The end of my “health break” has come and gone and now it’s time to get back to work.
Those two weeks have done me a lot of good but I still don’t feel quite right so instead of rushing back into the online world, I’m going to take it steady for a few more days until the end of the month.

I do have some good news though as J.S.NET now counts 5 affiliates and I am very proud to be affiliated with all of them. My new affie is called Kimmi* and her sites lives at Kimmi.Honey-Babe.net*. Right now she has this really colorful layout that you mustn’t miss out on!

---

I’d also like to take this moment to thank Patricia, owner of MinionMatch.com*. I mailed her with a concern a few days ago to which she immediatly replied, very polite and professional. I was not expecting a reply and even less such understanding and patience with me. In fact, Patricia did more for me and this site than I could ever have asked for. So I’d really like to thank her. Her website is well worth the visit and her team work very hard to make it this way. I definetly recomend visiting them if you are looking for minion suggestions for your pets (their speciality!), top quality graphics in all sorts of categories, or a good forum to join.

---

Now onto a few Subeta.org updates.

Over the last couple of weeks there have been more and more (boring plain brown) shop icons replaced with unique characters called the Shop Keepers.
I continue to update the Subeta Image Gallery* as soon as I learn about them.
(A quick note about the gallery: I have had to delete then re-add a few Battle Opponents because I had somehow managed to mess up the previews. Does this deserve an Oops tag do you think? Or am I forgiven? n_n Anyway, it’s fixed.)

I have a few more trophies to add to the Trophy Room, and 2 new games to add too, Stargazer and Trapped Minions. They were added a little while back but as you know my activity on the site slowed down quite a bit so updates were rare, in particular ones about Subeta.

ENGLISH
I will not be able to answer emails, messages, comments, tags or u2u’s over the next fortnight because of physical and mental exaustion.
You may see me here and there and I will of course read anything that is sent my way but I won’t be able to return anything during this time. Thank you all for your concern!
Lots of Love,
Joanna.

FRANCAIS
Durant la prochaine quizaine j’ai le regret de vous informer que je ne pourrai pas répondre aux emails, messages ou commentaires qui me seront adressé pour cause d’épuisement.
Vous me verrez peut-être ici et là et je lirai évidemment avec plaisir tout ce qui pourrait m’être envoyé mais je ne pourrai pas vous répondre durant ce temps là. Merci pour votre compréhension.
Je vous embrasse tous du fond du coeur!
Joanna.

My website hardly works in Internet Explorer!
I just switched browser to make sure all was still fine, just like I did during the layout change. But this time it's a real mess, with scrollbars all over the place and lists look pretty bad too.
Since the layout change, I have made quite a few touch-ups here and there. I didn't realise they could affect how IE sees my site though! u_u Ah la la..
I am so sorry if you are an IE user and have been seeing my site like this. I guess I'll have to work on it.

In other news, Caz has given me a super cute gift entitled “KittyForTheLovelyJoanna”. Isn’t she supa sweet? It’s in the top left corner of this post. I don't feel like I've done much for you or really stayed in contact. I guess a little kind word now and then seems to suit us both pretty well. I greatly respect the webmiss, but I admire the person behind even more. Thankyou!

And yet another gift! Woohoo! These two are from Allie and are my prizes for winning SECOND PLACE in her “Design-a-Bear” contest that ended on April the 6th. So cute!

I also got a participation award like all those who entered the contest.
Congratulations to the other winners (2 of them are my affies!! *I ish a proud affie* lol). Also big claps for all entries, I would have found it very difficult deciding which should be in the top three.
And last but not least, thankyou to the Jury and Allie for organising this original contest.

---

Subeta News:
- Old Turdle*
- New Chelon*

As the title says, I’m slowly going through my website’s pages and adding them to wordpress rather than have them on my computer and update via FTP. If you’ve bookmarked any pages, over the next few days you may find that the link brings up a “404 page not found” error. So once the job is done I will post here so that you know to change any bookmarks you had to their new url. I’m sorry for the inconvenience this may cause!!

Also my site is very much outdated since I took a small break.
There are new games, characters, pet revamp polls and minion revamps on Subeta for example which need to be added to the site here. This will be happening over the next few days too.

And now for the good news: I’m still moderator at Teahouse MB!!!
And Lisa and Kimmy have been really kind and understanding and have reduced my 6 forums down to 2. I feel bad for having asked but when you work with people I think it’s important to be honest, especially if you are struggling. And you may be surprised at the helping hands people offer you if you are honest with yourself and with them. I think TH is teaching me a lot more than just how to be a moderator. I know it’s not paid but I see it as a sort of job. As I haven’t had any real jobs other than voluntary stuff, I feel this is good experience. Wierd huh? And my respect for the other staff has really grown. I do not regret choosing this message board over all the others.

Liz gave me and her other affiliates this really cute gift with an Easter Theme:

And going along with the true meaning of Easter, this was my entry to a contest on Teahouse called “What does Easter represent for you?”

I called it “Resurection, out of the grave.” The voting starts today!