How Jia Saved My Left Leg (and other reasons she's important.)

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I'm so obligated honored to write on Jia's blog today.  Let me warn you about preface this post by saying that Jia is at fault to be revered for all my addiction to success in blogging.  Well, not exactly, but close. She's the FIRST person who was my online friend, the person who helped me with my VERY FIRST blog designs, and without her, I literally would suck as a member of society and would be living in a box somewhere, divorced, lonely, and most importantly - without internet.  My name is April Durham of April Showers Blog Design and this post is what my life would be like if Jia weren't in it.

If it weren't for Jia, I wouldn't:


1.  ...have April Showers Blog Design.  She's the one who first taught me how to do a menu bar with images, among other HTML tricks.  I was so enthralled by this idea that I started designing full blogs (not just headers) and developed that unmistakable style April Showers is known for with whimsical menu bars and header images that seamlessly flow together.  This is probably the #1 request I get when someone asks for a blog design and likely THE reason I get a large amount of business in comparison to other blog designers.  I may be tooting my own horn, but it's Jia's horn too.  That just sounds dirty.






2.  ...be openly Mormon online.  My very first blog was called "Normal Mormons" where I wrote about how awesome Mormons are, and why we aren't as weird as people think.  But I was anonymous.  Jia was the owner of "Modern Molly Mormon" and soon I started writing for her blog.  I became "Media Molly" and wrote about Mormons in the media.  It was because of this blog that I started to "stalk" the online LDS community, and openly discuss religion, as well as tell people on my personal blog that I was LDS.  Why?  Because Jia makes being Mormon less intimidating than the rest of Mociety.  I just made that word up.


3.  ...be married.  After two years of e-BFFness, I can tell Jia pretty much anything.  From penises to gospel principles, to business practices, she's pretty much a pro at getting me to a) calm down b) see things clearly and c) not need a Xanax.  We have all had trying times in our marriages, and if Jia wasn't there to vent to and get advice from, I'm sure I would be a crazy old cat lady at the ripe old age of 26.

4.  ...can blog about vaginas and being fat.  There are a few things Jia and I have in common.  1.  Our blog characters are signficantly hotter and thinner than we are in real life and 2. We are okay with that.  We've both battled our weight since we've known each other, and prior-to of course, and we both are/were trying to conceive.  At one point we started a blog that was called something like "Losing Belly Fat to Gain Baby Fat."  The idea was that we were to get skinny in order to get pregnant.  Well I liked the idea so much that, I started my own blog with detailed info on my babymakin' and weight loss efforts.  It has been an amazing ride and I'm excited to continue blogging about trying to conceive and weight loss, and I have no shame - thanks to Jia and her ability to make me feel comfortable talking about my cervical mucus and daily sexcapades.

5.  ...have my left leg.  This one time, Jia texted me just in time for me to look down at my phone in traffic, not pay attention, swerve a little to the right, and avoid this other crazy driver who swerved into my lane.  They would have hit my driver side door crushing my left leg, and the jaws of life would have had to yank me out, sans leftie, leaving me with an inexplicably rugged and worn cane, an unsexy stump, and possibly a fake leg that we ALL know would smell like Sex Panther at the end of the day.  So thanks for always being there for me - even in traffic!


Love April