Friday, July 30, 2004

What is it?


used with permission.  Slack Back Mack

When I first looked at the above picture I thought I saw one thing.  Then I looked at it again and saw something different.  What do you see?  Click on the picture to go visit Slacbac and let him know if you like his work.  Yeah, he is the one that did the torch in my about me section. 

If you haven't been yet don't forget to go check out my J-land float at:
http://journals.aol.com/onestrangecat/KathysPlace/


***update on picture*** at first I just saw an eye, but then I saw a bird.  Got an email from the painter himself and he was calling it "my mysterious eyeball/planet". 

 

Can you feel it?

I have been having a blast surfing around J-land and seeing all that people have done for the celebration.  While thinking of what to write today I didn't want a down entry right away.  Nope.  Too much love and happiness in the community right now.

So I decide to give you a piece of art work to ponder over. 

(Let me make one thing clear (people have asked) the art work I put here I have emailed the artist and got permission.  Don't go and see a great piece and use it without permission.  And then download to your computer don't just copy/paste from their sites.  This is something called bandwidth thieft.  While I don't totally "get it" I know that is a bad thing--so don't do it.)

Now that I have given my little lecture.  On with the good stuff.  This guy does several types of paintings.  This is one of his "illusion" paintings.  See if you can see what is "hidden" in plan view.


used with permission  visit this wonderful site at:  http://rustyrust.dreamg8.com/index.htm or click on the picture.

 

Thursday, July 29, 2004

Happy Birthday J-land

Can't party this morning, but I will be back later on for all the fun.  In the meantime:

I am flying my state flag:  Preview

This is how I feel about everyone:

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Wishing everyone:

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Now go:

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and start with my float at:

http://journals.aol.com/onestrangecat/KathysPlace/

Sunday, July 25, 2004

Lawn Chairs

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© Michael Harvey 2004. http://digerati.shutterpoint.com

I am so happy.  I have gotten permission to use some wonderful photos in my journal.  I love this one.  It's called "Lawn Chairs".  It reminds me of when I was a little kid, back.....


We had chairs like these.  Paint would be chipping but no one really cared.  A little rust?  No big deal.  These chairs were like armored tanks--built to last.

When I was little people would go "visit".  You would just be sitting around with nothing to do and decide to go visit someone.  No calling ahead, you would just drop in.  And it was ok to just drop in.  If it was warm someone would fix everyone a glass of iced tea and you would sit outside until the bugs ran you in -- and more often than not that was the "sign" it was time to leave.

Grown ups sitting and talking, the kids running around like crazy stopping only to run up to mom/dad and down have their tea before playing more.  It was a great time to be little.  People didn't have to work a million jobs, kids weren't shuffled off to dance, soccer or what ever you could actually be a kid.


Sometimes you would sit on the porch and play games.  One of my dad's friends would come by and we would sit and play monoply for hours, and hours.  It would last until dad or his friend would be cheating so bad that mom would threaten them.  H (dad's friend) had a habit of putting the propery cards in his shirt pocket.  Mom would run him off because it was late or whatever and he would leave with the cards in his pocket.  We had to buy the game several times because of missing cards.

Yep, those were the good old days.  No one visits anymore.  Kids are too busy to play outside.  And no one has those metal lawn chairs anymore.

Saturday, July 24, 2004

The horror!!!!!


The Lurking Sock Puppet
used with permission  http://www.metalandmagic.com/

I so love the picture above.  Of course I like about everything Ursula comes up with.

Last night I was sleeping so good.  Too good as a matter of fact.  My snores drowned out some noises I should have heard.  But I didn't hear and was up for a rude awaking during the night.

Got up around 2:30 or 3 am to go to the bathroom.  House is dark but I know the way.  Got to the hallway, and then disaster struck.  Felt something.  Something really weird.  Oh, no.  Run to cut on a light.

I had stepped into some cat puke.  Don't you even laugh.  Was not funny.

If you have a cat you know they make this horrible noise when they throw up.  It has woken me up before, but last night I didn't have a clue as to what my cats were doing.

STOP LAUGHING, it was not funny.  Had to clean me up, the puke up, cut the light off, get back into bed.  Got comfortable.  Rats.  Forgot to use the bathroom.  Had to get back up.  Took forever to get back to sleep. NOT FUNNY.

In case you haven't heard

And the winners  are:

THE LADY OF THE BLOG
Slow Motion Life ~ "A Life in Slow Motion"

LORD OF THE BLOG
Screamin Remo 303
~ "Screaming Remo"

MOST LOL MOMENTS
Jeff Comedy
~ "What the Hell"

BEST USE OF ANIMATION
Vivian SulliNwank ~ "Viv's E-Thoughts"

THE SUTTERBUG AWARD
Son en Smilin Mon ~ "Backroads of Life"

MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING
Read Me Read You ~ "Life As I See it"

ROOTIE TOOTIE FRESH 'N FRUTIE
Danielle D1 ~ "Everybody Knows"

BEST THEME-BASED JOURNAL 
Sekirley ~ "My Ambulance Stories"

BEST USE OF MASKED VULGARITIES
Muse N LA
~ "Amused"

BEST USE OF GRANDIOSE BEHAVIOR (a tie, no lie!)
Floralilia ~ "Freely Floralilia"      LA Move 04 ~ "Albert's Artsy World of Fun"

BEST J-BRAT ON THE BLOCK
JB Coupe
~ "My Frog Journal"

THE J-TEEN SUPREME
Svenska Girl ~ "Emily's Life"

THE MAD HATTER AWARD
Karen Sull 12 ~ "Jukebox Woman"

I'S GOT GOOD GRAMMAR
Read Me Read You
~ "Life As I See It"

MOST ORIGINAL/CREATIVE JOURNAL
Haiku Like ~ "Interactive Haikus"

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
Bare Bytes ~ "Community Story Book"

MOST HEART-WARMING JOURNAL ENTRY
MKG Ninja
~ "Happy Anniversary Baby"

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AWARD
Dave the Sod ~ "World of the Sod"

SIR BLOGS-A-LOT
Dave the Sod
~ "World of the Sod"

THE J-QUEEN OF ENGLAND
Agathas Place ~ "Damn, Blast, Bollox"

And from me to all the winners:

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Friday, July 23, 2004

Friday the 23rd.

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Midnight Oasis used with permission
www.rattenburyart.com

I have been trying to do an entry here and can't seem to get it done.  I keep getting interruped (Albert) but that is ok.

The weather here is hot.  I don't know the temp but it has been more that a little warm today.  I saw the above painting and thought how great it would be to just dive into it and cool off.

The J-land awards voting is over.  Yeah.  Don't know who won.  Doesn't matter.  We are all great (and even of those of us that weren't nominated are pretty terrific) so it's all good.

J-land anniversary is almost here.  I "retired" from helping Ayn but came out of retirement briefly to help her with some last minute stuff.  I still don't have my float for the parade together.  Just haven't been hit with an idea -- or at least with an idea that I can actually do.  LOL

Went to visit Aunt Betty again this week.  She had her stitches out (well, staples actually) and had taken off her pain patch thingy.  She wasn't feeling really great but we both think it was because of all that was going on.

I am so glad to hear that there are others out there in J-land that like grave yards, and don't find me to crazy!  I would love to go to some of the huge, historic cemetaries that are around.  I know there is one here in NC somewhere that has Civil War soldiers burried there.  Also, somewhere around the coast is supposed to be some piriate that is buried standing up or something like that.  Cool.

Nothing else to say.  Trying to update my journals and make the round reading others.

 

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

a summer re-run for you.

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My favorite place

One of my favorite places is...are you sitting down?  I love to hang out in graveyards.  Ok, I know that you are thinking I am some sort of  crazy person.  And hey, I may very well be crazy.  But listen to what I have to say THEN make up your mind.

We have this really old graveyard here in town and I used to go and read the gravestones.  It is really very interesting.  There is a whole section of graves of little kids that all died at about the same age during one year.  It must have been a deadly flu outbreak or something.  The older the stones the more you could tell about the person.  You can tell if they had money--the writing cost per word then, so the more money you had the more you could put on a grave marker.  There is so much that can be learned from cemetaries.

Anyway, when I was just reading my way through the graveyard I discovered something.  And THIS is why I love cemetaries.  It is quite in a graveyard.  Even if other people are there it's like they will be whispering as if they were in church or something.  If you have had really bad day and want to cry, go stand by someone's grave and cry.  If anyone sees you they won't come up and ask what is wrong.  They just assume you are crying over whoever is buried there.  Also some places even have benches where you can sit and be alone.

So class, what have we learned?  Gravestone reading can be fun and educational. But as for MY purposes, the cemetary is quite, you can cry if you wish without anyone wanting to know what is wrong, and it is a good place to just be alone with your thoughts.

Am I crazy?  I don't think so.  Some people have but when I explained it to them, they were like "yeah, I can understand that".

Graveyards spooky?  Not really.  Do you really believe something is going to come up from the ground and grab you?  I DON'T recommend hanging out in one at night alone because there are some LIVE nuts that could create problems for you.

The spooky's time I have had in a graveyard was at night (no, I wasn't alone, and my boyfriend with me).  The place is at the end of a dead end street and surrounded by trees on 3 1/2 sides.  What you couldn't tell is that at night (in the winter time especially) if you looked out towards one area of trees you could see the headlight of a train that was going by on the other side of the trees and across the road.  Seeing the light and not realizing it was a train at first was a little spooky.  But when you heard the train whistle it was just down right erie.

 

 

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Quads? That's 4 babies? For who???

If you don't know, and why would you want to know?  Just heard about new baby news for Michael Jackson.  Oh, yea.  Another lady pregnant with his BABIES. Yup, claims ther are 4 of them just waiting to be born.  Click on Michael's name to read the story at ETonline.com  Tell me it ain't true.  Please!!!!!!!!

 

If you haven't already, click on this -------> http://pub49.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=4145820577&cpv=2  and vote for your favorite journals.  I am in the running for best use of animation.  I am a far 2nd to Vivian.  She's great.  If she wins we will have a party.  But if you haven't voted, help make the margin of my loss to her a little closer.  Ok?  LOL

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Monday, July 19, 2004

Vote for ME

At first I thought it was kind of tacky for me to ask people to vote for me.  Then I got an email telling nominees they could put these buttons in their journal.  So here I am, asking you to vote for me. 

Someone nominated me for Best Use Of Animation.  Click on one of these buttons and go cast your votes.  I would love it if you would vote for me, but vote for who you like the best.

http://pub49.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=4145820577&cpv=2  

 http://pub49.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=4145820577&cpv=2

The buttons will open another screen so you can find your way back here.  Thanks so much for casting your votes.  Even if one of them isn't for me.

 

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PS For casting your vote:

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Sunday, July 18, 2004

A Free Click A Day

As most of you know, I did have a "fund free mammogram" button in my "all about me" section.  I have taken it down and am putting that one and several more here in this entry.  I am then going to add a link to this entry in my "other journals" column.

Feel free to keep coming back here and doing your free clicks.  Remember they are FREE, you click once DAILY, and you are HELPING someone.  So very easy.  And it costs you nothing.

fund free mammograms: 

 
Provide free mammograms! 

 

help feed the hungry: 

http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa/499/wo/Lw700064400fn600V/4.0.49.13.0.1.0.0.0.CustomContentActiveImageDisplayComponent.0.0.0

 

help little children:

 
http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa/499/wo/Lw700064400fn600V/6.0.49.13.0.1.0.1.0.CustomContentActiveImageDisplayComponent.0.0.0 

 

help keep our rainforests: 

http://www.therainforestsite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa/499/wo/Lw700064400fn600V/8.0.49.13.0.1.0.0.0.CustomContentActiveImageDisplayComponent.0.0.0 

 

help feed animals:  

Feed an Animal in Need - Click for Free 

 

If I have it figured out right each of the above buttons should open a new window so you don't have to keep finding your way back to get to the next button.

Is there a Lawyer in the House?

At first I didn't care.  Then I got a little upset.  Now I am angry.  I want to sue!  I want the law changed!  I need someone to take up my cause!!!!!!!!!

This coming Tuesday is primary day here in North Carolina.  Big woop!!  We were supposed to vote back in May but lawyers were in court because of how the state was divided up.

PreviewNow there is no point in going to the voting booths.  And I am ill about it.  Why no point?  I will be glad to tell you why.  I vote for whoever I think will do the best job.  I don't vote party lines.  But because I had to when I registered to vote all those years ago I had to pick a party.  My parents were democrates so that is what I am registered as.  So this year I was looking as to whom I might want to run against Bush (should I decide not to vote for him.).  Well, that was all for nothing.  The primary is this week and it has already been decided who will run against Bush.  That ain't fair!!!!!!!!  I didn't get a chance to voice my opinion.  The more I think about it the madder I get. 

I feel that primaries should all be held on the same day just as we do for the presidental election.  Maybe then someone other than Kerry would be up against Bush, maybe not.  But everyone would have had a chance to vote.  Where is the democracy in this?  Huh?  Can you tell me?

I would love for someone to stand up, take up my cause -- free of charge of course -- and get the laws changed.  How many other states haven't had their say? 

Honestly, if every primary was held on the same day could not the results have been different?  Don't some people feel that since Canidate A won such and  such state then there is no point in voteing? Didn't just a few years back (in a presidental election)  network tv had to stop trying to call who had won because all the polls hadn't closed and "the powers that be" said they could be changing the outcome of the election?  Isn't it the same for primaries?

Preview Where is the justice?  I want to vote and feel like my vote counts.  And right now it doesn't.  There is no point to go to the polls.  Oh, yeah, there is some local stuff going on, but I wanted a say in who represented in Washington, DC.  I have been cheated.  I am mad.

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Thursday, July 15, 2004

Thursday

If you read my journal or any comments that I have left lately you would think that I have not been anywere near J-land lately.  That is so not true.  Here are a few things I have been working on:

A new site:  Editor's Picks Archives   The editors had a page but took it down.  I have been thinking that we needed it.  Not to keep up with who has been picked but as another source for finding journals.  I love Pamela's J-land directory, and this is not meant to replace it in any way.  Just a compliment to it.  Also something like this would have been helpful in the planing of the upcoming anniversary celebrations.

I have also been helping  Ayn of Ayn's Mulitple World with her anniversary project a journal called "AOL Journals' First Year Hall of Fame".  We are compiling the first entry of everyone's (most everyone, see the link to the Hall of Fame to see if you are on the list and what to do if you aren't and want to be.) journal into the Hall of Fame journal.  This is more time consuming than I first thought, but I am loving every minute of it.

I also have been helping Vivian with her organization.  Sort of like her secretary.  I really don't see how she is getting every thing for the celebration done.  She does her own journal, keeps up with birthdays to put in the birthday journal.  Also on her plate is a journal for anniversary graphics, and you would not believe all the behind the scene things she has going on for the upcoming celebration.  I don't see where she gets the time or the engery.  Everyone in J-land will be blown away by all that she (and others) have planned.

With all that said.  The other things going on in my little life:

The support group I attend (for people with mood disorders) asked me to be on their steering committee.  Had my first meeting yesterday.  I learned a lot.  It just amazes me the "behind the scenes" stuff that goes on with almost everything in life.  Had fun, gave some suggestions.  Most of my ideas seemed to be things that can be done at some point in the near future. 

Last week I went to the Salvation Army store and bought a small, shelve-less, bookcase for $6.  They wanted $10, but I go "it has no shelves", ok, you can have it for $6 if you walk out with it now.  Great, yup, it will fit in the car. (I was in my mom's, and you can lots in that hatch back).  I can hear you saying "she bought a bookshelf that has no shelves."  No problem, I can get that taken care of by C.O.D.

My Aunt Betty is home from the hospital.  She had surgery on her lung, the spot turned out NOT to be cancer.  Great news.  I went last Thurday to visit her in the hospital, and I plan on going tomorrow to visit her now that she is at home.

That's what I have been up to.  What about you guys?

Oh, got a great new tag.  Do you like it?  Don't ask me for one because I didn't make it.  I can steer you towards some MSN groups that make things like it though.

 

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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

It just keeps getting better!

I have known about a little goody coming your way for a little while now and it was all I could do not to blab.  Now it is offically out so I can blab away! 

I am going to give you some links and you MUST check them all out.  And you MUST e-mail Steven or leave a comment in his journal.  Promise?  Ok.

Steven over at (sometimes) photoblog has been really busy coming up with a great site to help celebrate the upcoming AOL J-land anniversary.  And you are not going to believe what he has come up with.

An AOL Journal Garden!  Oh, I am so excited!  And he needs you to help plant the garden.

 Go to his journal, read about it, then go look at it, then go plant something!  Last of all go back and leave a comment for him, or e-mail him at sepintx@aol.com.  If you email him be sure to put something mentioning the garden in the subject line.

Go.  Start clicking!  Read!   Look!  MarvelPlant!! Enjoy!  And TELL EVERYONE!!!

 

Sunday, July 11, 2004

Torch's and that AOL celebration thing

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Lot's of you are coming up with torchs and all sorts of logo's for the upcoming anniversary.  And I don't mean to upset of any of you.  ALL of it is great work.  But I think I have found my favorite torch.  This one was done my slacbacmac and I love it.  Don't know why, I just do.  If you like it go and let him know.

Everyone Wants Something

I have been busy with anniversary stuff and was not going to make an entry today as I don't have much to say.  However I am being hounded by Gregg and Vivian to pimp their pet projects.  LOL

I will start with Gregg's.  As most of you know it is time to vote for your favorite AOL journal.  This is NOT associated with AOL in anyway.  It is your fellow journaler's getting together to honor each other.  This is the 2nd time in our history that we have done this.  You can go to Gregg's to read all about it.  He is going to ask you to make a copy of the all the categories (copy/paste them into an e-mail is the easiest thing to do.)  Then look around and read some journals.  If you need help finding journals you can always go to The Journal Directory.  This is not a complete listing of AOL Journals, but it is by far the closest you will find anywhere.  A journal does not have to be listed to be nominated. 

If you have done your homework and are ready to vote just click on this thingy:

 http://www.votations.com/asp/survey.asp?pollid=128211  While you are there you can nominate me!  I am kidding.  Well, no I am not.  But I don't think you should pimp your own self for an award.  That would just be plan tacky.

For those of you in UK J-land you can vote too.  In fact there are a couple of UK only categories. 

And before Gregg posts those photo's that I don't want anyone to see, here is the pretty logo thing for the awards:

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Now, own to Vivian. 

If you live in a cave (but still have access to a computer?) you won't know, but the rest of you should know that the 1st year anniversary of AOL J-land is coming up at the end of this month.  Vivian -- and others -- are working to have a major party to celebrate.  They want everyone to get involved.  First let me say this:  This in NOT associated with AOL.  It is your fellow journaler's getting together to have a celebration.  You don't need to have been journaling all year. If you just started that's ok.  If you are in UK J-land that is ok.  As long as you have a AOL journal you are more than welcome to participate.

Go to Vivian's and read about all the activites that are going on.  Go to the graphic's journal she will send you to (or, cross your fingers that it works, you can click on the graphic below to go there) and grab a graphic or two.  If you want to do something but don' know what just e-mail Vivian and she will direct you to the best place for you to help.

 

Now go out and participate in something.  Lots going on in J-land and you are invited!

Friday, July 9, 2004

Wisdom

 Wisdom.  It is something we all think we have.  And of course we are wiser than others.  ::rolling my eyes::

But if you want to know just how wise others are here in J-land all you have to do is go to this journal: succulent wisdom - juicyness from j-land.

While you are there, make sure you read this entry:
   
vivansullinwank 

Be careful when you want to share your wisdom.  You never know when it might come back to bite ya!  LOL

Thursday, July 8, 2004

Hey Everybody, We are STARS

While surfing over to Pamela's I found out that there is something called:

Technoratii:  Top 100 AOL Journals 

You have to check it out.  See if you are listed.  I am!  WOO HOO

Party time:

 

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Wednesday, July 7, 2004

I am going to write about, write about, oh, heck, what was it?

Have you ever been doing something and think "I know what I want to write about in my next entry" only to sit down at the computer and go "what was I going to write about?"  That has been happening to me a lot lately.  So for now I will just do an entry on odds and ends.

I am going to visit my Aunt Betty tomorrow.  She lives out of town -- as some of you may know -- and she had surgery this past Monday.  Going into surgery they thought she had a cancerous place on her lung.  After getting in there they found a mass but it wasn't cancer, but it was starting to get an infection.  Because I get my information 2 and 3 hand I don't know how much of the lung they had to take out.  Driving down tomorrow and hopefully she will be out of ICU and doing great.  She is in her mid 70's?  I think.  Yeah, before you ask, she smoked up until sometime withing the past 12 months.

If you ever watched the Andy Griffith show you will know that Mayberry had a town drunk named Otis.  I don't know if there is an Otis in my town (guess the police could tell you), but we (at least the part of town I live in) have several well known homeless people.  These are not the ones you will see on the corner begging for food.  Nope, but I am sure they get plenty of hand outs.  There is this little black lady that is around in the summer and she is always pushing a pink bicycle.  She never rides it, always pushing it.  I don't think she could ride it as she has bags full of stuff hanging off the handlebars.  Years ago someone stole her bike so the local bike store gave her another one just like it.  Recently I heard that her name is E and that she has an apartment here in town, and maybe even has money.  If it is true then I am guessing she has some kind of mental illness.  She is always dressed in black, well every now and then you will she here with a dress pulled over all that black, and she appears to talk to herself at times.

When I was in my early teens there was this man that I really didn't think a lot about, and yeah I probably laughed at him some being the idiot that teenagers can be at times.  He was this really tall, skinny (I mean toothpicks for leggs skinny), and he wore a really short dress and hair that you knew was a wig.  The first cross dresser I think I ever saw. I never really gave him much thought.  But as I grew older I wondered about him.  If he dressed like that much he had to have gotten beaten up a lot.  Might not in New York or California, but here probably.  Knowing what I know now I feel sorry for him.  Not because he was "different" but because of the type of  life he must have had here in this community beind different.

Take care every one.

 

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Tuesday, July 6, 2004

A journal for you to try

There is a great UK journal that a lovely lady writes.  It is called "Confessions of a Pet Shop Lady."  Please check it out.  She has also just started a new journal entitled "The Rhymin' Quine!".  This journal is great.  She writes each entry in rhyme.    Please check out both the journals, I know you will love both, but the newest is really quite outstanding.

Book Signing and James Patterson

This past week I went to my very first book signing.  And it wasn't a local writer!  A big name guy!  

 Who?  James Patterson James PattersonMost people know him from the Alex Cross series that he writes.  But he is out promoting his newest book "Sam's Letters to Jennifer" which is sort of a love story.  I bought the book the day before I saw him and had it almost finished by the signing.

If you have never been to a book signing let me give you a tip.  Go EARLY.  Not 30 minutes early, not even an hour early.  Patterson was to be there at 7:30 pm.  I got there at 6:30 and could hardly find a parking space.  According to the store people started coming in around 4:00.  Not only did they get some of the few chairs set out, but were first in line to get their books signed.

When you came into the store they gave you a piece of paper with the "rules" printed on it.  The papers were of different colors.  The first 100 people got one color, the next 100 got another, and so on.  When the actual signing took place you got in line according to the color paper you had.  I was in with the 101 - 200 group.  Lucky cause there were over 400 people there.

Mr Patterson talked for about 30 minutes.  And let me tell you this guy is so funny.  He introduced himself to someone in the parking lot as writer John Grisham!  And when he started his talk he said "Hello everyone, I am Bill Clinton." 

He wrote the book "Along came a spider" and was surprised by the move that was made from his book.  There was a woman in the movie that wasn't in his book.  Infact he could not figure out who she was supposed to be.  So he asked Morgan Freeman -- the actor who played Alex Cross -- who she was.  Oh, she is Alex's sister.  Mr Patterson said "I didn't know he had a sister".  Funny.

So here is how the time went.  I got there at  6:30, Patterson showed up at 7:30 and talked for about 30 minutes.  So he started signing books at 8:00.  I didn't get mine signed until 9:30!  

That
was a long time standing let me tell you.  But it was worth it.  I learned more about Patterson and about his books and the ideas for the books.  I highly recommend you getting his latest.  I do recommend that you get it at Wal-mart or a place like that because it is cheaper there than the book stores.


James Patterson also has a AOL journal -- which I really think someone else writes for him -- it's called Share the Love.

Sunday, July 4, 2004

Happy July 4th

Preview     Today's entry is short.  Got lots to get done.  But wanted to wish everyone a very happy, fun, and safe July 4th!  Party time!!!  Oh, for fireworks go here:  Lady Liberty Fireworks  And for your viewing pleasure some graphics to look at:

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 Have a great one!  

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Saturday, July 3, 2004

Gosh, Darn, & Golly Gee Whiz

You are not going to believe this.  First a little background.  My parents live in the city limits.  You are not supposed to have any type of "farm" animal inside the city limits.  My parents have neighbors (about 3 doors down) that have some chickens.  Yeah, chickens.  Neighbors have complained to the police mainly because of the rooster.  A lives next door to the "chicken" folk, he works 2nd shift and is tired of being woken up by a rooster.

Today.  My parents woke up to find a chicken in their fenced in yard.  Not the rooster but one of the chickens.  Strange sight, kind of cute sight.  The chicken made no effort to leave.  In fact she started hanging out under the bird feeders.  Guess she liked the bird seed that had fallen to the ground.  LOL

After the chicken had been there over half of today I go ask A if he would tell his neighbor to come get his chicken or my mom was calling animal control to come get it.  A told his neighbor.  And said neighbor didn't show.  A had the bright idea of catching the chicken and then taking it to the neighbors.  I have NEVER seen such a funny thing in my life!  That chicken started running like her life depended on it, and there was A right behind it.  After some thought A got an old table cloth and went after the chicken again.  After several attempts he finally got the chicken.

Now, A is walking out of my parents yard with this chicken (and the table cloth partially wrapped around it) and about the time he gets to the street there is this dude walking down the sidewalk just shooting some stares our way.  A just up and says "give you a chicken for a dollar".  LOL  The dude walking just keep going.  Didn't say a word.  LOL

Other news:  My neighbors moved.  It is so strange.  They are a young couple (early to mid 20's) they moved in just over a year ago (like 14 months or so).  She was pregnant when they moved in so their baby is close to a year old.  I came home one day and saw a moving van.  Sure enough they were moving.  I know for a fact they were buying the house.  It is not a rental.  There has been no for sale sign in the yard.  And now there is some kind of sticker on the front door saying that because the house is vacant is hasto be secure and that they (whoever the company is) will report it to the people that are holding the mortage within 3 days.

Did they just skip out on their mortgage?  So weird.  I have never seen anyone do that.  Usually (I thought) you would put the house for sale and let it go into foreclosure if there was a problem.  Strange I tell ya.

Went to a book signing.  Had fun.  But standing in line for hours to get a book signed.......

 

Oh, one more thing.  While doing some research for the anniverary thing, I found what I believe to be the most (let me know if I am wrong) comments left at any one entry (don't include John Scalzi) at a whopping 105.  Oh yeah.  And it wasn't at my journal.  :(    I want to see how many comments I can get at this entry.  Yes, I am begging.  Please leave a comment, even if it is just Hi.  Tell everyone you know to come here and say HI.  Lets see what kind of record we can set, ok?  Please?  Pretty Please? Don't make me grovel.  :)

AOL J-land's first Anniversary is coming.

I have been so slack in all of my journals, and my journal reading.  I am sooo very sorry.  I have been helping (or hendering depending on who you ask) with some of the prep work on the upcoming celebration for AOL J-land's first anniversary.  And let me tell you it is time consuming.  I have been combing through older entries to see what I can find, and hunting down some graphics.  Oh, but enough about me.  Here is a graphic I want you to copy/paste into your journals, but if you do you must email (or leave a comment at her journal) Vivian as she wants to know where the flame is. 

Preview

 

Next item up.  For the big celebration Vivian (and others) would like to give away some prizes.  Oh, goody, goody.  However, there is the money issue.  No, I don't want anyone's money!!!  But we are looking for some of the talented folks in J-land to offer up some of their talents.  If you can make graphics (such as something for a email signature, or something for a journal) and would be willing to make one or two to donate to be a prize that would be super.  If you write poems or short stories and would like to write one for the winner of a prize (and do it free of charge), if you are a photographer and have been holding back that great picture and would like to give it up for a prize, if you are crafty and would like to donate a prize I am sure the unoffical offical committee would be willing to accept it.  Please feel free to "advertise" my plea in your journal.  Send any willing donations to Vivian at this email:  VivianSulliNwank@aol.com  Be sure to put in the subject line that your email is about prizes for the celebration.