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that, my dear, was bloody awful. heee SoulSistah said she didn't have time to work on it... I definitely resemble that remark.

I don't agree with this. You paint a very vivid picture and I kinda follow along hearing you tell it to me. I'm not a grammar queen myself.... when I was in school or working at the paper I figured that's what editors are for. You can't delete a thread you started but me or one of the admins will take a look. Oh I see you are too busy too work on it ...but that's ok..we can just archive it and when you find time you can update. I'm the master of not completing things..just ask Lucky and Ansa. heee this is where that short term memory thing comes in that I like to talk about. But I think the fandom as a whole is less tolerant of stuff for many reasons. For some of the reasons I think a healing can happen over time but unfortunately we'll be facing liars, and scammers, and other assorted scumbag forever so I think a sensitivity may always exist. good points Jenna As for fan fiction, I don't mind real people fan fic - it's still all fiction to me. Love the Clangela, and the Clyra. Unfortunately there's two little of both of those matches. well then it's good that you realize that I think. During the nadir of 2006 I didn't post or read much elsewhere andaside from the fact that real life was depressing enough because of my mom's practically moving into the emergency room, but I also knew myself and I didn't spend all those years honing those passive agressive skills at TWoP for nothing. I was self aware enough to realize that so it was truly best for everyone I love how great conversations just spring up like this.

Oh I so agree with this. That's why I always say I'm on this journey with Clay. As he discovers himself, I rediscover him every time. To grow you have to risk putting it out there. I think you learn to trust your instincts. You learn what works and what doesn't. You find out what people respond to. Without JNT05 would we have gotten Lover All Alone etc. I learn so much from him through his tours and interviews. I still say he has this old fashioned sensibilitiy and would have really kicked ass in another era. But I love that he remains true to himself as he forges ahead in this modern day. And I feel really lucky to be in on this whole thing from the beginning.

So I've heard there are blogs at OFC LOL. But Play I agree feedback is a good thing. Let's people know they are read and appreciated. I know I don't tell Caro enough how much I enjoy her blogs. I feel the same way about fan fiction writers. I don't read a lot of it but when I enjoy it I try to let them know. One of the skits type things that I really loved and really miss is when Spotlightlover used to do this fast forward commentary on how we as fans were responding to things. I thought it was hysterical. I miss laughing at me and this obsession hobby I have. Well I still laugh at me, every day when I look at my Clay Aiken budget line/wish list. UH oh..guess what, speaking of budget line...mom wants to come to NYC with me. She'd spend most of her time doing her own thing but I find that somehow scary. It's like yeah they know I'm crazy about Clay and all that but they don't really know, you know? heee. I feel like I did when I left a set of Atlantic City concert tickets sitting at home somewhere in one of my email boxes and my sister had to go rummaging through my clay life to find them. It's one thing for her to know I spend 2 hours a day to something Clay related -- quite another to have her going through Clayversity PM box, CH PM box, not there? ok try Yahoo account... oh nothing just my Clay yahoo alerts and just in case they miss something my google clay alerts... ahem still not there, yeah can you go into my outlook? Jesus. But she found them heh. My pants are soaked and I am soaked to the bone. Maybe I'll be dried out by noon. Laughn, this is interesting. I've never thought of it this way before. I remember when I was in college and I finally got around to writing for the school paper and really getting into the "art" of journalism and how upset I was to feel that it was all just formula IMO. And the kind of writing I enjoyed wasn't THIS. It was not a happy moment for me. And I think you're right. Part of it was that I wanted to really put my stamp on things and show my creativity and it was more "just the facts ma'am." Heee even when I was writing the little anniversary write ups and stuff for a local paper I'd want to really capture the love story and then it would get all edited to this formula. That's why I'm an accountant. hee. Curious to what other artists think, whether it's writing, making montages or banners or drawing. KAndre I thing you are a master at telling a story.

Since I've always read the bulk of my clay boards from work I've gotten into the habit of skipping anything long right from the beginning as I searched for Clay news. But as someone who wrote a blog for a year, I appreciate the efforts. It's so not easy to do - to find inspiration or to just be good all the time. Looking back, I was the queen of sap sap sap so I'm sure peole went..damn I have a toothache after reading that. I truly hate to leave the house today...

good morning. I want to crawl back under the covers. It's stormin' out there. Somewhere out there Clay is looking cute and talking with an accent and practicing a dance. heee.

I watched tonight..the return of Jeannie Boulet. You know after all these years, this show can still make me cry. I know people say this show has a lot of CAN'T BE MISSED TV WITH BUS CRASHES, AND LOTS OF BLOOD but it still does a quiet moment and just heartfelt drama better than most.

So I watched the last 5 eppies of Cane over the holidays and all I have to say is that show is the bomb. I love it. Jimmy Smits had some scenes that knocked my socks off and I think it ended in a great place in this shortened season..Jimmy all tall dark and sexy walking in the rain to Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man. I know it's just a soap opera but I love the cast.. nice to look at, decent to great actors. I hope Hector is around as long as the show is around and don't kill him off with the cancer in some cheap ratings ploy. Frank is semi sleezy but has redeeming qualities. Hell I even like the mobsters. But mostly I love Jimmy Smits. He has so many facets. I thought this was going to be a good son vs bad son type thing but Alex surely can't be defined as "good." He's got a temper. He's rash. He orders hits on people LOL. He does stupid things. And you know, I like to see minority characters that aren't either sidekicks or black or white. The youngest son...is gorgeous. nothing more to be said there..oh yeah charming too. I do think they need to work on the female characters...although I love Austrailian girl..the rum mixer or whatever the hell that job is. Looking forward to next season and this strike being over.

you know, I joke about my team being a farm team for the rest of the league but when will it end. I'm tired of watching our players to be allstars elsewhere. And I'm tired of rooting for just the team colors..what about keeping players to build loyalty. Goodbye Nick Swisher.

OK I know it was only one line but I read the blog again. So much expressed in a few words... but I also saw humor. I saw this: I hope he blogs more about it. He's just so cute.

Well, I think it's funny. Maybe I'm dense but frankly I don't know how this could become a harmful story for Clay. And even if I had the foresight to think of what it could be, I'd hate to think we can't laugh cuz of what might happen. Too bad she wasn't gun totin' granny..that would have been even funnier. Lucky and sons! :F_05BL17blowkiss: Hope the bad stuff is over.

ahhh bottle.....I'm actually laughing at the collective us cuz lord know if I could get away with it I'd rob something. I'm scared of prison though. Have been ever since we were showed "scared straight" in junior high school! I get home from work and what did I find..deep freed chicken strips from wing stop. What am I gonna do with her.

well we have quite a few here...are they all spoken for

yeah that's one of the early tour shirts..either IT or NAT. Hilarious. Ooh, you librarians now have street cred. WAIT CLAY NOW HAS STREET CRED. He may soon be cool after all. I'm ROTFLMAO on this one. I bet all she wanted was to go see Spamalot.

bwah heee Underthespell - :F_05BL17blowkiss: cha cha...is that a red t-shirt one of your Clay's is pulling off and tossing LOL!! So a few years ago when my mom was really really sick with shingles - she had a horrible case of it and unfortunately happenes to be one of those people that continue to live with it forever it seems but in a much milder sense - I researched spas to take her to once she recovered. And I fell in love with one that I want to go to. It's still a dream dream dream for me as probably the cheapest I can go if I'm lucky and find a discount or special or last minute special is $3000 for the week. But every now and then I check it and sigh. I did that today and got a nice laugh because it told me to find myself between a rock and a soft place. This is the spa for me. I was chatting with someone last night and she said Clay has made her smile every day since 2003 and you know... I can really relate to that.

heee..gotta love him.

ah, now I remember...the only thing I didn't like about riding the bus -- I have this face that says..yes, tell me your life story, I'm listening. On the good news front I managed to read 11 pages of a book - that's more than I've read since oh about 2003. I forgot how fun it was. Rhody, thanks for the update. I'm so happy to see how well that gift of love turned out. Have a good day everybody.

Scarlett, your hat lives! heee. I fell asleep sitting up on the couch last night and can't believe I just slept all night. Normally I'm up at least twice. Good morning FCA. So has anyone figured out how to mortgage any and all futures for yourself and your family to bid on the dinner with Clay? Not yet? LOL

hey folks, I'm going to submit Aa and D to the pin maker for proofs tomorrow. I think people have shown the most interest in them. I don't want to be a dictator though so if you want a poll to make sure then just let me know. Cindilu...great job as always!!

hmmmmm how can we turn this into some sort of FCA TBAF fundraiser? FCA hot babes Calendar? Miss January?

It's a TBAF fundraiser. I'd be surprised if he weren't there in some form or fashion. Poker is a big deal I guess...it's all over my sports channels when I'm actually looking for you know...sports? So I guess there's an audience for that..but yeah...online only? I wouldn't bid on it. I hope someone does though!

peta has something against carriage rides? Maybe when they get this one out of the way, they'll come up with a date for NYC? Maybe? I can hope? I hope it's a huge success and gets lots of corporate sponsors.

No problem...I'll just run right over and bid 25,000 right now heee. Anyone from here going to this one. It kinda snuck up on me and haven't given it much thought.

bwah... one or two.

bwah...heee I can't laugh..cuz I could see my bus whizz right by as I was one cross street away from it..then I had to wait 30 minutes. I would have been fine with it but I had my ipod and no headphones. I'm totally out of practice with this public transportation thing and that used to be my middle name. :garfieldodie-grouphug: to all as we start the new year. I actually looked over the rules of FCA at the end of last year to see what else I could delete heh but all is well. I hope everyone is having fun at work today!