Dear everyone,

1. This is going to be a list post.  Just in case you couldn’t tell.
2. Let’s start with why I went weeks without updating last month.  Well, there are a lot of reasons, but I’m going to go with the one that makes it look like I was actually being productive.
3. I started a new project!  It’s called Kids’ Music for Libraries, and despite the fact that it’s a work in progress, I sort of soft-launched it last week.  So you may as well know about it.
4. It considers itself a (potentially) professional resource, which is obviously a huge departure from what I do here.
5. That’s also why I haven’t written any reviews lately.  I’ve been sorting out what I want to post here, vs. over there, and how my tone might need to be adjusted for the new site.
6. But I decided I’m not going to change my tone much.  Honestly, I can’t.  As a friend once poignantly stated, “You write like you talk.”  Yes.  Yes I do.
7. So.
8. I went to Kindiefest last weekend!
9. It was extremely awesome, except I missed almost the entire day on Saturday.
10. Here’s why:
11. I take a couple of psych meds with short half-lives, and those meds didn’t come with me to Brooklyn.
12. Let me tell you, detoxing sucks.  It starts with insomnia, and during the day it feels like a hangover.  Eventually there are emotional outbursts and psychotic episodes.
13. On the drive home, as we were passing a rest stop, I saw a convertible with a GIANT pink stuffed monkey in the passenger seat.
14. I know that I saw it, but I’m not convinced that it was actually there.
15. Because that would be pretty damn weird if it was.
16. But I’ve never hallucinated before.  So I don’t know.
17. Regardless, I’ve retoxed, and am more or less back to normal.
18. Woo…
19. …hoo.
20. More or less.

Love,
Amy

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