This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- What I create will be personalized and intended for you.

- It’ll be done this year (2009).

- You will have no idea what it’s going to be. It may be a poem, a story or article collection, a food item, an herbal mix or tea or incense, a recipe collection, a piece of jewelry, or anything in between! Who knows? Not you, that’s for sure!

The catch? You have to put this offer in your journal or blog as well, and make six things for your friends!

I first saw this on my friend Bobbi’s journal, and I thought it was not only a cute, but fun idea, so I signed up for hers..   Since the catch was to put this same offer in my journal, and I do love this sort of thing, here it is.

Look forward to seeing who participates.  Things have been so quiet around here lately, I hope that someone happens to stop in.  I’m going to add this to my wordpress blog as well, just to make things interesting, and I’ll take the first six from the two combined.

Totally borrowed from Maggs!

I am “jedikelly” on Twitter

But

I

cannot

shake

the

want.

I have tried and tried.  I have meditated.  I have prayed.  I have been angry.  I have been sad.  I have avoided all cell phone commercials during the holiday season and even now I close my eyes and put my fingers in my ears when a cell phone commercial comes on tv.  I have not read about cell phones.  I have not looked up cell phones on Consumer Reports to compare models and data plans.  I have done everything I can think of to accept that I cannot have what I want.

And

yet

the want

lingers

not unlike the darkside of the force.  Is this how Anakin felt!? (well not about a cell phone because he had a really cool lightsaber and what do you need a cell phone for when you are surrounded by droids and you have a really cool lightsaber.  His issue was with attachments and such to people - and maybe droids but mostly people)

Wow - totally wandered off course there

Anyhoo

I annoy myself and my wonderful husband with all this incessant want of cell phoney gadgets. Will the new cell phone make my life somehow better?  It might be more entertaining.

So,

How do I get over the want of stuff?

( We won’t even go into the fact that both of our careers/jobs depend on people’s wants.  We are not talking about them - we are talking about me)

Sure I have been caught up, willingly, in the new dawn and renewed hope in this country led by a new President that inspires hope like few I heard or read about.  His voice strong, his vision proud he leads us to the change we so desperately need.

Also renewing my hope today is once again the miracle of life - Scott’s youngest daughter’s first child will be a son.  A new grandson I know we will love and adore as we love the others.

Also, renewing my hope is acceptance.  Acceptance in the facts of our personal fiscal life.  Acceptance in what is best for us - a course of action that will allow us a more stress-less life.  A life that will give us more freedom and less “working just to keep the roof over our heads”.  I know I have been less than supportive to my husband during this trying month or so.  That changes now.

So, today I have a renewed hope.

It’s a New Day

But a small piece of me keeps screaming “OMG we actually lost the house”

No the bank is not beating down the door for the payment - yes we are staying ahead on all our bills for that matter. But in reality - when you really really think about it - I wonder if the economy was running smoothly and houses were selling and being built would we still have made the decision to sell. Because our last (in the Spring) discussion about selling we had decided to remodel instead.

And then tonight I had a thought run through my head: “I never want to own any house ever again - because if the economy turns to shit again we will have to sell that one too - and that one will be even worse because I will have picked out every damn cabinet knob myself”

I am going to start looking for apartments - I hate feeling like I have no control over anything.

So, they have given you JS back - the sense of community  - getting all the regulars that want to come back in one fairly nice neat little space.  Sure the set up is different (that’s good - maybe it won’t crash) - the navigation is a little strange for some. BUT THEY GAVE YOU WANT YOU WANTED THE MOST - A SENSE OF COMMUNITY - A GATHERING OF ONLINE FRIENDS ON ONE SPOT.

And yet many still complain - “oh it’s hard here” and “I was used to the other place”  and blah blah blah!

Honestly!

Instead of dwelling on what you don’t have try remembering you have exactly what you missed the most (or at least said you missed the most) = JSers on one spot.

I don’t think Lowandslow’s adjustment with the new JS is going well.  He should be in his study , at his computer but he is watching the news instead in the den.  For the last three or so years he has done the same thing every morning (take his coffee drink to his studying where he will spend the next hour or so surfing the net).  This morning he has changed his routine. And that is just plain weird!

I do hope this house sells this weekend - I know it’s a long shot but a girl can dream