journal

Hey I know I saw this, but can't remember. Do you have to be a crown jewel to keep a journal

yup. That's the ticket -- it is one of the Crown Jewel "perks".

Crown Jewels help support the site, keeping it running - and being a CJ gives you access to the recipe book, you can have an avatar and the journal too!

WEll I might be able to do it in a couple of months then...Right now we just do not have the money we have a negative in or checkbook, hoping the paycheck make it in the bank before everything is cashed... Plyaing that game.

Althoguh are paycheck is not until Friday...Oh jee

I am keeping a journal in a little book that I bought at a dollar store for guess what $1.00. Another alternative is to use you word processing software if you are unable to foot the fee to join. You could always import it later when you are able to join, so that you do not forget something.
By the way you are not alone a lot of people play that game.
Hang in there. The following are two things I always tell my boys: 1) It's not the things you do not have that make you what you are. It's doing good with what you have that lights the morning star.
2) When you can't have what you want then its time to want what you have.
Try to remember all the things (these include health, family, friends) you do have and remember to give thanks.