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!

(All photos in this post taken by iPhone 3GS.)

Toodles!

xoxox

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…

But first, some housework!!

God has sent us two angels.

They live just a few streets over, instead of 5, 9, 34 and 2900 miles away respectively, as Kelly’s other good friends.

We’d like to adopt these angel twins, but methinks their mom and brothers might protest too much. And I wouldn’t blame them — they are very sweet girls!

School got out yesterday!

It’s gonna be a great summer.

There’s magic afoot.  And ahand!

When I was a kid I chummed all summmer long with 2 girls – Linda and Melody.

Did you run wild with special buddies too?

xoxoxoxo

P.S. I’m going back to bed. Those girls had a sleep-over last night and kept me up until after midnight.  Of course my eyes popped open at 6:00 as usual, and now I can’t keep them open but for a minute longer to hit “Publish” on this.

Responding to the remaining comments on my last post will have to keep for a bit!

I’m gonna do some of this…

See you later!

Happy Memorial Day!!  Are you all (did you all) have a good one?  You doing (did) anything special?

We sure did.  And are!

Yesterday we were lucky enough to hang out with Paige Von Lieber and kin!!!

Remember Paige?  The one and only blogging Paige I met in the flesh for the first time last fall on our Enchanted Rock Excursion? Yes, waaaay back when my blog pictures were still a mere 500px wide, Paint Shop Pro was but a distant dream and poor little Kelly had a broken arm.

Oh wait — Kelly has a broken arm now too! I guess she saves those for Paige excursions. 

This time we did not meet on a windy mountain.

We spent the day in Fredericksburg — one of Texas’ best little tourist towns, settled by Germans in 1845.

We had the privilege of touring the National Museum Of The Pacific War — associated with The Nimitz Museum just around the corner.

Admiral Nimitz –  of The Nimitz Aircraft Carrier fame was born in Fredericksburg.

AWESOME museum!!!  Very impressive in scope and quality of exhibits. They had at least 3 REAL WW2 warplanes, 2 tanks, an original Jeep and half a submarine in there – plus hundreds of smaller displays.

Talk about a moving Memorial Day –  spent in the midst of memories of the brave ones who paid the ultimate price for the freedom I enjoy.

I was verklempt.  And evershall be.

Kelly in motion – the only way you ever find her.  Unless she’s under anesthetic having a broken arm set.

We ate lunch at a wonderful “Biergarten.”

I was eyeing a non-alcoholic restaurant, but my companions twisted my arm, and defeated – I slunk into that the beerful den of iniquity with them.

It was sooooooooooooooooooo great to see Paige again.  It feels like we’ve been friends since childhood.

She is awesome, awesome, awesome!!!!!

When are Y’ALL gonna move your cute little butts over here to Texas so we can meet too???

Paige’s daughter is tall.  I’m not, but I fake a whopping 5′7″ here, thanks to my 4″ wedge heels bought recently at Target for $23.99. Plus tax.

And those shoes are GENUINE imitation leather, I’ll have you know!!

All pix in this post Paige took yesterday (except the one of all 6 of us the waitress took.) She e-mailed them to me, I daisied ’em up with Paint Shop Pro, and here we are!

Oh, Paige e-mailed me the pix, the waitress didn’t e-mail them.

FYI, all daisies in this post are of the exact same flower, at the exact same angle — just in different sizes.)

Paige e-mailed to say HER Fredericksburg post was to be published at 3:30 today – thus I’m hitting “Publish” on this at 3:30!

Whoo-hoo!!

Zipping over to her blog now.  I wonder if she went for daisies too?

xoxoxxox

I get occasional headaches that last less than a day, and as debilitating as they are for the short time they last, I can’t really imagine what chronic pain sufferers must go through — people who have to endure the ”constant pain, crushing exhaustion and neurological problems” of ME / CFS.

ME stands for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and CFS stands for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

But… could the cause of ME / CFS have been discovered ?

The Whittemore Peterson Institute For Neuro-Immune Disease has recently detected the retroviral infection XMRV “in greater than 95% of the more than 200 ME/CFS, Fibromylagia, Atypical MS patients tested.”

This is a potentially AMAZING discovery to help ME / CFS sufferers!

Read more about it in this post written by one of our own — blogging buddy Cinderkeys of the Cinderbridge band. She suggests 4 excellent calls to action to help those with ME / CFS.

Edit: Here is the link to donate to Whittemore.  Imagine if we all gave just $10.00 each!!

And guess what, friends?! — Cinderkeys wrote, sings and plays piano on the haunting song “Everybody Knows About Me” in the Phoenix Rising video above! I’d listened to the Mp3 on her site a while back, but hearing it with the images brought the importance of raising awareness for ME / CFS to a new critical height for me.  Cinderkeys wrote the song for a friend of hers.

I hope you will watch the video, check out her post and help spread the word!

Thanks so much!

Love, Jannie.

xoxo