Well, I wasn't feeling too well yesterday, so I didn't go online and do anything at all. That's my excuse anyway. So here are my Friday Fun Facts:
1. I love my man's long hair.
2. I used to paint eyes on ceramic statues and sometimes I would also paint different designs on things too.
3. I live about five miles from the Peaks of Otter and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
4. I have a collection of Mardi Gras beads and some of them have little penis' on them. One string of beads has 5 little peckers on it and when you squeeze them, they spooge. I also have a couple of light up magnetic penis' too. B has one string with a big busted red headed woman on it with only her bottoms on!
5. We drive a grey Dodge Ram Van with lots and lots of hippy stickers all over it. The van's name is Godzilla and she has her name in reflective silver stickers across the front of her. There are also lots of toys and jewlery, beads etc. all inside of her. We have a toy Godzilla and the Taco Bell dog glued to the dashboard along with several other toys. We have all the Teletubbies and several Furbies hanging up in the back of the van. We also have tye-dyed curtains in the windows. We had a tye-dye party and made them ourselves.

Well, there you now have my Five Friday Fun Facts, on Sunday. I'm always late to everything. It's a hippy thang! Or something. Better late than never, right?

I've good some really good news, my oldest son's last girl friend, Sherry gave birth on Jan. 22nd to a healthy baby girl, named Kailey Jade. Miss Kailey has two big brothers, Joseph and Gavin Aaron. I feel like they are my grandbabies since I see Sherry as my daughter. So I got a new granddaughter and Shawn has a new baby niece! I can't wait to see her. I feel so blessed right now, new granddaughter and thanks to Miss Hailey, new daughter too! {{{{{{Hugs to Miss Hailey}}}}}
It is early morning, I've been up all night. I'm gonna go to bed here in a minute. Shawn left about an hour ago with my friend Johnny. They are going fishing up on North Creek. Shawn says he is gonna catch his limit in about 30 minutes, actually I said that but he agreed. Johnny said he'd get his in 2 hours but he hopes it will be more like the 30 minutes. It's pretty cold out there and where they are going is colder than it is here. Oh, I hate the cold! I'm nice and toasty here and that's good enough for me.
I see Cesar stirring underneath a blanket on the big sofa. Silly little dog, always has to have a blanket to sleep under, even in the summertime. Here he comes, I think. He just looked at me kinda funny. I think he knows I'm writting about him. He loves it when I talk baby talk to him. " He's mommie's little man, my little tiny Roman King, ohhhh, Cesar is mommies little man, oh, yes he is!" He can be such a little sweetheart at times and then sometimes he attacks me and trys to chew me up, but it doesn't really hurt much, cause he is so tiny but he sounds so vicious. It's a good thing he is so tiny or I wouldn't be able to handle him! He's my little sweetheart and he is so good for me, what a good boy he is, yes he is.
Anyway, gonna go for now, getting kinda sleepy. Gonna go take a nap, night, night!

First, I want to thank all of you who read my blog, thanks for reading and thanks also to those who give me comments. I feel so much love coming from you all. I always was told that you are supposed to love everyone, this is the way to be, to be closer to God or to be enlightened or something but try as I might I have had a hard time with that all my life. Mainly because the one most important person out here for me to love, I just couldn't bring myself to love, me. Then I met Brian, my fiance and he showed me a whole new life, a whole different world. A world filled with so much love and respect, and it was filled with so many people that didn't judge me for the way I look or talk or act. They just accepted me and tried to get to know me better and they listened to me. I still didn't really get how to love myself but I was trying. Then I bought this little Dell laptop and got on-line and discovered Blogstream and all the wonderful people here. I came in an honest way. A way that is the real me for the most part. And you guys just accept me as I am. I am what I am and it's ok. I like that. Maybe now I am a little closer to being able to really feel some love for myself, I don't know, but I do know that I love all of you guys so much, you make me laugh and cry and pray and worry and smile and you make me think about things in many different ways more than ever. You have all added a new dimension to my existence. Before, I played solitare and watched TV and had my friends come over from time to time and then I jumped into the Blogstream! Now I write and take pictures and read and learn and still watch TV. And now thanks to the stream, I am now a radio personality! Thanks so much to Schree and Baby! I had a blast with them the other night! They are some wide open girls, a lot like me. I too can be crazy and naughty sometimes too, and I can laugh and tell jokes sometimes. I think little miss Hailey was the first one to really show me how to love on here, she gives so much love and needs so much back. She makes me want to be a better Mom. She gives me so much love. {{{{{{{{Hailey}}}}}}}}} She has taught me to be gentle and respectful and to think about how the children feel instead of only thinking of myself, which is what a lot of adults tend to do. I hope she will find that the most successful of us are not selfish and do think of others, especially the children. Thanks also to Kaz for helping me to think about my inner child and how I need to keep in touch with her too.
Shawn and I watched the movie, Nell tonight. What a beautiful movie, so sad. Makes you want to dance and talk like her. I wish I lived on a lake in the woods like she did. She was so sad for her sister, it made me cry so much. I cryed so much and I wasn't even sure why. I think it was for the loss of her sister, and the loss of her innocence and her simple life. I like the way it ended though. She seemed to have found a bit of peace which she so deserved. Why would anyone want to live in the city with all those tall buildings and all that noise and pollution? All she ever wanted was love and to be needed. Isn't that what we all need and want? I guess I am a borderline hermit. I could almost just live all alone, just me and Shawn and Brian and my Mom and Chris and Ashlyn. On some mountain in a big log cabin next to a nice clear lake. I'd love to have a big front porch overlooking the lake so I could sit there early in the morning and watch the sun come up and watch it chase all the misty fog off the mirror like lake. Maybe there would be a loon or two I could watch as they dive under the lake at one point and come up somewhere across the lake far from where they started. And I would listen to their song, so sad and so peaceful. Yea, that brings back some memories. My childhood spent in the Adirondack Mountains in up-state NY. My Grandparents owned a cottage up on Star Lake. It was like 200 years old. You couldn't live in it year round, it wasn't winterized. But it was a blast in the summertime. It's where I learned how to fish and to swim. Couldn't keep the frogs and fish I would catch though. I would put them in a bucket on the dock and in the morning they were gone. The raccoons would get them. You could see their little footprints down by the shoreline where they had gone to wash their dinner before they ate it. They made me mad one time when I had caught like the granddaddies of all granddaddy bullfrogs. It was huge, like it must have weighed maybe 5 or 6 pounds. I was so proud of that bullfrog. He was so cool, so I put him in the bucket for the night, but I didn't think about those damn raccoons. The next morning, my frog was gone! And there down by the lake shore in the sand...tiny little raccoon footprints! I couldn't stay mad too long at them, they were so cute but why did they have to eat my frog?

I know this isn't Friday any more but here goes anyway:
1. I love seafood and chinese food.
2. I used to get paid for painting eyes and other designs on ceramics
3. My hair used to be a dark chestnut brown, and now if I didn't dye it strawberry blonde, it would be almost totaly snow white!
4. I live in an old 2 bedroom trailor with two rooms added on in the woods at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
5. I am a night owl. I love sunsets and sunrises and somedays I stay up to see both.

There you go, I don't know how much fun they are and I tried to say something different than what I have already put in my blogs so as not to bore anyone. I know there are more but I sorta got a little block in my head and anyway want to save some for next week too, right?

Well, everyone has settled in and unpacked their luggage and put their things away and cleaned up and so now for the pictures!
Here is a more close up shot. That's Beaver and Sami and Thing 1 posing just right for the camera. Well, except for Beaver, but really she's just a little camera shy.
Shoot I think I got that kinda backward, but you guys get it, I know you do.
We got a really good picture of MuuMuu that I was able to upload too.

He's got a big mouth on him, but he's a good little kitty. He will drive you nuts when he wants to go outside or when he wants food or water.
Listening to a little Widespread Panic, Ain't Life Grand. Sounds pretty good. What's next? Ah, some Megadeath, Addicted to Chaos. I think we are listening to one of his Rockumentaries right now. The songs bring back memories for him about his life. He has been doing this since he was 12 years old. Every year he makes a new one. You can look at the titles and tell just what kind of year he had that year. It's pretty cool. He loves music, heavy metal, rock and roll, hippie music. Everything from The Grateful Dead to AC/DC to Nirvana and Kid Rock and Head PE! I wish I could dance again. I used to love to dance. I was telling Sir Cranky how I used to dance at like bars and guys loved to watch me. Not toppless or nothing, just regular dancing. I've taken ballet and belly dancing classes too. I loved dancing. Just like I loved to swim but I can't do that very well any more either. I used to like to go on hikes, we have some really nice trails around here. I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains, it's so beautiful. When I was a girl scout, I was a volunteer for the National Park Service. We would spend the day learning about the mountains, the wild life and the people from the past that lived there in the old days and then we would take hikes and walks around the Peaks of Otter and Abbott Lake and teach others what we had learned. Sometimes we would give guided walking tours with people. It was so much fun. I liked it alot up there. When I grew up I worked in the restaurant up there. I really wasn't very good at restaurant work.