Sun....Aries
Moon...Taurus
Time...2:23am zzzz (I should be sleepin')
Mood... must finish blog!
Weather...55 and 40% chance of rain today...
Sound...Gambling after dark....

Anniversary of Oklahoma Bombing and Columbine.....

But on a lighter note:
OMG! That's the fastest my icon has ever popped up! So it's my "happy PEACE MAN!" icon....(All you need is love and peace!) So it's time (before I call it a nite) to do my HAPPY MUSIC BLOG!

Yesterday was all about RUINED songs (see yesterday's blog and feel free to post according to the subject.)

But today is all about HAPPY SONGS/HAPPY MEMORIES....

Here's a few of mine...
Include yours!

"I KNEW I LOVED YOU BEFORE I MET YOU"....I think of my kids whom I did love before I met!

"DOWNTOWN"...Petulia Clark. I think of the first pop song I can remember and my mom who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, warbling it around the house....

"THE LONELY BULL" by Herb Alpert...I think of my dad and smile. He loved Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass!

"DROPS OF JUPITER"....*sigh* the first deep, true love of my life....

Anything by MAROON FIVE....reminds me of my fiance and I meeting for the first time since last seeing each other when we were 15 ('77) and were driving over to Orlando to spend the week together ('05)

"American Pie".....my very most fav. song of all times...My years in Germany ('70-'72)

"And I Love Her"....my dad and mom dancing in the living room, me sitting on the couch watching them....they loved each other so...

I could go on...but I'll stop here...can't wait to hear yours.....but remember, visit yesterdays blog to tell me about those songs that have been ruined by people or experiences!



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Sun...Aries
Moon...Taurus
Time...1:49pm
Mood...o.k.
Weather...55 and mostly cloudy in DC
Sound...Christina's Court
BirthdayShoutOutsTo:
# 1976 Melissa Joan Hart (actress)
# 1968 Christian Slater (actor)
# 1967 Maria Bello (actress)
# 1963 Conan O'Brien (comedian, host)
# 1956 John James Minneapolis Mn, (actor)
# 1956 Eric Roberts Miss, (actor)
# 1953 Rick Moranis Toronto (actor)
# 1947 James Woods Warwick RI, (actor)
# 1947 Cindy Pickett (actress)
# 1946 Hayley Mills London England, (actress)
# 1925 Bob Hastings Bkln NY, (actor)

QuoteDiva sez..."It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." -James Gordon, M.D.

Did you ever have a song that you really, really liked but it was ruined by an experience or a person?

"Gone" (I think of my former boyfriend, the one I fell head over heels in love with and just never stopped for the longest time.)

"Steppin Out" Joe Jackson (1982)...when I hear this song I think of the night my dad asked me to come with him to visit my mother and I rolled my eyes and sighed deeply...thinking, "Why, she doesn't even know I'm there." I felt like it was a chore...two days later, she was dead.

Anything by Grateful Dead reminds me of the nights the ex husband would get drunk.....enough said there. he also kinda' ruined a few Jimmy Buffet songs. Certain music was playing in the background when not so nice things happened...so yeh, it really ruins the music.

Your turn!

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Two weeks ago I met fiance's real estate agent, Anna and her husband. Randall is about 6'3 and in his mid 60's. He is a gentle man but a bear of a man in size. He looks like he used to play football.

"That's quite a rock you got there!" I said pointing to his class ring.

"Yup, I played football there and graduated class of '66." he beamed.

"Our daughter goes there now!" added his wife proudly.

"It's a beautiful town, by the mountains." she continued. We love to go visit her because it's such a warm little town. A real college town but we like the energy the young folk bring."

"Sounds like Tallahassee, a quaint little college town."

"GO NOLES" a chime!"

"So she really likes it there?" asked fiance.

"Oh yes, she wouldn't want to be anywhere else. She's going to be an engineer you know!"

"Wow, we'll have to go there, I took Rubble through the mountains last October and she loved them."

"Yeh, if I go back to college, I'd have to do it in a place like that, with mountains as a backdrop" I laugh. You know both my parents graduated from FSU in their forties!!"

"I know you Rubble," interjects fiance, "You'd never go to class, you'd skip out and hike; it'd take you 10 years to graduate!!"

"Damn fine school that Virginia Tech. We still go to the games." says Randall. Obviously still proud of his school (and daughter) some 41 years later.

Anna and Randall were relieved to hear from their daughter who was unharmed in yesterday's attack.

Six degrees of separation....God's way of reaffirming the fact we are one...universe...."one song."

My prayers and those of my fiance go with you and yours...and ours.

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I checked in on Lucy's Sunday Post as I usually do for fun and laughs but found something more important and serious....please read and you'll understand better where today's post is coming from....

Peever, this one's for you and for us as a nation.

This is a "reissue" from a few days ago. The name of my young friend is Matt Dyer....please pray for him and all the other men and women in IRAQ.

..."Not much time...speaking of Icons...this one is a big departure from my usual narcissist or just plain silly icons! Fiance and I were walking around the DC mall and tidal basin a few weekends ago, enjoying the cherry blossom explosion....and decided to take a time out on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial. Suddenly these four serious looking young men came walking by. They were walking past a stage where performers were showing us martial arts moves. As soon as they cleared the stage, seconds after having their picture taken by me,...they broke out in hysterics! It was so funny! But for my photo, they look so reserved!

None of them were more than maybe twenty-three years old. Any one of them could have been my son. Suddenly I thought of this twenty-nine year old man I know who is over in Iraq (just went over.) But he's not just any man. I have known this man since he was all of seven. I am very proud to know him and I pray for his safety ever day.

Seeing these boys, reminded me of how close the war has come to me. It's not just a story on the news. He was the most precious little boy, so well-mannered and had such a beautiful smile! He's still that same little boy...only grown up, married, miles from home, in a very volatile situation.

Pray for him and his comrades in arms as well as their families and our nation. We need it, more than ever."

APRIL 16th, 2007....

MATT...I am so proud of you but I pray for your quick return so that you can be with your family and your new bride and start a family!!!!

With Respect....

Miss "Rubble" (your former Latchkey caretaker, 1984-1985 )

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Sun....Aries
Moon...Pisces
Time...7:30pm
Mood...shaky...just downed a Starbucks
Weather...Mild, sunny...hunkering down for a lousy wet weekend.
Sound...CEU (Brazilian music we bought at Starbucks)
BirthdayShoutOutsTo:
# 1970 Ricky Schroder SI NY, (actor)
# 1964 Davis Love III.(golfer)
# 1946 Al Green (r & b singer)
# 1945 Tony Dow (actor)
# 1944 Jack Casady (bassist)
# 1942 Bill Conti (composer)
# 1939 Paul Sorvino (actor)
# 1935 Erich von D�niken (author)
# 1935 Lyle Waggoner (announcer, skit player)
# 1926 Don Adams NYC, (comedian)
# 1919 Howard Keel Ill, (actor/singer)
# 1906 Samuel Beckett (French playwright)
# 1743 Thomas Jefferson Virginia (3rd us president)

QuoteDiva sez: "The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face." -Jim Bishop

How was YOUR Friday the 13th? Ours was nice. Peaceful so far. We met with our real estate gal to go over some things...this is it...the house is on the market. According to the Washingtonian Magazine (April ed.) we live in a "golden" zip code. So with the prettiest house on the street and fingers and toes crossed we plunge into a horrible market for sellers and we maintain a positive vibe. Thanks Petra...keep that candle burning...thanks CM for your well wishes!

Two years ago fiance thought this house would be a great investment...now it's just another drain on his wallet. It was a risk... Now he needs to unload it. He has two mortgages as well as other things to suck the money out of his account. He also has an ex to support until she gets on her feet. Soo....it's important that this house sells. He will take a loss but he's resigned to that.

Come take a look...go to my gallery and see for yourself what a pretty house it is! As you look at the photos...send a positive thought our way! "THE HOUSE WILL SELL QUICKLY" If you all will say this as you take a gander, I'm sure by the sheer mental force of Stream WILL, it WILL sell quickly!

Thanks!
Namaste!

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