Getting used to the changes

Multiply made some changes while I've been on hiatus, and I've got a bit of a learning curve to climb, I see.  Took me several minutes to figure out how to post a new blog!

Yesterday I sent status change requests to some of you, and I used Multiply's default verbage in the requests, and now I realize (thanks to Beatleboy) that doing that after being away so long may have made you think I don't consider you true friends anymore.  Sorry! Please forgive! My heart and brain are a little disconnected and distracted because my son died suddenly yesterday.

I posted a link from my Facebook page, where all my "in real life" friends chat with me daily, over to a blog I wrote here last December.  Which led to one of my "in real life" friends joining Multiply as my "friend" ... and I thought I ought to use the categories on Multiply a little more precisely so I can maybe sometimes filter who I post what to if I'm going to be introducing my "real life" friends to my blog site.

So those of you who are my Multiply buddies, but I've not had the honor of knowing you except through your writings (and mine), I sent you those change requests last night.  And I am SO sorry for just sending them, without explanation; because you do still mean the world to me.

So please forgive me.  In real life, and also in cyberspace, my head is perhaps a little weary and not firing on all cylinders right now.

I'll try to get back to blogging when I can ...

Thanks for your prayers and well-wishes.  My second-youngest son was killed in a hit & run yesterday morning ... and apparently it was a homicide.  I didn't know that yet last night.  But none of this is anything I've had a dress rehearsal for.

If I don't sound as coherent as you're used to me being ... well, I guess that's why.  Words fail me.  But God's love, and the kind thoughts of friends, are holding me up.  So thank you, everyone who knows, and prays, or sends a kind thought my way.

Just please don't think I care for you less because I asked you to be my "online buddy".  You are still really my friend.  It just means I've never seen you in person.  That's all.

Rani