<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/center> Did you notice I was MIA? It’s been a rough 15 months and have been in and out of the hospital. Besides neck surgery, there were also major medical issues, which caused many hospitalizations. So many that I have lost count!!! I’m not going to bore you with the details. <\/strong><\/p>\n I need a jump start! If you know me, visit or follow my blog, then you know I’m a challenge addict! And it’s that time of the year! I am hoping that this is the kick in the butt that I need to get back on track. The funny thing is, I have only finished a few challenges in the past years that I had signed up for but I find the challenges to be fun so this year I’m only going to sign up for several that I have enjoyed in the past. My challenge page will be HERE<\/strong><\/strong><\/a> where you can see which ones I plan on participating in. There will also be links if you want to join too!!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everyone!!! Did you notice I was MIA? It’s been a rough 15 months and have been in and out of the hospital. Besides neck surgery, there were also major medical issues, which caused many hospitalizations. So many that I have lost count!!! I’m not going to bore you with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p370vC-6Hh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25747"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25865,"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25747\/revisions\/25865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmashlovestoread.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Hi everyone!!!<\/h2>\n
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\n<\/strong>Besides the medical issues, there was another issue that threw me for a loop and that was reading!!!!! I only read 7 books! this past year! I am mortified to say that number out loud and share that little nugget of info with this great book blogging community. It’s not like I didn’t have books to read, that wasn’t the problem, I just didn’t have the desire.<\/strong><\/p>\n