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!
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)
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…
That was last summer.
But wait, I may have a 4th photo up my sleeve. (And a fifth under the seat!)
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!
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!
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.)
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?
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 $$!
