Setting The Record Straight.
All right, enough of this talk, all of you! Geez, a girl takes a few days away from the computer during a holiday long weekend, and the next thing you know she`s quit the business forever, lol! I swear, you boys are worse gossips than a bunch of old ladies sometimes, lol! ;-) Let`s take this one step at a time, shall we?
Yes, I`ve been off since February due to surgery, the fear being that I may have cervical cancer. And I`ve had to recover from that surgery, which has taken me a long time - but the good news is, the doctors have given me a clean bill of health! Yay! I actually *did* have cancer, but it was the really low-end kind - I guess they caught it in time, and as far as they can tell, the docs figure that I`m now 110% cancer-free and I`m back to full health. (Yes, I`m completely recovered from my surgery as well.) Of course, I`ll have to go back for follow-up visits just to make sure, but for now, fingers crossed, not only am I fine now but I`m going to continue to be fine!
Of course, we all know that the lovely Serenity has joined forces with me and has been working out of my incall location, and this is where I will answer each post, one by one.
purpledragon: I`m sorry that I didn`t get back to your email - I didn`t even realize I had done that. But I`ve been *so* hectic with answering dozens (literally) of emails every week in regards to Serenity, that I guess I`ve missed one or two here or there. Yours must`ve been one where I said to myself, ``Oh, this one is asking about me ... Well, I`ll get to that one after I`ve answered these other six that are asking about Serenity,`` and of course we know what happens next - I completely forgot about yours! So I`m sorry hon, I honestly didn`t mean it! And as for not updating Serenity`s hours, well, as you can see, I`m currently burgundy. My month of advertising status ran out, and I haven`t rushed out to renew it because I got almost zero value from my ad status on the xxx.com part of the deal (xxx.com was being *very* buggy, to the point of Mark, one of the admins there, sending me emails of apology about the issues they were having), and I`ve been hoping to hammer out a deal that would compensate me for only getting half of my ad value. I won`t say more here, as that would be negotiating in public, but that explains why I didn`t immediately renew. So Serenity and I have been making liberal use of Craig`s List to advertise her visits. She was at my place last week and will be back next week for her usual three days, enough said. To even speculate that Serenity is retired is simply wrong - she`s going strong!
Cutter: I`m a little disappointed in you, as you totally misunderstood what I said. (For everyone`s benefit here, his very good source was me in a PM about ten days ago, lol.) I specifically told you that my cancer scare had really thrown me for a loop and that I wasn`t sure if I was mentally/emotionally able to handle returning to work, and that I wasn`t sure if I ever would ... But I never - ever - said that I was conclusively retired, only that I was taking some more time off to think things over and decide whether or not to come back ... Posting that I`m retired after me saying I was 50/50 on coming back will only cause false rumours and, well, cause me to have to to go my computer at 4:30 a.m. after getting a text message from Serenity telling me that there`s an announcement of my retirement on TERB, lol! No, I`m not angry, don`t worry - I just want to make it clear that I *never* said I was done - if I had made that decision, you boys all know me well enough to know that I would have made that announcement right here, loud and clear! I haven`t, and I`m not ...
mb2010: You are correct, but partly wrong too. It was on *Wednesday* that Serenity wasn`t feeling her best - she had already put in a full two days on Monday and Tuesday, and then didn`t feel 100% and had to push back a couple of appointments to next week, yours being one of them (with apologies from both of us!). It wasn`t all of this week`s, just a couple from Wednesday, and you can rest assured that she`ll be back next week as I already stated above. I just haven`t said anything about Serenity here for a week or so because I`m not blue - and I don`t want to get in trouble for advertising when I don`t have the right. I`ve never been in trouble on this board, and I don`t intend to start now.
Cutterbuck: Again, I`m not retired ... I`ve just been contemplating my figurative navel recently, trying to read the tea leaves of what I should do next. And Serenity is *definitely* working!
Cyber Boy: Good thing it`s not true then, eh? ;-)
Cool Cat: Oh, stop writing my obituary already, lol! I feel like I should go put on an outfit that`s all black, lol!
Now, to make my own announcement to put this to rest for definitely sure ...
Yes, as I recently revealed to Cutterbuck (and a few others, actually), I have seriously been considering retirement lately. This cancer thing *really* put a scare into me, and I`ve actually been recovered (fully) from my surgery for a few weeks now. I just haven`t mentioned it because I wanted to think about my options, and if everyone figured I was still laid up it would give me more time to get my head screwed on straight and make a decision one way or the other. And I wanted to be sure either way - I didn`t want to make a big deal about quitting, only to (maybe) change my mind and then come back. I didn`t want to sound wishy-washy or anything. So, until I was *certain* about what I would do, I`ve kept my mouth shut, for the most part.
Well ... I`ve decided that I will definitely come back!
But I won`t be doing it as fully-completely full-time as I did in 2009, because I`ve enrolled back in school, and so I`ll be doing that Monday-Friday during the day. So on days that I choose to work, I won`t be starting at my usual time of 2 p.m. like I used to - probably more like 5 p.m. will be more like it.
I was going to come back next week, after the Easter long weekend, but then my good old friend ``Aunt Flo`` dropped in for a visit, lol. So now I`m waiting for her to leave, and *then* I`ll put up my working hours and whatnot (I intend on being back in the blue by then). Not to mention that Serenity will still be visiting my place for her three days out of every week don`t forget!
So let`s put this retirement thing to bed - like I should be in right now, lol! I`m not retired, not for a while yet. If I was, my xxx.com link (below) wouldn`t still be active (go ahead, give it a click!). I don`t know for sure when I`ll be back quite yet, but back I will be at some point soon. And when I do get back on track, you guys on TERB will be the first to know!
Now this girl`s going to get some much-needed rest - I`ve got some Easter stuff to do with family tomorrow, lol! Later boys, I hope this post has helped clear everything up ...