Friends | Posted by Jannie on 20 August 2010 @ 6:55 PM
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Welcome to my first sidebar buttons recap! Whoo-hoo!!
Break out the beer!
20 buttons instead of my original 21 plan, because 5 rows of 4 just looks soooo…. tidy!
(And I live for tidy here in funsterland.)
Please note I’m making the buttons a little taller now, so if yours was one of the shorter first ones, it doesn’t mean I love you any less!!
Plus, I’ll probably link you all up more than once over the next 40 to 50 years!
To reiterate my sidebar plan… a new button will appear up top every day or 2, rotate down, then drop off after 20 days — but will magically reappear in a scintillating post such as this!
The Endometriosis Petition will stay permanently. There were less than 40 signatures on it when I first met Chronic Healing Jeanne almost 2 years ago.
Now look how many there are!!!
ANYONE can sign the very worthy petition. (Takes just a couple minutes.)
Highly Esteemed Blogger Sheila’s button will stay up until the ”Moms in Business” contest is over. (Takes 10 seconds to vote for Sheila’s super-excellent Aventine Hill all-natural bath and body products.)
And… because I love you all so much and care about your swell-being, I HIGHLY recommend the following book by everybody’s Bold Beautiful Blessing, Tess Marshall…
(Yes, that’s Kelly beside the book.)
I also HIGHLY recommend Tess’ The Bold Life blog. She is a super, super special and inspiring fun sweetie!
(And she now has a better Alexa ranking than I — excellently deserved! I better get my love marketing mojo cranking and catch up with her again!!)
And a bit unrelated… here’s a photo of Kelly when she was 4 with miniature waffles on her eyes…
Posted with love from, Jannie who will enjoy posting a Friday Flash Fiction 55 for the G-Man next week!
Friends, The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 14 August 2010 @ 5:49 PM
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There’s Kelly at age 5 in our backyard in her Snow White wig.
There’s me zooming in on her face in that same picture.
There’s a map of our backyard.
(Except the summer she was 5 we were still a year away from getting her little swimming pool.)
(And her dad would not begin constructing her tree house for another year and a half – built it with his own two hands, he did – top to bottom.)
There’s the swimming pool… I got it for $300, landed. (Assembled it myself! I mentioned I kick ass on occasion, right?)
There’s the tree house, a shot I took about 2 months ago.
There’s that donut hole photo of Austin I took.
Austin, Texas, that is — where we live.
And guess what?!!??
Another Angel of Delight — Lori of the Jane Be Nimble blog garden, has an interview post about me up – a post with all-new Jannie tidbits, and one that beautifully showcases that entire donut (less a couple bites.)
Hope you’ll join us over there on Lori’s front porch?!
With love from your ever humble blogging servant,
Jannie
xoxoxoxo
There was Kelly helping her dad build the treehouse when she was 6. (She’s almost 9 now!)
P.S. If I’m not posting as often as usual this coming week — don’t worry. I’ll be immersed in any combo of the following…
– going into the recording studio on 2 or 3 of my new songs
– launching my big eBay selling blitz
– catching up on reading your blogs
– answering your lovely comments on this post
– finally mopping those floors!
Friends, Videos | Posted by Jannie on 5 August 2010 @ 6:58 PM
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He loves the Wolverines
He loves a fishin’ stream
He gets that far away look in his eyes…
Somewhere on a Michigan highway
He rides a Harley-Davidson
His silver mustache flyin’ in the wind
Ridin’ in the mornin’ sun
G-Man’s Tim Horton’s cup
Collidin’ with the very air he breathes
The air he breathes.
Just 55 words I put to a Neil Young melody in honor of our known blogging legend and coffee-loving patron saint of Friday Flash Fiction 55 — the G-Man.
If you are a Flash-55 writer (or play one on t.v.) git on over to the G-man’s lair Friday (or anytime Thursday after 8:00 p.m. MICHIGAN time) to check out the fun. Let the The G-man know you’ve posted a 55 and he’ll pop on over to your place and comment!
Friends, Silly Fun | Posted by Jannie on 13 July 2010 @ 12:40 PM
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1 … who thinks driving to the store and back for chips and beer actually qualifies as exercise? (Hey, getting in and out of a car once – let alone twice, can be quite the work-out!)
2 … whose bras all need to be “taken up?”
3 …who can simultaneously eat spaghetti, blow-dry my hair and read blogs? (Okay, you know I’ll be posting a video to prove that.)
4 … who really misses jeans that actually came up to and surrounded The Waist? I’m so tired of my pants always falling down. Oh, I so miss Fancyass jeans from the 80s!! Remember that brand?
5 … who has cat hairs, cookie crumbs and something that looks like a glop of dried coffee ice cream gracing the keyboard of my computer?
6 … who has splashed hand sanitizer in my arm pits in a sudden odor emergency? Hey, it totally works in a pinch!
7….. whose speakers blew on my laptop one day after the factory warranty was up?
8 … who then fell asleep listening to music via headphones on said laptop, rolled over in the night and damaged the phone jack irreparably?
9 … who’s re-gifted? Pray do tell! Come on – it’s only the two of us here!
Later today I’m mailing that set of glass roosters we got for Christmas many many moons ago to a lovely blogging friend. Seems a right natural progression because of the decorations I see in her post-flood kitchen remodel. (Sorry those are not antiques, Paige. Re-gift if you wish.)
10. … who’s had a small parcel come back with this love note affixed?
July, 2007, eh? I really should keep up with these things!
So much for any future dreams of zipping merrily up the walkway to our mailbox to leave a parcel heavier than 13 oz.
Oh well, I have to go to the P.O. anyway — also have one of my CDs to mail to a really nice blogger in Sri Lanka. And something to Canada.
Awesome Poet Fireblossom’s gift coming back was probably God’s way of telling me to put in an extra little something for her. And to use nicer stamps. So I am, from my private stash…
And Rooster Woman’s parcel has these…
I am going now, to start sorting through 18 boxes of stuff. I know Wise Patricia’s audio cassette is in one of them!
Friends | Posted by Jannie on 8 July 2010 @ 2:26 PM
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Hey, I think I’ve figured out what I’m doing in life!
Well, at least with my sidebar links.
Three cheers for Jannie.
And three cheers for you for being my blogging friend!!
Yay! Yay!! Yay!!!
My Plan is to showcase a new site in my sidebar every day or so [Edit: or whenever creative inspiration hits!]– up to 21 button links at a time.
(21 because I have that many favorite kinds of donuts.)
Sometimes I may link to a blog in general. Sometimes to a specific post that moved me.
Once a new sidebar button appears up top, the bottom one will drop off — but will show up again in a month-end post showcasing everyone who was linked that month!
I’ll play the first month-end post by ear, and take it from there.
Buttons may be held over at the bottom for ongoing causes. Speaking of which — please don’t forget to click Sheila’s button and vote daily for the awesome way she is helping make her business dream come true…
Just don’t PUSH Sheila’s button! A joke! A joke — I love Sheila! She’s a real sweetie. And funny too.
Some buttons may end up in the sidebar permanently, further down — like Jeanne’s for the petition to raise Endometriosis awareness… ANYONE can sign this petition, and it only takes about 2 minutes.
Sometimes BB will want to toot one of my more inspirational posts…
Some sites may be showcased again before others have appeared a first time, if someone has something special happening. I’ll go by the sense of feel. And love. And appreciation for good things.
I enjoy a lot of beautiful and inspirational sites, so please be patient until your button appears.
And if you are a newer friend here, please be patient about yours – and know that it’s wonderful getting to know you.
Some of you may never want to be linked, so let me know if that’s the case! I’m at janniefunster @ gmail.com.
This is so fun!!! (For me, anyway!) And hopefully will be for you guys too.
Please feel free to leave any questions or suggestions below, as you guys always think of things I haven’t.
THANKS!!
Jannie
xoxo
Now… I think I may have comments I’ve not yet answered from my last 2 or 3 posts…
A joke! A joke — I love 
