So I'm not huge into making
resolutions
but I think this momentous year calls for some. Below I've
compiled a list of resolutions related to JABB. I'm hoping that
if I publicly tell ya'll, I'll be more apt to keep them! If you'd
like some of your own added (Andrew, TBAA, JABB, and related ones only,
please!) then just drop me an email and I'll be happy to add it/them
here. Maybe we can be accountable together!
1. I resolve to keep up with the Encyclopedia better. I use it so, so often that I can't abandon it. But suddenly finding myself 10 newsletters behind? Not so much fun. So from now on when one newsletter gets sent, one older one gets added to the Encyclopedia. Don't wanna lose any of those vital apocryphal Andrew tidbits of info!
2. I resolve to enjoy watching TBAA on Hallmark. I won't dwell only on what scenes they chose to cut. I will regularly send them thank you notes for airing the show. Said notes shall not include phrases like "what the bleep is wrong with your programmers?!?" or "You traitors to artistic integrity!!!" Ahem. I'll keep it nice... like a Hallmark card.
3. No buying clothes for Andrew. Seriously. Or if I feel I must buy some flannel shirts, they shall immediately be turned over to a homeless shelter... not neatly stacked and folded and set in my bedroom where I will stare at them wistfully.
4. So writing Andrew into dramatic situations is good. He's an angel of death. His life on earth IS a dramatic situation unto itself. But I should not cause undue angst or concern with my writing. Therefore, Andrew's activities in 2010 will be restricted to: watching TV (oh geez... but what if he sees a crime show and has a flashback?), playing with the AOD Band (but what if seeing Henry and Adam makes him miss the AOD gig... especially when it's right in the band's name???), and hanging out with friends (many of which will age and die...)
Okay, scratch that one. Let's try this again...
4. I will write Andrew into dramatic situations. I realize that being an AOD isn't easy and angst happens. I'll just make sure I always write him in a friend or two or several. And God, too. Because God loves him.
5. This will be the year I find, create, or commandeer a word to describe the relationship between Andrew and any Dyeland character who is in love with him while fully realizing he is NOT in love with them (or anyone). I will find it!!! It's gotta be something that doesn't give the wrong impression yet suggests some sort of permanency (better to shut down unwanted set-up offers made to the ladies) and sounds better than "asexual lifemate." Hmmm... Well, I have over 350 days to figure it out.
6. I won't keep forgetting to refill the Kleenex box in the computer room since
my
subconscious seems to get amusement out of
randomly foisting scenes like the following upon me:
8. I resolve to keep playing Jeopardy on the YG cause it's way fun and can be surprisingly chat-inspiring! Thanks YG members for an awesome end to 2009! Here's hoping 2010 is even better! ~Jenni
Okay, so on January 6th, 1996 something wonderful happened. "The One that Got Away" aired and the world was introduced to the loveliness that is Andrew! To celebrate, I created a TOTGA-themed crossword puzzle. And, yes, it is *actually* a crossword puzzle this time. Look back on JABB 209. Does that "crossword puzzle" not look suspiciously like a word search? Apparently I was too distracted by the loveliness of Andrew to notice. This time... maybe I can make it happen.
Across:
1. Andrew is this to Tess
2. "Some say love, it is a ________"
3. Possibly thrown at the wedding
4. Susan is this
5. Annoying classmate everyone tries to avoid
6. Main male assignment
7. Attribute of Andrew's shoes
Down:
1. Pierced
2. Metal worn by Andrew
4. Setting of episode
5. Article of clothing worn by Andrew
6. What Tess calls Andrew, strangely
7. Another singer famous for singing "The Rose"
8. Doug's relationship to Lisa
9. "It's the _______ afraid of breaking"
(Photo Credits: The photographs used on this page are from "Touched by an Angel" and owned by CBS Productions, Caroline Productions, and Moon Water Productions. They are not being used to seek profit.)
1. I resolve to keep up with the Encyclopedia better. I use it so, so often that I can't abandon it. But suddenly finding myself 10 newsletters behind? Not so much fun. So from now on when one newsletter gets sent, one older one gets added to the Encyclopedia. Don't wanna lose any of those vital apocryphal Andrew tidbits of info!
2. I resolve to enjoy watching TBAA on Hallmark. I won't dwell only on what scenes they chose to cut. I will regularly send them thank you notes for airing the show. Said notes shall not include phrases like "what the bleep is wrong with your programmers?!?" or "You traitors to artistic integrity!!!" Ahem. I'll keep it nice... like a Hallmark card.
3. No buying clothes for Andrew. Seriously. Or if I feel I must buy some flannel shirts, they shall immediately be turned over to a homeless shelter... not neatly stacked and folded and set in my bedroom where I will stare at them wistfully.
4. So writing Andrew into dramatic situations is good. He's an angel of death. His life on earth IS a dramatic situation unto itself. But I should not cause undue angst or concern with my writing. Therefore, Andrew's activities in 2010 will be restricted to: watching TV (oh geez... but what if he sees a crime show and has a flashback?), playing with the AOD Band (but what if seeing Henry and Adam makes him miss the AOD gig... especially when it's right in the band's name???), and hanging out with friends (many of which will age and die...)
Okay, scratch that one. Let's try this again...
4. I will write Andrew into dramatic situations. I realize that being an AOD isn't easy and angst happens. I'll just make sure I always write him in a friend or two or several. And God, too. Because God loves him.
5. This will be the year I find, create, or commandeer a word to describe the relationship between Andrew and any Dyeland character who is in love with him while fully realizing he is NOT in love with them (or anyone). I will find it!!! It's gotta be something that doesn't give the wrong impression yet suggests some sort of permanency (better to shut down unwanted set-up offers made to the ladies) and sounds better than "asexual lifemate." Hmmm... Well, I have over 350 days to figure it out.
6. I won't keep forgetting to refill the Kleenex box in the computer room since
my
subconscious seems to get amusement out of
randomly foisting scenes like the following upon me:- Andrew getting beat up by some idiot punks whilst homeless.
- Vincent's mother laboring with him whilst thinking of her cruelly killed, totally awesome husband.
- LJA discovering that her aunt had her own one-sided love affair with an AOD whose name she would eventually forget due to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, thus opening up the possibility that fifty or so years down the road the scene's just going to repeat itself.
- People dying in Andrew's arms. Sorry, Dawn. Sorry, Maggie.
- Andrew of
2015 or so... I am very, very, very sorry.
8. I resolve to keep playing Jeopardy on the YG cause it's way fun and can be surprisingly chat-inspiring! Thanks YG members for an awesome end to 2009! Here's hoping 2010 is even better! ~Jenni
"The
One that Got Away" Crossword Puzzle
Okay, so on January 6th, 1996 something wonderful happened. "The One that Got Away" aired and the world was introduced to the loveliness that is Andrew! To celebrate, I created a TOTGA-themed crossword puzzle. And, yes, it is *actually* a crossword puzzle this time. Look back on JABB 209. Does that "crossword puzzle" not look suspiciously like a word search? Apparently I was too distracted by the loveliness of Andrew to notice. This time... maybe I can make it happen.
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Clues:
Across:
1. Andrew is this to Tess
2. "Some say love, it is a ________"
3. Possibly thrown at the wedding
4. Susan is this
5. Annoying classmate everyone tries to avoid
6. Main male assignment
7. Attribute of Andrew's shoes
Down:
1. Pierced
2. Metal worn by Andrew
4. Setting of episode
5. Article of clothing worn by Andrew
6. What Tess calls Andrew, strangely
7. Another singer famous for singing "The Rose"
8. Doug's relationship to Lisa
9. "It's the _______ afraid of breaking"
(Photo Credits: The photographs used on this page are from "Touched by an Angel" and owned by CBS Productions, Caroline Productions, and Moon Water Productions. They are not being used to seek profit.)