Week end Spotlight

Hey everyone.  I didn't post a question yesterday as I was busy with family... and  as usual I don't post questions on weekends.

So once again I'm going to do the journal jar spotlight.
           

The journals I'm doing today are by the same person.  Donna  aka Nightmaremom has a graphic journal which I love and get lots of goodies from her.  She is talented in PSP and such (once again where I'm not!)  I haven't requested anything unusual from her yet but I will at the end of this entry (lol you knew that was coming huh?)  I love her graphics and the special touches she adds. 
Here is her Graphic journal link: D's Designs



Now she also has a journal she writes about all sorts of stuff, Her life, HOCKEY lol.  Just about anything.. I've gotten to know a lot about her through this journal and she is so funny I love the twist of humor she adds to it. She also has some nice graphics in this one too... not sure snaggable.  I have also been getting to know her in emails and we seem to have a lot in common.  She's a great person so stop by this journal to get to know more about her.  I know you'll like her as I have. 
Here is her journal link: This and that, and hockey!

Thanks D for being a person I have enjoyed reading and getting to know... and also for accepting me for me.. no strings attached.

Have a great day everyone. 



If you'd like to have me check out your journal leave a link... I love reading new journals although I'm very behind in the regular ones I read... But I will get to yours.

Oh yeah I forgot that request...  well since you enjoy making tags I really need a different spot light thing ... I got the ones I use by searching the Internet and they are starting to bore me! If you (or anyone else who is NOT PSP challenged like me) would like to make a spot light tag for me I would SOOOOO appreciate it.

Oh and I just remember this will probably be my last entry in 2006 so:

And yes this was made by Donna :)

Tags: Journal links, Spotlight journals

Question 111

Describe a favorite vacation.

Well, I used to go to some many places and do so much stuff.  Lately not so much.  Thinking of all the vacations I've had (when you think I guess some were not so much vacations as going to visit people) I loved when I went to New York to see J.  Those times were always special times. Never having to cook (which is ALWAYS a vacation for me) going out.  But the time J and I and his friends went to Las Vegas was probably my best vacation.  We stayed in this beautiful hotel... seen a few shows.. played in a few casinos but most of the time we were in the room... and it was soooo nice.  That was our best time together... even though people kept coming to our room... we still we're a couple then.  He was important to me and I to him.  I remember the feelings.  Yes it was fun but I think the love we had for one another was so intense on that trip.
                           

Now when I was young we used to spend a few weeks every summer up at the same lake ... we rented cabins up there.  Those were good days.. when we were away from the everyday life ... we were a family back then.  I real family. Somewhere along the line that got torn apart. But thinking back to our days up at the lake. My dad (step dad) teaching me to fish.. I couldn't bait my hook (worms gross) I wouldn't take the fish off myself (eewww I wasn't touching that!) but my dad did it for me.  Must not have been too much fun for him.  This Christmas we got him a shirt that said "shut up and fish" He never said shut up.. just shhhh but it fit and brought back memories of fishing with my dad.  Yep I never stopped talking.  So he would say "shhh you'll scare the fish away". 

So many good times this question brought back a lot of great memories!  Hopefully I'll be able to take a vacation some time in the near future!  Maybe try and get the whole family back  up to that lake!  (not that I can recreate the past.. but I can bring the past back at least the feelings and the fun)

** You know the drill... you can answer in the comment sections, or your own journal.  If you are answering in your own journal please link your entry below so everyone can  enjoy your writing! If you're new to the journal jar please let us know that also! **

Tags: Vacations, journal jar question

Question 110

Thinking back, was there a teacher or class that had a great influence on you?

Yes, my English/creative writing teacher.  She taught me about not giving up... being myself.  Always looking at making myself better.  Not allowing things in my life to bring my entire being down. 

For a while in my life I left that. I forgot about her and what she taught me... but it came back.  You really are as good as you want yourself to be. If you don't put effort into your own life, it won't be much.  She also taught me no matter what happens in life I'm always going to be okay. She also taught me  that it is okay not to have all the answers... no one does.  That it's okay to ask questions (and I did always).

She changed my life then and now!

** You know the drill... you can answer in the comment sections, or your own journal.  If you are answering in your own journal please link your entry below so everyone can  enjoy your writing! If you're new to the journal jar please let us know that also! **

 

 

Tags: Questions, Teachers

109 ~ Marriage AGAIN!

(I found the question while crawling under the desk for the 100th time to retrieve a cat toy and like magic there it was!)

What were your fears, expectations and anticipations about getting married?
     (if you are not married or have never been I'll ask a "off the top of my head" question at the end)

Marriage.  Hmmm I've been married more then once.  But I usually just answer for the first one.  I was very young when we got married (and I was pregnant) My fears were that he wasn't really who I should marry, that we were just getting married because I was pregnant (although we were engaged before I found out I was pregnant).  Expectations naturally were that we would stay together forever (didn't happen) that we would always love each other.. I believe we do.  That we would live like story book married people (didn't happen) that we BOTH meant our vows. Anticipations, well the whole planning of the wedding lead to my anticipation of the wedding itself... it was a beautiful wedding despite my mother (she planned almost all of it) lol.  As far as the marriage itself I don't think I had any, we lived together for awhile before we got married.  I thought life would just stay as is only we would be together forever.
         

The other question... for not/never been married people:  Is there anything you got for Christmas that you'd love to take back but you can't as you will hurt the person who gave it to you?  (if anyone wants to answer both that's good too)

This is easy for me to answer NOPE lol. 

     

** You know the drill... you can answer in the comment sections, or your own journal.  If you are answering in your own journal please link your entry below so everyone can  enjoy your writing! If you're new to the journal jar please let us know that also! **

Tags: Questions, Journal Jar, Marriage

Spotlight

Well as Christmas is fast approaching (please no one remind me how close it is) I am at a point where everything I do seems to turn out crazy... but I AM going to do my weekend journal spotlights.

                                            

This first journal I just found recently.  His entries always make me think. And I mean think.  His opinions on life and life's events always either sway me to a different way of thinking, rack my mind lol.. or I nod my head in agreement (not many people think as I do) I love this journal because it is about daily stuff.. some stuff I didn't even understand.. yet he writes in a way that I do understand it.  I'd say his journal is not only entertaining for me but it also makes my mind work .. expanding my mind.  I hope you find it as refreshing as I do.

You can visit Sinned1234 at Face down looking up I think the name says it all.

The next journal is Brooke's journal .. she is has just recently returned to journalism and I love her journal too.  She writes about her life.. she writes from her heart. Which I always feel is the best way to write.  True to herself, true to life. Just daily stuff but she adds some humor too.  We all should do that, as life sometimes can bring us down.  She is real.  And I like journals like that.  I've gotten to know her by reading her journal and find that she would be the kind of person I would "hang" with in real life.  I always see a little bit of either myself or someone I know in her entries.  She has her "venting entries" but even those seem to bring me closer to the woman writing the.  I hope you also enjoy this journal.

You can find Brooke's (Msluckymonkey) journal here: Life goes on Now also her journal name says it all about the journal!

Both of these journals have been sometime I go to daily as I haven't caught up with them yet as they are new to me... I look forward to them both everyday and I hope you all do too.

Have a good day and a wonderful Christmas.

 

Tags: Journal spotlight, Journal Pimping

It's almost Christmas so...

I just want to wish all the journal Jar participants a very Merry Christmas.  The one's who answer the questions to the ones who just enjoy reading this.

This year has been a tough year and so many of you helped me through it.  Be it just saying you care to understanding when I couldn't post questions. (Yep this was supposed to take 365 days lol)  But I guess we will be bringing it into 2007 but I will work harder to post everyday (week days)  I've enjoyed your answers and love everyone of you in a way you may never fully understand.  Just having this journal .. knowing it's cared about (most missed nomination!) gives me joy.  And that would not be possible without all of you.

So Merry Christmas and I will be back posting questions after Christmas (I do have a spotlight I will be doing tomorrow) then I'll be on a Christmas hiatus.

Tag made by: Sazzy Kreationz

Much love and respect,
Promise

Tags: Holiday greetings, Christmas wishes

Question 108 Fourth of July

Tell about Fourth of July traditions in your family while growing up.  Were you ever in a parade?

Well a 4th of July question at Christmas time... I won't put questions back though... I'll lose them lol but anyway.

When I was "growing up" not even sure I'm done doing that yet, we used to always have picnics.  We'd either go to a park or a beach or sometimes it would be in our back yard.  The one thing I remember is there were never enough deviled eggs ... and this has always been the case even now.  So next Fourth of July I will make a whole bunch so no one complains (you know who you are! lol)  My brothers always came up with fireworks that we would shoot off before we actually went to the public ones.  There are many times we'd rent a cabin at a lake over the fourth weekend.  Always a good time then.  So many memories of that.  One time our cousin had bought a HUGE rocket along with a bunch of other "illegal" fire works. Well he nailed the rocket part to the dock thinking fire works just shot out of the rocket. Nope the rocket shot up in the air and it took part of the dock with it.  Good times fun times.  
              
As far as a parade,  nope at least not a fourth of July parade .. other parades but since it didn't ask that and maybe there is a question in the jar about that I won't get into it. Today I will stay on topic lol. 

You know how this goes, if you want to answer in your own journal please post a link back.. or use the comment section I look forward to your answers. If you're new to the Journal jar please let me know that and leave a link to your journal no matter where you answer the question.

Tags: Question, fourth of july

added question

Okay I still can not find that question. They are on these little slips of paper and I'm sure it was tossed... or maybe it will turn up someday.

But since I can't find it we will only have 364 questions haha which will bug me.  I know the site but how will I know what question it was as sometimes I pull one and swear we have already done it...  we'll see if it turns up.  That is why I am not numbering this question.  This just came to me this afternoon when I was opening a box of strawberry pop tarts. 

Do you toast your pop tarts or eat them right out of the box? (yeah a question from my head..which is in an odd place today lol)

                              

For me it really depends on the kind.  I like the s'mores slightly hot but normally I like them cold.  I like some of them in the refrigerator like the blueberry ones. 

So tell me to you toast your pop tarts (giggle) you just gotta answer this one in the comment section but if you want go ahead and do it in your journal LMAO!

I will be back to a REAL question tomorrow. 

Tags: question, Pop tarts

Question??

Sorry today's question has been delayed, I took it out of the jar set in on the desk and was going to post it when I got back home.

I can't find it. It HAS to be around here somewhere.  I'll find it tomorrow.  Talk about an airhead!

 

Spotlight

As most of you know I don't post questions on weekends... I do journal "spotlights"

I was a little behind on getting permissions so I only have one this weekend.  Just because I procrastinate too much lol.

This weekend I'm spot lighting a wonderful journal....

                                            

well I'm sure many of you already know about this one but if you don't it's so worth checking out.

I've known these two women since I began here and they are both the sweetest most caring women I've ever "met"  They have their own journals but for Christmas they both are doing this journal.  I've enjoyed it, learned a lot from it and I find it very special.  Almost as special as the two that write it.

Val and Krissy's: Joy To The World! 

It's a fun journal yet teaches a lot of things that I didn't know.  So I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have. 

If you'd like your journal "pimped" here send me an email or comment with your link.

Question ~ 107 ~

Describe your favorite outfit as a child, as a youth, and as an adult:

Goodie ... this question seems like an odd one.  I do not really remember if I did have a favorite outfit as a child.  I pretty much wore whatever my mother laid out for me to were.  I know I had these pj's with little gray kittens on them.. my sister and I had matching ones.  I think my mom made them.  I loved wearing them ... and whenever I could I would put them on.  Sometimes just the bottoms and a t-shirt. 

I hated most of the clothes my mother bought me as a teen... and if we wanted something we liked (at least until I was the last one at home..then I got what I wanted) we would have to buy it ourselves.  I like to wear skimpy clothes... I am not sure if it was to piss my mother off or I just liked them.  I had this silk red shirt with lace in the front ... I got in trouble for wearing it to school.. I got in a lot of trouble for my clothing in school.  LOL

As an adult, I don't know if I have a favorite outfit. I have a favorite dress that I love to wear in the summer, I have a favorite dress I just got recently as a present, it's short on one side then slants down to about just below my knee..it's strap less, black and has a lot of sparkles.  If I am able to go out New Year's Eve that's what I'm wearing.  Other then that I don't have really anything that is that GOTTA wear thing.  I have a tank top I like it says "MILF" on it.. and when it was given to me I didn't even know what MILF meant LMAO.... So I guess I'm just a jeans and t shirt kind of girl... although most of my favorite clothes are either t shirts with sayings or silk or lace.  Sort of extremes. 

** You know the drill... you can answer in the comment sections, or your own journal.  If you are answering in your own journal please link your entry below so everyone can  enjoy your writing! If you're new to the journal jar please let us know that also! **

PS. For those that emailed me your answers that's okay if that's what you want, I understand but really I don't think YOU will be bothered by the person that was bothering me.  If you are I will put this private and just add the people that want to be here. Luv, Promise

 

Question 106

Do you remember any special feelings you had as a child? (fears, joy, embarrassment)

It took me awhile to post as this was the question I drew days ago, I just wasn't sure I wanted my "stuff" out there .... but I decided if other's find amusement in using what I write to hurt me so be it... other's can really only hurt you if you let them.. if you care what they think.  On that note:

I don't have a lot of memory of my childhood, I never thought much about it until other's talked about their early years and I often wondered why I couldn't remember mine.  It was because of the trauma I went through as a child. Working in therapy for many years memories began to come back .. bits and pieces ... good and bad.  To answer this question honestly I would be really put myself out there.  I had many fears, I feared my father.  I feared him coming home or after the divorce the weekends with him.  I did have some joy in my childhood but that is also cloudy.

I remember one Christmas my mom said "we won't have much of a Christmas this year"  I don't remember if I cared or not.  I do remember going to see Santa and telling him it was okay that he wasn't going to bring me anything because I was bad (I wasn't really bad but I thought I was LONG STORY)  but Christmas morning my sister woke me up and said "Santa did come"  We ran down the stairs and there were so many presents.  (My mother wasn't playing a joke on us... she didn't have much to give.  But I guess she ended up getting a bonus at work or something.) When we opened gifts from her there wasn't much... but we got a load of presents from Santa. The thing I remember the most was a little vanity with a mirror and the chair opened up.  I was thrilled.  Of coarse at the time I believed mom didn't get us much which I was okay with... but when I think back now she did it .. she gave us all that stuff.  Maybe I should call my mom and thank you for being Santa all those years! It's tough I know ..when money is tight and Santa gets the credit for the good stuff.  LOL.  Or years even Santa gives crap.  I wonder if my little ones think they have been bad... Okay I have to call mom then the kids! :)

Well if you've been here before you know to leave your answers in the comment section or if you prefer put them in your own journal but remember to leave a link.  If you are NEW here let me know and link your journal no matter where you answer.

 

Spot light

(Just a little note before I begin... I have decided not to let this person bother me.. she must have a mental disease to keep on with this.. she's even found my myspace page and is defacing a drawing board I have on there so I shall give her my pity not my anger So I'm going to keep this journal open)  Sorry I made such a quick decision and just went private with no warning.  Thanks for the emails of support.  If I should have more of the same I will let everyone know I plan on going private to give you a chance to let me know you wish to be a reader

 

Today I won't be pulling a question from the jar, today I am doing a journal spotlight.  I used to do this on weekends before but my weekend was busy and I wanted to get permission first so I'm doing  it today.

On to the journals I've picked:

                       

The theme today is Graphics.  I found this first journal a bit ago and just love her work.  She does special little things for me ... but I won't share that so she doesn't have to do that for everyone (hehe Sorry Dianna) If you haven't heard about her or been to her journal you should check it out. She's doing a lot of Holiday tags now and they are excellent. Some of the tags she does just amaze me. They are so cute ..

So here is Dianna's graphic journal:

Sazzy Kreationz
You won't be disappointed.

The next journal I actually found through Dianna's.  She is new at PSP but you wouldn't know it from her graphics.  She has some beautiful graphics and tags on her journal as well. Right now she is going through some rough times so she isn't posting as often but her journal is worth the time to go through.  I can't believe she just started PSP!! I personally wouldn't be able to figure those things out.  She tries new things and they look so pretty. 

So go check out Terry Ann's graphic journal (Now Terry Ann didn't give me permission but Dianna gave me the go ahead) so give Terry Ann a little luv while you're there!

Here is Terry Ann's graphic journal:

a girlnexdoor creation

Both of these women are very generous with their graphics and that means with their time! these girls have skills!!

So thank you both for all the wonderful tags you've given me.. personalized for me .. and all the hard work you do.

Tomorrow I will be posting questions again...

If you would like your journal spot lighted (which I hope to do every weekend) let me know by sending me an email at Promiseluv372@aol.com