I am returning to my former name of "Nora Jean Stone". I'm going through all the online profiles and updating my photo and changing my name. As of 9/15/2010 I will be officially single, not that I'm looking to hook up or anything. Just to state that the divorce process is all but complete. Nothing left to do but sign some papers.
I archived a journal I write in when I'm out and about, waiting for buses and such all. It was started in 05/26/2007, at the beginning of the end of the marriage. Since the dissolution took nearly 3 years to complete I can't say I'm all that torn up about it.
It felt like I was mourning a critically ill entity and weeping tears before it died. So when it finally did perish I was done with my mourning.
So this is a little update and why you'll see my former name on my electronic foot print around the net.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Lori Turner & Friend
This is my darling Ms. Lori Lynn, a BFF for 15 years. Now watching the snow fall in NYC.
A blog post about a blog post
Check my website blog statement of intent:Hanging out my astrological shingle.
AuntyAlias' Hide-Out is a back up blog, for those times when my website has difficulties or when I'm on the road away from my software.
Now that Goggle Gmail has the "buzz" and blogger can be connected to it I will be adding updates here, as in this case, leading you to the blog on my website.
Let's see if this picture shows up on Google "buzz". The pictures on my previous blog post did not and that is obviously a bug on their end of the equation.
Mercury goes into Aquarius, a perfect time to do geeky things like add "buzz", blog about a blog post elsewhere. I'm so totally amused.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
We survived
I just realized I should put an update here. We survived and with the generosity of ClayMates and StarGazers we were able to bridge the gap that loomed ahead of us in January.
My son was able to find an alternate contractor to work for until his former boss could get funds from a client, long and very boring story that. My son's girlfriend was able to untangle the snfau with her unemployment.
I was able to pick up a couple of astrology readings for pay.
The rest came from ClayMates and StarGazers from my yahoo groups. I didn't get permission to mention their names, but they know why they are and I'm ever so grateful that y'all pitched in to save my hide.
The website http://www.norajean.com will be renewed for a year. CITY-Lists.com domain was locked down for another year.
I'll have to admit that I knew I could handle losing my apartment, even though I've been here for over 22 years. But if I lost my website I'd be totally bummed. When I realized I valued my virtual space more than my physical space I had to admit I am a geek.
In the 10 years or so of having my website open for ClayMates to come and use free tutorials it has become a space where I can come and goof around. Ever have a play house when you were a kid, a special tree house or fort? That's the sort of feeling I have for my website. Many polymer clay and/or miniature website have come and gone in these 10 years. I want mine to endure. Call me a Leo born in the year of the Ox, but I'm just determined that I will continue to provide free tutorials for ClayMates. Not only that but I'm building an astrological following and CITY-Lists with Astrol-CITY are connected to this web host account.
But I digress, as is my wont to do.
On my To-Do list: update my website because with the scramble to keep the crib the website has not seen its usual monthly update and with the turn of the year the consolidation of 2009 still needs to be done.
I've been uploading files to Astrol-CITY: planets in the signs and planets in the houses up to the 10th house. I have some retrograde planets in the 11th and 12th to do and then those files will be added.
I've given away so much of my inventory over the holidays for gifts I need to start stringing more beads so I'll have something to sell in my e-commerce section. It just didn't seem logical to load up pictures of things to sell if I didn't know if I would have an apartment or a website. Those things had to be saved first. Now I can think of selling my artwork.
The soon to be ex-husband keeps on promising to file for the divorce. So far, no go. He got stereo nag. I want out and she wants in and he hates doing paperwork. Too bad.
Well, that's all the news from the Left Coast. We survived, alhamdolilah. 
reward to myself is to stop running about in a panic and read some fiction I bought years ago and never got around to reading because there's "always something to do". Reading is my reward and my escape from the hustle. The biggest treat, the hardbound copy of "The Golden City" by John Twelve Hawks. My son and I shared for the turn of the new year. We both agreed that we could live in a cardboard box if we had access to books.
reward to myself is to stop running about in a panic and read some fiction I bought years ago and never got around to reading because there's "always something to do". Reading is my reward and my escape from the hustle. The biggest treat, the hardbound copy of "The Golden City" by John Twelve Hawks. My son and I shared for the turn of the new year. We both agreed that we could live in a cardboard box if we had access to books.It is not important where you live or what you have but what you can imagine in your head, you betcha.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Winding Down
All the email that had been stored on Yahoo now has been transfered to my external HDD. The Yahoo Group mail is archived so that I did last. It was all the personal email from friends and family that I wanted to archive. Everything else can be found online one way or the other. But I got all of it done. I feel better having done that.
I invited my gmail address to all the groups I own or moderate and changed the admin settings and went on no-mail for auntyalias@gmail.com . A "just in case" preparation because once I lose this land line and DSL all my Yahoo stuff will go with it. I really regret going for that AT&T/Yahoo partnership set up. I couldn't find any email that said I had a choice. It just sort of happened to those of us who use PacBell.
My website is backed up. In January I have to renew two domains and pay for my web hosting. I wrote to my contact at the webhost asking if I could go month to month while things are slim financially. If I can do that then maybe I can afford to renew the three domains (Norajean.com, Norajean-Designs.com and CITY-Lists.com) when they come up.
I posted the SOS to my website.
Now that I have the "virtual" house in order I look to the future, as uncertain as it might be. I have this attachment to the email I've exchanged with my friends and family. Back in the day we wrote letters to each other, had paper we could hold in our hands, something for our children and grandchildren to refer to. Now the exchanges are digital saving one's history is a technical challenge.
Push come to shove I'll do all I can to save the NoraJean.com domain. Even if I lose the webhost I can get another and reload my website when the finances are better. I might have to take a couple of steps backwards but I feel confident that I can regroup, no matter what.
I've gone through worse than losing an apartment. I've had practice in taking the big tumble when money dries up like a shallow pond during a drought. One just has to be determined to get back up, dust oneself off, and say, "Well that was real." and keep on moving on.
Where I'll end up if I lose this apartment I have no idea. I got a couple of girlfriends out of state who have said, "Come live with me until you're 62 and then get early retirement." I'm 60 1/2 now. That's not a long time to be obachan at a girlfriend's crib. I do cook well and am good company.
Even when I was young and marketable I couldn't get some guy to help out, not very much anyway, not with a couple of kids to take care of, so not being particularly marketable now to someone doesn't strike me as anything odd. Not really.
I am peaceful now that I have my email archived and organized. I've started sending out email to my Moderator teams on the Yahoo Groups, giving them the head's up that I might go MIA for a bit. That's why I am glad there are other co-owners who can look after the subscribers.
I'm so totally glad I have this blog as a back up and I'm going to start using this more regularly now that I am in the winding down mode.
An old hippy boomer who lived on communes, hitch hiked across the country with a baby on her hip as a teen mother, has a certain sort of flexibility when things go wonky. I never had a stable situation to get used to. Things were always on the edge of the abyss. There's a faint sort of familiarity to the oncoming storm.
I know the steps to this dance, the dance of uncontrollable change, the chaos cha cha. Well it's 3am and I should get some rest. Tomorrow I am going to be throwing out stuff that isn't going to come with me should I take a tumble.
I invited my gmail address to all the groups I own or moderate and changed the admin settings and went on no-mail for auntyalias@gmail.com . A "just in case" preparation because once I lose this land line and DSL all my Yahoo stuff will go with it. I really regret going for that AT&T/Yahoo partnership set up. I couldn't find any email that said I had a choice. It just sort of happened to those of us who use PacBell.
My website is backed up. In January I have to renew two domains and pay for my web hosting. I wrote to my contact at the webhost asking if I could go month to month while things are slim financially. If I can do that then maybe I can afford to renew the three domains (Norajean.com, Norajean-Designs.com and CITY-Lists.com) when they come up.
I posted the SOS to my website.
Now that I have the "virtual" house in order I look to the future, as uncertain as it might be. I have this attachment to the email I've exchanged with my friends and family. Back in the day we wrote letters to each other, had paper we could hold in our hands, something for our children and grandchildren to refer to. Now the exchanges are digital saving one's history is a technical challenge.
Push come to shove I'll do all I can to save the NoraJean.com domain. Even if I lose the webhost I can get another and reload my website when the finances are better. I might have to take a couple of steps backwards but I feel confident that I can regroup, no matter what.
I've gone through worse than losing an apartment. I've had practice in taking the big tumble when money dries up like a shallow pond during a drought. One just has to be determined to get back up, dust oneself off, and say, "Well that was real." and keep on moving on.
Where I'll end up if I lose this apartment I have no idea. I got a couple of girlfriends out of state who have said, "Come live with me until you're 62 and then get early retirement." I'm 60 1/2 now. That's not a long time to be obachan at a girlfriend's crib. I do cook well and am good company.
Even when I was young and marketable I couldn't get some guy to help out, not very much anyway, not with a couple of kids to take care of, so not being particularly marketable now to someone doesn't strike me as anything odd. Not really.
I am peaceful now that I have my email archived and organized. I've started sending out email to my Moderator teams on the Yahoo Groups, giving them the head's up that I might go MIA for a bit. That's why I am glad there are other co-owners who can look after the subscribers.
I'm so totally glad I have this blog as a back up and I'm going to start using this more regularly now that I am in the winding down mode.
An old hippy boomer who lived on communes, hitch hiked across the country with a baby on her hip as a teen mother, has a certain sort of flexibility when things go wonky. I never had a stable situation to get used to. Things were always on the edge of the abyss. There's a faint sort of familiarity to the oncoming storm.
I know the steps to this dance, the dance of uncontrollable change, the chaos cha cha. Well it's 3am and I should get some rest. Tomorrow I am going to be throwing out stuff that isn't going to come with me should I take a tumble.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
SOS and Head's Up
http://www.norajean.com/2009/12-09-09-SOS.htm
The recession is hitting our family hard. I might have to keep contact with the outside world through this blog. My other blogs are connected to my website and if I can't raise the $160 I need to renew the domains and the website those free tutorials will disappear.
The link above is to an open letter and SOS to the polymer clay public and it's on my website, we're paid up until Feb. 2, 2010.
If I take a tumble and lose my apartment and my phone I'll be using this blog to post updates on my situation.
If you've used my free tutorials and want to help keep my website up and running, click the link above and I'll be thankful for your mercy.
NoraJean
The recession is hitting our family hard. I might have to keep contact with the outside world through this blog. My other blogs are connected to my website and if I can't raise the $160 I need to renew the domains and the website those free tutorials will disappear.
The link above is to an open letter and SOS to the polymer clay public and it's on my website, we're paid up until Feb. 2, 2010.
If I take a tumble and lose my apartment and my phone I'll be using this blog to post updates on my situation.
If you've used my free tutorials and want to help keep my website up and running, click the link above and I'll be thankful for your mercy.
NoraJean
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