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Great Peeps To Know — Recap 1

Friends | Posted by Jannie on 20 August 2010 @ 6:55 PM (43) Comments

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

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(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…

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Posted with love from, Jannie who will enjoy posting a Friday Flash Fiction 55 for the G-Man next week!

xoxoxoxxo

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Doesn’t EVERYBODY Practice Guitar In Their Bikini?

House Style, Songwriting | Posted by Jannie on 18 August 2010 @ 6:29 PM (42) Comments

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I feel soooo good!

I have all 3 song charts printed out beautifully for the studio tonight, thanks to the library.

Thank You, Library!

Thank You, God.

And how are YOU, my wonderful blog reader?

Can you see the corners above and below are actually the same one?

Yep! Above was 1997.

Below was yesterday.  (by iPhone 3GS)

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Jim, Darling — if you are reading this, (you ARE reading this, arent you?!) Thank you for all the work you’ve done on this beautiful room.  And house. 

You are an AMAZING, AMAZING person!  And dearer to me each day.

I know I have my less than stellar moments, but I’m still awfully glad you’re the one I’m with, and plan to be with ’til the end of time!!!

Okay, heard enough mushy stuff?

About this corner…

It’s in a room we added onto our house and recently remodeled into what will be the master bedroom.

Really liking the new stone tile.  Such a great color, only needs sweeping twice a year!  ;)

Poor old carpet had seen its day. We are totally not ”carpet people.”  Are you?

Hey, did you notice the sweet Sisterly Person outside the window in the 1997 corner picture? She was visiting from Canada that spring.

She was 19 then.  And I 33. 

And guess what??

“Let’s Drink Up The Stars” is now offcially a love song, for my Jimmy!  The studio deadline really helped me get that tune in shape.  And thanks, Lane — no more “day dancing down to dark!” in the song. Great call!!

I look forward to singing you all a new song on video and posting it soon!  On my next great hair day.

Whoo-hoo!!

So, tonight, songs for my two favorite people — Jimmy and our child who goes sailing like a ship out on the sea.

Hey!  I have a 3rd photo of the room that could round this post out…

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That was last summer.

But wait, I may have a 4th photo up my sleeve. (And a fifth under the seat!)  :)

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Now, THAT’S a cool picture to have — 1995, Jim doing trim.  Baseboard, looks like.

And Dudes, I have about 700  more old photos to scan and post for you. So stay tuned!

With loving funsterment,

Jannie

xoxo

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Angel Of Delight In The Garden

Friends, The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 14 August 2010 @ 5:49 PM (63) Comments

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There’s Kelly at age 5 in our backyard in her Snow White wig.

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There’s me zooming in on her face in that same picture.

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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.)

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There’s the swimming pool… I got it for $300, landed. (Assembled it myself!  I mentioned I kick ass on occasion, right?)

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There’s the tree house, a shot I took about 2 months ago.

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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

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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!

xoxoxxoxoxxooxoxo

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Song Baby (a flash 55 poem)

Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 12 August 2010 @ 7:59 PM (50) Comments

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I will bow my

breast to the

lips of a crying

new song.

I will rock

Song Baby

gently when

my thoughts

nod off to

blogland or

Hawaii. (I’ve not

yet seen Hawaii.)

I will hug

Song Baby

when I feel

the urge to

yell it into

submission.

For sweetly goes

life’s melody

unfolding.

You have just witnessed my Friday Flash Fiction 55 for The G-Man!

(P.S. Above was my simple brunch today.)
(P.P.S. I will return Flash 55 comments as soon as I can — whoo-hoo!!)
(P.P.S. If you missed me singing my 55 About & For The G-Man last week, you can can watch that 1-minute Youtube here.)

(P.P.P.S. You guys rock!!)

xoxoxoxo

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10 Excellent Things In This Songwriter’s Life

Songwriting | Posted by Jannie on 10 August 2010 @ 3:58 PM (48) Comments

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1. I have no headache!

2. I have cash for food, herbal teas and such!

3. After an e-mail / password mix-up, I can access my e-Bay account again!!  Gonna sell almost all the books pictured above.  And many more not pictured – 47 different sets in all – ranging from 3 to 24 books per set.

(I used to go a little wild with Scholastic Books in the olden daze — like, $50 a month for 4 years.  But, hey — if Kelly gets college scholarships — I’ll thank me for her early education!)  :)

(Photo from when she was 4, the day she got her first bunny — yes a real live one, who very sadly went missing from the backyard one day, NOT an excellent thing.)

4.  I paid our electric bill!

5.  I practiced a guitar hammer-on for “Sail a Child” on a C-chord, practicing very slowly, then setting my metronome faster and faster as my brain starts getting it.

6. Tweaked my 1st and 2nd verses for ”Sail A Child” to…

ONE…
Sail a child like a ship out on the sea
Anchor her with love, then set her free
Stand upon the windy shore
Where so many have stood before
Sail a child to sea

TWO…
Sail a child and your heart around the world
Your tiny shiny angel dancing girl
Hear the splashing of the spray
As she goes laughing on her way
Sail her ’round the world.

And the Bridge, possibly…

Trust that she’ll be safe out on the water
Trust the universe will lead her way
Know that love is watching over your daughter
Know that love will sail her home one day

7.  For the new first part of verse 3 I’m thinking, either…

(A)
Sail a child from the harbor deep in you
A child whose made from stars of green and blue

or…

(B)
Sail a child on waves of green and blue
Sail her from the harbor deep in you

Does A or B grab you more for the start of the verse?

Hey — another brain-wave — a poll!


9.  I did most of my dishes!

10. E-mailed my Wordpress Consultant Guru about the possibility of setting up my Give-Aways page as a blog within this blog, a la Wonderful Pioneer Woman.  On-going Give-Aways here could be fun, yes?

11. Eleven!  “One more louder.”

I encourage you to press these 2 link buttons….

   

Wonderful Blogging Davina has a really FUN 100-word guest post idea going on at her blog, accepting entries until the 15th.

Wonderful Blogging Sheila is now ON FIRE in the “Leading Moms In Business” for her amazing, gorgeous all-natural Aventine Hill bath and skin products, which I’ll be putting in a new order for with part of my eBay $$!

That’s it. (For now.)

Anything excellent in your realm today?

Posted with love…
by Jannie

xoxoxo

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