Blustery Day

                       

Okay, so it's not morning anymore, but this is the graphic that's appropriate for today.  The wind is blowing like crazy here!  While driving into work, a gust picked up the front of my car and set it back down.  Boy am I glad I have a big, heavy car.

To address what I've seen this morning.  Banner ads above my journal.  I hate them, too.  I like AOL more than I hate the ads.  I'll tell you why.  I had a blog somewhere else.  I wrote in it for 5 months.  No community to read it, but I got spammed to the tune of 150 times a day.  I can't even figure out how to shut the darn thing down and their help channel is no help.  So, last I looked there were over 3,000 e-mails in that inbox.  I spent one whole day deleting them and now they are back!  Will I journal someplace else?  NO.

There is a sense of community here in J-Land that I have never seen anyplace else.  It's sort of like a one-stop blogging community.  I can IM you, e-mail you or send a note through journals.  I have a place to complain.  I already chatted with John about it.  I can send my opinion to someone else.  Yes, I know I can get AIM for free, but I like all the other stuff that comes with AOL.  Enough said. 

This month, we have been counting our blessings leading up to Thanksgiving.  Are any of you finding it hard to find another thing to be grateful about?  Sometimes it's hard to see what we have to be grateful for when the world is spinning out of control around us.  I feel that way sometimes.  My money is running out before my month this month.  What did I do different?  I always seem to have enough.  Well, there was that dental work, extra expenses to the government for Andrea's citizenship, warm jackets for my daughter and her kids who live in the mountains.  What, you say?  I should be grateful I could do those things?  I am.  I really am.  For the first time in many years, I am able to purchase needed items.  I used to have the belt so tight that even needed items went by the wayside.  I am truly blessed.  The belt is in a few notches until payday, but we are not going to starve, the bills are all paid and we had enough for some extras.  WooHoo!  Yes, I am truly thankful to have enough.  What are you thankful for on this the 15th day of the November Challenge?

Be blessed today,