As Bowie would say.... ch-ch-changes......

I've changed the site address here.... sorry about the confusion, I'm going post this in FB so you can access it and save it once again to your bookmarks. I've been contemplating this change for a long time, and like so many of us, have delayed it out of fear.... fear of failure, fear it won't be good enough, just fear in general. Living in fear is not a life to live. To quote the great poet Anais Nin "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom:".... OMG! That is so my truth. Is it yours as well? I've been reading two books this Spring, one is 'She's Still There' by Chrystal Evans Hurst and the other is 'You are A Badass by Jen Sincero. These two books are written by two completely different women, but both resonate the theme of taking charge of your life and doing what makes YOU happy. I spent a huge portion of my younger years telling everyone what they wanted to hear and doing what I thought everyone expected of me. So I wasted a huge portion of my youthful college years pursuing a degree that I never finished.... Somewhere deep inside then I knew I wasn't happy with anything in my life. My relationships, my career path (or lack thereof), and myself. What did I do? I joined the Navy. Yeah, a bit radical, but for me it was the best thing I ever did for myself. I threw a spoiled, self-absorbed princess into a place where I couldn't be that anymore, it wasn't acceptable to be that anymore. I came out of those nine weeks a person that I actually liked. 

Fast forward almost 25 years later.... I've been blogging under the moniker of Altered Whimseys, first starting out as a showcase for my paper crafting, then as the world of blogging evolved I was hoping to turn it into a popular blog destination.... which didn't happen. So here I go again, ten years later and now I stand at the precipice of a reboot, rebrand a RE..... but the thing is I don't want it to be a RE-PEAT. Know what I mean?  I'm almost 46 and I don't have time to be wrong about these things....