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So they say "change" is inevitable.  Well, that doesn't only go for life, but for blogs too.  I will be making some changes to my blog.  As I continue to blog, I find things I like about others blogs and have figured out little tips and tricks that I like as well.  So in figuring these things out, change will follow.

No, I'm not leaving but I'm making some much needed blog changes.  I am making some new tabs and am going to make some visual changes.  My blog, in my opinion, is a bit crowded.

I have been trying to think of ways to have a catchy read worthy blog while keeping the personalization that I've incorporated already without it being cluttered.  I want to show off the awards I've received by my friends/followers, I want to show off my friends blog buttons so others reading my blog can just click and go to check out their blogs and I want to incorporate my writing, creativity and all my chaotic ramblings all in the same blog.

In visiting many blogs on a weekly basis and seeing how everyone else has set their blogs up, I've decided that I really like the "tabs" you can set up across the top of the blog.  Right now I have a few but they seem kind of pointless.  I don't think I get much traffic on them and so, to me, the pages seem pointless.

So, now that I've pretty much babbled the silly craziness in my head about my plans to revamp my blog, I am going to go and continue to make changes.  I would appreciate some feedback on how it looks or pointers and tips about what would make it look better and more eye catching!

Happy Monday!

Short & Sweet

UPDATE:  My email is k.marie37bg@gmail.com

So, I have yet another change.  LOL  I have been writing pieces about my life.  With the idea and support of a new found friend I've decided not to do it on here anymore.  For those of you that were following that story (I know there were a couple of you) I won't be posting here anymore. 

If you wish to follow my life and all my ins and outs then you will have to send me an e-mail to be invited to that blog.  I'm not necessarily looking for followers on that blog that may not be interested in what's going on, but instead supporters.  So if you are interested let me know.  It's more private and I'd like to keep it as close to that as possible. 

Thanks in advance for all your support friends!

We asked for change in Egypt for so long...now we have a chance...are we big enough to take it and do something?

For years we wanted change, for a long time we talked and complained about the state of our country, about the poor and the unemployed, about the emergency law and the corruption in EVERY office in the land. Now we have a chance for our voice to be heard, to make a difference, is it going to be easy? Of-course not. Some say who is good enough for this position? I am sure among 82 million; there will be one person we can trust. Surely, we cannot just simply stand with a corrupt system just because there is no alternative!

So what can we do now?

1- Support the moderate forces in our country

2- Go and exercise our rights in electing members of parliament

3- Teach each other and educate one another on the best way forward

This is OUR land, our country and we owe it to ourselves and to our kids. To simply do nothing is just not an option. For so long they sold us the lie that we cannot cope with change, that it is better to stay as we are because we are not sure about what the future might bring. My fellow Egyptians, if you stand and do nothing then you cannot come and complain that no one is listening to you or giving you your rights ever again. I would rather die free than live as a slave.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.

How true is that...really!?  So many of us want to change things about ourselves, our habits and our lives but yet we choose to sit and bitch.  Bitching about the things we wish were different won't change anything.  It is what it is.  Unless you, yourself, take the necessary steps to change the things you do not like then they will remain the way they are. 

I, regrettably, am one of those people and have recently learned that stewing about the things that upset me and not making a change has hindered the rest of my life in many different ways.  Not embracing change as a fact of life and rolling with it's punches has not allowed me to live my life to the fullest and get the things I need and want.  So I bitched about it and stewed about it and kept it all inside and didn't change it.

It's sad really that so many people waist so much time thinking about what they want to do in their lives instead of just doing it.  Is it because some of us are afraid to fail or are afraid that we may not get the results we wanted?  I don't know and I'm sure that answer is different for each individual person. 

But what I've learned, like it or not, CHANGE is inevitable.  You can't avoid it.  Sooner or later it will catch up to you and the longer you avoid it the bigger it gets.  In my opinion, more frequent smaller changes are better than one big one (unless the change is a big change on it's own).  I am not learning this and it is a painful lesson learned. 

Without change some things would die.  Without change ideas would never flourish.  Without change people would never meet, families would never begin and lives wouldn't be born.  Without change we are left with a bunch of boring and easy decisions that would lead to our ultimate demise.  Change is essential in all our lives to live lives that are not without purpose.  But it is our own responsibilities to face change with courage, grab it as tight as we can and embrace it. 

Changes may not always be easy but it's what builds our character; it makes us who we are.  I have accepted that change has sought me out, settled in and announced that it is not budging until I choose to take it by the hand and move forward.  I have begun to move forward and with each step my smile and laugh strengthens.  With each step I grow a little stronger.  With each step...happier. 

I will leave you with the words of Blind Melon, the song Change...

I don't feel the suns comin' out today
its staying in, its gonna find another way.
As I sit here in this misery, I don't
think I'll ever see the sun from here.

And oh as I fade away,
they'll all look at me and say, and they'll say,
Hey look at him! I'll never live that way.
But that's okay
they're just afraid to change.

When you feel your life ain't worth living
you've got to stand up and
take a look around you then a look way up to the sky.
And when your deepest thoughts are broken,
keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

And as we all play parts of tomorrow,
some ways will work and other ways we'll play.
But I know we all can't stay here forever,
so I want to write my words on the face of today.
and then they'll paint it

And oh as I fade away,
they'll all look at me and they'll say,
Hey look at him and where he is these days.
When life is hard, you have to change.