Special request

Yes, it is January 26th, over two weeks since my first eventful posting of the new year, and I'm dedicating this blog today on my lunch break to Karen Elizabeth Edwards. Karen, did you ever realize that your middle name and last name form the name of a famous lady? - one of Julie's friends on MySpace actually.

Karen, I'm sorry, I've just been too busy for Blogger since I've become addicted to MySpace. You'll have to deal since you won't join even after I've tried to persuade you. You're the one who persuaded me into starting this blog. I must really stink at persuasion since I actually took a college course titled Persuasion: Experience in preparation and presentation of persuasive communication. Well, here's my last-ditch effort into persuading you to join MySpace, Karen - you can set your profile to private so only your friends can see, and you can also choose to leave out your last name, so as to disable the search function. None of your students would find you then!

Anyways, since you did not appreciate my last attempt at a fruitful, deep blog, I decided to dedicate this also exceptionally (in my mind at least) fruitful blog to you, my last resort at grabbing your attention. I'm actually really ashamed to have started my blogging year off so poorly (in your eyes at least). Last year my first blog of '06 warranted a hardy (so hardy that I thought the compliment would stand the test of time-not so) compliment from Brady: "I'm so proud of you Jill. I checked your blog just after New Year's and sure enough....a change. This was a great blog entry. Good job."

I'd like to make you guys proud of me again. I think you will be.

My biggest accomplishment so far this year, what I once thought was the unachievable, well here goes. I....clipped my cats' claws for the first time last night.