Hi All

I have a few ideas I am going to be pitching to Fay next week concerning the FFG LJ and the FFG My Space since many folks do not have Face Book Account. If you are not a member of either of these please come and join. We have a FFG My Space and the FFG LJ is ffg_themovie I have just posted over there to see who is still on the flist.

I am going to post all the FFG info in both these places and just link to them from my Lj and other places. Easier for me in posting. I will post once in the FFG LJ and then just post the LJ link other places.

On Monday I will post the answers from Fay to everyone's questions. I have company right now so do not have time for a long post.

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Pat

HI EVERYONE

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT LIVE IN THE US & CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING, I WANT TO WISH YOU ALL A VERY VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING. FOR EVERYONE WHETHER YOU CELEBRATE THIS HOLIDAY OR NOT, PLEASE TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TODAY TO SIT BACK AND THINK ABOUT ALL THE BLESSINGS IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR SUCH AS, HAVING FOOD ON THE TABLE, CLOTHES TO WEAR, A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD, FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT LOVE YOU, YOUR HEALTH AND THE LIST GOES ON. SO TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO MEDITATE AND COUNT YOUR BLESSING AND GIVE OUT A THANK YOU. I HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS THIS MORNING.

As always I am going to give you a few quotes and a Video to watch. The quotes are all Thanksgiving Quotes and the Video is about Gratitude. So Enjoy!!!

ON a side note, I have just gotten an email from Fay answering all your questions about the FFG DVD. Since I am getting ready for Thanksgiving festivities myself right now, I will wait until Monday to post all the Info about FFG. She has even answered a behind the scenes question. :)

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Pat


Now on the the Quotes:

"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving."

"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow." -Edward Sandford Martin

"Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude." -E.P. Powell

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." -W.T. Purkiser

"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." - W.J. Cameron

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." -Meister Eckhart

"Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing." -Henry Jacobsen


Here is the Video "The Power of Gratitude"





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jF6u4GJQ-U&feature=player_embedded

Ally This Is For You!!!! LOL!!!

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Pat

Hi Guys

I just made a post in another QAF community for someone that was interested in pictures from FFG and Gale playing Andrew so I thought I would post the pictures in my LJ too for your Enjoyment!!

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Pat

Hi Everyone

I have just sent Fay an email with a list of questions you all had about FFG. I will let you all know the answers when she gets back to me.

Hugs
Pat

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TERRY & COLLEEN!!!!!

I HOPE YOU BOTH HAVE AN AWESOME BIRTHDAY AND GET ALL THE PRESENTS, CARDS, CAKE & MEN THAT YOU WANT. MAY THEY ALL COME FROM NEAR & FAR!!! BUT REMEMBER TO SHARE THE CAKE WITH YOUR FRIENDS BUT KEEP THE MEN FOR YOURSELVES. :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

HUGS
PAT



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Hi Everyone

I am here to do my weekly Inspirational Post and since this is the month of Thanksgiving here in the US, I have decided to make this week & next week's posts about GRATITUDE.

So what in your life are you GRATEFUL for? Family, Friends, Health, Wealth, Food, Shelter? Although you know in your heart that you are GRATEFUL for these things and many many more, it is very easy in our so busy lives to forget to express our appreciation for these things we receive everyday.

But Guess What? "If you woke up today, congratulations! You have another chance."

I love that quote. It is so true. Each and every morning you have a new day ahead of you and another chance to express your APPRECIATION & GRATITUDE for all the blessings in your life.

There will always be people in the world that have more or less than you do. But you need to always try to express GRATITUDE for whatever you have in your life. Everyone and I mean Everyone has something to be GRATEFUL for. Even if it's only that you are ALIVE TODAY or YOU CAN SEE ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD OR HEAR THE BIRDS SING!!!!!!! These 3 things alone are truly things to be GRATEFUL for.

So here is your HOMEWORK over the next 2 mornings, as soon as you wake up, think about the things in your live you are GRATEFUL for. THEN SAY THE THINGS OUT LOUD. Then tell the UNIVERSE THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR BLESSINGS!!!!!

I AM SO BLESSED FOR MANY MANY THINGS IN MY LIFE AND I KNOW ONE OF THEM IS ALL OF YOU!!!!! THANK YOU UNIVERSE FOR ALL OF MY DEAR FRIENDS!!!!

Below is your Quotes & Video. If you comment, you can share something you are Grateful for too if you wish. :)

Hugs
Pat
xxxooo


GRATITUDE QUOTES FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT:

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." By: Johannes A. Gaertner

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." By: Margaret Cousins

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." By: John F. Kennedy

GRATITUDE VIDEO Title: Learning To Dance In The Rain (to watch you might have to x out the Join newsletter box and then click on Replay this Video Sorry!) Enjoy!!!!

http://www.danceintherainmovie.com/land.php

Hi Everyone

As everyone knows, I am POSITIVE PAT and I will not get into a PISSING CONTEST with anyone.

Here is what is going on: There is a person on LJ that is not on my Lj because I have had to BAN HER FROM MY LJ for her outrageous behavior and comments to me. This person has way way to much free time on her hands that she is now stalking me in the sense, that every single time I post a comment in one of your LJ's, other folks LJ's or community LJ's, she has to come back and stab at me with mean shit. This has been going on for 5 month since June.

I wanted you all to know that she is doing this. So if you see me comment to you or in a community and she comes behind me and starts shit, I will not engage with her. She is not going to pull me into her negative and very immature behavior. This is a grown woman for goodness sake not a child. She really needs to just move on!!!!!!

So if anyone on my flist is friends with buzziecat You can pass this on to her and if you feel the need to defriend me yourself because you can not be friends with both of us, that will be fine, I understand. But I am not stooping to her level on this.

Hugs
Pat

Hi Everyone

I have just gotten an email from Fay. I have only taken out a couple of paragraphs that were personal stuff but am posting the rest as to pass on the up to date on FFG Rental and sales. I will keep you all posted. Here is Fay's email to me:

Hi Pat,

Here's the update:

FFG will be available for rental starting January (don't know where yet as Gaiam
is distributing, but they will get me the info when they have them).

FFG will be available for sale starting in January (same time as rental) from
the official website only: http://www.facebook.com/l/ea559;fallingforgrace.com
(and of course, we would prefer that everyone buys from us because we will make
slightly more if fans bought from website - we still have to buy the DVD from
distributor). We will also work in some incentives for fans to buy from us
directly - working out details now.

March 9th - DVD will be widely available in stores in North America.

We don't have any other DVD deals other than the one in North America, so
anything you hear about outside the U.S. is not legal and should be ignored, if
fans choose to do so.

Please encourage everyone to purchase the DVD from the website directly. We are
also trying to generate enough pre-orders to get some mainstream press, but
we're talking a lot of DVDs...

We are working on the details for pre-orders now. Should have something up on
our site by next week.

Thanks for checking in. This is a very stressful time for FFG - this is the
make it or break it time. I think even Gale is hoping the DVD sales will work
for all of us...

We will talk very soon so you can help us brainstorm!!!!

xo
fay

SO GUYS THIS IS THE OFFICIAL UPDATE STRAIGHT FROM FAY!!!!!

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Pat

Hi Everyone

I hope everyone had a Great Weekend. Mine was great but very busy and so I have not been on LJ much over the past few days. I will try to catch up today. I really only have a couple of hours before I go to teach a Workshop so thought I would do a quick update.

I have more and more folks calling me to teach Workshops for them. The teachers need the training hours before the end of the year. Yeah like in a few weeks. LOL!!!

I need to find the time to do the following:

Finish editing my Pride Video and get the Pride pictures posted here in my LJ

Post this week my next Positive Pat's Inspirational Post

Finish up and Post Brian & Justin's next "Bet" fic.

Post the new Randy & Marci pictures from Julius C. that I just received in my email today.

Finish editing the footage I have of my short doc and get it finished.

Post the Dragon Con pictures of the people folks have asked me about.

Post info and pictures of some behind the scenes from some of my films.

Finish my beta jobs.

OMG now that is a list. I am going to try and get most of them done this week. Wish me luck!!!

Hugs
Pat

Hi Everyone

Here is the first of many to come, Positive Pat's Inspirational Posts. I use to try and do one of these each month but over the past few months, I have been so busy "reinventing myself" that I did not do them. But I am back and am going to try and do at least one each week. In January 2010, I am going to start making my own Videos like these and will post them as I do them too.

Now since over the past few weeks I have been "scolded" for being HAPPY (I swear how can anyone be in deep shit trouble for being Happy) I will put a warning on my Positive Posts. So here is the warning: If you do not want to read or see any words, quotes or videos that are warm, uplifting, inspiring, positive and motivational, then you do not need to click below and you can move on from reading the rest of this post. If not and you want to have all these things, then just click below and ENJOY!!!!!

( Positive_Pat's_Inspirational_Post )

Hi Guys

I again want to thank all of you for the nice well wishes for my mom either through comments, PM's or emails. I have passed on all the wishes to her and she again thanks you all. Last night I made a "Happy Post" because several nice things had happened to me yesterday.

My mom had gotten out of the hospital & was doing better.

I had scheduled several more workshops to teach before Christmas which means more money for paying the bills and for Christmas spending.

Patrick had emailed me for info to pass along to the folks making Vampire Diaries being filmed here outside of Atlanta.

I had decided that I had read enough of a couple of people's negative drama and had deleted a couple of folks from my LJ since that is what you do if you do not wish to be friends anymore.

All of the above things being nice things for me, lead me to post my Happy Post. I want to thank all the folks on my flist that either left nice comments, or PMed & emailed me with nice thoughts. You guys are the Best!!!!!

I also want to thank the folks on my flist that let me know that one of the people I defriended had posted in their LJ and was basically talking Negative about me. She also PMed me with the negative crap too. I have yet to reply to her.

Since I have been told over & over again that this is MY JOURNAL and I can post anything I want in MY JOURNAL, I am going to do just that.

I will be the better person here and just say as far as "that person" goes, I am so over the person and am moving on to my Positive Happy Place. We are no longer on each other's flist, so Just Move On!!!!

Okay so are all of you ready for a little Sunshine now. I know I am since it has been raining for the past 2 days all day & night straight and has now finally stopped. I can see the Sunshine coming through the clouds. YEAH!!!!!! SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS AND RAINBOWS ALL THE WAY!!!!!!

Hugs
Pat

Hi Guys

OMG as I said to Viv & Lex tonight, I am on a fucking roll!!!! I did something tonight that I should have done a long time ago and now I feel SO GREAT!!!!!!

So now I can open up the dirty windows and let in a breath of fresh air. Now I can take in a breath of the fresh air and send out lots and lots of Positive Energy out into the Universe and hopefully it will land on all of you. :)

I Am So Glad I did this and wish I had done it sooner. I can't wait to do a fun, happy, positive motivational post later this week. I am so Energized and ready to Go!!!!!!!

Big Hugs
Pat

Hi Everyone,

My Mom is out of the Hospital and is now Home. YEAH!!!!! I just talked to her and she is doing well. Just resting, as she should be. I want to thank all of you that send well wishes to my mom. I passed them on to her and she told me to also thank all of you from her too. :) BIG BIG THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Now let me see where am I now. I have posted the next fic about Brian and Justin and their "bets" and OMG have I had comments galore in all the places I have posted it. It seems like folks are liking the competition between Brian & Justin with their bets and the fact that I include QAF pictures and a "surprise" picture at the end. LOL!!!

I had already lined up at least 2 more fics with them betting with each other but now may do more since folks seem to like them. This will I guess be kind of a mini series. LOL!!!

I am also working on 2 Party Fics too. Both will be AWESOME ones believe me. :)

I spent the afternoon downloading my Pride Parade video and editing on 2 other videos from film shoots. For those of you that wanted to see pix of Pride, I will be trying to get those posted as well as pictures from behind the scenes film shoots I have done that it seems folks are interested in seeing. It seems that since the behind the scenes pix of Gale in Fertile Ground were posted, folks have been contacting me with questions about filming and if I have behind the scenes kind of pictures too. I do have many and will work on doing some posts with them soon.

The weather is hell again here with continuous rain from last night through at least tomorrow night and we are suppose to have several inches of rain again. I just hope there is NO FLOODING!!!! Folks are just starting to get Fema money to rebuild if they can so another flood would be sooooo bad right now. You could go swimming in my yard right now. LOL!!!

I am putting together my next Positive Pat post now so I will have that posted this week too. So as usual, I am very very busy. :)

Until Next Time......

Hugs
Pat

I will be back later today or tomorrow to do my Postitive Post. I have been MIA alot the past couple of days because my mom has been in the hospital. She was admitted from the ER on Friday night and has been in ever since. She just called me and her doctor said he might release her to go home today. YEAH!!!!

So I have been working and going back and forth to the hospital and staying late. She has bronchitis, a very bad cough which means she coughs all night and cannot sleep. But the worry was that she was very short of breath and had to be on oxygen and breathing treatments until today. Her chest is clearer now and she is breathing better so she might get out.

The doctor really wanted her to get better and go home because she is on the ward where all the Flu Victims are and he did not want her to catch the Flu on top of her present problems.

I will post again soon.

Hugs
Pat

Hi Guys

I am telling a story in Brian's Castle, Justin is not happy about it but Brian is. Brian thinks it is "pay back" to Justin for the Halloween story. So if you want to read the fic "You Wanna Bet" just pop over to Brian's LJ at kinneyskastle and have a read.

You get to raid Brian's Bar while you are there and sit in his comfortable chairs. Take advantage of it while he is gone. LOL!!!!

I will be posting a Positive post and a couple other posts this week in my LJ here.

Hugs
Pat

I THINK SOMETIME OVER THE WEEKEND I NEED TO DO A POSITIVE PAT'S INSPIRATIONAL POST AGAIN SINCE OMG IT SEEMS THERE IS NO ONE OF LJ THAT IS HAPPY!!!!!!

ALL I AM READING OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS IS "I AM SAD, I AM SAD, WOE IS ME" POSTS. NOW GRANTED SOME OF THESE FOLKS ARE DRAMA QUEENS OR JUST POST THIS KIND OF STUFF ALL THE TIME BECAUSE ALL THEY WANT IS THEIR FLIST COMMENTS ON HOW GREAT THEY ARE. WE ALL KNOW WHO THESE FOLKS ARE AND I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW FOLKS FEED INTO THIS FROM THEM.

BUT THESE DRAMA QUEEN FOLKS ASIDE, I HAVE BEEN READING SO MANY OTHER FOLKS POSTING THE SAD POSTS AND I AM WONDERING IF THERE ARE NOT ANY HAPPY FOLKS ON LJ ANYMORE? I KNOW HOW HARD LIFE IS RIGHT NOW FOR FOLKS WITH THE ECONOMY BEING SO BAD, I AM THERE TOO, BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME POSITIVE THOUGHTS OUT THERE TO BUILD THE MOMENTUM TO FIGHT THE FIGHT AND WIN OUT OVER THE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS. WE HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT THINGS WILL BE BETTER AND START THOSE POSITIVE THOUGHTS ROLLING!!!!!!

I AM GOING TO BE MAKING A POSITIVE POST THIS WEEKEND AND I THINK ONCE A WEEK FROM NOW ON. OMG
WE NEED IT MORE THAN EVER IT LOOKS LIKE!!!!!



HUGS
PAT

ALLY,

I WANT TO WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAR FRIEND AND MANY MANY MORE TO COME. HERE ARE JUST A FEW THINGS TO REMIND YOU OF ALL THE FUN WE HAVE HAD AND HOW MUCH MORE WE WILL HAVE IN THE FUTURE WITH ALL THE EXCELLENT ADVENTURES!!!!! BTW CHECKOUT THE ICON. LOL!!!!

( Happy_Birthday )

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

I KNOW I AM A DAY EARLY BUT SINCE I MIGHT NOT BE AROUND A COMPUTER TOMORROW, WITH ALL THE PRIDE & HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES I WILL BE DOING IN HOTLANTA, ALL WEEKEND WITH ALLY & JENNY, I THOUGHT I WOULD TAKE THE TIME RIGHT NOW TO WISH YOU ALL THAT CELEBRATE,

A VERY VERY HAPPY & SAFE HALLOWEEN

FOR YOUR PLEASURE & JUSTIN'S PLEASURE & BRIAN'S DISPLEASURE, I HAVE POSTED A CONVERSATION AND A BRIAN & JUSTIN HALLOWEEN STORY IN BRIAN'S CASTLE kinneyskastle IF YOU WANT TO CHECK IT OUT.

NOW DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR BRIAN, HIS TURN "GETTING OVER" ON SUNSHINE IS COMING NEXT WEEK. *WINK*

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!

HUGS
PAT
XXXOOO

Hi Guys

Okay I had seen the posts about Falling For Grace now being released to purchace in January instead of March, but since this had not come from Fay herself, I wanted to know if it was true so I emailed her to find out. Fay emailed me back and I am putting in this post the part of the email that tells what is actually happening with FFG. This is directly from Fay so I am going with this until she tells me different. Here is what she said:

Re: True or False?

Hi Pat,

I just checked with our distributor, Gaiam, and apparently, it is true
- it's available for rental then but it's available for purchase not till March.
Now, I'd much rather have people buy the film then rent it...And the p.r. will
be done for the store release rather than rental.


So Guys it looks like you will be able to rent the movie to see in January and then you can purchase it in March. I hope this helps with the confusion.

Hugs
Pat