**Second attempt at my good-bye post -- Yet another reason why this post has been a long time coming.**

The time has finally come to say good-bye to Spaces. Yes, I'm finally closing up my Spaces shop and heading down the block to a more prime location. Don't get me wrong. I've had some great times here at Spaces, like the week I was featured on What's Your Story. And I've met some great blog friends over here, too (plus many more), a good number of whom have also skipped Spaces Town. But the trouble of posting an entry these days far outweighs the benefits of being part of the Spaces community. Hopefully, if you like reading me here, you'll just update your link or blogroll and read me over at Blogger instead.

I'll be leaving this Space up, so you can still peruse my archives or check out my friends' spaces (they're listed to the left). I just can't continue to blog here. Not only was I unbelievably bad at keeping two blogs going (I mean, come on, I can barely come up with enough time and material for one!), but Spaces has gradually accumulated enough checks in the Cons column to force me to jump ship. It regularly takes me an hour or more to format, categorize and post an entry because it’s just not very user friendly. I can’t seem to save new categories, and the ones that I have saved don’t want to show up in the Categories module no matter how hard I try. I can’t use Spaces in Firefox and even in Internet Explorer it often causes my computer to freeze up. It’s just plain difficult, while Blogger is so, so easy. With all that’s going on in my life right now, easy is good. It’s great. It’s necessary, really.

So please, come visit me at http://writingherlife.blogspot.com. I think summer’s going to be full of inspiration, and who knows what kind of home owner adventures I’ll encounter in the next few months.