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Name: Dani-P.B.J.-Sandwiches
Interests: Books, uh, books, and...oh, books!
Crocheting, cooking, knitting, photography
Expertise: Tripping over my feet, hosing down the dog and chocolate chip cookies
Occupation: Daughter, sister, aunt, etc.
Industry: Lunch lady extraordinaire
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2/10/2006
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| While Danielle continued to talk with her hands she slowly became aware that all was not well in the land of Xanga.
There were changes taking place, some were helpful and assisted Danielle as she spoke. Other changes were just for the enjoyment of the other inhabitants. Some of these changes were for the safety of the citizens of Xanga, but within months the changes vanished and the leaders of Xanga claimed no knowledge of them. Soon the changes no longer assisted Danielle and most of them were frustrating as they had no real importance to the community of Xanga, but were merely "fluff".
Danielle watched as the walls of Xanga became higher and many of the gates disappeared making it extremely difficult for her friends outside of Xanga to come and talk to her. She, her mom and sister had many meetings discussing the changes that were taking place and wondering what they could do. As taxpayers they hoped their voices might have some weight behind them. But alas, the non-taxpayers were more numerous and drowned out the voices of those who supported them.
One day Danielle's sister moved to a new land, a land that their mom had found. A land where you could speak easily and friends who were not a part of the land could still come and visit. Danielle started to visit this new land as well and slowly found herself moving some of her belongings over with every visit. She decided that this living in two different places was not going to work and so resolved to make her permanent home in the land of Wordpress. You can now visit her here http://www.exgoatmilker.wordpress.com .
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| in a galaxy far, far whoops wrong story line here.
Try it again, shall we?
Once upon a time, there was a girl who wished to be more in touch with a distant friend. The friend kept in touch with other friends in a land called Xanga. The first girl was called Danielle, she thought long and hard before deciding to visit the land Xanga. She suffered all sorts of harassment from her closest family members. She assured them she did not plan on becoming a citizen of the land, merely a visitor. Her family continued to warn her that if she was not careful she would be "sucked" in to the land, never to be heard from again.
As the days passed Danielle enjoyed speaking with her friend and hearing the news. Suddenly, she found her sister had also begun to visit the land of Xanga, but this sister was soon "sucked" into the land of Xanga and became a full fledged citizen! How Danielle mourned for her sister, wondering why she had left the kingdom of Nonbloggers to become a Xangan. Before much time had elapsed, her own mother had taken the oath and was an active participant in all the Xanga rituals.
A day came when Danielle's sister and mother approached her, they wished to tell her that things were not as bad as they had thought, that things in the land of Xanga were worth participating in. She slowly began one fine day in May to let her voice be heard to a small gathering in Xanga. To her surprise she found that her words flowed out quickly, that speaking with her hands, which up until this time was considered drudgery, was indeed a pleasant thing to do.
As the months passed she had several people outside of her small group ask to be included. It was indeed a hard thing to be asked to voice her thoughts to others. To people who may not know her, to people who may not understand her. The last day of August that year she spoke for the first time publicly, it was so well received that she has continued until this very day.
To be continued...
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| When we moved into our home eleven years ago we knew it needed a lot of work. It's previous owners had not kept up the house or yard. Many things needed to be replaced and it all needed to be repainted. Since many of these things were huge (carpets, windows, blinds) we had to wait before we could start remodeling the bathrooms, bedrooms and kitchen areas.
This afternoon we were supposed to head to a friends house for a birthday party, but due to illness in their home it was canceled. We decided to still go out, but to head to IKEA and purchase a few things for upcoming projects instead.
You know, I love that store, I do! It's so much fun to browse through and their products are very easy to assemble. Well, we got a bit carried away and when we had brought our purchases home we couldn't help putting them together. One by one we assembled them and were amazed with how beautifully things were coming together. We finally finished and I thought you all might like to see the rooms we redid.
Ready...Steady...GO!
First up was our main bathroom, this was scheduled to be started next week on my dad's day off, we couldn't wait and bought all new fixtures, lighting, towels, you name it, we bough t it.
Next up was our school room, many of you will remember the bookcases we put in last year, but the rest of the room just was not working for us. The couch and desktop just didn't seem to fit in, there was not enough lighting so, voila!!!
The boys were taking a breather here before we tackled the BIG project.
THE KITCHEN!!! You have heard my mom and I talk about the kitchen before, it just was not designed well. We have also wanted a farm house sink since I can't tell you when. The cabinets were oak, but the finish was worn off of most of them and we decided today, why not just replace them? IKEA had all the necessary items, and we had gifts cards, so we splurged a little. 
I caught my mom doing the dishes. What do you all think??? Should we have done the counter tops in black, or should we have gone with a more striking color, such as red?
Last, but certainly not least was the boys room. It took a little longer than planned when I decided to free hand the squid onto the wall. They both seem to like the finished product. 
Okay, okay, okay so after the point where I said " It's so much fun to browse through and their products are very easy to assemble." its all made up. But we did have fun, and we enjoyed pretending. What a fun way to spend an afternoon!
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that is how I feel right now. Will you believe that my mom changed her blog password yesterday? She changed it JUST for today. Something about not wanting her daughters to hijack her blog, or something like that. I wrote to Corin last night voicing my indignation at the insult. I shared with her how I know I wasn't planning on hijacking mom's blog, but now that I couldn't I wish I could. I tried yesterday afternoon to figure out the new password. I tried until Xanga would let me try no more. Sheesh, the trust in this family! I did have one other way to get the password, but as it was a pretty low route to go I avoided it, I have SOME pride... at least for now.
So why would my mom change her blog password for one day? What possible reason could she have for fearing her daughter/s would hijack it? Hmmmmm??? Maybe this, or these six posts? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Naaaw, couldn't be that! And this one, now this one was a total fraud!
As my nephew Dexter would say Ay, yai, yai, yai, YAI! The trust in this family, it seem to have vanished.
Well, since I can't hijack my mom's blog for the above stated reasons, I'll just have to shout it out from here.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!
Please click on the above text and wish my mom a happy birthday, also tell her she should trust her daughters more, thank you.
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