Time to re-connect with real life...

I got an e-mail today that made me realise that I have been horrribly negligent as far as maintaining contact with my friends from home/ university and although I can plead the "I have been busy" or "I have very little to say" thing, the reality is that I have become increasingly lazy with e-mailing people over the past year or so. As a result I have decided to implement a new rule. I am not going to check blogs/ write my own blog in the mornings until I have replied to all the e-mails in my inbox that day. There aren`t many so the least I can do is reply to the people who take time out of their days to write to me. When I originally started this blog, I was planning on passing the link to family and IRL friends at home but in the end, I never got around to it and have been indulging in blog therapy that I don`t necessarily want people back home to read. I am not giving up blogging but I will probably be writing less as I strive to re-gain contact with people who have probably written me off and taken me off their christmas card list as I have been so rubbish at keeping in touch. This also includes my friends in Japan as I have become very lazy with personal contact as I sometimes feel that people can keep track of me through my blog so it isn`t necessaty. That isn`t real friendship though and I am sorry for being crap! Maybe in the future I will be able to do it all but with big changes on the horizon in our household, it is time for me to take a step back from blogging and concentrate on some other stuff.