They're going to go free!

Well folks it has finally happened. Our two wrongfully imprisoned boarder guards are going to go home to their families. I thought I would never see the day. Let's just hope that after they are home they can have their records es ponged clean. I can't believe how rotten that prosecutor Johnny Sutton was. Can you believe how much evidence he had sealed? I would love to know what his beef was toward those two guards. I think that someone should arrest him and put him in the same prison the two guards were in. And...not only that...the Mexican government had their hands all over this case as well. They obstructed the outcome in every direction! I wish they would get it into their thick sculls that they don't have a right to come here and sell their poison to our children and take away jobs from our people. If we did that there in Mexico, we would get arrested and thrown into their prison. Well, enough of this soap box. I gotta hit the hay. I wish the best for the two guards and their families and for Johnny Sutton...go pound sand! Cheers for now, Freedancer

Gettin Ready for a Weddin

Well folks, things seemed to be coming together real fine for this upcommin weddin. My beautiful daughter and my handsome, soon-to-be son in law are working hard on the plans. I thought we had the dresses figured out for the girls but after I ordered the material from Hancock Fabric on line, disaster fell upon us! They didn't have enough of the material that we wanted and had to cancel the order. Hells bells!! Anyhoo, we now must regroup and get this show on the road. Would anyone out there like to talk about your kids wedding experience?

After I got through being jealous and having my pity party for one about my little girl going to her in laws for the Christmas holidays, I managed to finally take it in stride. After all, I am not losing my baby, I am gaining a wonderful and talented music teacher and a dear Christian. That is what I wanted in the first place was to have my baby marry a good Christian man. Still, it's hard to let her go. I mean after all, who the heck am I going to drink cocoa with and watch scary movies with now? I can't ask my main sweetie to watch them. Well...I could I guess... but I can't feed him anything because he goes to right to sleep! I can't ask my oldest son to come over and watch them because he doesn't like the old, classic, scary ones.

Work is getting a little stressful for all of us. Our space at the office is too small and there are 9 of us in there. We are constantly moving desks around and finding ways to give more space. Thank God for the new guy! He loves to decorate and celebrate. If it wasn't for him, it would be kind of drab around there. It's after the holidays now and all the girls are wantin to diet in the office. The problem is, one of us loves to make peanut butter fudge and the new guy is a master at cheese cakes. (OMG, they are out of this world too!) As soon as the weather gets better, we'll be out in droves walking off the holidays. I live close enough to walk to work on a daily basis when the weather cooperates. I just have to make sure that the days I walk that I can drive the company car.

On a bit of a sad note, I lost my 9 year old Cockateal on the 13th of January 2009. I dearly miss her as she was my companion on Sunday mornings when I read the paper and listened to Lonnie Bell's Country Classics. She really loved that song that went "Ain't much fun since I quit drinkin". She used to peep loudly and dance around in circles. She would often hop down for a drink of water and do the "cold water song" too, which was pretty funny. I came home from work one night and she was in the bottom of the cage, holding on to the bar to steady herself. I just scooped her up and rushed her to the vet. Unfortunately, I was a day or two to late as the vet called the next day and told me she passed away. It is amazing how attached we get to our pets isn't it? I'm asking for a cat now but I can't get my sweetie to authorize it and pettin the fake on on the back of the couch just doesn't cut it. Have any of you had a pet that really left an impression on your heart? Reply to this blog and tell me about it. I think sharing about them can be quite cathartic.

Well, I have babbled enough for one night. Hope you can comment on this or any of the other blogs. Cheers for now, Freedancer.

2009 is Finally Here!

Hello everyone and happy new year! I don't know if you feel the same but I've never been so happy to see a year be put behind us as 2008. I mean, don't let the universe door hit you in the butt on the way out! Gracious, what a year huh?

Christmas has come and gone and the tree is down and in the back of the pickup. I've vacuumed and dusted the house and taken down all the Christmas decorations. In a way, I was glad to put it all away. I have plans for this year...I'm going to find a nice church and get to know some great people. I realized that I've been lonely. Not for lack of people mind you but lonely for Jesus.

I've been a born again Christian since August of 1984. He pulled me up from the lowest point in my life. I was ready to pack it all in and take my life but Jesus saved me and I've never felt that way since. I've been in quite a few different churches since then. I've visited Baptist, Methodist, Church of Christ, Pentecostal, and many different non-denominational ones but a few years ago, I quit going because I just couldn't find my niche. I've never stopped believing or hoping or praying. I talk to Jesus all the time and ask for his Divine guidance daily with my job and life. I guess what I am searching for is more of a closeness to Jesus. I got frustrated when I visited the many churches. Every time I thought about joining one, I was told that I had to go through 6 or 7 weeks of new member classes. These classes went over salvation and how to get it and etc. I was already saved! I knew all that stuff and what I wanted was to sink my teeth into the meat of the gospel. I thought that just being married would fix everything but I was still lonely and when that marriage ended after 14 years, I pretty much gave up.

Enter 2009, a whole new year, a whole new chance at improving my life and erasing some of this loneliness that I have been experiencing. My sweetie has agreed to commit with me to finding a church and I'll pray daily, asking God to lead us to the right one. I don't know where that will be but I am willing and able to step out on faith and let Jesus and the Angeles show me the way. I hope we can find some comfort there. I hope we can find some friends there. I crave the Word. I want to feel empowered again by the Holy Spirit. I no longer want to fear death as I have been.

This will be a journey that will bring out many feelings and memories. I hope I can grow and learn to be the Christian that God wants me to be. I hope I can face the Devil and tell him boldly "Get behind me because you're not going to hurt me anymore". I look forward to this journey. I look forward to sharing this time with my dear husband. I yearn for the healing that Jesus has in store for me. For now, this is my deepest wish. Cheers! Freedancer