i'm back. thankful.

i received THE letter yesterday (an advanced copy in fact) informing me that i passed the Assessment Center, which i dreaded months ago. i didn't finish the exam actually -- too much writing and decision-making, too little time.  i was preparing all those sorts of scenarios and also making sure i have enough personal money to cover my re-take if needed.  Thank God for hearing my plea and listening to loved ones' prayers and mine.  i'm back to preparing for Stage 3 (Performance Validation), and i'm bent to doing better (not to mention praying so much more intense!)

i haven't written here.  if it weren't for the good news from the Career Executive Service Board, i would have decided to take another day off from blogging.  it would have been a "more than a month" writer's block or laziness or busyness.  or it was just another attack of sorting priorities, choosing no-brainer, easy peasy but fun activities instead of an overly dramatic chronicling of my life.

Pink, our new baby girl, at 4 months

and like my daily chores and habits (of FB-in, tweeting) on top of work and my pet momma duties, i will continue to sort lessons from challenges, opportunities from lucky streak, rants from sound, well-thought complaints, happy thoughts from shallow moments, and everything in between that should be worth sharing here.  (or i could include shallow and gloat that i'm one balance person!) 

for the meantime, let me share Pink's photo that captures the gazillion little emotions that i felt for the past un-blogging weeks.

contemplative. emotional. lazy. intense. loved. beautiful.