It’s time for a pep-talk!  Well team, I think we have had a pretty successful year.  I managed to finish my degree, move to a new city all alone, get married, find a career and get involved with the writing community in Calgary. 

I feel as though I have been stuck in a hyperbolic time chamber where 1 day is actually a year and I have trained to defeat the evil threat of Cell!  Whoa, too much Dragon Ball Z.  I have a weakness of rip-off American anime.

What I am trying to say is that I really feel like I have changed a lot and not just that things have changed.  I talked to my good friend Neil last night on MSN and he spent the last year in Australia and various islands.  I can only imagine he must have grown and changed, but I also realized that I have as well.  While he was gone all of those things happened to me.  How bizarre is that.  So much changes in a year.

Something else has changed.  My writing.  I think I have written in the past about being able to think and write in character now; whereas before it wall about me.  A side effect of being in school and young/melodramatic/me.  But something else has changed.  I am thinking big.  I used to write a poem, one at a time, whenever I felt inspired.  I am not sure that many of those poems are any good.  Now I am thinking in themes and subjects and characters and projects.  Which means I don’t have to wait until inspiration hits me, per se.  I can write without that fear of being or not being inspired.

Now for the heart-clincher.  I have really enjoyed our blogosphere.  Keeping old friends close and meeting new people.  I have enjoyed having you on my blog and reading yours (if you have one).  Thanks.  I really hope you have a great Christmas/festive season–you pagans !  (This is not my official sign-off.  That will come Wednesday or Thursday.)