‘Ight,
I’ve heard some folk say “home is where you live”. No doubt true, but as the age-old sayin’ goes “home is where your heart is”. I’m a firm believer of that but there’s more to the picture…Home is where your heart is, and especially with your loved ones! The first time I moved, I was only 4 years old and although distance wise it wasn’t that far, it seemed like it to me. Well, my family ended up moving six times after that. I lived in the state of Washington for 25 years, 14 of those years were spent growing up, reeking havoc, getting an elementary through highschool education, and having a hay bale of a good time on my grandpa’s farm!! It was only 5 acres “HEY GOOD ENOUGH!! FOR ME IT WAS A WHOLE ‘NOTHER WORLD JUST BEGGING TO BE EXPLORED!!” (smiles) Everything happened on that farm! Well almost, you name it it probably happened LOL. Friends came to visit, stayed for the weekend or the month if they were in a bind or needed some peace and quiet away from there home, we’d all stay up late nights until 3 or 4an except this one time it was until 7am LOL. Me and a few of my friends would get together and take off spur of the moment to wherever. Sometimes it was the local Chevron out in the middle of nowhere and Denny’s afterwards, Walmart at mid-night always sounded good, or maybe it was McDonald’s on a lazy Saturday just cuz. A lot of discoveries were made on the farm. I graduated highschool and grew up amoung my neice, nephews, and cousins since we were all pretty close in age and usually one or more of us did one of two things: Hay loft climbin’ and/or we got in a haystack full of trouble together, but we had a good time doing whatever it was we were doing LOL. Ok back to discoveries. We went to the majority of summer concerts and the county fair, discovered that Coolio was ‘ight at the time, Where’s Waldo was still good though a thing of the past and then there was the discovery of WEIRD AL! Living in the country, you could relate to a good majority of country songs and “Life’s A Dance” just may have been your theme song!, you learned real quick which pile of poo you stepped in and which animal left it. (Not to be gross LOL.), you understood Jeff Foxworthy very well and next there was Larry the Cable Guy., and lastly you knew almost all the FORD JOKES! That was a big period in my life. At 7 years old I made up my mind to be a DJ and my fantasy was to go on tour as a country artist with my own band and write songs. Well, the tour is still a fantasy, I am a college DJ for Radio-Oh yah and I’m pretty LOUD too LOL!, I do write songs and poetry plus I LOVE to sing…every now and then I’ll catch my boyfriend and love of my life of three years sneak up on me just to listen. Awwwwwwww he’s a sweetie!!
When I was 21, we uprooted to Lewiston, Idaho-all except my grandpa and my dad. That was only for a year and a half. Of course we came back for the holidays and my grandpa passed March of 2004 and we moved back to Washington in June 2005. Since then, I’ve been a softball player in the Special Olympics-our team took second place and a few of us took first and thirds in competition for State in Boise. Dave and I are a year away from graduating college with an Associate In Arts of Media Studies degree in Radio and Tv broadcasting, in addition to goin’ quaddin’ (4Wheelin’) since I was 16…I learned how to drive a quad in Idaho, and getting back from an across the U.S. trip to meet family down south…Dave and I went to the 4th of July bash at my sister’s (Also the parade and took pics.) We had a blast!! One phrase: Rednecks with fireworks! LOL . For me that night the Duckfart to Pepsi ratio was 3:4 LOL! And yes, I know how to and do country line dance! (smiles) Here’s a few pics around here. Enjoy!
