Scottish romance rants (I refer to 'em in my blog) and I can't locate them. Did they get lost in the fire that carried away your old blog?
Say it ain't so.
9/19/2005 12:51:00 pm
Dear Màili,
The pleasures of December glimmer lovelier than ever :-) I hope your sabbatical is refreshing and fulfilling!
Best regards,
Danielle C.
9/22/2005 02:40:00 am
Maili, can't wait for you to come back, even more so that you owe me a review of Crazy Hot, you hiatus-taking woman!!!!
Oh, and, I'm contemplating buying Stephanie Bond's In Deep Voodoo to see if it will equal your much-repeated disgust with Scots romances. I come from the island who practically copyrighted Vodou so I'll let you know...
9/23/2005 02:39:00 pm
Like Keishon, I noticed changes too. Dare this mean you are preparing to return soon? I'm hoping so since we've all missed you so much.
11/15/2005 10:15:00 pm
OK, Ollie ollie oxen free!!
It's December, you can come out now.
Pweese? Pwetty pweese?
12/01/2005 08:51:00 pm
Clearly December. Star behind door No. 1 on the calendar - or (in case of revolting children's calendar) sledge moulded out of substance almost but not entirely unlike chocolate.
Have you seen P&P? Are you voting for Carol Thatcher? Do you think 69 is a good age to retire? Enquiring minds...
[Apologies for lack of clarity as to whether calendar itself is revolting, or children to whom calendar belongs are revolting. Both.]
12/01/2005 11:59:00 pm
It's December. You clearly said "See you this December." So...where are you? Hmm???
12/02/2005 12:16:00 am
please, please come out and play
12/02/2005 12:59:00 am
Marianne, I'm pretty sure she's seen P&P already. Didn't she have a post about seeing an advance screening of it?
12/02/2005 02:53:00 am
What Nicole said, only LOUDER!
12/02/2005 02:50:00 pm
Okay, it's December, where the heck are you? Come on back to blogland, you're missed!!
12/03/2005 12:02:00 pm
Maili, it's December- where are you?! Come back, we miss you!
12/12/2005 12:05:00 am
Dude. MID-DECEMBER already. Come baaaaack, Maili!
12/13/2005 09:33:00 pm
Merry Christmas & happy Boxing Day, et al, Maili. Come back soon. We miss you.
12/24/2005 02:58:00 am
"Oh Maili come out, come out wherever you are. You have one day left in December" she said in a sing song voice. "We really really miss you"
12/29/2005 08:45:00 pm
Can we sue?
Happy New Year, Maili.
1/01/2006 04:47:00 pm
Wishing you everything happy for 2006, Màili!
Best regards,
Danielle C.
1/01/2006 08:02:00 pm
Okay, Maili, I saw you posted a comment on Nicole's blog. You've long since proven the popularity and love you hold in blogland *evil grin* so now, it's time to end your self-imposed blogging sabbatical and get your butt back here!
1/01/2006 09:14:00 pm
lol. Thanks for leaving those funny messages. Sorry that it took longer than I expected, but I plan to return to regular blogging this week, definitely before this Friday. :D
Now I have to find and grovel at Cranky Reader's feet for disappearing on her for a while. Any advice on how I should get myself in her good graces? :P Oh, wait. I should ask the same about getting into EVERYONE's good graces.
Bugger. Hm. Let me put on my thinking cap.
1/01/2006 09:25:00 pm
P.S. AngieW, that is a really lovely pix of you and your mite. I admit I'm not a huge fan of mother-and-child pictures [it's a Catholic thing], but that one? Truly lovely.
1/01/2006 09:27:00 pm
Well thank you. Funny thing about that picture, because of how Brianna is tilted and the angle the camera is at, you can't tell she actually threw herself into my arms and is tossing a huge fit. And yes, I'm laughing at her. So...err...not your typical mother-child pose, lol! And you know, I'm Catholic and it never occurred to me that's what it might look like. Although some people see it and assume I'm breastfeeding. No. Just laughing at my pissed off toddler. Ha.
1/02/2006 02:16:00 am
She Speaks!! Squeeee!
I mean, yeah, getting back into everyones' good graces. You might want to look into that ;)
Happy New Year!
CindyS
1/02/2006 07:22:00 am
Maili, admit it, you're going for 100 comments aren't you? Come back dammit, it's next week now! Happy New Year bird!
1/02/2006 10:35:00 am
Uh, we'll forgive you if you promise never to leave us again.
Happy New Year's, Maili
1/03/2006 01:21:00 am
cw she says.... hmph
good think I like you :)
misses you tons, hope to see you uh this week?
1/03/2006 05:03:00 am
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