JoAnn  I AM!

You are energized today by invisible spirits who follow you around to keep you on track. Even if you don't believe in disincarnate guides, this is a great time to pretend that you do. Open your mind to the possibilities beyond the obvious. Convincing things will happen, but you will need to ease up on your resistance to receive any benefits.

WOO HOO!
I BElieve!

I AM in a frenzied eBay auction posting mode this weekend....and yet still today, or is it tomorrow, or some part of yesterday?   I have to ride this wave of spiritual energy out and GIT R' DONE!!!!  Must sell, sell, sell before I crash, crash, crash and wake up in my normal mode of sloth!

I am whacked out on ______ eh..... too many things I could fill in the blank with so, I leave it to your imagination.  Best answer gets a kiss from Mitch!

I AM.
YOU ARE.
WE BE.

BE WELL.

P.S.  YES, I AM selling and not buying on eBay for a radical change of pace.  

P.S.S.  We had our annual zucchini bread making marathon this weekend and made 60 loaves of assorted zucchini breads.....a new record!  Somebody wipe my brow! 

Forgot to mention.............

I AM GLAD THAT THE JURY FOUND MICHAEL JACKSON INNOCENT! 

I believe in my heart of hearts that Michael Jackson is innocent.  However, I DO believe, in my heart of hearts, that Michael Jackson is touched in the head, a freak among freaks and a vulnerable target.  But honestly......I BElieveMichael Jackson is innocent.  Truly innocent.  This is quite unlike my true feelings about OJ and/or Baretta's innocence!

However, if Mr. Michael is ever tempted to do ANYTHING nice or questionable amongst children again, without a witness, then he needs to have his ass kicked hard and long!  (I have not followed the trial, nor am I a HUGE fan, I only know what I feel, and jeez........he just left himself open for crap like this!) 

Please Michael, pack your bags and move to Europe or Asia or Africa and leave the sue happy fucking dicks in America stranded...and most of all,
CYA! 
BE SMARTER! 
History repeats itself and FREAKS & WIERDOS* are ALWAYS persecuted!

*FREAKS and WIERDOS*

BELIEVE IT!
KNOW IT!
CHOOSE TO LEAVE IT!
SAY NO MORE!

Why do I BElieve Michael is innocent? 

Mostly it stems from my heart and spirit and the place where I relate.  The place where stuff beats true.  I have to admit that part of me beats back to an interview with Michael I watched briefly.  During the interview ,the person interviewing Micheal, peered up in a tree and asked Michael....."why are you climbing a tree, don't you think you are too old to be climbing trees?"

FUCK THAT!

YAY for Michael!  I'm on your side Mr. Freako, whacko, JACKO!

P.S.  Michael, if in the end you turn out to be guilty after all...... I am going to personally whoop your ass into unbelievable, agonizing pain!  I will leave marks on your skin for life.  You will beg me for forgiveness.  I have watched all of Quentin Tarantiono's films so I am quite certain I know how to deliver pain, painfully and without remorse!

I believe OJ lives in his own, personal HELL and will confess on his death bed, probably to someone secret, I also believe he already has.
Beretta is soon to slip. 

Wait.....what about Cpt. Kirk? 

Shit....money talks and the little, street peddling, marijuana selling, petty thieves can't walk because they are penned up in a hole, while pedophile, murdering thugs walk amongst us.  We let them go early because we just can't wait until their release dates, nor do we have the care to reform. 

Because prison can't.  By then it is too late.
But wait......I am off on a tangent.
Again.

People love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry!
Now that was a danceable tune!

YAY for Michael!  Now please Mr. Jackson, leave this GOD-FORSAKEN, PAPARAZZI DRIVEN UN-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!  Claim your name and fame somewhere else.  Anywhere else.  They'll accept and love you.....until, the mentality creeps up and history repeats itself.

Live your life and give your children one too Michael.   Go somewhere and exude your GOOD!

P.S.  Feel free to flame, degrade, dispute, curse me out or call me hurtful names!  I assure you, I will not care, nor listen, nor love you any less..... and I promise you this.....no matter how hurtful, mean and evil you are....
I WILL NOT LEAVE XANGA, THREATEN TO LEAVE XANGA, GO PRIVATE, PROTECTED or RETURN THE HATE!  I AM HERE TO STAY!

THIS IS MY FUCKING BLOG AND I'LL DARE & SWEAR IF I WANT TO!

April Fool's is past, you're the biggest Fool at last.

My all time best April Fool's joke was played on Peter in 1999.  Before we met in the flesh, we spent 4 months writing each other, talking on the phone, sending each other wonderful things in the mail.  We were falling in love and sharing every little wonderful thing.  It was a beautiful torture we shared, so smitten yet so far away.  Longing.......

It was April Fools Day here in the USA and there were only 30 minutes left before the date changed to April 2.  I had not fooled anyone yet that day.

What to do?

It's easy to bluff when you type.  A person can't read your face or your eyes, so you can tell atrocious lies. 

I was sharing my heart with Peter, and wanting him know everything about me.  The good and the bad.  So I thought I should tell him about this horrible secret I had.  I let him know it was over and I found peace, prayers were said, and it's in the past.....but you see, someone did die.  Someone that needed killing.  Someone that pushed me too far.  Someone I killed and then got away with the crime.....too many details to unveil.  It's over, and it's done.

I AM not a killer, but if someone needs killing, I'm going to do what I have to do!

I told Peter that during an ICQ chat, and then he left the room.  GONE!  USER HAS LEFT THE CHAT!  I could not summon him back. 

It was a holiday in Australia, and Peter was with family, lots of them, and he shared the horrific news with them.  His Princess Love was a MURDERESS!  He was crying, I broke his heart.  What was he going to do?  He already purchased a ticket to come to the USA to be with me.

His family told him he simply cannot go and be with a MURDERESS.  Shock!  Horror!  Yep, they all fell for it, although I never planned to shock so many peeps with my little lie.  Peter's family was simply a bonus prize!  Woo Hoo!  I got them all.

Eventually Peter called me and I told him April Fools.  He was not impressed.  My little joke jolted their party and their hearts and sent them spinning out of control.

I WIN!

My Franny is out of the hospital now.  He's doing much better.  They took about 10 lbs of water out of him and gave him a blood transfusion.  I'm glad I forced him to go to the ER last week and as his Dr. and Nurses tell him all the time.....he is lucky to have me!

I was saddened to hear of Johnny dying, he always made me laugh.  I kind of stopped watching the Tonight Show after he left, not because I don't like Jay but....well it just wasn't the same and also because I know Letterman really wanted the job.  Thanks for the memories Johnny.

Bush's Inauguration made me want to puke, but he makes me sick regardless so.....not one damn dime though, I did do my part.....although tonight I am getting ready to hit submit on some deluxe 1200 thread count sheets.  Ooohlala!  I never slept on 1200tc, but I do own 2 sets of 800tc sheets and they are like sleeping on butter!  Oh Gee how I love to sleep on such luxury!  Guys usually don't understand thread count, that is, until they actually sleep on high thread count, then.....yeah, then they are hooked!  That is just a hint to the boys to upgrade the sheets, it just may be a clincher in sealing the deal!

I scored another bargain at my local St. Vincent thrift store this weekend!  Woo Hoo!  A silk/cashmere pashmina hand made in Nepal for $4.00!!!!  Yep, and it is brand new you can tell cuz it still had the fold lines on it from the box it was in......gosh it's gorgeous and I am so thrifty!  I also scored a black, virgin wool, button down shirt that was made in Italy, so you know it's stylin', for $1.00!  Thrift stores Rock.....'cept when it comes to buying sheets.....I prefer those to be brand new.....underwear too!

Mitch is a good boy isn't he?  Even if he is pro-bush.....I can't hold it against him.  Mitch is from Canada and a lot of the shit that Bush does and says probably get's lost in translation.  Thanks for looking out for me Mitch you're a real charm.

I watched a few disappointing movies this weekend.  Collateral and The Forgotten.  Well if I had to choose between the two I would choose Collateral as being the better movie but really.....they both pretty much sucked and were so predictable.  I did rent a few other movies last week that I did enjoy though Napolean Dynamite was a cute movie and had a real feel good humor about it.  I also bought a few dvds that I have seen and highly recommend.  21 Grams, House of Sand and Fog, A Home at the End of the World, Kill Bill Vol.2, and A Day Without a Mexican.  These are all movies I highly reccomend, and if you get the dvd version of them you should ALWAYS check out all the bonus material too!

Well that is basically my life right now.  Tending to Franny, shoveling snow, tending to my many pets, helping Mum hang pictures and decorate her new house, watching movies, taking long naps and thinking about exercising.

BE WELL.

"DECEASED
RETURN TO SENDER"

This is certainly not the kind of Christmas card one likes to get, nor a way to find out that someone you loved and cared about has died.

I should have been in better contact.  Made a call or two between the holidays, sent a card......something!  I didn't.  But now, now I vow to never let this happen again and I will keep in better contact with those I know and love who live so far away.

I couldn't get a lot of information from his case manager, other than the fact that he died on October 23, 2004 at the Maitri Hospice.  After an exhaustive search on the internet I was not able to find an obituary either.

Gary Clute, you were a dear, sweet man and my life is better for having known you.  May you have the Peace and Love you so much deserve and strived for in your life.  I'll never forget you and hope that you and Lucy are together again.  She was a wonderful dog and a true and faithful companion.  I'm sorry I wasn't a better friend.  Thank you for opening your heart and home to me on several occasions.  You were a TRUE FRIEND!  Rest in Peace and know you are LOVED.

I had to break down and buy a new digi-cam.  My old one was going to cost $160.00 to repair and that seemed like throwing good money after bad so, I have a new digi-cam that I don't know how to use effectively because I am too lazy to RTFM!  I really have bad luck with cameras!

Here is my little DUDE when I bought him in May 2004.  Such a tiny little guy.  So shy and demure.

Here is DUDE today.  A pig, glutton and eater of all things that move and even, 3 day dead flies and hoppers.  Once winter arrives and the insects are gone, he is going to eat me out of house and home.  1 dozen crickets is $1.00 and he easily can eat 2 dozen a day and he's still growing!

Last weekend I let DUDE run around upstairs while I watched a movie.  Next thing I know I can't find him.  He was lost for a day and I searched high and low.  The thing about lizards that sucks is, they don't come when you call!  Thankfully Jen found him the next day hiding along the wall.  No more free reign for DUDE his actions will now be closely monitored.  BABADOO (nickname for N'Dugo) could have found him and killed him, she loves to kill!

I think I am going to a Camelot thing this afternoon.  Jousting and merry making and things of lore.  I'm feeling pretty lazy though so....maybe not.

TA!

P.S.  Can I install Office 2000 on WINXP?  I'm scared to try.

P.S.S.  Last weekend us girls had our annual zucchini bread making party.  We made 54 loaves of zucchini bread this year and several muffins.  We just get bigger and better every year.

I'm wasting hours on-line this morning looking for crap to peddle at the upcoming fairs.  Peeps love to buy crap at those fairs, but just which crap will they buy?  I prefer the non-crap items but they tend to be more expensive and I cannot be certain enough peeps will like the non-crap as opposed to the crap.  Perhaps a nice mixture of crap and non-crap items is the key?  Most of our customers are teenagers and they certainly like crap, but I would like to attract a few non-crap buying customers too. hmmmmm

Jen came out the other day and we assembled our new tent together.  It went together pretty slick and I am already thinking of ways to decorate it.  We need to clean the camper though and cutesy it up again.  Find the keys too....where the hell did I put those keys?

I shall attempt to plant the rest of my garden today and replant a few things too.  Fucking animals ate off all the tops to my radishes, and beets and a lot of my beans never grew.  My greenhouse is filled with the tomato, pepper and other plants I grew from seed this year.  They were beautiful specimins but now they are getting all spindly and yellow and need to go outside.  My rock garden is overcome with weeds and looks like shit, I think that makes me the saddest.  I worked really hard last year to get that beautiful and now it's overgrown.  Suck it up, suck it up........and then go weed!

Well that is my weekend in a nutshell, planting, weeding, shopping for the upcoming fairs.  Yippee, Yeah!  Next week is another day and my house is a wreck too, and next week it will be even worse!

BUMBOLAY!

I've fallen into a deep, deep sleep, only to wake up twelve times throughout the night to pee.  Or maybe it's to check whether I really am still alive.

I chopped off all my hair last weekend.  It was like a scene from Frida.  I feel reborn, and my hair is cute.  It was time for a change. 

That's about it.

Well actually there is more, so much more, but I don't know where to start.

I'm going to buy new pants today.  I've grown too large for the old.

I still think my hair is cute, and I saved the 2 foot chunk I chopped off for a remembrance.

There is joy though, my friend Karen is pregnant and I'm going out to celebrate with her and her husband tonight.  I never thought she would have a baby, and my cheeks are sore from smiling.  Yippee!

Until..........

I am going to be making some big decisions this week.  Most of them in quiet contemplation.  I've tried asking for advice, but nobody here sees the future like me, and nobody believes like me.  That's ok, all I really need is to see and to believe for myself, and I DO.

I've wanted my own ball jump for years.  This summer I found the balls.  This weekend the call came for their house.  Little things like that continue to happen.  I just need to practice patience.

I am not going to stop the way I think because you or you cannot keep up.  I'm way ahead, far ahead.  I think and think and think.  That doesn't mean I know everything, it simply means I have given my decisions a LOT of thought, and I am prepared for most anything.

My answers lie in my roots.  I'll become like the Hermit and allow my creativity to flourish in silence as I contemplate my next move, and the next 23 moves after that.  This is the way I work.  Accept it.

I AM where I belong.

***UPDATE AND A P.S. too***

Just in case you forgot who I AM, here is a visual clue.
Nothing could be closer to TRUE!

Ugh, the heat is killing me.  We need rain so bad but all we get is a sprinkle and insane humidity.  I beat the heat by staying locked in the house with the ac on all day.  I feel like such a slug!

I'm having a party this weekend and my house is a mess.  Joey is busy cleaning his room today and gave me a bunch of gifts.....well stuff that he doesn't want, and I certainly do not need, but why throw it out????

I was supposed to go to a job interview today, but I cancelled.  They want someone to work full-time and every weekend.  This is not what I want so.....I'm still looking for that perfect part-time job.  I will spend all my extra cash on my business and be bigger and better than ever next year.

Tomorrow I am going to have a house full of women.  We are going to be baking zucchini bread by the dozens.  Usually I do it myself but this year I thought I would make it a girly event.  It should be fun.

And now.....a few pics for your dining pleasure.

Here is a picture of my caricature drawing that Erin did.  I think it looks fabulous!  She really captured my hippy heart, dontcha' think??

Here is a pic of me and Dave.  Dave was the other caricature artist set up next to us at the fair.  This was taken right before he left, but I still had peeps lined up for henna so......I stayed late, and I look it too!  Dave is a cutey and a super nice guy though so....

Here is a pic of a chickee that Jen did henna on at the fair.  It turned out really cool, too bad the picture doesn't do the art justice.

The rest of my cool fair pictures have yet to be developed.  We had camera issues at the fair for the first 3 days, and then.....we had no time to take pics, so my fair pics are pretty few and far between.  Oh well, such is life.

I need to be busy today and clean and shop for ingredients for tomorrows bake-off.  Too bad I can't share my wonderful bread on Xanga, I'd give you all a piece!

Until...... BE WELL.