For MANY reasons. PLEASE READ

I have been blogging for many years. The time has come for MANY reasons to limit access to my blog. Robert and I have always been very transparent ....in sharing our personal thoughts and events with everyone. It saddens me that I had to finally make this decision ...but it is the best solution I could come up with.

We are moving this blog to Live Journal. Live Journal will give the us the ability to limit access to people we do not know.

This has been a long time coming ....as most of you know.

So ...if you are a reader of this blog and wish to continue reading it ...we want you to. I am only placing limits on people who don't have our best interest at heart. Please set up an account at Live Journal and add me as a friend. Our user name is sanjulian. This will allow you to read our blog the same as you have in the past. It will take you only a minute to set up an account and add us as your friend. Even if I don't know you and you have been reading my blog because you are a friend of a friend ...or my brothers friends ..or my mothers friend ...I still want you to read this. Just let me know how you are connected ..or if you just like reading this blog and I will add you.

If you don't sign up as a friend ...you will have very limited access to our blog ...so please take the time to do this.

I will be placing a forward on all our domains to point to the new blog which is located at http://sanjulian.livejournal.com. I will be forwarding the following domains to the Live Journal Page.

the-sanjulians.com
sanjulan.ws
kimsanjulian.com (future domain)
pink-camo.com
pinkcamo.tv
pinkcamo.net

I wish I had taken a better look at Live Journal in the past ..... in my opinion it is the best blogging tool and social network on the web.

Hangin in

I have talked to most of you ....but for those you I don't get to talk with as often ...I'm doing okay. I am determined to beat this one! I'm tired, worn out and ready for a fight to get my health back.

I am going to wake up in the morning and start a game plan ....I want to get back to normal.

Getting Back to Basics

Well the time has come that I need to slow down and take a few breaths of fresh air. I have not had the greatest week. I am starting to feel better ...but had to face a few realities. The first ....is that I could possibly have to undergo another surgery. Without going through all the anatomical details ....because of the several surgeries I have had in the past two years .....adhesion's resulted. Those adhesion's are causing some "communication problems" in my doctors words. So I will be dealing with those issues over the next several months. I am however starting to feel better and am so anxious to get back to work .....hopefully tomorrow.

So ...because I carry so many things on my back ...most of my own doing. I have made the decision with the support of loving husband Robert to slow down a bit ....and get back to basics. Although I did very well with my eBay store, my podcasting shows and those things associated with "Pink Camo" ....it has been a drain on my energy.

Today, I will be going through the motions if "getting things back to basics" ..you may have already noticed a change in my blog.

We made a list of all my extra activities ..outside the basics of home, family and work ..and put that list priority order. There were a few things I don't want to give up because they bring me such joy ....and that is my spiritual path I am on ..and the other is my personal scrapbooking.

There have been several avenues I have taken with scrapbooking .....my teaching podcast, being a consultant with close to my heart, and my own personal scrapping ...of which I have had no time for. So ...I am making time for it.

The most important thing on my list was my spiritual growth. I am looking forward to see how things unfold for me over the next few years.

eBay ....as it was a supplement to our income and I had several customers ..I am closing my store front. Which also means I will not be selling Mary Kay. If someone wants something ...I can still get it for them at least for the next several months. But at the end of that contract I will let it expire.

Avon ...I am keeping it. I like it. It's fun. And requires very little effort.

So ..that is the jist of things. I will also keep my blog going so that our friends and family can read what we are doing. I am also keeping my flickr site listed ...cause I can't see myself not taking pictures any time soon.

So ...here I go ....I am "GETTING MYSELF BACK TO BASICS".

Talk Shoe

I am not able to do much today other than stay in bed .....from time to time today I have gotten up and surfed the web for 15 or 20 minutes at a time.

I found a new tool! Its called Talk Shoe. This new tool serves a duel purpose for me. It will absolutly help me as a podcaster and as a listener in my search for knowledge. I won't go into much detail because I am not feeling the best ....but keep on the lookout for something from me using this new tool.

I was home sick again

and I have done absolutly nothing except for whinning of how shitty I feel. I let an RX run out last week. I was only 2 doses short before I got it filled ….didn’t think it woould do this to me. I really thought I had more refills ..and the rx got caught between which doctor whould fill it out. My family doctor ended up taking care of it …...I am not feeling any better. I think it may need to make a trip to see her tomorrow.

See more progress on: did nothing today

Out Sick

Its been over three months since I have had a medical episode ....and it finally hit. I was up and ready for work this morning when I decided that it just was not worth it. I know for a fact if I had gone I would have ended up either back at home or in the ED. I am sitting here the PC taking care of a few thinks in case I am unable to attend tomorrow too. I wasn't going to do it ..but with my boss out on medical leave herself ...I didn't want to leave my director holding he ball. Anyhow ...not on the mood for chat ..just wanted to give a few of you an update.

AOL - Forget it!

Forget everything I said about AOL. At first glance it was nice and has the potential of definetly leading in the social network arena. BUT ...it was slower than moses ....I was getting angry just waiting for one page to come up. I think the average was about 45 seconds for every page. SO............keeping things as is for now ...not making any changes. Why change a good thing?

AOL

I can't believe I am about to say this. I love social networks and I belong to about every one that is on the web. I signed up for AOL for personal reasons ..and through my discovery I am coming to the conclusion that AOL may just be the true social network that has yet to have its day as a social network.

I have always been transparent to everyone ...I keep mine and Roberts life an open book. It is something I have enjoyed doing. I have always made friends and kept our dearest of friends a part of our lives. We have enjoyed doing it and I think they have enjoyed being a part if the world of the SanJulians. Anyhow ..this blog privacy issue has been on my mind for several months because people out there I don't consider friends ....in fact I think they are evil.

Anyhow ...after looking at AOL for about 30 minutes I am keeping my options open. I may decide in the near future to the me moires of the Robert and Kim to a private place. There are people near and dear to our heart that will continue to have access ...like Ron, Charlie and Norman, Chris and Paula, Mark and Martha ......Debbie and Bob, Ed and Amy ...Sandy and Gerald ...Cindy, Pam, Nicole .......and the list goes on. At this point ...we I am leaving this open as an option and wail decide in a few days. I think the fact that I had to report certain people to HR where they have been hitting my blog and making comments and starting gossip that was unnecessary.

Anyhow I love blogging ...and sharing.

As I was looking through AOL ....I kinda got the feeling that AOL is probably the best social network I have seen ...and they probably need to market themselves as such.

Sunday Morning

..and I am ready to go back to bed. I have just posted on one of my other blogs but I am being distracted by a rotten rottweiler He keeps bringing his tops and laying them on me ....especially Mr Squirrel.

Anyhow ..I will make this blog short so I can give my attention craved puppy some lovin. I decided to make my spiritual blog private once again. Nothing as happened to make me want to do this other than just knowing how early I am in my spiritual growth ..I don't want to leave myself open to any negativeness this early in the game. I have downloaded AOL to use for this purpose ..hoping that I can find some good message boards and chat rooms.

Friday night we went up to the camp site with Ron and a friend of his to jsut sit around the campfire and relax. We had a really good time just chillin and talking. We ended up getting to be at 4:30 Saturday morning. I wish I had taken my camera. The moon was beautiful!

We were supposed to go to a graduation party yesterday ...but didn't make it because Robert wasn't feeling all that great. We just hung out and enjoyed each others company instead.

I can't believe Roki has finally settled down ...I am half afraid of moving .....cause he might thing I want to play ...and I don't.

When I get done with this post I will do one of two things ....open up AOL or go back to bed.

Its back to work tomorrow. The next two weeks will be extremely busy at work ...then I have my ............. Well I think I will finish this part the blog on my work blog ....I wouldn't want to bore you with the details of my job.