Not a "real" member???

You did read that wrong! I didn't mean it that way and I was going to follow up separately. I just forgot to put the message back in unroad mode. I'm sorry. I've never thought of you any differently than anyone else on this group you're a regular and well respected member.

I did read your post this morning about the game and thought it was a cute idea. I often wait for others to post before I do anything.

I very, very sorry that I might have said or written anything that might have given you the wrong impression and hurt your feelings. I for one am looking forward to meeting you at the barn!

M-C

Cecelia, don't go! I enjoy you. I think that it's basically just that there are founding members who know each other, the ladies who live in GA have had the opportunity to meet, Dave who drives, and then sounds like there have been about 4 official get togethers, one a year. You are indeed a REAL MEMBER. I want you here. I plan on going to the barn and look forward to meeting you. (I haven't yet registered (due to unexpected unemployment). I've only been here a year, and yes, there are lots of posts that I've made that have had only one or two responses and when I see other people's postings with 20 or more posts I would wonder why no one was responding. I finally came to the conclusion that is random, what's on the front page when we enter the newsgroup. For me, for example, I check the front page and the small column of older topics. I don't look prior to that, typically. IF it was an unusually busy day of postings, my post may have got pushed off the front page and out of people's attention within a few hours or even minutes and other times, when there are less new topic postings we might see the same article on the front page for days. I really think it's hit and miss.

with all that said, I will go look for your request and see if I can help. I hope you decide to stay and I really hope to see you at the barn!

Melissa in Seattle Pages in 2005 = 150

Cecelia:

I just went looking for your earlier post & couldn't find it. Maybe it's not showing up on everyone's newsreaders?

Since AOL dropped newsgroups I've been read/ing posting via google & know I don't read/post as much as I did on AOL. It's so frustrating not being able to mark posts read & then not see them again, since every time you log on you have to look thru *everything* (at least this newsgroup isn't filled with "maps" [read that backwards -- don't want anyone searching for a newsgroup to bother to latch onto a certain word & come pester us). So I often miss posts because they get buried. But google shows the initial poster in a thread & couldn't find any others from today with your name on it.

Alicia

Cecelia, I read your post this morning, but didn't have time to post a response as I had to go to a mandatory food program meeting for my childcare license. What a waste of a day - same-o same-o for the last eight years. But if I don't go I'm off the program. Just finished watching Twitches with the kids and thought I would get on again. I love your idea - if you want me to toss something in the prize box just let me know. I was also wondering about the possibility of a sort of circletrip/group album where we bring a page about ourselves for everyone else coming in a specific size like 6x6 or 8x8. Then we could get our own albums to put together. If we start now we would have plenty of time to get enough done without being stressed. I'm just excited about meeting everyone I've been talking to for they past year. Sandy

Cecelia,

As promised I went searching for your post, went through every post from my "front page" back through October 11th and found nothing. Read Alicia's post and now want to know what I'm missing! Can you repost it? M-C what's going on, could it be lost?

Melissa in Seattle pages in 2005 = 150

Melissa,

It is posted in the subject of "I'm going to the Barn!!" I copy and pasted it for ya here!

Cecelia Oct 15, 7:29 am

I'm going. I'll be staying as long as we can (arriving Thursday and leaving when they push me out the door on Monday!). I'm hoping to bring a friend, but waiting until we know the numbers of regulars.

I would like to do something when it gets closer, but maybe y'all can think about it now. I wanted to send out a survey/questionaire to everybody who is going. This would include questions like "What is the most embarassing thing that has happened to you?" and "How did you meet your SO (if you have one)?", etc. I would have the answers sent to me only then when we are

scrapping, I could do a quiz/game thing where I give a scenario and ask WHO that was. Does this make sense? As an example, I could ask which person was so excited to meet George Eads that they wet their pants. NO! This

didn't happen to me! I'm sure it would if I did meet him, but anyway... Y'all would guess who that was. Whoever got the most stuff right would get a prize. Y'all would have to NOT talk to each other about y'all's answers or it wouldn't work! The prize will be scrapbooking-related, but more of a "token prize" and nothing high $$$ so no need to cheat! LOL

Does this sound like something y'all would be interested in?

Cecelia

Linda, Thanks!

Cecelia,

That sounds like terrific fun! Maybe each person going could (on a voluntary basis) donate a little something for the prize box. Or would that become to complicated. this is all so exciting!

Melissa in Seattle (again) :)

Hi Cecelia,

You are a "real" member of this group, because you post and participate. Sounds like a lot of questions have been answered. Weekends are slower with this group and like some said some posts don't make it through. Sometimes I won't see a post until someone replies to it. As for people meeting it's just a who's going to be in an area and who lives close to whom. I'm in Northern California and I don't think anyone has traveled around here and vice versa I haven't left the west coast. Cathy and I think live th closest and we're probably 10 hours a part. Not something for a quick visit. I'd say if you want to see if anyone is in your area put a post out. I personally haven't met anyone in the group in person, but hope to some day.

I think a post like this is great too... not that you're feeling left out or unloved... but that you spoke up and asked "what's going on" so we could send our hugs your way and make sure you stay.

Hugs, Lynne

Oh my goodness Cecelia, I am so sorry you have been made to feel this way! I consider you an "oldie"! I don't know the post you are talking about,I seem to miss posts, but I do know M-C would never want you to be offended by anything she said!! She is a really nice person and an asset to our group. I haven't been posting much lately due to my illness,but I know you are very much appreciated. I think that some of us who live close or in the same town do tend to get to see each other but it isn't a big planned thing and certainly not meaning to exclude anyone. The Barn meeting is the first one that has been planned because so many of us would love to meet as many of the group as possible. It really is a big lift to meet and visit with each other. We are so much like family now. And my dear scrapbooking sister, I would love to meet up with you someday. I have been in swaps with many of you and met many of you..I have been posting since 2000 and have gotten so hooked on our daily conversations...it is the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night!! LOL I am so sorry you have been offended. Please do forgive us and then let us never speak of this again! LOL

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies. Tracy Briseno

Cecelia, Just read the post and I had not seen it before. Sounds like a great idea!!! Glad you are going to the Barn. I am going to try! My health is a big issue right now and I hate that! I am hoping that I will be much better by the time of the "Get together!

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies. Tracy Briseno

You know my thoughts and THANKS are with you and yours there Cecelia!! At times I wish WEBTV did not show all the posts as they can sure be overwhelming, especially when you have not been on for a few days.

{{HUGS}}

OKC Dave

Check out my pix and crafts!

Oh Cecelia I'm sorry that you don't feel like a "real" member of the group. I think you are a very real member of the group. In fact you inspire me. My goal is to go to a crop and complete as many pages as you do! Actually if I can complete more than three pages it would be great!

Also, thank you again for sending me the picture of the Christmas cards. They are wonderful and I think I may scraplift some of them. :-)

Cecelia, I'm sorry you're feeling slighted. Knowing M-C as long as I have and knowing her character I can assure you that she would never tell or insinuate that someone couldn't afford something. She simply is not that kind of person. I feel that you did indeed read it wrong.

You posted your message about the Barn yesterday morning, very early and on a Saturday at that. Many people are busy on the weekends and don't get right to reading the group, or they scan it as I do to see if there is something really important, or catches their eye and they get to it when they have more time to read all the posts. Personally I was reading through google yesterday, as I was at work, and was really confused when I read this post. I went all through the posts on google and didn't see your post about the Barn. This morning when I got home and logged onto the newsgroup using the reader that my ISP provides I saw your message about the Barn. All I can say it that for many it probably never showed up for them. Sometimes I never see the original post but one that someone has replied to and left the original attached. I've personally posted messages that have never gotten replied to, they simply never showed up. That happens in cyber space, they sometimes go into a black hole. Please don't take it personally.

As for the get togethers....if we're going somewhere on a trip we usually post it and if anyone lives nearby and want to meet they get together. No one is trying to exclude anyone from this group. For many of us it's like a second family. Or a family we don't have. I've meet some wonderful and dear friends on this group that I would never have met had I not been a part of this group. Dave is our big traveler as it's part of his job, he has helped bridged the gap between us all. Please if you are ever in our area, Central Arkansas or Northern Arkansas, Memphis area let me us know, Deb, M-C and myself are all here. We have another lady that reads our group from time to time that works in Little Rock, though we've never gotten to meet her in person. This group is also a wonderful support group for all of us. We are able to share things with others, knowing they will support us, prayer for/with us and our families.

I hope that after having slept on it things look differently for you today. Know that we would like for you to stay with our group. We love being able to share and see everyone's art and their life.

Hugs, Kenda

You are most definately a "real" member of this group Cecelia! And a valued one at that. MC would never intentionally make anyone feel like they couldn't afford anything. There's no doubt in my mind that she truly planned on replying privately, too. MC is a very thoughtful of other people's feelings and would never want to intentionally hurt someone.

As for your post, I just saw it tonight. We were about 3 hours away Friday night, visiting my MIL. DH & I got back about 11pm last night and went straight to bed. Then we had church this morning, impromptu meeting over lunch, race home to put things up that we literally dropped in the living room floor last night, MIL brought our kids back this afternoon, back to church this evening, stop for groceries on the way home, and then get the kids fed and in bed. I wasn't able to even see the computer until after the kids were in bed and I had my supper, only to find over 200 messages. Sometimes posts get lost on the newsservers and people don't see them.

You're definately a valued member of this group, and it would be a true loss if you left us. I'm glad you shared your thoughts, because there's nothing wrong with telling someone how what they said or did made you feel. Please stay with us!

Hi Cecelia!

I really do enjoy your posts and always think you contribute interesting inputs :) I only read the group over weekends and sometimes once a week when I get the time. My server only d/loads the last 200 posts (headings aswell as replies), thus I do miss out on some posts. So this also goes for all other members in the group, if I don't respond to a posting, it's probably because I just did not receive it :) I do hope you decide to stay! I've also made postings in the past that did not get much response, but I've met such wonderful fellow scrapper friends on this group, that it always lifts my spirits just to read what's going on in everyone's lives! Especially on those days when one don't feel on top of the world :)

Judy, SA

I don't think anyone deliberately ignored you Cecelia... but your idea was posted in the middle of a thread and a lot of people might not even have seen it... replies tend to get less read than new posts unless someone's taking an active part in the conversation of that thread already.

I for one did not see your post about the game and because I can't go I wouldn't reply anyway. I feel bad that you don't feel you belong. I was your NSSSF awhile back and I guess I didn't do a very good job. You are a part of this group whether you post alot or not! M-C is such a sweet person, I know she never ment for anything she said to be taken the wrong way! Barb:o)