jdevore.wordpress.com

My online friend Bill has begged me for about 3 months now to get onto wordpress and share my interesting stories to the world and not just on his blog.  I told him posting on a blog is hard (I have done it before last year and stopped after about 4 months) and he said but you are such a talented writer.  I said to him (this was on the phone) just posting comments is easier and the reason why I stopped my other blog is because no one posted comments.  He said on his wordpress account he gets 1000 hits a day.  His blog isn't the most popular blog in the internet world so that impressed me some.  He said that it's such a waste I don't have my own blog and I am just as good as Matt is (Matt is the writer and webmaster to a lovely website called x-entertainment.com) that made me surprised, flattered, and interested. 

This was about a month and a half ago and after me posting comments on all of his blog posts before that conversation and since then I was impulsed at the end of last week to create a wordpress account and start a blog there.  I have been shall I say addicted to youtube lately so if it just accents my youtube account that's good enough for me, but maybe just maybe, it will turn into something grand (like Matt's site for example)

My first post is a joke.
My second post is very serious and it explains my upbringing and my history some (more coming later this week)
And we'll see how this goes.
This also shows how serious I take my blog buddies.
Funny story, on Saturday I believe it was I told my best friend I started a blog and he said well WHY would you do that?!?  It was priceless.  I think he is thinking oh no not another thing on the internet for her to waste time on.  Oh well.

I want to give you guys advice on something.  I just came back from my walk (yay!) and at the end I went on the swing set without any embarrassment.  Remember when you used to do that?  The wind blowing past you, trying to pump  your little legs so much you almost twirl around the pole, and feeling youthful and alive.  But what happened?  I think, about 12 or 13 kids started telling you "swinging is for babies" and you stopped.  I know I stopped and started up a few months ago for the first time in years!  I just was curious and the swing was calling my name.  Unfortunately some things we do as kids are a blast to do, and we stop.

When I do it now, the pole creeks and sways a little.  I think kids giggle while they think I am too big.  I use faith over fear and I try to go as high as I would like.  But something I don't think was hard when I was a kid, braking is hard and it takes a long time to finally come to a complete stop :)  But please!  Find a swing!  Single, Married, w/ kids, without.  It's great excercise for your thighs and knees and it's a freakin blast!  It's my treat at the end of my walk!  If you take me up on my advice, message me and tell me how it was.  Take some water with you though, I get a dry mouth while I do it.

Note: this is a picture I found on Google, this isn't a picture I took.  I will post pictures when I feel inspired :)

I was just going to have the avatar blog because I think posting blogs on myspace is kind of dorky, but I found something the colony I think could relate to.  While I was organizing and deleting files I found one I completely forgot about.  I typed this up the beginning of this year.  Sometimes I just want to write, sometimes it's creative like a poem or on a very small whim a story, but this was something different.  At the time I was deciding if I wanted to commit to the plans to follow through with pursuing a career as an LEO (Law enforcement officer) which I have since then.   And if I explain anymore I'll over explain.  I hope you guys and gals take something from this and it helps you with what your are having to experience in your life.

Why do I want to put myself before strangers
why would I be better then others
why do I want to be better then others
why do I want to chase after scumbags
why do I want to go above and beyond
why do I want to put my art on hold
why do I want a thankless job
why do I want to risk my life
why do I want to my as is life
why do I care about what other people think of me bad stuff and good stuff
why do I want the looks good and bad
why do I want to work hard
Why do I want to put everything else aside for this one thing
why do I want to have a higher chance of killing people
Why do I want to have a higher chance of saving people
why do I need to do this
why do I want this
why do I feel I can do this
why do I feel I am good enough
why do I feel my past is negotible
why do I feel my past is worth negotiating
why do I feel I can develop a thick skin
why do I feel I can stand up for myself more
why do I feel I can change habits I have been doing my whole life
why do I feel I can put my morals aside
why do I want a lifetime of grief for the slight potential of 10 seconds of kudos
why do I want the thousands of moments of people complaining about tickets i've written
why do I want to see people die all around me
why do I want to stand in the middle of tragedy
why do I want to give up my potential plans of kids
why do I want to potentially delay finding her
why do I think somebody wants to be a cop's wife
why do I think that this is worth sacrificing other opprotunities

UPDATE May 7th, 2008
If you want to see more avatars then PLEASE look in my pictures section.  I have an album just for ANT Colony pictures.  It's just easier that way for me.  Thank you!!

These avatars I have been sitting on for a while.  They are to make you smile and to get the word out about the Ant Colony!  You can right click and choose "save as" if you like but I put the code here to my photobucket account to use the graphics easier.  If you don't want to link back to myspace, then go in the HTML of the code you want and where it has the myspace address and type in the address you prefer.  Also, the animated gifs are big so I just put in the heighth and width I prefer but adjust accordingly or if you want them as big as they were made then delete width and heighth.  The bigger the numbers the bigger the graphic is and the smaller the smaller it is.  I think that's about it and I hope you enjoy the hours I spent on this project!  I have one more idea for an avatar I'm going to work on tonight so check back for a new one and more in the future will go here!  Just copy and paste the code in the box below the graphic you want to use.



<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/Antwelcomeherebig.gif" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!" height="250" width="330"></a><br>

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/antpointsanim.gif" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!" height="250" width="330"></a><br>

You can even use the infamous "You!" graphic on your page!

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/antanim.gif" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!" height="250" width="330"></a><br>

Now these are my avatars that sit still.  I find them to be more artistic and serious.  I hope the Colony REALLY likes them!

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/antpurple.jpg" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!"></a><br>

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/antavatarleaves.jpg" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!"></a><br>

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/fishbubble.jpg" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!"></a><br>

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/antcolonycrayola.jpg" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!"></a><br>

***UPDATE**
I just made two more avatars I hope you enjoy them very much.  I want to make a couple avatars that have Ross, Rosie and Ant on them but the designs I have tried I don't like.  I will do them eventually but putting these up will not make myself so pressured to do so.  I tried to create the spirit of the colony with these avatars.  See you at the Colony!

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/heartantcolony.jpg" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!"></a><br>

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/iprayeverydayforant.jpg" border="0" alt="Welcome to the colony!"></a><br>
****UPDATE!!!***
Because of inspiration from my chat room talk tonight I made this avatar.  Someone mentioned that Ant says that he believes that when there is a pause God is in them.  Well I just typed out (blabbed through my fingers lol) that I should make an avatar of that and they all said go for it!  Well no time like the present so here ya go :)

**UPDATE*** Sept 06 I corrected the God is in the pause avatar.  I just didn't feel like putting pauses when he says pause.  Everytime after I posted it and he said "pause" I felt guilty :( lol that is how my mind works.  Anyway enjoy as always.

<br><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2NvbWljYW50" target="_blank"><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd200/antcolonyavatar/godpausecorrected.jpg" border="0" alt="God is in the pause"></a><br>