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Dear Reader

by MouthyGirl

Dear Reader,

I decided to write this letter because I needed to say thank you. Thank you for coming here when you do, however often that is, even if this is your first time reading my words, thank you.

I would send you all a thank you card, or an e-greeting but I think that might be a bit excessive, a blogger sending cards to her readers.

But honestly, I appreciate those of you that come here day after day to read my musings, my silliness, my meme’s and general ramblings. I’m really not all that interesting. I have opinions much like you, I’m sure we share a few, you are here after all. But I am thankful too, because of you. Everyday I write something, whether it’s a little something or
a lot of something, it’s something.

I used to write in high school and as the saying goes, when I was no longer a child, I put down childish things, I thought my writing was childish, what I didn’t realize was while the
content was childish, the writing itself was not.

You’ve given me a reason to write, and it’s something I sincerely love doing. I feel again that passion that I felt when I was a teenager, writing my childish anguish out on paper, expressing my feelings and getting them off my chest in the only way that I knew how at the time. I still have an easier time writing my feelings than discussing them, but I’ve grown up a lot since then and can communicate pretty efficiently I think.

Thanks to you the fire is re-ignited in me to write, thanks to you I carry around a little notebook and write ideas down daily…well almost daily. Thanks to you I feel inspired to write every day and guilty when I don’t.

I appreciate what you’ve brought out in me, I’ve spent a lot of years wondering what I was meant to do, trying to find purpose and reason for my existence, and I honestly feel that while it may not be MouthyGirl.com that I was put here for, it’s got something to do with writing, so thank you for providing an outlet for me.

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GirlFriday Changes in the Coming Year

by MouthyGirl

Life does nothing consistently except change.

It’s the one thing that everyone has in common. The one topic we can all discuss, that amazes us even though we know it’s coming. Regardless of how life treats you or me, that’s the one thing we will always have in common, that our lives can, have and will change in an instant.

I’m looking at going back to school in the spring semester. Thinkin’ I need to brush up on my writing skills, a few little other things I need to tighten up are also on the agenda. Going back to school gives me mixed feelings, I feel like I’ve reached a place in my life where I can turn to any number of fields and make a living, but I’m not satisfied. I find that I go home stressed over problems that are not my own, being treated in a way I do not relish at all and just generally hating what I do. I’ve learned a lot in this field and others and know that I could survive doing either of them. But I don’t want to do either of them.

So I had to decide if I was content enough to keep going at the pace I was going or if I wanted to climb. I choose to climb. I’ve always been reaching, even when my spirit and mind are at their weakest, I still reach. Do you?

Maybe contentment is all you ever wanted, and if that’s you, congratulations if you are there. Reaching is not for everyone, you have to know yourself, and above all be happy. Sure I have hard days, stressful days and days that I’d like to tell my boss to take this job and shove it. But at the end of the day, I try really hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I don’t have to be there everyday for the rest of my life. I don’t have to deal with those people beyond that 8-5 I’m obligated to be there for. And this doesn’t have to be what I do for the rest of my life.

That’s what I tell myself. That’s my light at the end of the tunnel, and going back to school will get me going on the road a little faster. I enjoy writing. Even if you aren’t reading it and I’m only getting hits from myself and my few local supporters because they know me, I still enjoy it. I find that I can envelop myself in the world of writing and brainstorm and come up with ideas to write about here, better than I can do anything else. And I’m good at most everything I set my mind to. But writing comes easier to me than anything else I have ever done.

Change is welcome at my door anytime. It brings about excitement, knowledge, and a lot of times fun. So I’m going to go with the flow, roll with this next change in my life and dive back into the world of education and get a little more of that pie for me.

What will you be changing in the coming year?

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