Today is Monday.....yea yea I know many of you don't like Mondays, and I read on Twitter that my friend Nannette Saunders isn't liking her Monday so far. Ahh a normal person, that actually has a bad day every now and then :) But on the flip side, I sent out a request for someone in Florida....and another friend Audrey June-Forshey called me with the name and number of a great resource down there. She had already made a call....now how great is that? So, my Monday has already started with some of the unexpected rewards from Blogging.
Making Friends and Renewing Friendships was a Post I wrote back in May of '07.
Re-reading it doesn't look like I have changed any of my thinking. In fact I went to find a few old posts after a conversation on how we change after being on Active Rain for awhile.
I made the comment that the only thing about me that changed is I have better Graphics...thanks to Sally Cheeseman, and I learned how to do links thanks to TLW.
This is from the Making Friends Post in May:
I am amazed at the quality of the Active Rain Community, and have been following several people's posts; each time feeling like I made a new friend. This community has brought me out of my small town USA into a larger arena of Professionals where I have learned many new tricks, tips, and stories.
This morning I came online again, and of course came here to see what was new. I wanted to see who is working in my area, and noticed there were 88 Escrow Companies, so I clicked on the link and was shocked to see an old family friend. I hadn't seen him for years, and here he is on AR. This young man wanted to be a Police Officer growing up, and now owns his own Escrow Company in Lancaster, CA. Thanks everyone for the new friendships, and thanks Active Rain for the old.......
We all have our Favorite People that we like to read,and I know that out of all our members there are some things that stick in my mind, or some people that are just so nice that they have made an impression on me. Absolutely without a doubt Sally has been the person that affected me the most, and this has been both through blogging and in real life.
"Working together,and supporting each other is the key in any relationship....." this is what Sally wrote on one of my Posts last year.....and for this whole year Sally has been a good friend to many of us here. Sally's Contests helped me keep my sanity last year when I was on the brink of an Industry related Depression. So many times last year I had to work at being positive, and looking for that ray of sunshine, but I always found it. We just have to give ourselves permission to be upset, down, depressed, or just plain in a bad mood...we have to remember that not all of us Blogging are "Happy People" 24/7 :)
When it Comes to Graphics, Blog Headers, "Cookies" only one name comes to mind and that is Marti Garaughty. Marti is the Founder of the Art of Marketing You Group. And when I think of Marti, a few of the people I see are Margaret Rome, Linda Scanlan, William Johnson, Brad Andersohn. Thanks to Marti and his Graphics I can easily identify them, and all of them are wonderful people.
Now these next 2 people I wrote about in a Post in July of 2007; because I needed the info, and wanted it, I found it. Their Posts are timeless, and in my opinion "nobody but nobody" can write a Blog on Copyright Violations like Lenn Harley.
- Missy Caulk-Her Post My Favorite Technology and Time Saving Tools was one of the ones that I remember the most. It saved me a lot of frustration. Missy and the people that came to her post helped me solve my problems with anti virus and getting docs signed.
- Lenn Harley-http://www.homefinders.com/ The best posts for copyright violations :) Just click her name, or use the Search button and put in there copyright violations. A Fantastic Broker that has given over and over to this community.......
Now to go along with Lenn's Post here is a site I bookmarked very early in my Blogging and Internet Activities ~This link is for all of us that have had our pictures "copied' or stolen by someone else for their own use. A good resource for all of us :)
Blogging Points are nice, but don't forget what's really important. Active Rain is a community.....it is about all of us, the consumer, the client, the knowledge, and the people, the sharing and the caring.
these are the rewards, even when we hate Mondays :)
As a final Reward/Gift to all of you I would like to Introduce Sylvie Conde who wrote several Posts on Feeding the Hungry for FREE. We can all make a difference click here
. Several of us have decided to follow Sylvie's example, and if you see the Hunger Site Graphic look for something to click....even if you have done it once or twice, please click all these graphics you see.
OK, well hopefully as Monday is ending...I leave you with this....good mood or bad, our Virtual Friends will support us, and be there for us just as we are there for them. Now everyone try to have a good week, it's a new one after-all :) :)
By: Kathy McGraw- CELLing Realty in Riverside County, CA
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