Hey Y’all!

Ok I haven’t blogged in awhile so I thought to update you on what’s been going on. First off, I’m leaving for Lewiston, Idaho via train tomorrow afternoon..even though it lets off in Spokane, WA my brother, who we are going to visit is picking us up and making the rest of the late night/early next morning drive. VACATION AHHHHH!! LOL!

*CAUTION WHAT I’M ABOUT TO TELL YOU IS FREAKIN’ AWESOME!* Late last month, I had planned on going to the Weird Al concert at Napavine, Washington with my boyfriend Dave. Unfortunately, he wasn’t feeling well and told me to go ahead without him to the concert. Plus it was C-O-L-D! <–not complaining loved the weather, I’m a Washingtonian born and raised minus the year and a half in Lewiston, Idaho..Anywho, he has Fibromiagia so the weather’s toll on him wouldn’t have been very good.

I went to the Weird Al concert, got there a 20 minutes early, yay! Some of my friends from here and church were there and so were some of my neighbors. The Wednesday before the concert, it was actually more like Saturday I didn’t even really asked just called an old friend to see how things were going, who was on the other line finalizing the concert, what timing!! LOL! Next thing I know I’m hooked up with an extra backstage pass for after the show!! (It’s not what you know, It’s who you know but still HOLY CRUD!! LOL!) I made sure and thanked my friend for the pass by the way. *smiles* Weird Al did A WHOLE BUNCH of his songs including most of the stuff off the new album Straight Outta Lynwood, which I have next to Greatest Hits and Poodle Hat. THE SHOW WAS FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!, OUTRIGHT HALLARIOUS!, AND A WHOLE LOT OF FUN! I’m not gonna write what happened at the concert cuz I don’t wanna spoil it and either way if you haven’t seen Weird Al it’s an experience for yourself LOL.

After the show, I got to meet Weird Al backstage and there’s just no words for that!! I mean, I’m not obsessive/not obsessing or anything and I have met a lot of people, been to quiet a few concerts and not holding anyone on a pedestal here, No concert that I have ever been to has left me walking away with such a good feeling.(Sure they’ve had good feelings) Weird Al just tops it that’s all I gotta say!

It all started when I was 9 years old. My neice was 8, my nephews were 10 and almost 5. Anyway, we all grew up together on my grandpa’s farm literally. My twin cousin (not my twin he has a twin bro), Matt brought over his new cd at the time Weird Al: Even Worse (it had the Michael Jackson parodies “Fat”, “Eat it”, “Stuck in the Closet with Vana White” etc..) After I got done borrowing it so I could listen to it on the discman, he brought it back over and played it in front of me, my neice,<–who was also at the show, and my nephews. Basically we were blasting it from my upstairs bedroom and singing along. Then, Matt put in the Bad Hair Day album and played “Amish Paradise” LOL! Ok no dis nonjudgementally, Coolio was ok at the time, however, THANK GOD!!! SOMEBODY WROTE ANOTHER SONG TO HIS GANGSTA’S PARADISE!!!!!

Ok back to the rest of the story. So, I was waitng my turn backstage and after that I got to meet Weird Al! OMG, I was nerveous but moreso excited! I didn’t hold back, well a little and was a little shy. I walked in and was so excited and like OMG that I covered my face in my hands going OMG OMG OMG OMG, Weird Al OMG! Then, I got the gumpsion to get over my shyness and look and he said hi to me first, dang! He asked how I was too and I was like “ok” and thinking “awww that was sweet.” *smiles* Meeting someone face to face after listening loyally to their music since you were 9 years old, I’m 25 now.<—-The whole concert, backstage and all that’s pretty deep! I’m still glowing LOL! I have redone my page yet again and I promise no more redoing it LOL. *smiles* I have also uploaded the pics to my photo album on here and put a slideshow on my page. I wanted to share them with my family and friends.

‘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!

Washington snow BEAUTIFUL!

I posed for this one, napping in the hay!

I may be short but climbin’ in the hay is a favorite past time LOL.

I was amazed at this picture back in Feb ‘01. I managed to keep my balance like this sittin’ on the fence until a friend who took the pic made me laugh and I had to make a mad dash LOL.

Ok me at Mickey D’s on a Saturday in ‘01. My neice was stayin’ with us, she was snoozin’ me and another friend were bored so we went to Mikey D’s and took pics LOL!

Our Hackney Quarter Horse Freckles, she passed on in 2003 though.

Moo Cow!! Some of ‘em were always gettin’ out but that was the fun of it!

The Good ‘Ol Country!

Ahh Winlock LOL!

Mayfield Lake up at Mossy at Sunset: This one time at band camp…! LOL!

Another shot of Mayfield Lake