Dear readers;

I begin this with the upmost sincerity and an apology that has been long overdue.

For months, long months, a terrible writer's block had sat in. No matter what I tried to rid myself from the terrible disease, absolutely nothing worked. Frustration and anger for said disease tripled the horrendous block.

Simply put, I absolutely loathed myself for not being able to give you, the lovely readers, what you wanted when you wanted it. I just knew that you deserved so much more, and I wasn't able to give it to you.

I try to explain a little of my situation with as little as I can, because it is a private matter to my family.

The night before Thanksgiving, a rift in my family caused my mother and I to uproot ourselves from the very life we had, therefore the situation left us homeless.

We packed up what little belongings we had and headed to North Carolina to stay with a relative up until a week ago.

The holiday seasons were gloomy for us, but we made the best of what we could from the situation at the time.

Family issues suck, plain and simple!

I must add that I have some of the most amazing friends in my life. Minerva and Crissy are more than just a friend; these girls resemble what sisterhood really is, even if we aren't blood related. Most of you know that the girls are my real life best friends, ones that I do everything in the world with.

Even out of state, unable to see one another in person, they did everything in the world to cheer me up. We may have had contact through the computer, and their words did help, but they went up and beyond that. One week I received a package in the mail from Minerva, it honestly brightened my day, and then another week I received some of the wildest shit ever in a package from Crissy. Ladies, if you've seen my facebook, you have seen the infamous fork bracelets that Crissy's ingenious mind made me. At first, I thought the box was filled with sporks, before I even opened it, but low and behold, she stuffed it with some of the greatest stuff ever! *smiles*

But anyways, these two are some of the most remarkable women ever and I wouldn't trade them for anything. I'm so honored to call them best friends and sister.

Now back to the apology, explaining and all.

I had actually started to break free of the horrendous writer's block the first week in January. I wanted to run out into the street at my uncles house in North Carolina and scream to the world, "I'm FREE you fucking disease!" Yeah, I was pretty ecstatic and happy. *laughs*

Now our move back to West Virginia; my roots and my two favorite sisters, and lovelier, fucking problems…

So with having to start over completely from scratch, money is extremely tight, therefore we only have our needs ahead of us. You know, rent, water and the basic means. This meant no internet, TV (which I don't watch to begin with), no phone, etc.

Anyways, we get here and moved in what little stuff we own, and I hook up my computer in hopes of continuing to write until I was dried out of words. Guess what happens when it's all hooked up… Said computer, one I've owned for close to ten years has bit the dust. Oh yes, I was pissed and very tempted to hurl it out into the parking lot, shattering it into a million dust worthy particles.

I have lost not only my computer, but over a years' worth of story ideas, all of which have been mapped out beforehand. Not only that, but a lifetime of photos that was stored on my computer. Had I ever counted them, I'm pretty sure my picture count would have ranged in the millions. *smh sadly*

So, while I ask you all to bear with me for a little while longer, know that I've started to handwrite pages upon pages of my stories in the meantime. I will use my mother's laptop in the meantime, to type up what I've written when I begin to get to much of it, so I'm not overran with so much typing in the future.

We have applied for low assistant housing, so when the time comes to once again move, hopefully in the next month or so, we'll be able to afford the luxury of internet once again. I've already started to save back every penny that I have, in order to get a new computer or laptop, so until then, yeah.

I don't think any computer could ever hold up as long as my old faithful did, but we'll see in the future.

Signing off,

Leslie