Why does this always happen?/Shame on me/See you after a while hopefully!

Hey some of you might notice that I'm finally getting to your comments on my Amazing Grace review that I posted over 2 months ago!

I have almost no excuse for not blogging for the past couple of months. I do for, like, the first month or so I was absent but from there--it's just been busy??

(Here, will a Henry Tilney gif make up for it? No?)
(I just looked at the post 2 posts ago, which said basically the same thing as this one so far, and I used the same gif. Why am I not creative? Hahaha.)

Anyway, I know you're all hoping this post is to say I'm coming back and I'll be better about posting...

But it's not, it's to say I'm taking an indefinite official break.

You see, when I'm taking an unofficial break, I always feel a surge of guilt when I think about blogging and how much catch-up I must have to do and how much I've missed and not commented on and stuff...

And if I say I'll do better about posting and then...don't...then it'll just stress me out more. Hahaha.

So I'll come to the blogging world when I feel up to it, or when I have extra time (lol), but for now I'll remain absent, so sorry!

BUT! I do love you all and I'd like to stay in contact in some ways!

So please:

1. If you want to keep in contact PLEASE shoot me an email at raesdropofgoldensun@gmail.com!!! I'm not a super great correspondent but lately I've been much better at keeping up with email than I have been with blogging. I'd love to keep updated on things so let's correspond!

2. If you have Instagram, I'd love to keep in touch that way! You can follow @pride_prejudice_memes and shoot me a dm and I'll give you my personal @, or if you want to send me an email about it I can give you my personal Instagram that way! I post at least a couple times a month and of course there's dm-ing!

3. If you have Facebook, I'd love to be friends there if you'd like! Just shoot me an email and I'll give you my real, full name and a link to my profile. I don't post super often but I do check it!

I've loved blogging and I love reading your posts but it's just really low on my priorities list right now because it takes so much time where you have to sit down at a computer and do it! These other ways are somehow easier to keep up with.

By way of an explanation, I'll tell you a few things that have been going on in my life and will be going on in the next little while:

-Oh by the way I'm 18 now! My birthday was a couple months ago. :) Now y'all know how old I am.

-Within a month I did a homeschool conference, took a trip to Los Angeles, and went to a church camp. (That's what started my unofficial break and then I never got back into it.)

-Partly because I've been working; I have a photography business and I do part-time nanny-ing!

-I'm getting ready to move away to college this fall! It's about 3 hours away from where I live. I'll be majoring in Visual Communication. I'm super excited! But preparations for that have already begun and take up part of my time every day!

-Right now, we have 5 of my cousins staying with us (all 10 and under) for 2 and a half weeks. They keep us all busy! (Only a week left though! Is it bad that I'm counting down the days?)

-That's about it but somehow I always have things to do! Summertime is crazier as an adult than as a kid.

-Funny note: my younger brother who's 13 is a few inches taller than me. So when I turned 18 he said that while I'm an adult, I can't claim to be "grown-up" because I stayed short. Hahaha.

That's all! See you all later! I will try to pop in and respond to comments on here, and I'd love to stay in contact with you all in some way or another!

Have a lovely rest-of-the summer!!!