It's a Free Country

Hey, world, smarten up.  We live in a free country here in America where we can speak our minds, say what we believe in and do what we want. 
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True there are a few rules in society we must conform to, but it doesn't say that we have to abide by them completely.  There are the basics that go with good values and morals and we stick by what we believe in and know that if we are raised right, we can do what we want within how we were brought up.

We all do come with rules, but they are our rules and not somebody else's.  We make our own beds and we have our standards that we ourselves want to live up to.

We come with our own set of beliefs and we make sure we know it and if other people try to steer us in a different direction we have the freedom and the right to say no if we don't want to.

Which brings me to creativity and who has the right to tell a writer not to write or an artist not to create?  Nobody!!!!!!

Don't listen to anyone who tells you they don't want to see you doing what you love to do best.  It's a free country and you and I can do what we want.

Reason I state this is because I've got people in my complex threatening me not to write ever again and it makes me so God Damned furious that they have the galls to tell me not to write ever again.

They don't have any right whatsoever to threaten me not to write.  My plan is to move at some point when I can.  I love my cute living place, but I don't like the people in it.  It's primarily harassment, but they should keep their thoughts to themselves.

Someone has told me just to ignore them, but it's hard to do when they are constantly harassing.  But it's what I need to do and just do what I love and leave them in the dust.

It's a free country and we're all our own individual and I think if we listened to everyone under the sun who tells us either not to do it or it can't be done, we would be a melting pot full of sappy people who don't dare to let freedom ring.

What the hell people?  Just take care of you and don't be thinking about someone else and what they may think of you.

Since when does everyone follow the Same yellow brick road?

Stand up for what you believe in and don't let anyone tell you or threaten you not to do something.  They're mean people with a one lived purpose to make someone else's life misery.

Well, I've been harassed to Kingdom come for about eight months, but this girl has not let anyone stop her from what she loves to do.  I've got lots of goals for future writing, art and knitting plans and nobody is going to stop me from reaching my goals.

I've got a good 55 years to go or more and nobody is going to get in the way of that.

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted May 24, 2013


FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!

How to Pump out the Articles

How do you pump out the articles?  I don't always get to do it every day.  It was a pain writing them on my HTC tablet, so I wasn't posting as often, but now with a laptop to be able to type on a keyboard, I will be posting more often.  It's a cheapo laptop not quite as described, but at least it will be good for typing up my posts for here and Triond.

I'm not sure if I want to get any novels into this laptop.  I think I am going to hold out for a nicer laptop for that.  Where I don't trust this laptop and who I bought it from, I don't want to get my good novels etc/. onto this one.

I hate hackers with a tremendous passion.

It's a scary world we live in today and how much is really confidential anymore?  Hackers should be thrown in jail. 

Anyway, yesterday, I finally decided to try to get this laptop in motion with the writing of the posts.  At first it was very slow getting my writing software to work.  It's definitely a slow laptop but finally I was able to do my writing.

I surprised myself and got nine posts written.  I've shared one here, but I put most of them on the Triond site.  I'm jfay1995 there.

I'm not sure if there's really a trick to posting and pumping out the articles.  I would say it depends on how bad your writer's block is.  Are you just not in the mood or do you feel you have a lot to say today?

I've been wanting to keep pumping out the articles there as the earnings were beginning to jump up for me a few months ago before the other laptop fried.  And now, I am going to make sure I keep pumping them out.

Sometimes it is hard to figure out what you want to write about.  Hard to know where to look for ideas for good content.  It's a win win situation some days and other days you really have to dig into the jar for the right thing to write about.

Hmmm.....  should we all have a big mason jar filled with papers for our ideas?  Just a thought.  .Maybe later.  That could be kind of cool for some photos as well.  Well, my mind will be thinking about that one.

I'm also thinking of a good Macdonalds sandwich I am going to devour later today with my kids.  Yum. 

I guess it's just a matter of keeping the writing momentum going and at some point you will be able to come up with all your posts you want to write.

Sometimes I like going to Facebook for my ideas.  It's amazing what friends will write and as you're reading you come to a great title or topic for a new article to make you money.

There's got to be a madness and a solution to writing online and earning money.  I do see the earnings jumping up, but it always makes me wonder how these other bloggers are able to make a decent living from their blog.

When I was writing for Hubpages, there were success stories that had me floored.  I was like, how can you come up with that figure and you are making how much a month?  Well, if people are doing it, it shows us that it can be done.

But you all know with a blog and writing online it takes a lot of patience and knowing that if you work hard at what you love to do, something good could potentially come from it.  Hey, if you sit back and don't watch the birds go by, you never know.  Birds are smart.

People are smart, it's just a matter of trying the best you can and the world could be at your fingertips if you believe in yourself.

I believe in myself, do you?

I think if I someday got well known for my writings, novels etc...   I would still maintain this blog.  I think I would want to come to it every day so that people get to know a part of me, who I am. 

Keep the private out, but I think sharing things we like and what makes us tick is a good thing.  We cannot worry about every little thing, but we do need to be careful.  It's a scary world out there, but the internet can be our friend as well.  Times are tough and we look to the internet nowadays for our jobs.

There's simply not enough jobs out in the local areas anymore, too many applicants, the companies can pick and choose out of hundreds of weekly applicants and hey, you're damn lucky if you get something.

I say, power to online writing and Kindle Publishing e-books.  When I am completely ready, I will get my stuff out there.  But for now, posts and articles will be my thing until I am ready to do the other.

A novel or an e-book of any sort, takes a lot of time and patience.  I really want it to be perfect and that takes patience.

I've got lots of that.  I was brought up on Patience is a Virtue.  Instilled by my beautiful Mom.


Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted May 22, 2013

Okay, I think I have got to get going.  This picture is making me thirsty!!!!!!!  And I'm hungry!!!!!  That little clock my Mom gave me one Christmas.  It seriously used to be white!!!!!  But I keep it because she gave it to me.  Still works!!!!

Why We Should Wish for the Way Things Were

Why We Should Wish For the Way Things Were

Have you ever just wanted to have things the way it used to be?  You know, maybe the way it was back in the seventies or even the fifties?  Things weren’t lightning fast the way it is now.  Things were definitely much more simplistic and not always so complex as it is nowadays.

Let’s face it, we live in a rat race in today’s society.  Everyone has to have the high speed internet, fastest dial up, latest gadgets, modern technology and all kinds of other things that cost money.

How many of you have seen the Facebook picture saying in a nutshell, Thank God For Facebook the way gas prices are going!!!  It’s true.  It’s awful how much it costs to fill a tank now.  But at least now, in some gas stations the price of a gallon of gas isn’t as bad as it was earlier in the year.  I’ve noticed it has gone down a fraction of the price. 

Whoop de do!!!!  Maybe a ten to twenty cent difference?  How we all wish we could be paying more like a dollar for a gallon.  I was a kid in the seventies and can’t quite remember how much gas was at that time, but even so, it was a heck of a lot cheaper then compared to now.

Milk is so expensive as well.  Today, buying groceries for a family is quite pricey as well.  Everyone wants to have good food on the table.  Even if you want the fresh vegetables, it can be quite costly.  I love cauliflower but I don’t buy the fresh kind much as it comes close to five bucks.  We have to be careful nowadays when grocery shopping as well.

The world is on a budget and we have to make sure we have what we need but don’t overindulge even at the grocery store.  And if you go in hungry, be careful as you know darn well you are going to come out with more than you needed.  You know, maybe that smoothie or a bag of chips or beef jerky.  Anything that you want to open as soon as you get everything in the car because you forgot to eat before you got there.

Also, what about how simple things were way back in the day.  Nobody had to worry about so many things that we have to worry about now.  You have to be so careful when on the internet as the internet is full of scammers, phishers, hackers and anyone looking up good people to find out their information.

I will tell you, it is so scary what people can do when they get a hold of someone’s profile on the web.  We’re just a small handful of the millions of bloggers, writers and anyone with a website and we do have a profile so people can go look up our sites and potentially buy things, read our blogs and so on. 

Be careful when you do put out your profile on a blog.  Make sure you don’t have too much personal information.  You have to be so cautious.  But even if you are, someone can still look you up and your whole family as well.  The world is a truly scary place and I wish we lived in earlier times.

What about the price of everything?  Phone companies, insurance companies, doctors, etc…  all can really sock it to you.  We need our phones though as a communication with people.  But I will say, there is something said for the lost art of letter writing.  When you talk on the phone all is lost except for your memory of what got said.

What if we all tried to write more letters to each other?  I always loved getting a letter in the mail and nowadays we’re lucky if we get a letter at Christmas time from relatives.  You know how we get when we’re sending out the cards, we want to get them done and mailed out fast so we can get back to the  rat race. 

And what about all the things the government covers up?  In today’s society, the government covers up so much crap, it’s probably like a minefield about what gets covered up. 

Think about all the things hackers can possibly do in today’s society.  It’s getting pretty astonishing at what they can potentially do nowadays.  It’s a vast cover up. We would like to believe that everything we do is confidential.  Doctors apts. Anything, we’ve been told it’s all confidential.  Even the doctor’s know it’s confidential, but what if it really wasn’t? 

What are the police stations covering up as well?  Do hackers, phishers and other bad people out there have any God Damned access to things that all of us good people are completely unaware of what they are doing?

Hey, we’re in a scary world and it’s a nightmare thinking that our children and their children are going to have to grow up amidst it all and worry about so much more than we ever had to.

If only it were as easy as clicking our heels three times and we could go to Kansas and live in the seventies or the fifties when people didn’t have to worry quite so much about locking our doors like we do today.

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted May 21, 2013

Sorry no new pictures for a little while.  This laptop I got isn't as described and the uploader is shot.  Bummer.  I'm going to be investing in a newer laptop later in the year with Best Buy where I will be able to see what I am buying.

A beautiful poem

I was looking through my old letters I saved from my younger years and I found a poem my Grammy shared with me.  I probably had broken up with a boyfriend at the time.

Anyway, when I found this instead of what I was looking for, I thought I would share it.

Advice to a Girl

No one worth possessing
 can be quite possessed;
 Lay that on your heart,
 my young angry dear;

This truth, this hard and precise
 stone,
 Lay it on your hot cheek,
 Let it hide your tear.

Hold it like a crystal

when you are alone

And gaze in the depths of the icy

stone.

 Long, look long and you will be

blessed:
 No one worth possessing

Can be quite possessed.


Sara Teasdale


Always loved this little gem from my Grammy.  My poem she gave me is typed on an old fashioned typewriter. 

Poems are always straight from the heart.  I find them hard to write sometimes and other times they can be very easy.  I believe your heart has to be in it.



Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted May 17, 2013

Things I like

Have you ever made a list of all the things you like?  I have.  But a few nights ago, I decided that I would make a new one here to share with you.

I finally got my new used laptop and am getting used to how it works.  It's different than the other one and I'm finding it different.  It's windows 7, but it's different.  I haven't figured out how to get my pictures uploaded yet and at one point,, I will get the novels in as well.

What I hate is people who think they can plagarize.  I protected an unfinished copy of The Glorious Money Tree with Kindle Publishing to protect myself. Got my reasons.

Okay, so onto the things I like.

My kids!!!!!! 

My family and friends

My blogger friends

Katherine Hepburn (my icon actress from the older era)

Audrey Hepburn

Elizabeth Taylor

Gidget

Bringing Up Baby!!!!!!!!

Rear Window  and all Alfred Hitchcock movies

Grace Kelly

Jimmy Stewart

It's a wonderful Life!!!!!!!

My Nana (an angel)

My Mom (an angel)

My Aunt Harriet (an angel)

My Grammy (an angel)

My Grampy (an angel)

and everyone else I know in my family who has gone to heaven

My photos

My camera so I can take pictures of all the kids and the things I love

My tablet

My pens and pencils and paper

My paper dolls I have created

My artwork

My vanity that used to be my Mom's

Flowers and roses

Lilacs

Magnolia trees

Tami Hoag

James Patterson

Nora Roberts

I used to be a Harlequin reader growing up

Used to read Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart, and Phyllis Whitney

Fabric

yarn stash and my knitting needles

Cool reference books

All the ideas in my head.

Bella Swan and all the Twilight movies and memorabilia

I love the Twilight music and when I'm old and gray, and I someday die at 100, I want that music played at my funeral.  But that's a long time from now, thank god.

Kristen Stewart

Robert Pattinson

Taylor Lautner

Bethlehem from The Postman.  He's hot and I love his beautiful smile.

Kevin Costner

Bruce Willis  Love Armegeddon and his saying:  God gave us children so we could have Roses in December!!!!!!!!  Thank-you, Bruce for saying that, as it is one of the sayings that I will hold onto forever.

Mysteries and romances

Secrets to the Grave, by Tami Hoag

Emily Dickinson

poetry

drawing

photography

The Maine College of Art for getting my start into the art world and to always have an open door and see the whole.

Gone with the Wind

North and South

Patrick Swayze

Amanda Seyfried (she has the coolest eyes and I would like to try doing a drawing from one of her pictures someday as well as my favorite Twilight stuff)

Gwenneth Paltrow

I'm drawing a blank at my favorite movie with her in it.  Great Expectations or The Talented Mr. Ripley

Coffee!!!!!!!!

Hot chocolate!!!!

Popcorn with parmesan cheese (and I've got another wild spastic popcorn maker)  and of course butter or margarine for the cheese to stick to.

Macaroni and cheese

Pickles

Writing!!!!!!!!!

Writing novels, my calling

Making sure that when you read my things you will feel as if I am there with you.  My family always loved getting my letters and would often say it is like I am there with them.

When I someday die, I might be the ghost that's going to go have a cup of tea with all my favorite old actresses.

Katherine Hepburn was a great actress.  I'm probably like her.  But I am like a lot of people.  My Nana always used to say Mom looked like her.  I think it is her old highschool pictures, her hair do and my Mom used to have chestnut hair.  There's a picture of my Mom holding a beach bag and wearing a bathing suit where I think she looks a lot like her.

I like a lot of different actors and actresses.  It depends on the movie they're in.

I hate The Hatfields and Macoys movie.  My reason is I absolutely hated the scene where the daughter and mother get killed and it just goes to show it can be so quick when someone thinks they can shoot someone and end their life.  I hated it and I felt my heart do a flip.

I love all things beautiful.

I hate getting scared.  I had a nightmare a few nights ago, I think I was partly awake reliving my horrific past.  I was scaring myself on thinking someone had dug up my long dead Mom and she was in the walls of my apt.  And in the corner of my ceiling near my tub, where I had patched up the deep hole with my purple washcloth, was bulging and when I opened it, her eyeballs fell out.  There's a lot more to my creepy as hell nightmare.

Anyway, these are many of the things I like.  Maybe I will make another list later on.

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted May 15, 2013

TThings to look forward to.

There's always lots of things to look forward to.  Don't we know its better not to have it all at once and that its great to wait for things.  If we had everything we ever wanted all at the same time, we wouldn't be satisfied.

God makes it so it happens when he knows we're ready to tackle every obstacle.  That's why they're called milestones, events, occasions, and highlights. 

I'm finally having a laptop come in my mail from EBay.  It's used of course, windows 7 with a good battery and charger.  I'm sure its not the best but it will get me by so I can get on with my typing and finishing the novels and publishing. 

Don't you love it when things start moving forward?   Nothing bad can last forever.  And when it happens, we just plunge forward and not let bad people get the best of us. 

Good in this world always will win over anything bad.  When things happen, know always in your heart that its not going to last an eternity.  Even when you think you have hit rock bottom, you can always pull yourself out and start fresh. 

Always be aware there are truly good things to bring us priceless creativity and time with family and friends. 

I am one to put the bad in my past and keep on plugging. 

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted May 9, 2013

Monday, Monday

What a beautiful day it was yesterday.  I sat out on my porch and saw kids out.  At first I was thinking shouldn't they be in school?  Then it dawned on me its the weekend. 

And now it's Monday.  Back to the grind day so to speak.  Monday is always the day that lasts forever, so it would seem.  And Friday seems so far away.

Monday is also a day as well when we know the errands need to get done, there's a list a mile high and we need to play touchdown tackle to finish it.  Like us writers, maybe we had the weekend to play and now we know we have to get back and post. 

I can so hardly wait for that new used laptop.  I came so close to getting a yardsale Dell desktop on Sat.  Had a smaller amount of moolah and saw it for $50.  She said the modem was fried, but unaware me still figured it works.  So went for more moolah, told her to save it.  Came back and discovered I wouldn't be able to use it without a modem. 

So onto next yard sale.  Low and behold, I bought a three dollar modem brand new they said it would work for a year.  Next, you can just imagine me gunning it down the road back a few streets away to the other one.  When I arrived, the desktop had just been sold.

Probably, better anyway.  A friend thought fifty was steep for one where modem was fried.  And second a laptop would be better for me really. 

Seeing as it was so sunny out, I went for a nice much needed walk.  Love starting to see the Spring flowers and buds on the trees.  I got gorgeous pictures of my kids on Saturday, some beautiful ones of my youngest with the tree buds in the background.

I feel sort of guilty when I sometimes take more of her, try to even it out.  But she is so photogenic and the pictures come out great.  Maybe she's my muse. 

But I don't play favorites as my other is just as beautiful as well.  Sometimes Julia has that haunting look I am sometimes after when I am photo graphing.

One of these days I should do some drawings from some.  I've got to do it.  Writing and knitting get in the way.

I'm very close to finishing Julia's knitting tote which will go into one of my knitting books.  And then Mollyanne wants one with blues, black and purple.  After that's done, back to coffee cozies.  Can hardly wait to do so many things.  Life isfilled with so many great things. 

I'm hoping to live to 100 years old and can you just imagine looking back on so many awesome things?  You know you've lived a full life when you can look back on so many things you got to do and enjoy each waking moment. 



Jennifer Jo. Fay

Copyrighted May 6, 2013