2:28:15 PM EDT
Inpiration Challenge!
So how did everyone do with their organizing? Once you have gotten organized the next challenge is to stay that way. If you are like me, that is where the real challenge lies. The best way to overcome this problem is to be able to pinpoint where you have the most difficult time staying organized and try to develop coping skills to deal with it. As you organize try to take notice of when you having difficulties and look for alternative ways to deal with the situation.
This weeks challenge is unique. We here in J-land usually do a good job of inspiring one another. However when we walk away from our computer life challenges come crashing back and it is often difficult to keep a positive outlook on things.
I would like to challenge each of you to find a truly inspirational story and post it on you blog/journal. Then share it not only with those here in J-land, but send it out to everyone on your mailing list. Spread the love.
Find something that makes you really say WOW! That is amazing, I wish there were more people in the world like that. Here is an example of what I mean.
If you are submitting a video clip and can place a transcript below the video that would be very helpful as I did above. There are those that enjoy journals because they are able to read them. They may not be able to enjoy the video because they have slow dial up or because they are hearing impaired.
If you decide to participate in the challenge please grab the "challenge yourself challenge" and put it in your sidebar, then place a comment below with a link to your blog so that everyone can stop by and see it or read it. Also, don't forget to forward the link to everyone in your address book!
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11:10:28 AM EDT
"What's the Caption? Wednesday" #7!...
Hi Caption players! It's time for a new picture for "What's the Caption? Wednesday"! Once again, congratulations to last week's winner, Bill from The Wildcat's Lair!! As always, we will help you along with entries, so keep Magic Smoke on alerts!! The picture will follow the rules. We hope you will have lots of fun with this picture! Thanks for playing and have a good day! Val and Krissy =)
* Krissy and I (Val) will place a picture around 9AM EST in
Magic Smoke each Wednesday morning.
* After the picture is posted, place a Caption you feel is
appropriate for the picture in the Comments Section. Please
DO NOT email your submission or put it under any other
Comment Sections. We will not hunt down your submission.
Only submissions placed in the Comment Section under the
picture will be eligible for judging. If you do this as an
entry in your blog, please return to Magic Smoke and put
your submission in the Comments Section.
* Only submit one Caption so others can play!!
* Submissions are due by Saturday 4PM EST. Those submitted
after this time will not be eligible for judging.
* A panel of a few Jland judges (3 or 4) will look over the
Captions and choose what they feel are the best 3 or 4.
These will be posted on Sunday 9 AM EST (or when we
can do it - sometime Sunday morning EARLY) by poll.
* Here comes the fun part! Where you get to participate! You
will be voting for your favorite Caption by poll from Sunday
9 AM EST (or as soon as we get it posted) through Midnight
Monday EST!! At midnight we will check the poll and see who
the winner is!! Any voting after midnight will be ignored.
* We will announce the winner on Tuesday morning with an Award
for his/her sidebar!!
* A new picture will appear the next morning (Wednesday) and we
will have fun all over again!!
* "What's the Caption? Wednesday" is run by Krissy from
Sometimes I Think and Valerie from There is a Season.
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11:10:50 AM EDT
"What's the Caption? Wednesday" #6 Winner!...
Hi, Val here. It's time to announce the winner of "What's the Caption? Wednesday" #6! Krissy and I would like to CONGRATULATE Bill of The Wildcat's Lair! congrats, Bill!! Incidentally, Bill is also one of the guest editor's pick this week! If you are able, stop by and pay him a visit and congratulate him!!
We would also like to congratulate runners-up Hadonfield (hadonfield78), Lynne (ab45yui), and Cindi (cdj0423)! Fantastic job, guys!!
Bill's winning submission with this week's photo is below:
"Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?"
Here is your Award for your sidebar, Bill! Right click and save as j.peg. If you have any questions, just pop me or Krissy an email.
We would like to thank all who submitted a Caption this week! Congratulations again, Bill!! Have a great day everyone! See you tomorrow morning! Val and Krissy =)
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12:24:47 PM EDT
"What's the Caption? Wednesday" #6 Poll
Hi, you all! It's Krissy. It's time to choose your favorite caption for this week's "What's the Caption? Wednesday".
Valerie and I want to thank all of you who submitted captions.
A panel of JLand judges has looked over all of them, and has chosen four for you to vote on.
So now it's your turn to participate. Using the poll we have provided, choose your favorite caption for the photo below.
We are asking a few things of you. We want the best caption to win fair and square. Please vote only once. Vote for the caption you like best, not for your favorite author! And please, nobody campaign for votes. You are on your honor.
You have until midnight on Monday to vote. On Tuesday morning the winner will be announced.
Now have fun! ~ go and vote!
**"What's the Caption? Wednesday" game is run by Valerie of There is a Season and Krissy of Sometimes I Think
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12:53:08 PM EDT
Reminder for Caption Game...
Hi, Val here. This is a reminder that submissions for "What's the Caption? Wednesday" are due by 4PM EST today. You have a little over three hours to get in your Caption! If you would like to submit this week, click on the link below:
"What's the Caption? Wednesday" #6
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10:55:22 PM EDT
Friday Blogplugs - 5/9
Hi folks,
Greetings from the left coast!
The weather is putting a smile on everybody's face here. Let's see what
we got for
blogplugs.
* Robin's
daughter Gabby brings home twin
baby girls..er..eggs to care for. Look
here, they are doing
egg-cellent!
* Bill would
like to share his comic strip "The
Wildcat's Lair" that he publishes every Wednesday and Friday.
Our guest editor Beth has highlighted his journal. Enuff
said.
* Sherry's
weigh
in day was a happy one and wants us to know that today is
Military Spouse day. Sherry urges us to deal
with stuff that stresses us and get it out of the
way.
* Krissy
interviews
her dad for his 80th
birthday.
* Beth writes
about Coral
Court Motel and tells us why abandoned places and those with
history fascinate
her.
* Donna would
like us to take
her poll on who the National Hockey League finalists will be.
I voted!. Here she has pictures of a woodpecker
at the feeder.
* Dan points
out that we are celebrating the 30th
anniversary of the first spam email. And since then, billions
and billions have been sent out :). He reviews
the show Lost, Season 4/Episode 10.
*
Indigo notes that emotions
are on the edge in these tough times and urges us not to take
out our anger on our loved ones, but instead, turn to them for support.
In another entry, she reveals
the song for her Sunday Rhapsody. It's
from the movie
Rockstar.
* Paul wants
us to go ahead and imagine
that we are (re)creating
ourself.
Contests &
Trivia!
* Weekly
sentence with Val. This week's letters are
STESTD.
The entries are here.
* Monday Morning
Question with Krissy. TheBrady
Bunch..was this a great moment in American television ?
Lights,
Camera
and
Action!
* Krissy's
JLand Photo Shoot entries
for the subject "Spring".
*
Marie's AOL
Community Photo Challenge, winners for the subject
"Landscapes in Black & White", judged
and fun.
---
I recently added some web sites
to the allowed list, meaning that you can include
their html code in your journal. If you have any websites that you want
me to "allow" please send me email and we will review it. Here is the
list of recently added
websites:
rcm.amazon.com - this is for the
associates
program
twitter.com
www.dizzler.com
godtube.com
www.finetune.com
picasaweb.google.com
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We would
like to wish all the mothers out there, a very Happy Mother's Day!
Thanks again for the blogplugs
this week. Don't forget to tag your best en
tries with
"blogplugs". If you want to be a Guest Editor or have some
interesting (or useful) blogplugs, send your submissions to
JournalsEditor@aol.com and we'll review
them.
~Vish
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3:30:09 PM EDT
Guest Editor Picks 5-9-08
Hi
Everyone!
I'm Beth,
and I'm very excited and honored to be this week's Guest
Editor. A big thank you to Vish and Magic Smoke for giving me such a
great opportunity! 
My
journal is called Nutwood
Junction, which is what my husband Ken and
I call our place. (Ken was recently a guest editor pick, but at the
risk of nepotism, I'm going to sneak in his link!) In the early
1900's, the land was part of a tiny little town
called Nutwood, and railroad tracks ran through our property...thus,
Nutwood Junction! We have 11 acres, and we've found our dream home
here. We enjoy our yard, woods, and wetlands, as well as the various
critters we encounter. You'll see lots of pictures and read many
adventures concerning Nutwood at my journal, and you just might read a
few of my opinions about everything from football to politics. (For
those of you who already read me...STOP LAUGHING!) After almost 25
years of working as a Medical Technologist, most of the time
as a Microbiologist, I recently retired, and I'm loving it! I
love watching birds, and since our place has such different types of
habitat, we see a wide variety of
species.
We have
one critter of the indoor variety, our cat, Sheeba. He doesn't have a
journal yet, but as soon as he learns to type, watch out J-Land! That
whole lack of opposable thumbs is a bit of a hindrance to him.
There are
a lot of journals that I enjoy, but I've tried to narrow it down to a
handful--not an easy task! I haven't listed any private journals, and
I've tried not to include any that have been chosen more than once
before, although since I've only been blogging for about a year and a
half, there may be some that I missed from before. So here we
go.
After a
long absence, The
Wildcat's Lair has returned. Huzzah! I stumbled across this
one day and spent the next two hours or so reading and viewing the
adventures of Wildcat (Bill) and his cat, Frank. Bill took a hiatus to
work on his book as well as a book he's writing with his wife, so wish
them luck in finding a publisher! Wildcat and Frank have returned
for twice-weekly episodes, and I'm as happy as a
little girl. I'm certain that if all cats could talk, they would sound
a lot like the sarcastic and smart-alecky Frank.
While she
doesn't post on My
Thoughts as often as I wish, Myra has insightful and
thought-provoking entries. Her beautiful entry on Earth Day reinforced
my feeling that we are all in this together, and that we all owe our
planet much more respect than we've given it lately. And when
it's dark and cold here in Indiana, her entries about living in Arizona
give me a little vicarious warmth.
If you've
read me in the past, you know that I'm partial to Dr. Will Miller, who
is an unlikely combination of psychologist, minister, motivational
speaker, and stand-up comedian. In addition to his usual blog (not an
AOL journal), he also has his Refrigerator
Rights blog, focusing on his book of the same name. As I have
recently joined the ranks of the retired, his message of
connecting with friends and family really speaks to me. How
many people have unspoken rights to reach into our fridge for
a cool beverage without asking permission? How many people do
we feel that same level of comfort with? Dr. Will is the main
contributor, but various colleagues provide additional viewpoints, and
it always gives me something to think about, and is a nice
reminder of the importance of human connections.
If I'm
not mistaken, Sheria and her journal On My
Mind have been listed before, but it really is one of my
favorites to read, so I wanted to include her again. Her wonderfully
intelligent entries are at turns introspective and
knee-slappingly hilarious. It's a rare thing to find someone
with whom you feel an almost immediate connection, but that's how I
feel about Sheria. (Indigo was
the one who told me I might enjoy Sheria's journal, so that should give
you and idea of how good it is. Did you notice how I snuck in another
link there?) Sheria doesn't live in Georgia, but
she's still a peach!
One I've
started reading fairly recently is Pat's Roses
Rambling. She intersperses her poetry with entries about her
family and her experiences. These entries are beautifully written, and
they never fail to touch me, sometimes because of their sweetness and
other times because of their humor. Be sure to read her entry about her
encounter with Vincent Price. It is...well,
priceless!
Finally,
there's another non-AOL blog that I read, but this
one is not for the faint of heart. In the interest of
self-censorship, I'm not providing the link here. If you want
to read a completely uncensored
view of Las Vegas, drop me an email and I'll send you the link--as well
as my mini-review of the blog.
Happy
reading!
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10:51:24 AM EDT
AOL Community Challenge-Landscapes in COLOR!
Spring is here & so is the color!!! So Our Challenge this week is easy.....
LANDSCAPES in COLOR!
FOLLOW GUIDELINES & you must leave
permalinks. Post your NEW entry now till Friday May 16th
for Judging. If you have any questions e-mail me or Vicki. Leave your entry links on our
Challenge blog.
Pick the category you would like to enter in. If you are new, we suggest the Fun category.
What is a Landscape.????......
From AOL dictionary;
1 a : a picture representing a view of natural inland scenery b : the art of depicting such scenery
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9:22:39 AM EDT
Organizational Challenge!
This week I will challenge your Organizational Skills
But first a recap of the previous weeks
Two weeks age the challenge was FUN! "Who Are You" on the tree. I truly enjoyed reading all of your
comments and as promised... I told you I would tell you which one I saw myself as.
This exercise is always fun because there is no wrong answer. It all comes down to how you see yourself.
When I first did this exercise I saw myself as #20. Many of you who
picked #20 saw yourself as "tired: "warn" "lazy" or "apathetic."
When I first picked #20 I thought of it as someone who had gone up and
down the tree so many times they simply took a break to regroup.
Today I saw myself as #4 I lost my grip and just wasn't able to keep up with all of my challenges. (I still want to get in touch with all of you who responded) Luckily there is soft ground below, and I am pretty certain that if I am knocked unconscious #20 would be woken by the thud and come check on me. If not #7 looks like he/she would love to jump off the swing and run over to dust me off. Or #19 after making sure #5 had a solid footing would come check on me. I'm not certan about #18. I'm not quite sure why he is there by the ladder. Is he holding it up for the climber waiting to kick it out from under #3.
This week at Inspiration we have been talking about getting organized. Some of you are trying to do so and others seem to have it very much under control. This challenge is for you no matter if your are organized of functionally messy.
Here is the challenge.
If you are trying to get organized, pick one thing you wish you could be more organized with and work on it for a week. Make a "project". Put it on priority status and share with us what it is you would like to be more organized with.
If you are organized, and have great tips, please share them in the comments section, e-mail me, or share your help and insight with those that posted below. Try to offer three to six GREAT tips that will help those that are struggling to get organized.
You have till next Thursday to complete this challenge. Don't forget to grab the tag and add it to your sidebar if you are joining with us. Additionally if you know anyone that would be interested in sharing or might be inspired by this, please invite them to join!
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9:37:33 AM EDT
"What's the Caption? Wednesday" #6!...
Hi, Val here =). It's time for a new picture for "What's the Caption? Wednesday"! The game was so much fun last week and we had a ball reading your Captions!! Congratulations again to last week's winner Dawn of Carpe Diem - Seize the Day!! As always, we will help you along with entries, so keep Magic Smoke on alerts!! The picture will follow the rules. Have fun!! Val and Krissy =)
* Krissy and I (Val) will place a picture around 9AM EST in
Magic Smoke each Wednesday morning.
* After the picture is posted, place a Caption you feel is
appropriate for the picture in the Comments Section. Please
DO NOT email your submission or put it under any other
Comment Sections. We will not hunt down your submission.
Only submissions placed in the Comment Section under the
picture will be eligible for judging. If you do this as an
entry in your blog, please return to Magic Smoke and put
your submission in the Comments Section.
* Only submit one Caption so others can play!!
* Submissions are due by Saturday 4PM EST. Those submitted
after this time will not be eligible for judging.
* A panel of a few Jland judges (3 or 4) will look over the
Captions and choose what they feel are the best 3 or 4.
These will be posted on Sunday 9 AM EST (or when we
can do it - sometime Sunday morning EARLY) by poll.
* Here comes the fun part! Where you get to participate! You
will be voting for your favorite Caption by poll from Sunday
9 AM EST (or as soon as we get it posted) through Midnight
Monday EST!! At midnight we will check the poll and see who
the winner is!! Any voting after midnight will be ignored.
* We will announce the winner on Tuesday morning with an Award
for his/her sidebar!!
* A new picture will appear the next morning (Wednesday) and we
will have fun all over again!!
* "What's the Caption? Wednesday" is run by Krissy from
Sometimes I Think and Valerie from There is a Season.
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