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For Now</title><content type="html">Hi All ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm closing my blog for now.  As you know I haven't been around much lately and have kind of lost the interest I once had in blogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember when I started it was all shiny and new and I didn't know what to expect.  And I didn't know what I was doing!  And no one visited.  But then people started to visit and it was a real party here for a while.  I loved it!  And loved visiting all the blogs of people who visited me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But now my attentions are being pulled in other areas.  Not a lot has changed in my personal life ... I'm still on my own and still driving Ruby (my car).  I'm not really sure why blogging doesn't appeal to me now like it did before - but that's me.  I kind of do things for a while and then move on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moving on is tough though.  I kind of closed my blog twice before ... as you may remember, lol.  But each time I came back I posted less and visited other blogs less, until now ... when I finally feel the big goodbye is for real.  But then again, who knows!  I may be back at some point.  As for leaving all my old posts up - I thought of that but unfortunately when I'm away the blog just gets over-run with spam, and I don't really want that so I'm taking down my old posts.  I still have the MellowYellowMonday blog for now - but I'm not interactive with it and it's basically just a link list.  I don't even visit the links or read the comments anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could get all sentimental now but I won't.  Truly, this is hard for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I really want to say is thank you all so very much for your laughter, love and support!  I met a lot of great people through blogging and I won't be forgetting any of you.  I had a blast! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!  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