adding node['privateaddress'] to my recipes is doing nothing

[r3k2]

Hello @meatballhat @sax

include_recipe 'ipaddr_extensions'

privip = node['privateaddress']

log "#{privip}" do
    message "#{privip}"
    level :info
end

result:

* log[] action write

Info:

chef-client --version
Chef: 14.2.0

[ blackarch chef-repo ]$ knife --version
Chef: 14.2.0

oh almost forgot, and yes I do write depend to the metadata.json file on your cookbook.
and of course I add it to the run list for the node