Taken from ^y2jenn's journal

I just got an email from my ma about my home town. About a week ago, at least 13 tornadoes touched down along the NM-TX border and one of them ripped through the middle of Clovis. It destroyed 400+ homes and businesses in Clovis alone. It ripped up 100 year old trees, tossed trailers through the bowling alley roof, ripped the roof off of the senior citizens housing, bent phone poles in half and sent air conditioning units from one of the junior high schools through the roofs of surrounding houses. It completely destroyed one of the grain silos I'd known all my life. A lot of people were injured in some way, head trauma and the like... 2 are in critical condition. 120-125 mph winds left a 3 mile long path through the center of my town. I'm so scared for people I grew up with and families I know still live there. I'm sad I can't be home to physically help in some way.

A Salvation Army truck on its way from El Paso to Clovis was looted. $1500 worth of supplies was stolen right out of the back of it and the thieves haven't been found yet.

I don't have a lot of free time on my hands right now but I want to start a fund raiser for Clovis. I don't expect to raise a lot of money but every little bit will help, y'know? So, if you're interested, I'm goin to open $3 commissions for quick head-shot sketches of your choice of character. Please send your donations through PayPal to y2jenners@cox.net. Once a good amount has been saved up I will donate the entire thing to UnitedWayENM.org for the Tornado Relief Fund. Or, if you'd rather, you can bypass me and donate directly to their website.

If you want a $3 commission please send ^y2jenn a note with "tornado commission" as the subject and include any links to character references. Any thing from you guys will be appreciated so much.

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Alright everyone! I have spent the ENTIRE day coding this layout. The graphic took a matter of minutes but the code was just tedious. I'm about ready to vomit at the thought of hitting the 'Preview' link again.

That said, this layout is explicity created for =RyDoG and I'm not going to release it to the general public.

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I have about a million projects that I'm working on so listing them would probably just be annoying to everyone. To all of my new watchers though... If you haven't placed a vote on the provokingTHOUGHT news article, PLEASE do! I have to tally votes this weekend since it's been running for quite some time so I'd like to get as many votes in as humanly possible

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I want to do something fun and pointless that doesn't revolve around actually working to accomplish anything so I think I'd like to start a DA family. Just comment on this journal with what you'd like to be and we'll see how disfunctional a family I can create. Currently, I do have one siamese twin- =angelles (my bestest and onliest mindmelded sis ) and one husband !eAero who accepted my proposal last night!

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I'd also be curious to hear from old and new watchers alike.... what would you like to see more or less of from me? Tell me about yourselves.... let's get to know each other. You can ask the weirdest question you can think of and I can GUARANTEE answers! I'm just the coolest like that.