What Happened?

No Timmy last night! The program didn't come on. Shucks! OK, this is the last one-liner you will ever see from me.

1998

I was supposed to write this earlier. Tonight's program focused on the year 1998. WTG Timmy!! That was quite an active year for me!! That was the year I "rediscovered" INXS for the first time in like 4 years, I still felt bad because Michael died, and one of the best ways I could think of to remember him by was to name one of my pups after him. I got a blue heeler puppy in June of that year, and I named her Hutchess. Yep, after Michael. Unfortunately, like Michael, Hutchess died too early in her life too. I only got to enjoy her for one week, then she succumbed to parvo. She was the sweetest puppy too! Blue heelers have always been one of my favorite breeds. I had an older one that passed shortly before I got Hutchess, that one went from old age.

I remember after Hutchess died, I had a terrible time getting over losing her, pretty much like when I lost Groucho. I dealt with losing Hutchess by writing about my experiences with her. We did have one wonderful week together. So I put that in a book and titled it "Hutchess, A Picture Diary". One of my best methods of getting over something is to write about it, and so that was my tool for getting over Hutchess. It turned out to be a good, dramatic story. So that is why I am offering it on my site. That was also the point where I learned how very useful INXS's music and videos would become to me. Listening to their music made me feel good, and seeing them on video, especially Michael's singing and Tim's clowning around, made me feel better! I also recently wrote a story about Groucho, but I don't know. I was a younger woman when I lost Hutchess. It was easier then to just pick up the pieces and learn to live without her. I was older and much more prone to depression when I lost Groucho.

There were quite a few celebrity deaths that year. Cher wrote an album and the same year her former husband Sonny Bono passed away. You know my ma told me that Cher held me in her arms when I was a baby. I was about 2 years old and we lived in LA at the time. Ma worked for the mayor, and the mayor loved her so much she was invited to a private party at the mayor's home. A lot of celebs were there, but the biggest names I remember ma mentioning were Sonny and Cher. Ma took me with her because pa was in the field and Anna was in school and ma couldn't get a babysitter fast enough. I was too young to remember any of that. In fact, I completely forgot it until ma told me the story again one day at work back in 2001. I remember living in LA, and going through there back in 2005, some things actually refreshed my memory. But not much. Anyway, that year, Cher released the song "Believe". I kinda wonder if she wrote it in honor of Sonny, because she mentions "Do you believe in love after life?" Tonight's show was a good one!

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Happy Birthday to Martin Luther King, Jr! I saw his birthday posted up on the Star Celeb. He was a great man! He was one of my all-time favorite American heros! I commented that if it wasn't for him, me and my lifelong friend would never have been friends. If it weren't for him, I would never have been able to fall in love with my first boyfriend. If it weren't for him, I would never have met all the wonderful African-American people who have had such a profound influence in my life. So Martin Luther King, Jr. was definately a hero in the truest sense of the word! Of course I have met some African American people who were not so good, but that is true for all races. I've met many Caucasians I wouldn't give the time of day to. But like Martin Luther King, Jr. himself implied, judge not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. It is what is inside that counts. Even Obama better get down on his knees and thank GOD such a person existed! Obama could learn a great deal from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Oh my GOD! I wonder what the people from PETA Sucks are thinking of this day? Knowing what bigots they are! Well, most of them were. Well, I don't really want to think of people like them, knowing it'll get me started again. I deleted about 100 posts imported from my old blog today! Among them were the posts about that forum. The only roasting posts I left up were the ones directed to the Bible-thumpers. Especially the one I titled "If", because I still haven't got all those questions answered. I always wanted to find a hard-core creationist that can answer those in a believable way. But so far, I never have.

I can never remember sometimes if Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday is really the 15th of January or the 16th of January!! But then again, sometimes I still think my sis Anna's birthday is on the 6th and not the 8th! I'd make a lousy wife!! Always forgetting birthdays!! The man I did marry, I had no clue when his birthday was!!! I never asked him, believe it or not!! And he never told me. I'm not good at bringing questions like that up in a conversation either. Let's face it, conversation is a game I suck at! But hanging around my friends and family, I am trying to get better.

1997

This was the topic of tonight on Tim-Tim's talk show. I knew he would talk about Michael! I like it that he told the story with some of their most sensitive songs playing in the background. I am glad I recorded that clip! He also played a few songs he's dedicated to Michael. I know how that goes. I have some songs I dedicated myself to Groucho. One of the songs Timmy played was "Change the World" by Eric Clapton. A great song for Michael!! He did change the World, through his singing. I will always confess Michael was a good singer. Just cuz he's not that attractive in my eyes anymore, is no reason to dis his singing, because he was good. I still keep a lot of the back-catalogue of INXS albums and songs. But for looks as well as talent, one need not look further than the wonderful and beautiful Tim Farriss. Timmy's got it ALL!! *sigh* I just love that man sooooo much!!! I so enjoy his shows! I only wish it was television and not radio, because I want to see his face!

Well, a little this week, I am going to be putting up more posts from my other blog. I need to look them over before I post them because I don't want to add any of my roasting posts on here. Some of them were funny, but I don't really want to trash anyone here. I haven't got much of a chance to do anything today because I've been busy with other things. Perhaps tomorrow I will post up more of my other blogs. There's some about JD and INXS and I want to repost those on here. Yesterday as I was saving the posts from my other blog, I noticed on the thread about Complaining Christians, someone offered me a free gift for joining landoverbaptists.net. Funny how I never noticed that before! Well, sorry. Unless the free gift is a private gig with INXS in my backyard and flying all my MySpace buds in to join me, or a trip to Australia to view Tim doing his radio show, I am not interested. I know the latter would be impossible!! Tim's program is pre-recorded. Or so I heard. And I don't want to go to his home!!! Not unless he invites me himself!!! Since that will never happen, there is no need for me to go to Oz just for that.

In fact some day I do plan to move to Australia. I heard there is a job opportunity there that pays $100,000 for 6 months, and gives you an oceanfront home. There is a catch though. You have to scuba-dive every day. Scuba-diving is not one of my things! I've done it before. Here, it's OK. In the Australian Great Barrier Reef, you couldn't pay me enough to scuba-dive there! I'm scared to death I'll get approached by sea snakes, or get into a swarm of box jellies or Irukandji, or be attacked by blue-ringed octopus! Not to mention, Australia is a hot-spot for Great White shark attacks!! Australia is known for having some of the most dangerous sea creatures in the World, and that is what I'd have to risk if I got that job. If it weren't for that, if I could just go out in a boat and grab these creatures for study, it wouldn't be a problem. I'd take the job in a heartbeat! Well, I have another way of getting to Oz, and it's virtually free! Ever hear of WOOF? I will be looking into that. Why not? I've worked on farms before! Only thing I've never done was drive a tractor.

Done Finally!

I was going to post this yesterday, but I was a bit too busy. But anyway, I don't know how I did it but I was able to import my last blog to this one. I kept the better posts, and did a little bit of clean-up to take out all the bad stuff. I didn't publish the ones that requires too much clean-up. In fact I tossed those away. Katrina, Eva and Anna are all happy that I am turning over this new leaf. This is the first step. Katrina says I need to tear down these walls I have over myself and I know she is right. That is the next step and the hardest part. These "walls" are basically my protection and have been for so many years, I don't know how I can do without them. And every time I am nice to someone I get kicked down. I always manage to get back up again, usually by doing what Katrina calls "putting another brick on the wall". Not only does another brick go on the wall, but also the big guns come out and I shoot blindly at everyone. I think for the past couple of years I've been getting this "get them before they get me" notion, and we all know I need to stop that. Well, I am working on it. I will not promise to change by tomorrow, but I will not be airing my grievances on here any more. Because Katrina said she'd knock my blocks off! LOL! She packs a lot of power in a body that is only 5-feet tall and 98 pounds!!

Kindof a shame! It was those grieving and crazy posts that kept the regular readers coming back! I almost hate to give them up. Now I don't think I will be getting anymore readers at all. People don't go to blogs that are all lovey-dovey. Though I think that is what drew the people of the DF forum to me in the first place, my deep devotion to Tim Farriss. Only problem was they misinterpreted everything. But not getting into that!! There is always going to be people who will read what I write and misinterpret it or make stuff up from it. Well, part of the reason may be me. I am very precise in what I write. It's a habit. When I first started writing, someone told me that in order for a book to be good enough to publish a writer has to be very descriptive and detailed. Like you cannot say in a story "we watched the clouds roll by". A writer has to say something to the effect of "We sat on the cool, green grass and looked up to the sky and watched the clouds roll slowly by." So that is how I learned to put all these descriptive phrases in my writings. Even on these blogs. So I figured maybe I put too much description on my blogs. Who is going to read these blogs anyway? Usually common people. Not necessarily people who know all about writing.

Well, that's all I have to say. I think I cleaned out most of these posts, but if anyone sees anything "impure" let me know! I am still redoing this one story "Gracie's Odyssey". It's coming out great. But it is taking forever!! I know it will eventually get done, it's just taking such a long time. This story has officially been written twice. The first time was in 1998, and the second time was in 1999. In the first version, Davy grows up in a zoo, and then goes off to live with other animals. In the 1999 version, he lives in a zoo for a little while, then is bought by a man who brings him home to his teenage daughter, Lisa. I am actually the one responsible for the second version! I thought up Lisa and her father the summer before, in 1998. They came to me in a dream. But at that time, I had been watching too much Titanic, the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. I saw it about a hundred times in the theater!! I loved it! Then I had that dream of Lisa and her father buying Davy from the zoo. Now, you know how it is that dreams tend to exaggerate things. Like if you are asleep and someone knocks on your bedroom door, in a dream it can sound like gunshots firing. Well, in this dream, it took the ritzy-looking people I saw on Titanic and made people look even more ritzy. So in this original "re-write", Lisa was a princess in a huge, frilly dress and a tiara, and her father was the king of the land. And they were not on a boat, they lived in a castle. LOL! I actually put that down on paper because it seemed like a cute idea at the time. But when I finished it and looked back on it, I decided it was overdoing things too much and I didn't like it at all!! I didn't even present it to Cairo, the original writer of that story!

Well, several months later, in 1999, I re-wrote that story. I still liked the idea of Lisa and her father buying Davy from a zoo, but I wanted to tone down their position. So, Lisa's father, instead of being king of the land, is now a judge in a Supreme Court. Lisa is still a simple teenage girl in middle school and they both live in a mansion on top of a hill, not a castle in some far-off land! Besides, children have enough books about princes and princesses and stuff like that. Let them have someone they can really relate to. Cairo really liked that idea too, so this is how the story has been written up all these years. The story is not available on our website yet, but it will be very soon.

Obama's Dog

Well, I was reading an article at The Star Celeb, and Obama has narrowed down the feild of breeds. Well, ONE breed, and the other a mutt. He wants to get either a Portuguese Water Dog or a mixed labrador and poodle (better known to other people as "labradoodles"). IF he does go with the labradoo, that would be catastrophic!! Next thing you know, everyone will be seeking these mutts. Even the person who wrote the article thinks they are the best choice. Bad idea! Mongrels never have a fixed personality. I personally have never seen a mongrel whose personality was 100% better than those of any purebreeds. The trouble is the public is pushed to believe they are better, so they get these mutts not expecting them to give any problems. And then when they do, the mutts wind up in the pound. Some of the worst dog attacks I've ever heard of were committed by mongrels. If Obama does get a mongrel, I can only hope he gets it from a shelter. At least they put down dogs that have bad temperaments! That's the only way they'd find a mixed-breed guaranteed to have a good personality. Don't go to a breeder of mixed breeds! They'll only tell you what they think you want to hear because all they are interested in is pocketing the money from the sale.

Personally, if it were me, a lover of pure-breed dogs, I'd go for the Portuguese Water Dog. But you're less likely to find them in shelters. In fact I've never seen one in a shelter. A tribute to how good a personality pure-breeds have over mongrels. Personally if it were me, I'd never get either dog with girls under 10 years old! I don't trust labradors at all. And poodles are too hyper. But then so are the water dogs. But then again, poodles and the Water Dogs are the only non-allergenic dogs. Labradors are a totally different story, and that's another problem with getting a labradoo, they may wind up with one that has a labrador-coat, even if it resembles a poodle, and it could shed, causing Obama's daughter undue allergies. But it's really his choice. If it were me, I'd have gone for a purebreed toy poodle.

Yellowstone Quakes and Shakes!

This should please my sis Anna, she is a self-proclaimed volcano junkie! She's often said that if David Johnston was still around today he would be the man she would have loved to marry. He was a rather good-looking man!

Nice guy! I met the guy but I was too young to really care! He was the one who uttered those famous last words just before Mount St. Helens blew up and claimed him as one of her victims, "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!!" That's the only man my sis Anna ever fell in love with. She doesn't like guys. She's not gay, she just doesn't trust men. But hey! If he was still around now, and Anna married him, they could have gone off on volcano-hunting trips together! But anyway, there is seismic activity at Yellowstone (and Anna wants to move there???) and it is causing some concern. If it blows, Anna says there is no way out! It'd cause a disaster of epic proportions. Pretty much most of the NW would be affected, so would the east coast. Anyway, here's an article I found about the activity going on at Yellowstone.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/12/yellowstone-earthquakes.html

Yellowstone Quakes Shake Loose Eruption Fears
Mead Gruver, Associated Press

Jan. 12, 2009 -- Run for your lives ... Yellowstone's going to explode!

Hundreds of small earthquakes at Yellowstone National Park in recent weeks have been an unsettling reminder for some people that underneath the park's famous geysers and majestic scenery lurks one of the world's biggest volcanoes.

In the ancient past, the volcano has erupted 1,000 times more powerfully than the 1980 blast at Mount St. Helens, hurling ash as far away as Louisiana. No eruption that big has occurred while humans have walked the earth, however, and geologists say even a minor lava flow is extremely unlikely any time soon.

Some observers are nonetheless warning of imminent catastrophe.

"To those of us who have been following these events, we know that something is brewing, especially considering that Yellowstone is over 40,000 years overdue for a major eruption," warned a posting on the online disaster forum Armageddononline.org.

Another Web site contained a page entitled "Yellowstone Warning" that encouraged "everyone to leave Yellowstone National Park for 100 miles around the volcano caldera because of the danger in poisonous gasses that can escape from the hundreds of recent earthquakes."

That site, which carried the U.S. Geological Survey logo, has since been taken down.

"A casual observer would be led to believe that was an official source," Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash said, pointing out that the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, which monitors the park for seismic activity, hasn't changed the volcano's alert level from "normal."

Working with the Geological Survey, Nash issued a news release Thursday, saying no evacuation had been ordered.

Jessica Robertson, a Geological Survey spokeswoman in Reston, Va., said the Web page violated the USGS trademark and that the agency's attorneys were investigating whether a federal offense was committed.

Phone and e-mail messages left with the contact named on the Web site weren't returned Thursday.

Earthquakes are hardly unusual in Yellowstone. Hundreds occur in the park every year. Earthquake "swarms" like the recent activity also aren't uncommon, although the 900 or so quakes that began Dec. 26 and significantly tapered off about a week later appear to have been the most energetic swarm in more than 20 years.

The most powerful temblor was magnitude 3.9, just short of being able to cause moderate damage. The vast majority of quakes were too weak to be felt by people.

Scientists knowledgeable about Yellowstone's geology aren't publicly speculating about what caused the swarm before they can analyze data. That will take months.

"I could come up with 100 different theories without any evidence for them and they would all be equally likely," said Jake Lowenstern, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based scientist in charge of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. "Unless you have some reason to say that's what's going on, then you're not going to get a whole lot of people convinced by your speculation."

Park geologist Hank Heasler said the odds of a cataclysmic eruption at Yellowstone any time soon are astonishingly remote -- about the same as a large meteorite hitting the Earth. The last such eruption occurred 640,000 years ago. The last eruption of any kind at Yellowstone was a much smaller lava flow about 70,000 years ago.

"Statistically, it would be surprising to see an eruption the next hundred years," Lowenstern said.

Much more likely, he said, would be a hydrothermal explosion in which underground water encounters a hot spot and blasts through the surface. Small hydrothermal explosions producing craters a few feet wide occur in Yellowstone perhaps once or twice a year. Large hydrothermal explosions leaving craters the size of a football field occur every 200 years or so, according to a 2007 paper co-authored by Heasler, Lowenstern and others.

Lowenstern said new equipment installed deep within bore holes in the park over the past two summers eventually should provide a clear picture of what's causing the earthquake swarm. That data could help scientists make better predictions about Yellowstone's geology.

Day 11

Tonight's show represented the year 1994. Another great year, it was the first year my sis Anna and I came to Ocean Shores by ourselves without our family. We stayed at a cute little hotel here, it was one of few around at that time. There were few powerlines then in this town, all the homes, land and hotels were on septic systems, that's how primitive it was out here. Basically it was just a cute little get-away town. It was the Easter weekend and every year around that time, all the kite-fliers come to this area to take advantage of the high ocean winds. Well, that little weekend trip sparked my imagination and ever since then, I've wanted to move to this town. Another thing that piqued my interest in this town was the Disney movie, "Pete's Dragon". It too was taken in a small, oceanside town, and it was such a cute movie! I was so fascinated by the town being so small and nestled up against the ocean it made me want to move out here so bad I was almost ready to pack up and leave the mountains and move to the ocean right then. Now, I am glad I moved here, even though it has taken me several years.

That was also the year I got heavily into the future of evolution. When I was younger the thought of evolution always made me cringe, but then I started studying it further, partly because of Jurassic Park, and I realized it was the best explaination there was for why dinosaurs and humans were not around at the same time. I actually created my first critters in 1992, but they were more akin to "make-believe" animals, much like one would see in a Dr. Seuss book, or on Star Wars. It wasn't until 1994 that I made these animals a little more scientifically accurate. I started with lemurs, the therapeds and deinognathids and carnivorous rats. The carnivorous rats I got from my copy of After Man. Dixon became quite famous for his predator rats. But he made them look too much like modern rats on stilts. I made them look more advanced. For one thing, I got rid of the naked tail, giving them a well-haired tail. From those first creations I radiated out into a World dominated by mammals. From that day on you could say my life focused on creating a mammal-dominated world, with no humans, and lacking those species who hinder the evolutionary advancement of other animals. Some animals I believe have many more millions of years to go.

This was also the year Kurt Cobain died. He grew up here, about 15 miles away from me in Hoquiam. The town even did a statue, funded by MTV, of Cobain. It's an awesome sight!!! Last time I saw it though it was still in the production stage. I didn't go to the unveiling, I'm not the biggest Nirvana fan, but my friend Cathy is.

Well, Australia had their own headlines that year, something about brushfires in northern Australia. Boy! I know how that feels! I get sick of hearing about brushfires in California!! But I guess that's what happens with global warming. That was a great year for music, not saying all of it was good, but I did hear a lot of songs tonight that has brought back some fond memories!

Day 10

I missed day 9, so I'll just skip to what I have heard tonight. Day 10, represents 1993. I didn't know Prince did that song that year!! I'd have swore that was an 80s song!!! Either I'm wrong or Timmy is. Most likely me, I never cared for Prince. He never did anything really good as far as I'm concerned. But the rest of the songs I recognize very well. Well, except that last song. That was a weirdo song! Someone who would do anything for love except he won't do that. Whatever "that" is, I don't know. It was a weird song anyway.

1993 was a pretty good year. That was the year my sis Eva married a man, a wealthy man I might say. Lucky her! She doesn't want me to say what he does or where he works, so I won't. I cannot say why, so don't ask. hehe! That was the year me and Cathy finished the "Batman" series in our stories. It ended with a bang! Quite literally. We had UMG characters playing Batman characters, and it ended up being the character named Bucky was just waking up from a nap after dreaming he was Batman battling the Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, Riddler, Mr. Freeze, and the Mad Hatter. It was a funny way to end the series that extended over a year. We started the series just before Batman Returns started in the theaters, in August of 1992 with Batman battling the Joker and Penguin. I loved writing those Batman series because it gave me a chance to let my imagination really go wild. It was never meant to replace the original Batman comics or movies, it was just a fun way of being trendy. Bucky is a lemur that is used in quite a few stories and he turned out to be a Batman fan, so this is why he was dreaming these things happening to him while wearing a Batman costume. They were not the only stories I had that ended up being a dream someone in the story was having. A couple years later, I had a story with me sitting in a college biology class studying Dian Fossey, and dreaming I was going up to study gorillas with her. In the beginning of the story though I fell asleep, and at the end of the story I was woken up. That was all that story was based on. I dunno, the plot worked well for Alice in Wonderland!! In the story Alice apparently dreamed the whole thing up, then woke up at the end. The same concept applies to these stories.

That was also the year my pa moved in with the woman who was soon to be his wife and left us his house as a rental. He still visited quite often. But back then everytime he visited it was a roll of the dice whether he would be in a good mood or a bad mood. I hated it when he came to visit!!! He may have left us the house, but he didn't leave us our privacy!! He still wanted to control everything we did, even though we were not children anymore and he was renting us the house and we paid our rent on time every month.

Well geez, I am awful tired tonight! I loved hearing Tim on the radio again, but I am so tired. When my eyes start stinging me, that means they are TIRED!!!!

Road Trip With the Wees!

Yesterday we went on a long trip with our little ones. I mean a LONG trip!!! At first we went to Astoria, our intent was to do some grocery shopping. But the store we went to did not have all we wanted, so as long as we were in the state, I thought let's go to Portland. So we did. They had everything we wanted so we got what we wanted and needed and came back home. It was a long way there from Astoria, where we originally started. We stopped at a rest stop to let the little ones go potty, they always attract a lot of attention, and Anna met a woman who just lost her husband yesterday. I thought when the woman looked at me she had that lost look in her eyes, kinda like how I looked when I lost my Groucho. She said he went in for heart surgery and died in the operation. I felt so bad for her, I told her she is in my prayers. That's all I could do, but she said seeing our babies made her day. I get so awkward in those kind of situations. I never had a husband die on me, I've lost friends and close family before, and kind words are enough to help me feel better. All I could offer was my condolences.

Well, we got our shopping done. You know what? I think I'm going to go shopping there more often! Everything is cheaper there! I was able to get twice as much as I usually do. But we were so tired upon returning we were falling asleep on the ride home! Thank GOD we made it before we got too tired. Usually on a long trip like that during the last 10 miles toward home I start feeling woozy, and last night was no exception. I had to turn off the music and start talking just to keep Anna and myself awake! I didn't think I was going to make it home awake! But we did, us and the wees made it home unscathed. There were still a lot of road closures due to flooding!! Thank GOD by yesterday most places were cleared, but passing through Chehalis, Centralia and Elma I noticed most of those areas were underwater! It's like a sea out here! I think in the future World this whole area is going to be part of the Pacific Ocean! No land anywhere. The Cascades are going to maybe be an island chain, or underwater volcanoes. The area Katrina lives with her family is not so bad, but then she lives on a hill too. But I also remember her mentioning yesterday that she could not go to work because most of the highway around her area was flooded.

Well, when I got home, I wanted to try my all-new portable DVD player I got yesterday, but I was too tired. Even today I am still too tired! NUTS!! But I will get to try it out, possibly tonight. I just cannot wait is all! It even plays VCDs, which I have quite a few of. My old player won't even touch VCDs!! Anna has no use for VCDs so I gave the player to her. This one is cool! It's like a flat-panel player, with a cute little mini remote. I can hook this baby up to my stereo on one side of the room and control it from the other. Look out Rockstar: INXS!! I'll be watching it maybe tonight! I miss Timmy. These radio programs are cool, but I want to see Tim's face! I missed last night's program! I'm sure they did the year 1992. Tonight they might do 1993. That was the year I got back into listening to the radio after like a 2-year break.

Day 6

This article was from Day 6 of Tim-Tim's radio show, so I thought I'd better save it here.

I was finally able to free up some time tonight and listen to Tim's radio program on a livestream from the River 94.9 FM, for the first time. Here I was talking about not missing it and I missed the last 6 days!! Tonight, he was doing the songs from 1989. Anyone else want to hear it, it comes on at 6:00 PM here in WA state. So that's PT zone. I missed the first 6 years, but I guess it's just as well. The songs from 1982 and 1983 are stupid and boring. In 1984 songs began getting better, but not the ones other people think were so great. But that's JMO.

1989, a good year. I was in high school. Cathy and I were on a story-writing frenzy that year, a number of my creations were based on the life of Dian Fossey. Though not necessarily Gorillas in the Mist. I also "discovered" music this year. Well, I discovered I like it. That was also the year I got Amadeus, my siamese cat. The only cat I would ever have that I would love. He still got on my nerves a lot though!! That was also the year my ma and pa got divorced. They both agreed it was the best thing for them. My pa met his now wife, and my ma met her now husband and now both are happy. That was also the year I met my first boyfriend, the man I hoped to marry someday. Well, that was before he joined the service.

When I first tuned in to the program, I kinda expected it to be like those Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Springer talk shows, a mix of both Tim Farriss talking about his experiences with INXS and talking about other groups. He did have some nice things to say about Roxette, which was always my favorite group next to INXS. But basically all Tim was doing was talking about musical history in general, and introducing what songs will be played. I did enjoy the songs, one song that was played I haven't heard in years! More than anything I enjoyed hearing Tim's commentary. To think I even recognized his voice among the other DJs. Been a long time since I spoke to him, but I still remember him even without seeing him. I was hoping though he'd be cracking jokes and being funny as I know he is capable of. Well, either way I did enjoy the program, and I thank my buds from OBINXS for referring me to the site.

Day 8

Tim was in good voice tonight! As he talked about the year 1991. Of course I realize these shows are pre-recorded!!! LOL! Anyway, I never realized how little I listened to the radio in '91 until I heard tonight's show. I have these periods, just like everything else, that are neutral and periods where I cannot get enough of something. Radio was among those things. In 1989 and 1990, I listened to the radio constantly! In 1991, I only listened to the radio a little, for maybe a few months of the year and then I stopped. I don't remember listening to the radio at all in 1992 or most of 1993. Then about around September of 1993, I started listening to the radio again. That started a long trend of constant radio and music that lasted several years. Between 1993, '94, '95 and most of '96 I never had the radio off!! I'd be in my stereo room and I'd listen to the radio, in my bedroom, I'd listen to the radio, the car sure enough the radio was always on. Then late in 1996 I suddenly stopped listening except in the car, and that was only occasionally. In 1997 I hadn't started up yet, 1998 I was more into INXS so I listened more to my CDs than the radio. But in 1999 I started listening to the radio once again and didn't stop for a while. All of 1999 and 2000 I was constantly listening to the radio, especially on my way to work. In 2001 I didn't listen to the radio at all though. That was the year we moved to Olympia and I lost my favorite radio station when we did that. So, that was a bummer! I hardly ever listened to the radio unless I was in the car and just didn't have anything to say to whomever was in there with me. Usually the dogs. I'd take the dogs when Anna wasn't there so I'd have someone else to talk to. Unless it was hot out. After 2001 I never listened to the radio again, and out here there is only one radio station and it only plays country music. A big no-no in this house unless my stepfather is DJing, and then only to show him family support.

Anyway, I only recognized a few songs tonight. It could also be that I am not from Australia, but most of the songs I either barely remember or do not recognize. But who cares? I just enjoy hearing Tim's voice!! He even sounds beautiful! Forgive me for lusting!

Speaking of forgiveness, I wanted to announce I forgive the dirty dozen mob for what they did, I forgive DonnaG and her supporters for what they did in the past, that includes Catsredrum, Netrage, Mayday06 and NetsAngel. I forgive you all. I forgive those who have trashed me for no reason, I respect their decision to not want anything to do with me anymore. I forgive the people on the Anti-PETA forum for what they did. I'm not sure I'm supposed to list everything, they know what they did, and I really do not want to get into it, as I want to keep this clean. May GOD have mercy on them all.

Day 7

Well, tonight Timmy did the show for the year 1990. A great year! I was in the Voc school that year, and became something of a grown up. It was a part of my high school continuing education program. Yippee!! I was glad to get away from the high school kids and become a grown up. Though even then, on the bus to the school, I still had kids barking at me. Don't ask why!! It was their thing, not mine! They were nutty kids! They were on their way to a school for troubled kids, so that should give you some idea why they acted that way. I was also madly in love with my first boyfriend this year, and hoped to marry him once I graduated from high school. He couldn't wait either. But later I found out he was being transfered across the country. He wanted me to come, but I couldn't. My family and friends are here, and it's not easy for me to make friends (back then we didn't have the internet), so I opted to stay here. He couldn't stay, so he had to go. I thought we would keep in touch, he had my phone # and all, but he never called, wrote or anything.

Now, I wish I had gone with him. I stayed there and lived in my father's house for many years, and every day was a constant battle with him!!! I never knew from one minute to the next if he was going to be in a good mood or bad mood, he changed with the wind!! Ya know, I think that's what turned me into a bitter old woman?! A woman who doesn't trust anybody! Maybe if I had gone with my first boyfriend to NC, I would not have become such an ogre! Being overly-defensive at every turn, hating everybody, or not trusting them, thinking everyone is either out to get me or is only being nice because they want something from me. I got so used to living that way staying at my father's house. But he was nice enough to let me live there on a minimal rent. It was just every time I saw him, he was either very very sweet, or very very mean. And I didn't know what he was which days. Sometimes he would come to the house nice, and later turn mean and nasty, for no apparent reason. Well, those days are behind me. He's a very different person now. I honestly think it took us moving out here, almost 100 miles away from him, to tame him down. Now whenever I see him, he's always very thoughtful, kind and polite. Miracles never cease.

Anyway, 1990 was also the year I discovered INXS. It was the summer of 1990. I'd been hearing INXS's music for a couple of years, and it was one of the first bands to capture my attention, and my imagination. When I saw a video of their's for the first time that summer, at first I fell in love with Michael. It was Need U Tonight/Mediate. Michael was so cute I fell in love right away. But it was Tim who caught my attention in Mediate, though he was at the end of the video, he had the best set of buns in the band!! So round, and fully-packed!! Let's face it, I'm a butt-woman!! I love a man with big, round buns like Tim's!!! I never seen one like his on a man! Michael had the face, but Tim had the buns!!! Michael had a cute face, but Tim was nice everywhere else! But like everyone else, I went for the lead singer of the band back then. I wasn't really like I am now. Now, I like to think independently.

Well anyway, I enjoyed the show. Timmy is really a damn good DJ. He should also make a career of this! I heard one song tonight I haven't heard since 1990! I think it's called "Onion Skin" or something like that. I used to hear it all the time on the radio station I was hooked on back then. I used to HATE that song!! I did at first. Then I started listening to it and learned to like it better. When I was ready to record it one day I discovered that they had actually stopped playing the song! I was upset, and I never heard it again. EVER!! Not until tonight anyway. I had even completely forgotten about that song until I heard it tonight!!! Thanks again Timmy!!!! Luv ya, and keep up the good work!

Welcome!

This is my newest blog. As you can see I am just getting started. Actually, I hope to begin this blog in the next week, after I delete my last blog. I'm trying to go for a new start for the new year and I figured this is one way to do it. I'm hoping this blog will be more tame. But anyway, this isn't going to be a blog to bash people with! I'm trying to make a change in my life. I don't want to become known as an internet bully, so I am trying to move foreward. And this new blog will be the way to do it.

Hope you all enjoy this one this time. I will be talking a lot about my own personal experiences, and also about the stories presented on my UMG site. It'll be fun here!! And I promise not to fly off the handle anymore. I will also try to get a much better layout going. I really do not like this one!

Well, Here it is

Here's to a productive New Year. Hope that I keep up with fixing my attitude problem!! LOL! I heard from the anonymous e-mailer again and he told me that he didn't want to see me turn out like a couple of other scientists he knows who everyone knows is nuts and never listens to them. Well, I told him I like it that I am a little bit crazy, but I don't want to be known for being psychotic. The problem was no one ever told me I am like this. Well!!! No one meaningful!! The only people who have told me I'm psychotic are all DonnaG supporters or the dirty dozen mob, and I wouldn't listen to any of them either way! Why not? First of all, because DonnaG and the dirty dozen mob are all crazier than I will ever be!! So it's like the pot calling the kettle black. This e-mailer, even though I just "met" him, does not act crazy at all, so I would believe him if he said I was acting irrational or freaky. Second of all, this e-mailer does not approach me like the dirty dozen and DonnaG supporters do. When they approach me, they do it in a way like they are poking fun and acting like a bunch of 6th graders, so naturally enough I won't listen to them. But this e-mailer seems to have class and finesse, yet very upfront. And I like that. I don't mind constructive criticism, but how it is delivered is what really counts. That is why, after hearing what he thinks of my attitude, I was able to take a long hard look at my behavior, and I am now ready to go for a change.

I will not promise to change within like the next few weeks, but hopefully by the end of the year, barring BS from the dirty dozen and DonnaG supporters, I can say the change will be noticeable. The only real way to avoid conflicts with them is to stay off the forums. I got one thing going for me, the dirty dozen have stated they don't care to comment on my blogs :) So at least I don't have to look at them if I don't want to. Cool!!! And I never go into the Rockband lounge or the Switchboard so no chance of butting heads with the DonnaG supporters either. Way COOL!!! I'm not even on inxs.com anymore so that too is off. Maybe with this I can put my life on 'Reset'. hehe! I'm just shocked none of my friends, buds or family ever told me any of this! Took a stranger, though a kind stranger, to bring it to my attention!!

So anyway, here's to a change.