Rachel Proud Mary

This is the newest song that Rachel is working on.......'Proud Mary' This is just a small clip of what she has done with this song so far......She ain't just whistling Dixie.....she loves the rockier edge of country music....what they call Southern Rock I'll post another full version when she has it down and is happy with her results.

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New Journal Entry
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question 42 ~ getting together w/family
Author: promiseluv372
Family reunions

 

Oh you went there!!!!!  LOL..... Now you all know how much I love my Husband...... but it's his family reunion on is Mothers side that I am going to journal about. My Husband and his Father were born and raised in the Chicago land area. His Mother and her family are from a state (which will stay nameless) from the South. Now I love the South don't get me wrong, but we all have passed through many towns North and South that just leave us scratching our heads....... This is one of those areas.

My first family reunion on his side of the family, was just days after we married, up until this time I had only met his Mother.... none of her many relatives. Lets talk about Uncle Earl shall we?? I was only in the hall they rent for the reunions a few minutes when this very small man, probably about 100 years old man with oh, lets call them formations on his face, latches with both hands on to my breasts!!!!!! Now I am temporarily stunned and thinking how can I get this man to remove his hands from 'the girls' without knocking him on his rear end? Now after a moment of him standing there, grining a toothless grin at me then says, "You must be new in town, I've dated all the pretty girls and I've not seen you yet!" As he tries to plant one on me.

Now enter my Darling Husband who comes rushing up to still a stunned and silent me and removes Uncle Earls hands from the 'girls' and whispers to me, "Ughhh, I forgot to tell you about Uncle Earl!" I'm thinking Oh Yes you did! And I'm thinking I want to go home right now and he says something about senilty..... so I let it go... but now I am on guard! lol

After that experience and with me meeting about 200 other relatives a million times removed (I'm sure!) everyone was a blur or so I thought! Now fast forward to around the time of twilight......Jim wants to take me for a drive and show me all the secret places he spent his summers as a small boy. I am sitting quietly while we drive through some really beautiful places when I spot way off in a distant field a man standing in a most unusualstance in the middle of this field, just gazing off somewhere into the vast sky.......I think I recognize him as someone I met earlier that day at the reunion.....I say," Hey..isn't that one of your relatives and he said, "I think that is my cousins husband.. Dave." We both sit quietly for a second and I lean over and whisper, "Is he waiting for his Mother Ship or what?"  I then bust out into a fit of the giggles....he just glares at me and then laughs right along with me.

I have so many more of these reunion stories .....but I'll save those for another time! lol lol lol

Morning has broken

All is right in the world when the day starts out as beautiful as this..........

Attitude Adjustment

OK, I just realized something.....I'm not liking my voice on this AOL by phone thingy.....great another thing to be unhappy about! LOL.......first my nose, then how extremely uncomfortable I am about having my picture taken (all my life) and now my voice??? LOL .....So I deleted the entry.

I wish life came with a delete button sometimes......think of all the possibilities! Hmmmm!!!! Ü..... Well, the now deleted audio entry was about the results of my recent cat scan......It showed enlarged lymph noids in the left side of my neck....I'm thinking hmmmmm what am I supposed to do with that information, because that is all I got...that and a referral to a specialist. See Kim run to google....see Kim search enlarged lymph noids on google.....see Kim breath a sigh of relief that there are 56 reasons (besides cancer) that can make a lymph noid enlarge.

I feel I have been walking on eggshells for the last 2 days with all this new information and I've been a bit cranky! I've been short tempered and I have snapped at my Kids and my Husband (Poor Husband! And he thought PMS was bad and he already has a fear of the "M" word (menopause) So I have been trying to make amends with him and the kids so I thought hmmmmmm....... maybe I have upset someone out here in J-LAND and I should also apologize here too.......So If by chance, I have offended anyone please forgive me...it was not intentional....I only wish to offend those that I want to offend which is usually directly and with good reason! LOL

The weird thing about this whole journaling concept is I am basically a very private person, I have shared things here that I would never share with people in my everyday world.......I only give up information easily if I think it could help someone else so I am thinking that's why this journaling is so easy for me, I hope I am reaching out to the people that need reaching out to and they can somehow relate to a topic I have shared or a moment I have shared and get a lil something out of it. I know there have been other people who have helped me in ways I might never know with them sharing pieces of themselves with me.

I have found that journaling, the act of writing things down has taken the burden of carrying things around with me away.....much like prayer...sending it out there to mull around and find answers to.....and that has granted me a certain amount of peace about many things I have carried around.

Life is good and I am thankful!

Rachel Singing Tammy Wynette

This is Rachel's rendition of Tammy Wynette's classic.....Stand by your man

Hope you all enjoy it!

Becoming a better........me

On the road to becoming a better me I am constantly battling my old thought patterns. I used to find myself frustrated with people that expected 100% from me and gave less back. I have to keep reminding myself that people can only expend of themselves what they can give away without loosing to ones self. How I had to change that thought process around, was to not give 100% of myself all the time, give what I could..... but keep a healthy reserve left for myself and my family. It somehow balances things out in the end and all parties seem satisfied.

I also have to keep diligent about pop decisions on first impressions. I am not always on top of my game day in and day out and I have to realize that the first impression isn't always right.....most of the time but not always. Once I get comfortable with a new acquaintance and they with me I like to bring up the topic of first impressions....I am told I talk a lot and that I grow on people rapidly......I have to work on not talking a lot, but the funny thing is when I do have a quiet moment (which is rare) I have a large amount of people asking my, 'What's wrong?' Go Figure!!!!! lol

I need my most work on becoming more patient....patient with everything and everybody. This monster takes over in me sometimes and in trying to rush things through, I end up putting more on my plate and delegating less just to finish with something quickly. I take my time most of the time walking through life with my eyes wide open, but when it comes to taking on a task........I turn into this speed demon.....something always pushes me to get it done now and done fast...maybe because I also know that if I take a break from something I might run out of energy and put the task off again, until I am back in that mind set.

Who knew becoming a better me was so much work! lol lol lol

 

I am an island......