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| August 21, 2002 ~ 11:49pm Well just when you think things aren't going well, they turn into a beautiful garden of flowers! That's the poet in me talking. So you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about? I'm talking about Clearfield's RAINN Storms. With the help of eBay, and the wonderful EWF and the beautiful site hereinmyhead.com great sells of my iron-on's and possible sells of my clocks are under way!!! So many thanks to YOU!!! I can't begin to tell you how much this means to me. From the horrible depression that hit me around my birthday, thanks to the damage of some misunderstanding people of my love for Tori and even to my dedication to RAINN now. Some...and I will not say who, have even said that I would have never even joined this RAINN fundraiser if it wasn't for Tori. I wouldn't have heard of RAINN if it wasn't for Tori, true, but it wasn't Tori who pushed me into becoming a RAINN fundraiser host this year...and hopefully for the next several years, depending on how well my health holds up. I'm tired of people using Tori against me. She has made a HUGE impact on my life. If I wouldn't have been introduced to her music by a dear friend of mine (thank you ever so much, Jennifer...*gives you a great big hug and kiss*), I more than likely would have never sung again. I lost my voice teacher to AIDS. He wasn't just a teacher. He was my best friend and mentor. When he died, I vowed I'd never sing again. That's when Jennifer played the song "Silent All These Years" for me. A very fitting title for a siren like me. Within the past year and several months, I've recorded an album of music and began a second album. NO, I'm not trying to be Tori. That's another thing I'm tired of hearing. I've sung live twice for the first time EVER! My own music, in a hotel, doing my own thing, my own way! Do you know how that made me feel? It made me feel real and alive! If my voice teacher were alive today, I'm sure he would have been very proud of me. And I'm pretty damn proud of myself. I'm sorry if this entry is a little personal than the rest of the others, but I had to get that off my chest. This is, of course, what this site is for anyway. I just recently met a girl online who made me feel brave! Hi Natasha!!! So, I'm not going to hold anything back now. So, if I offend anyone, I apologize in advance. I'm entering a new phase in life now that I just turned 30...and I'm not going to do it sitting alone crying feeling sorry for myself. Now...anyway...back to the site itself and the iron-ons. You'll be happy to know, I've just added a new beauty. I won't tell you anything about her...other than go have a look! One little hint...she's a fairytale! Thank you everyone for your bids on eBay. Here's my "about me" link if you'd like to bid on my auctions. Email me if you'd rather just purchase directly from the site. "About Me" at eBay With lots of love and a cherry on top! Karen (or if you want to call me by my middle name...Elizabeth) August 7, 2002 ~ 3:48am I've been a real busy bee for the past several days now. As a matter of fact. I've only had about 4 or 5 hours of sleep in the past three days! *yawns* Good news! I have more loverlies for the Iron-On's section...and let me tell you, you'll be drooling and wondering which ones to choose from. As soon as I'm finished with this entry, I'll be adding them. I can't wait for some feedback! Hello? Is anyone out there? *just kidding* I've also been working very hard on updating "Roses" so when you click on the Clocks link, you'll have the new and improved version of that page as well. It's taking time. I so far have half of that done. I should...hopefully, if my internet server will be nice to me, have this all completed for you loverly EWF by noon today!!! I placed one clock on eBay...the "I Don't Like Mondays" girl...considering she represents August and this is that month and this is Tori's birthday month. I should hopefully be adding my iron-on's and more clocks on eBay as well. Gotta spread the word and "show me the money!" for RAINN! Let's see, what else...oh yes...I received word from Pastor Rick about the can donations. I'm in luck!!! The church has left overs and he's written a big thing on RAINN for the church's newsletter for this month, which should be in the mail this week! WOO HOO!!! So...since this week is "doctor free" week :o) I'll be putting in long hours making sure that this site, my RAINN Buckets and a possible new idea will be under way! As for the poem I added last week. I am doing well considering the "damage". I've done a lot of soul searching and the things I said in the poem, such as...I've stopped singing...and I've taken down all my beloved items of devotion to Tori as well as my other loves in my life (faeries)...they're slowly going back up...and I'm singing again. I've have long talks with my therapist over the whole situation...which I'll spare everyone the details of that situation...and basically, it's all boiled down to this...it's time to move on. And that's what I intend to do...THE END. Well...I better get a move on with my updating. Be well. Faery hugs and kisses to you all, Karen August 1, 2002 ~ 2:30pm Things aren't looking so good for Clearfield's fundraiser right now, I'm afraid. I hope that things will start to look up for RAINN Storms. There's not much for me to report. I will be adding a poem shortly to the page named after one of Tori's songs from the album, Boys For Pele. There will be a link for this poem on the main page, but for now, I must go. Karen July 23, 2002 ~ 2:04pm Well, I'm not going to say all that much right now. I'm officially 30 years old as of yesterday at 4:54pm I don't know how I feel about it, but I guess it's okay. I don't want to talk about the weekend or how things went. So, I'll just go straight to the updates since it's thundering like hell outside. On the merchandise page, I finally fixed the link so you can click on the clocks graphic and go to "Roses" and see the old RAINN Storms page. I made a little note at the bottom of the page about how you may choose either a black or white frame for the colored background "girls". That goes for all of them, even though I mention the ones I thought looked beautiful in the black frames. Anyway, that's all for the updates...ooops...and the guestbook is now through Bravenet, so you'll have more room and the option to make your entries private. Okay...I'm outta here before I get disconnected. Toodles, Mr. Jim...Karen P.S. Has anyone heard Tori's new single, A Sorta Fairytale as of yet? It's truly beautiful...as if she wouldn't write something by that name that wouldn't be beautiful. July 18, 2002 ~ 9:45am I put up a guestbook by Geocities, but I think I'm going to look for a different place. It seems as though you can't make long entries, and I want to be able to have everyone who wants to sign to have free will to write a novel if they want to or not. My kitty, Tristan is getting a little pissed off at me right now. He wants his mommy to go to bed...and well, mommy wants to go to bed too. I've been going without sleep and that's not good. I do have more to talk about, so I shall put in a little word later. Sweet Dreams...Miz Red (that's me) July 17, 2002 ~ 7:00am Well, you'll be happy to know that the iron-on page is completed! YEA! That is until I add more to it, like more designs, and I'm looking into seeing how PayPal can be added directly to my page. I looked at the main page yesterday while I was downloading some things off of Emilie Autumn's page. I may not be able to add PayPal links to my page. From what I read...or glanced at, since I could hardly keep my eyes open, there's a fee. I'm not sure what kind of fee or how much it is. I'm not sure if there's a fee added for every order or what. If that's the case, I'm just going to let everyone who wants to buy things just email me with their order and then if they want to pay with PayPal, they can do so by just by telling me and then we'll go through the process the old fashion way...communication by email. *laughs* That's the way I've been doing it with other great EWF. Which, if they come here, thank you guys for being so kind and patient with me. Believe me, it's nice to meet people like you online. As for the clocks, if you're interested in seeing what my SLG clocks look like, here's the link to my Black Winged Roses site, where the original RAINN Storms site was born. If you'd like to place an order for a clock, just email me at [email protected]m and we'll discuss the ordering process by email. Thanks again, everyone for being patient. I know, I'm going to wear that phrase out...but it's true. I can't stress how much that means to me. Here's the link for the clocks page through Roses. http://www.geocities.com/taketothesky/RAINN_Storms_merchandise.html I will say this, when you click on the thumbnails for the clocks, they'll give you the full information about clock and it's price along with shipping charges. It also says that a portion of the proceeds will go to RAINN. CORRECTION...ALL proceeds go to RAINN for the 2002 Fundraiser. Well, that's all. Okay, I'm outta here for the morning. I'll be back online later on in the day to do more things. Lots of love to everyone, Karen July 16, 2002 ~ 11:53am Hello once again. As you can see, I've done quite a bit since yesterday morning. You can now see some of the iron-on samples. Only one of the samples you can click on and see the full size, though. Bad news, unfortunately. I won't be able to host the Spaghetti Dinner for RAINN. I've spoken to my aunt, who's worked with the church and some of the organizations who've hosted spaghetti dinners and well...I'd be looking at forking out at least $600 just to have the dinner. OUCH! So, no yummy pasta dinner at West Side's church. I feel absolutely horrible about it, considering how much I was looking forward to it. My eyes right now can hardly focus on the monitor, so if this entry doesn't make a lick of sense, I apologize. I will continue to follow through with the RAINNbuckets as well as selling my Tori Amos creations. I do enjoy making all the lovely designs that I've come up with, and believe me, what few I have up so far is just the beginning. I still have yet to come up with some new designs for the clocks. As of right now, I didn't make a link for the clocks yet. I'm getting to that. Just be patient. Well, I'm going to go take a little snooze before I head off to the store with my mother later on this afternoon. I certainly don't want to be cranky with her when we go. Believe me, being a true redhead, the rumors are true about being bad tempered. hee hee I'll be online later to update more of the page. So if you're one of the little RAINNdrops that keep passing by, keep playing around on the page. I'll be adding some pictures of myself, just so those of you, who don't know me, will get a chance to see the gal behind the scenes of RAINN Storms. Toodles for now, Karen July 15, 2002 ~ First Entry 5:00am Well, here we are, another day into the summer and one week away from my 30th *cringes at the thought* birthday. So far, I've been working hard on the designs for my iron-on's, which I hope to have up on display by the end of the day or near midnight. Oooooo...the sun is rising...I'll have to hurry and return to my coffin so I won't burst into flames! Just teasing! I'm such a night owl...or should I say a manic depressant. I don't know what I really am except a fruit loop :) Anyway, back to the serious side of things. I still haven't had a chance to talk to Pastor Rick about a date for the Spaghetti Dinner for RAINN yet. I was unable to make it to the Praise and Worship services on Saturday to talk to him. I did write him a letter, however, and gave it to my mother to pass it along to him. I later found out from my Aunt Jacky that Pastor Rick didn't even preach this week. My aunt did! She's a lay speaker, so...I hope my mother pushed my letter under his office door. I'll have to call her today and find out. She works night shift (LPN at a nursing home...I used to be a Certified Nursing Assistant until I "retired" thanks to my health) and should be getting out of work here in about an hour and a half, so if I can keep my eyes open that long (or not burst into flames when the sun's rays hit my living room's windows...hee hee) I'll give her a call and find out. As for the iron-on's. Oooooo....they are loverly! And yes, I spelled that lov*ER*ly on purpose. I'm a big "My Fair Lady" fan and have always loved the song "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" My friends and those who have my first album, "Little Pieces of Joy", asked me when I wrote the title track, why did I say "loverly" in the one verse? I had to go into that long story. BUT...no more talk of musicals. I guess that's all for now, until I find out word from my mother about the letter. My next step is to get my thumbnails of my iron-on's on the site. Talk to you all soonly! Faery Hugs and Kisses, Karen |
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