AGAIN ANOTHER ROUND OF HURRICANE

AGAIN...another hurricane heading for florida. This is getting to be a very BAD habit. Of course it is heading for east central florida - where I live. This is really getting to be very aggravating and downright fustrating. PLEASE if you pray - pray that it just skims the coast line and goes north. There are some people of the coast that just got their electric back yesterday and just in time for it to go out again. They say by sunday it will hit full force. I really do not think we could go through another one- it does zap the energy right out of you. The pic shown was sent to me by a friend...who thought this was too funny--unfortunately most of the houses do look like that. (ugh) Well I can make it through the hurricane as long as it does not touch my electric...that is THE WORST feeling in the world. Also if I have not said this before-our electric runs our water and bathrooms.... no electric no nothing.

Mind you there are two other storms right behind hurricane jeanne. Now this is ridiculous. I wander what florida did in a past life to deserve all this destruction. Well I must go listen to the weather reports so we can start planning. My nerves cannot handle much more.

Hope your day is filled with sunshine!!!   PEACE!!!!

HAPPY AUTUMN

Finally officially fall is here....this is my favorite time of year. The sunsets are more vibrant, the air seems more crisp and it seems that the earth is getting ready for the winter ahead. I absolutely loved the fall when I lived in New York. I could never get enough of the beautiful changing colors of the leaves. Of course, here in the sunshine state leaves really do not change color the same way... I think that is what I miss most about living up north. However I do not miss snow in any way shape or form. Living in buffalo during my college years cured me. Since I cannot have the same colors here as up north - here is a small pic of some wonderful looking colors.

 I know you can never find such naturally beautiful colors then what God created so simply. So if you live where the leaves change..TRUST ME--enjoy every breath taking moment- because there are some of us who do not see that at all. It is definitely time for me to go out and get some pumpkins and carve away and bake some pumpkin seeds...awwww the GREAT memories that brings back for me.

I wish you all a BEAUTIFUL AND VIBRANT Fall Season!!!

PEACE!!!!

BECOMING CLOSER

Now that the boys do not live at home anymore (sniff sniff) my hunnie and the lil girl and myself get a chance to spend ALOT of time together. I had no expectations on how this would go. As it has turned out...we do everything together. At least once a week we all go out and eat lunch or dinner out and go shopping or just go "window" shopping. We really are having a great time. The three of us actually each have our own computers (my daughter has one but she wants to use my laptop so she can be in the same room with us) and we are constantly sending each other messages and jokes an pics and such. We are just being way tooooo goofy....

The picture is of my hunnie and lil girl at a restaurant called T.G.I.F at a mall near us. We decided to splurge on a huge lunch and spent hours just eating and talking. We really had a good time.

I think this time has been GREAT for my hunnie and his relationship with lil girl. When the boys were around they monopolized his time with fixing cars and racing. But now he spends alot more time with her and they run errands together and work on cars together and ride go-carts together. So they are becoming ALOT more closer which does my heart GOOD.

Now he is teaching her how to drive because in the lovely state of florida you can receive your driver's permit at the age of 15 (I personally think that is WAY too young). So of course the first thing she said when she got up on her birthday was " Dad- you taking me to get my permit now?" Now it is time for my grey hairs to come in droves. I cannot handle the fact that she can be behind the wheel of a car.

Well I just know we are in for more adventures together. I think in October- we might be going away for 4 or 5 days to north florida for a State Corrections Shooting Match and then hit all the OLD TIME flea markets that pop up this time of year. It should be GREAT.

Gotta go and watch some great poker on t.v.,....PEACE!!!

FOOTBALL FANATIC

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL????
Have I mentioned yet what a HUGE football fan I am. I have no idea why. I actually can keep up with the teams...I know who drafted or traded who...I can even call the flagged plays before the ref says anything. I even belong to a group called foorball freak fanatics....Just My Style. I love BOTH the NFL and COLLEGE Teams.

I actually can outdo my boys on info about football...and to this day even tho they live in another part of florida..they still call me to get the low down on games and scores and news. But this is just the beginning...now my mondays, saturdays and sundays are totally engulfed by football and my family knows just leave mom alone with the tv remote and feed her once in a while...LOL

 Now of course because I live in florida I must be true to the TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS. I just about went "hog" wild when they won the superbowl...but this year I am extremely disappointed that they did not ask Warren Sapp to return...He was that teams spirit. But I am thrilled that they got rid of Keshawn Johnson..he was bringing the whole team down and badmouthing everyone...That man knows how to break the spirit of a team.

Okay.......after you stop laughing at this poor team...I am extremely loyal to them. I went to the University of Buffalo for college...and besides snow, that football team provided a blast during my college years and for that I will be forever grateful. They will always have a special place in my heart. I have great memories of sitting at games and FREEZING my tushie off but it was all well worth it.

NOW this is my ALL TIME favorite college team. THE FLORIDA GATORS. I was totally broken hearted when steve spurrier (the head coach) left them to go coach the washinton redskins (he did such a lousy job there). I did not like Coach Zook at first--I thought of him as an invasion on my team. But this year I am willing to give him a chance and see what happens.

Now my hunnie LOVES the florida state seminoles....BUT WHO CARES? LOL We are constantly cheering against each other when it comes to these two teams. All over our house are Gator and Seminole Memorabilia...it is such a BLAST!  We have even gone as far as to naming our cats..Seminole and Gator...we really have a sick sense of humor...LOL

Well I must be off and watch the rest of the game...halftime is over. THANK GOD FOR FOOTBALL SEASON!!!!!!

PEACE!!!!!

MY BABY'S BIRTHDAY!!!

WOWOWOW--I cannot believe that my little girl turns 15 today...it seems just like yesterday that she was born and time has just flown by. This picture was taken when she was 2 1/2 months old...she was a twin. Her and Joshua were born three months early. I could not believe how tiny they were--I remeber that their entire hands fit on one fingertip of mine. Their skin was transparent. But after 2 1/2 months of fighting for their lives they were able to come home. Crystalyn weighed 2 pounds when she was born, Joshua weighed around 1 pound. It was a very trying time in all our lives..but they made it home. Joshua lost his fight for life and passed away at 5 1/2 months of SIDS...It is a day my heart was truly broken...but I just had to go on because Crystalyn needed me. That is how I know she is my reason for me being born.... Without her I would not have made it this far. I was nothing like her at 15...She amazes me. VERY VERY SHARP and VERY VERY INTELLIGENT. She has a wisdom about her that stumps me everytime. She also has the BIGGEST HEART of any teenager I have ever met. Her compassion and understanding of people stuns me. God truly BLESSED me when he gave me her.The only thing she wanted for her birthday was to get a card...and for us to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to her. She says that being with her family is the only thing she wants. WOWOWOW how many teenagers do you know think that way? Well of course I want her to have teenage stuff -- so her Dad and I bought her a cellphone. She of course was thrilled....and thinks we are the coolest parents on earth...(my job is done) LOL

This is my baby NOW....A BEAUTIFUL KID INSIDE AND OUT...I truly HOPE that all her DREAMS and WISHES come true....because she has made all of mine come true for me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRYSTALYN ROSE!!!!    I LOVE YA KIDDO!!

PEACE!~

MY BROTHER'S BIRTHDAY

Today is my brother's birthday...First I should point out that he is the youngest. Today he turned 42. WOW--he does not look a day over 35. The only nice pic I had of him was his wedding picture..it really does not do him justice. He is 6'4" and weighs maybe 180 pounds. He has always been skinny (lucky thing). He is a true artist - his work is unbelieveable. He is a master carpenter and now he runs a real estate apprasail business with his wife. They have a daughter in college and a son who is 13. My brother has always been eccentric--I think that is the artist in him. Unfortunately we are NOT close at all. My brother seems to have a deep seeded hatred for me-I just do not know why. He is definitely a product of my father because they both have that nasty attitude when they think they are all that. But ever since my last year in college he really wants nothing to do with me. It figures. IT BOTHERS ME TO NO END. But it is something that I have come to accept.

The way I feel is--it is his loss that he does not know the real me...and his loss that he does not share in the joys and sorrows in my life. I love him to death and that will never change-but I have no regrets. I have always sent him a birthday card for his birthday--I always remember him and his family at christmas and I always call them during the holidays to wish them well. Of course he does not reciprocate the same but that again is his loss.

So I sent my card and I know he received it--There is nothing left for me to say to him except----

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDDIE--I LOVE YOU

PEACE!!!!

MORE HURRICANES

This is the newest postcard representing the sunshine state--UGH--unfortunately after this summer it seems to be true. Well Ivan did not hit our state directly but it is raining from the outerbands. We can't win for losing-there is no where for the water to go. Now the news has announced today that another tropical storm has turned into a hurricane--WELCOME Jeanne. That one is heading for us--it just seems that the tropics have it in for Florida. I do not know of anyone who is still NOT cleaning up from the other two hurricanes, everyone is still trying to recover- and now Here We Go Again. If this keeps up--Alaska is looking good to me! My heart does go out to those who have been directly affected by Ivan...he was definitely nasty. On the brighter side - I have not floated away yet--LOL

Well I thought I would just share my warped sense of humor this morning with you all....I am the only one here and I needed to tell someone what I was thinking.

Until Next Time---PEACE!!!