I know it's been ... (checking) ... sigh ... almost exactly one month since my last post.  I didn't realize that much time had past.  I haven't paid attention to much of anything lately.
I don't like to discuss my life here in this journal, it's supposed to be for crafts.  I'm going to bend that rule in this case.  The past few weeks have not been easy for me.  I suffer from depression.  It's an insidious thing, sneaks up on a person, leeches everything out of them, leaving them feeling tired ... stressed ... unaccomplished ... unwanted ....
I usually recognize it when it happens.  This time, it snuck up on me.  Honestly, about all I've done the past few weeks is sleep, work, and do absolutely nothing but what I had to do to try to keep up with life.  I've fallen behind on one of my swaps (though I did manage to send out what I had ready, and I'm awaiting a package to prepare the second half).  I feel like such a failure right now, it really burns me that I can let something wrap itself around me so tightly that I can't even function.
I'm fighting it.  I'm starting to win, again (or else I wouldn't even be typing this).  There's more going on, but I'm not one to lay my problems bare to the world.  We'll just say that I should have seen this coming, as I've had many stresses the past few months. 
I've put off continuing Sweet until after Christmas.  I have so much that has to get done between now and then, and the past few weeks have been nothing if not unproductive.  I've not even had the energy to pick up needles or hook, or anything else I love to do.  Just ...
Anyway, that's all for now.  I'm sorry that I'm .... I'm sorry.