Have You Ever Loved a Mutt???? Bryan Adams can explain it.....

You never know what you just might fall in 'Love With'.....You never know what might inspire you to live.....you may not know what might just make your little heart go "pitter/patter"! But Dog, Gone It!!!!! Let's get real, here...you can always depend on a best friend of the friend of the friend.......the loyal mutt!

He or SHE may be a mutt....but they will be loyal......steady......devoted........ALWAYS GLAD TO SEE YA!!!!! and even lick you when you have a dirty face (or other parts...that are quite embarrassing!!!!!) But at the end of the day......you know that Bitch or Stud (or....in the words of "Bob Barker" of the 'Price is Right'~~~~(After he became a noted animal rights advocate in the early 1980's , Barker signed off each broadcast with the public-service message,) "Help control the pet population—have your pets spayed or neutered!" yep.....good ol' Bob!.....Bob will be there too! But the mutt will to.......when you least expect it......because......"they not what they do; because, believe me.....I know it when it's true!" Wolf....Wolf.....Peace Out! Luv!

Hey Trish: Here's some Deep Thoughts.....By Sally Snoddy.....A day of Disclosure.......

Disclosure........
Has anyone really thought about disclosing the full meaning of this word to me????? I would really, really like to know. WARNING: (this post is not intended to be a selfish post or meant to be directed to any one person or entity. Read only at your own risk!!!) Of all things in my life, disclosure, I guess, has turned out to be the most important -defining word.......defining item and action that has underlined (and even undermined the whole meaning of things in my life.....don't know about yours or your friends or your family.......but it sure has been for lil' ol' Sally! Yes sir!!! DISCLOSURE!!!!!! Or so I feel that way at this moment.....No blame game here....just another epiphany! Lets get on with my point.....shall we?
I guess it starts with childhood.......reality and disclosure from the ones that raise you.......what's
factual and what's, shall we say "swept under the rug"......"shhhhhh! Don't talk to loud....the children might here this and it might SHATTER their world!" A little disclosure, personally, is healthy for that child. I'm just say'n.......The Rose Garden isn't what it's cracked up to be when you grow up and there is no one there to say "It's o.k.......nothings you have done is wrong....this will all go away and tomorrow will be a knew day!" Nope.....don't work that way!
Then you move into the relationship part of life with DISCLOSURE! (I could go on for hours about this one, but I shant because it's irrelevant!) Everybody knows somebody or surely to Goddette has been married to someone and you wake up one day and say; "who in da hell is that person and why the hell ain't I seen them for their real selves all this time?" A simple little word can help in this part of life TREMENDOUSLY......DISCLOSURE!!! But we are all afraid we will NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR WHO WE TRULY ARE!!! All those little quirks and all those little, hidden evils we have gathered over the years can NOT BE DISPLAYED! I think it goes back to the first of this sick post and Sally's Deep thoughts on Disclosure-when we were being raised there was a certain standard......moral side.......you had to be this way.......don't do this or "you'll get in trouble".......it sticks with you but that nasty, dirty head of reality and who we actually turn in to eventually surfaces and raises it's ugly head to those that you are close to or in a relationship with and the other person, IF THEY REALLY CARE AND LOVE YOU, see it.....they get it.....they want to understand......if they truly accept you for who you are......maybe they just want to be accepted for who they are.......
Wouldn't that be a great thing if you could actually be with someone or friends that finally got passed all the baggage and just chilled and loved and let it go..........just accepted everyone and finally just saw it for what it was and went with it? Wouldn't that be grand? Am I dream'n in a non-reality world that just can't happen because Disclosure will always be a "hidden evil" that might surface and the trust is then broken again between EVERYONE because there was no trust to begin with.......? Or maybe, as usual, I've got it all wrong..........who gives a shit about Disclosure (except in litigation....and you need to get FULL DISCLOSURE); take people for who they are and love them. Feel free to love them back......trust them.......and they will trust you back.......no need for disclosure if the love is real; disclosure will come naturally and not forced or taken from you or the other party.......it doesn't have to.......because you want to disclose anything and everything to the person you trust and vice versus. ESPECIALLY if you know that person is accepting YOU and YOU are accepting them for WHO THEY ARE......! Love and Peace Out!



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Patricia Ann Elsken

March 12th, 1964- April 11th, 1988

Dear Sista Friend,

We love you.....you are always with us!

IT'S ELECTION YEAR! VOTE FOR DWIGHT D HONEYCUT!!!

I know that School Board Elections are not a part of the primary election......but let's get real! What IS there to look forward to in this up and coming primary election other than your usual Two Bit County Toothless Wonders running for their worn out 2 year term or your State Rep or Senate Rep that could be the lesser of two evils! So lets get back to the basics of life.......shall we????? Let's get a real candidate that has some guts........grime.......and just flat out ol' savvy! This guy is 'da man!!!!! Actually, in all honesty, I think he should replace Pelosi!!!!!!!!!!!! (I could watch this guy all day long with my java and Bailey's!)

Thanks Fat Bastard for the tip on this guy.......without you, I wouldn't have ever run across 'em!!!!! Love and Peace Out!

When does "you'll get over it" begin..............?

Why do we have to always feel the need to have that certain someone........why can't we just be fine by ourselves.......why do we feel so lonely when we are not attached.........do we really need to be attached? I guess it actually depends on the person's heart and if they want the pain to go away and get on with their life.........or forgiving themselves......their own heart........self forgiveness! That someday can begin when I guess you forgive yourself, BabyFace......."You see what I'm say'n???" and "when can I see you again............." Peace and Luv!

Patricia would like Sugarland and this song.........

Happy, Happy Birthday to You......Dear Trish!!!

Patricia Ann Elsken........Trisha.........Trish Trash.......yep, that's the girl that everyone could hear belch across the gym and know...... know and love......maybe some cringed; very few.....because everyone knew.......knew the true you...........the you that we knew.......the you that we remember........and the you that we will never forget........

you..........you are always with us............even when we forget........and then you let us know........by your suttle way of a song......a sound.......a smell........a word......an echoing belch.

you........are really a beautiful song that never goes away.............

You will always be here each and every day..........not a minute goes by............not one minute.

Patricia Ann Elsken

March 12, 1964-April 11, 1989

You ARE here..........

Sally's Dream'n.......Sleep'n a Dream!

Everybody has a hopeless dream..............don't they??? Well, Sally is livin' it AND dream'n it!!!! I think I've got my groove back.....yes in-deedy!!!!! It's amazing how strength can be pulled from weakness........slowly but surly you find your way out of that world of induced fog........the dream of what was suppose to be (but really wasn't)..........but then, you open your eyes and actually see........see it! Everybody has their definition of "it".........find "it"..........work "it".........but if "it" gets covered up by control, work, self absorption, or even self pity.........then you can't dream! Everyone HAS to dream!!! Or you DIE!!! The dream of ANYTHING can keep your 'little light shining"-dream of a goal, an inspiration, a love, or even freedom of being who you can be and someone actually accepting you for who you are is enough to keep that "little light glowing"! But if that light keeps being extinguished by loved ones........friends.........peers.............you get in the fog! Sally is coming out of the FOG PEOPLE!!!!! Live and let live.....once again! (You know how many times I've said that to myself and to half of the population of this world??????) I must practice what I preach, sista!!!!!!!! I luv my sistas!!!!! I luv myself!!!!! And I love Jason Mraz for letting me "Sleeping to Dream!!!" Peace Out!!!!!!

Sally wants to>>>>"Fly Like An Eagle!" or is it "Big Jet Airliner"?

"Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin.......into the future"
Slippin ain't the word for it! My godette! It's bolted!!!!!! Here we are......mid-life cougars and where in the hell did it go???? I know where it went.....but there ain't enough time in this post and you sure the hell ain't want'n to hear the lurid details (well......some of you sick pervs would; but not gonna give you ALL the pleasure!!!! Leave a little to the imagination....won't ya???? Isn't it all in the 'mystery'???)
Anyway.......funny thing about it slippin......it's slippin into a great and junormorous (word??-I like it....pro-nounced jew-nor-mus: meaning; BIG!!!!!) slippin into a great and JUNORMOROUS world of new life and energy! Great expectations; new responsibilities; fear; disappointment; courage; new emotions to experience that some of us have never, ever experienced before! Isn't it amazing when you uncover YOU??? It may just be a simple you that really didn't need or want for much; just needed to look around and see the things that life handed to you; however, you never, ever really sat back and took in.......does that make since?
For instance: I have this couple of friends that have been married now for bout 10 years....some people get them, some don't! They do EVERYTHING together!!!! When she's down, he may moan a bit to a buddy but he's there for her; same with her to him....but at the end of the day THEY KNOW!!!!! I never, ever got them........never understood it! Deep down, I look at it now and truthfully; was jealous, in a way! It's an amazing love and thing to have such a deep connection with someone that can truly accept you and vice versus!!! Amazing!!!! I've told them this.....I truly care and have deep admiration for this 'thing' they have!!!! Protect it.......but don't you ever smother it!!!! or it will die out like an old flame! Keep it flyin!!! It's one of those things us people that let 'time slip by' that miss out on in the early years of our life.....ya'll got it goin on!!!!! Until you really, really crave the little things like that-that are the most important things in life, will you get it! Sometimes when we are growing up, we lose all site of what is real and what should be front and center. I missed it.......I know alot of people that have missed it.....It's like an airplane;

leaven home...out on the road

i've been down before.....riding along

on this jet airplane i've been thinkin about my home.

But my love lite seems so far away

and i feel like it's all been done....

someone's tryin' to make me stay

you know i've got to be movin' on..........

I get it now.......I want to experience it all........I want to do it right.........I've got the big picture. Believe me....I've done all that fru, fru stuff! Not what it's cracked up to be.....the real life has yet to be.....and I'm excited; hysterically fascinated by it! (remember; I've whipped Bill O'Rieilly Here! That ain't noth'n!!!!!!!) Fly like an Eagle and get your ass on a Jet Airliner!!!!!!! Think!!! Observe!!! Listen.....(something I'm learning to do and am really loving it!!!!!!!!)

I'm takin' notes and names are irrelevant!!!!! Peace Out and Love!!!!!!! ;)

Who's gonna ride Sally and her wild horses??????

Finding one's "True Self"????????

HUMMMMMM...............BIG....and I mean BIG thoughts!!!!!
How does somebody find their "true self"? The question is posed alot in certain scenerios, places and times. However, do we ever really, really ever----->GO THERE?????? Think about it.....do you want to really, really know who you really are and have you ever actually met that person? I don't remember her.........My life started when I was 20....how about yours? Was it taken over by 'aliens'???? or were you one of the 'LUCKY' one's and played hard and sowed your oates till about, say.....28 and then took the big plunge of ADULT HOOD!!!!!????? I wish I had been that lucky.....but then again I wouldn't have my prized artifacts that go along with starting early...........hard knocks, truth about credit cards (no debt now), MEN-that's a whole other post.........I may vary off on that just a tad, wisdom, patience, NO WHAT I WANT IN LIFE......you know; the usual platitudes you hear of the 'oh so wise'...........Back to the 'true self'-finding one's true self could mean a host of things to you or the next person; however, I guess to me-it would have to mean finding that one little thing that finally satisfies me and tells me in my sick little head that 'your gonna be O.K.'! That's what I want with 'true self', inner being; knowing that I can walk through life knowing that I'm doing it because I'm Happy........full of life...........not angry..............fulfilled.............and most of all, loving myself and anybody that I might just happen to let into my Sanctuary!!!!! Wouldn't that be awsome? Big? It's gonna take me many, many sessions with my therapist to get there...........but I like a CHALLENGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace Out!!!!!.............. U2: Let's get "ONE" with it.........

Why?.........Annie Lenox.....Nuf said........

How many times do I have to try to tell you
That I'm sorry for the things I've done
But when I start to try to tell you
That's when you have to tell me
Hey, this kind of trouble's only just begun
I tell myself too many times
Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut
That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words
That keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Tell me...
Why
Why
I may be mad
I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
And I've heard it said too many times
That you'd be better off
Besides...
Why can't you see this boat is sinking
Let's go down to the water's edge
And we can cast away those doubts
Some things are better left unsaid

But they still turn me inside out
Turning inside out turning inside out
Tell me...
Why
Tell me...
Why
This is the book I never read
These are the words I never said
This is the path I'll never tread
These are the dreams I'll dream instead
This is the joy that's seldom spread
These are the tears...
The tears we shed
This is the fear
This is the dread
These are the contents of my head
And these are the years that we have spent
And this is what they represent
And this is how I feel
Do you know how I feel?
'Cause I don't think you know how I feel
I don't think you know what I feel
I don't think you know what I feel
You don't know what I feel

TODAY'S HEADLINES!!! A Little Quirky News For the Demented and Insane.....but in my world, sounds good!

Man opts for jail over New Year with relatives
Now this is my kinda guy........especially when there is a no win situation here......you beg for them to take you in at the jail because you want none other than to be with the local drunks and prostitutes on New Year's Eve rather than with your lovely WIFE and IN-LAWS!!! But this guy can't even get a pass into the local pokey!!! So he takes 'the bull by the horn'...........by goddette, he shows them!!!!!!!
"ROME (Reuters) – A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year's Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported on Friday." Click here for the lurid details......


Russia Pulls The Cork on New Year's Eve Sauna Spews!

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has urged revelers celebrating the New Year in saunas on Thursday night to refrain from popping open the champagne until they have left the steam houses, warning it could prove fatal. Click here for full story

Fatal for who????? Well, I can attest to bein' in a hot tub and having a few too many tini's and gettin' a little hot and be withered! But can popp'n a cork in a sauna be that fatal???? Really???? I think this may be a job for Steve-O and Johnny Knoxville! Be careful out there until then........I'm sure they will do a study for us..................
Peace out!

I'm Just Sayin............Mornin' Anchors are gett'n better and better......

Look at that cute little face............

SAME OLD LANG SYNE......Dan Fogelberg says and sings it best....HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

Dan Fogelberg- 1951-2007

I'll never forget falling in love with Dan Fogelberg........I was a senior in high school...yep, good ol' 1981 - album "The Innocent Age".......every word of every song he sang I hung on! But this song, when it came out, was the one that always, and to this day, will make a tear come to my eye........I don't know why....it doesn't remind me of a specific person or even a specific time........but the words and the melody or so true and meaningful and every year that I get older and as every year passes......it seems I find a new meaning in it every time, from whatever is going on in my life or has happened in my life at that time...........The radio stations really like to play it alot around Christmas and New Year........but I could listen to this song all year round and I could find a new meaning in it every time.........Sally is gett'n a little sentimental now........just wishing you and yours a Happy New Year! Sally really needs 2010 to be her best year ever! Been waitin' on it for a long time in my life and I look at it as a decade of a new beginning of whatever may bring for Sally and her inner peace. And yes, I have a New Year's Resolution-------stop smoking!!!!! I know, I know.....I can't afford them blasted things anymore and if I can't fall asleep and burn the house down now cuz they put that damned strip in there that makes them go out, to heck with 'em!!! Let me be clear on one thing though; that doesn't mean that I might not take liberty of a Grape Swisher occasionally during cocktail hour........just so we're CLEAR!!!!! Luv to all and Happy New Year!

About the Song:(Click on the link to go to this website)From www.pjstar.com:
'It's a memory that I cherish'
By Phil Luciano

Saturday, December 22, 2007

At Woodruff High School, Jill Anderson had a typical teen romance: on-again/off-again with the same boy over several years.

He'd write a lot of poetry and share his insights with Jill. But as they went to separate colleges, things cooled off. They tried to stay in touch, but he moved out West and she headed to Chicago.

And that might've been the sum of a sweet memory, if not for a chance reunion one Christmas Eve at a Peoria convenience story - one music fans know well.

Jill's old boyfriend was Dan Fogelberg, who memorialized their convenience-store encounter in "Same Old Lang Syne." Since the song's release in 1980, Peoria - as well as the rest of his fans worldwide - has wondered about the "old lover" referenced in the song. Fogelberg never would say, and only a handful of people knew the ex-girlfriend's identify.

Jill, now Jill Greulich of Missouri, feels she can finally share the story.

"It's a memory that I cherish," she says.

She says she had kept publicly mum because Fogelberg was such a private person.

"It wasn't about me. It was about Dan. It was Dan's song," Jill says.

Further, though she and Fogelberg only rarely had communicated over the past quarter-century, she feared that her talking about the song somehow might cause trouble in his marriage. But in the aftermath of his death - he passed away of prostate cancer Sunday at age 56 - she has been sharing her secret with old friends in Peoria.

"I don't want this to overshadow Dan," Jill says. "When I heard the news that he died, I was very sad."

She and Fogelberg were part of the Woodruff Class of '69. They would date for long stretches, break up, then get back together.

Often, they would head to Grandview Drive, take in the vistas and listen to the likes of Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Fogelberg often would pen poetry, some of which he gave to Jill.

"I still have some of those in a drawer at home," she says.

After high school, Fogelberg went to the University of Illinois in Urbana to study theater, while Jill attended Western Illinois University to major in elementary education. They stayed in touch, even continuing to date for a while. But the romance ended for good when he left the U of I early to head to Colorado and pursue his music career.

After graduating college, Jill relocated to the Chicago area, where she worked as an elementary teacher and flight attendant. Not long after college, she married a man from that area, and her connection to Fogelberg faded to memories.

But on Christmas Eve 1975, Jill and her husband visited her parents, who still lived in the Woodruff district. Also at the home were some friends of the family.

During the gathering, Jill's mother asked her to run out for egg nog. Jill drove off in search of an open store.

Meanwhile, a few blocks away, a similar scenario was playing out at the Fogelberg home, where Dan Fogelberg was visiting family for the holiday. They needed whipping cream to make Irish coffees, so Fogelberg volunteered to go search for some.

By happenstance and because almost every other business on the East Bluff was closed, Jill and Fogelberg both ended up at the Convenient store at the top of Abington Hill, at Frye Avenue and Prospect Road. She got there first, and Fogelberg noticed her shortly after arriving.

They bought a six pack, sipped beer in her car and gabbed away. "We had some laughs," Jill recalls.

As two hours flew by, Jill's family and friends grew worried.

"We were like, 'Where is she?'" says a laughing Eileen Couri of Peoria, one of the friends at the gathering that night.

When Jill returned, she simply explained that she had run into Fogelberg, and the two had caught up with each other. No big deal.

Five years later, Jill was driving to work in Chicago. She had on the radio, and a new song popped on. First, she thought, "That sounds like Dan."

Then she listened to the lyrics, about two former lovers who have a chance encounter at a store. "Oh my gosh!" she told herself. "That really happened!"

They would not discuss "Same Old Lang Syne" until years later, during a conversation backstage at a Fogelberg concert. Two parts of the song are inaccurate. Blame Fogelberg's poetic license.

Jill does not have blue eyes, but green. In fact, when they dated, Fogelberg called her "Sweet Jilleen Green Eyes" - a combination of her full first name and his twisting of a song title by Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Fogelberg explained that he took the easy way out for "Same Old Lang Syne." As he told Jill, "Blue is easier to rhyme than green."

Also, her then-husband was not an architect but a physical-education teacher. Jill doubts Fogelberg knew what her husband did for a living. She thinks Fogelberg probably just thought "architect" sounded right for the song.

But those are minor details. The heart of the song hangs on its most chilling line: "She would have liked to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie."

Still, even decades later, she declines to discuss that line of the tune.

"I think that's probably too personal," she says.

But the song had no impact on her marriage. By the time of its release, she had divorced.

"Somebody said he waited until I was divorced to release the song, but I don't know if that's true," Jill says.

In 1980, the same year of the song's release, Jill married Chicago-area native Jim Greulich. Eventually, they would move to a St. Louis suburb, where she now teaches second grade.

A few of her school associates have known her secret about the song. So has Fogelberg's mother, who still lives in Peoria and exchanges Christmas cards with Jill.

This week, Jill sent e-mails to a few old pals in Peoria, lifting the lid off the "Same Old Lang Syne" mystery. One of the e-mail recipients was Wendy Blickenstaff, a Woodruff classmate of Jill's and Fogelberg's.

"I had a big suspicion" it was Jill, says Blickenstaff, now the head counselor at the school. "I'm happy for her. It's really cool. ... That's a memory that she treasures."

Jill agrees. Yet her memories of Dan Fogelberg stretch far beyond "Same Old Lang Syne."

"I'll always have a place in my heart for Dan," she says. " ... Dan would be a very special person to me, even without the song."

PHIL LUCIANO is a columnist with the Journal Star. He can be reached at pluciano@pjstar.com, 686-3155 or (800) 225-5757, Ext. 3155.

Who Knew? Keith Urban is a Prophet: Long Gone......Long Gone

Well she was precious like a flower
She grew wild, wild but innocent
A perfect prayer in a desperate hour
She was everything beautiful and different
Stupid boy...you can't fence that in
Stupid boy...it's like holdin' back the wind

She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and you crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
Stupid boy
Stupid boy

So what made you think you could take a life
And just push it, push it around
I guess to build yourself up so high
You had to take her and break her down
Oh...

She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy

Oh you always had to be right
And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive

She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice She Hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy
Oh, I'm the same old, same old stupid boy

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone

Oh she's gone
She's long gone
Yeah she is
Yeah, ohhh

Oh, nobody's ever gonna love me like she Loved me
And she loved me, she loved me
God please just let her know I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry baby
Yeah, im down on my knees
She's never comin' back to meeeeeee

Merry Christmas Virg: You reminded me of my all time Fav!!!!!

THANK YOU......THANK YOU......VIRG!!!!!!!!