Top of the Morning

Morning ... How’s everyone? I’m sorry, it appears we’ve been away from the journal for the last couple of days. We’ve been pretty busy over at the "Hall of Fame" Journal. Pshwew! Yesterday, we needed to take our last vacation day or lose it to the new year. It turned out to be a very productive day here at home!

There’s a warning for the moment ... we’re a little fuzzy, due to just waking up. We went to bed and woke up 3 times during the night.  This last time it was due to vivid dreams of a family reunion. Hmm, go figure! Its that kind of thing that happens, that suggest that some of us could manage to spill the old coffee grounds taking them over the few feet to the garbage. *Sigh*

We’re very happy to report that the results have been excellent! We added more journals after we’d made the count to be 55, and it appears now there’s been more than a dozen journals added since we fell asleep. *Giggle* that’s not including Viv’s email ... we snuck a peek and found that she had also responded back to the email asking for permission to publish a listing. We hadn’t realized though, she has 10 journals! What a gal!! We teased back that, "Now we have our Tuesday work set out before us" :)

We were also very happy to find that yesterday Mr. Scalzi saw fit to add us as a link in his journal. It was in regard to our list made out in this journal on Saturday. Couldn’t have been more pleased!  Thank you Mr. Scalzi!!

Most of our pleasure though falls between two areas realized yesterday. The first is the initial excitement opening up so many journals that are brand new to us in the collecting process. I think the wealth of journals that are out there is truly the most amazing thing.

The other takes place while still sending out mail.  You all have been very quick to respond.  And, it behooves us in all thrilldom to be saying, "Thanks!!"

It should be noted that Pam’s list has become international! We’re still giggling in pleasure over one of the journalists who’sbeing highlighted by Gregg. This new UK leader sports on his first entry page a picture of himself wrestling with an alligator! There are so many wonderful surprises coming up!

There is enough to be doing that we are really trying not to read the journals as we go, or we’d never finish, but sometimes this is pretty nearly impossible. One of our favorites is about this poor woman who is called by loudspeakers at a grocery store. Seems her young son is happily half undressed and, ... well, we’ll let that story unfold on its own!

Some of the people who write to say they’d like to be in the Hall of Fame Journal stop to talk a moment. I felt in the midst of a celebrity to find that one of the journalists was is a semi-finalist in the "All-Star Blogger!" We say, "Go Jerry, you Nascar Nut!!"

Hmm, that’s about it for the morning ... I would like to add one more note! I want to thank personally two people, both Viv and Pam for being so much fun to work with over the last couple of days! There is so much positive energy coming from these two woman that it could make a girl want to cry! I look forward with wondrous pleasure to guess what is coming up next between them and everyone involved in the First Year Anniversary. Just has to restore your faith in humanity!!

That’s it pretty much it for our morning writing ... *giggle* Might turn out that the boss would still appreciate us coming in :) Take care of the day, my friends!  And, thank you again ... it's terrific fun to be meeting you! 

Post note:  We have managed our way to work and the boss looked happy to see us :)  To our most welcome surprise, Charlie is joining the Hall of Fame journal too!  He is so far, and most likely, the oldest active AOL journaler!!  Most kind thoughts to you Charlie!  Way to go!!!