Miles' Mom sent me this

The most destructive habit........................................Worry
The greatest Joy.......................................................Giving
The greatest loss........................................Loss of self-respect

The most satisfying work...................................Helping others
The ugliest personality trait......................................Selfishness
The most endangered species.........................Dedicated leaders

Our greatest natural resource..................................Our youth

The greatest "shot in the arm"......................Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome..........................Fear

The most effective sleeping pill........................Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease...........................Excuses
The most powerful force in life..................................Love

The most dangerous pariah......................................A gossiper
The world's most incredible computer.....................The brain
The worst thing to be without.... .............................Hope

The deadliest weapon....................................The tongue
The two most power-filled words.............................."I Can"
The greatest asset.....................................................Faith

The most worthless emotion....................................Self-pity
The most beautiful attire............................................SMILE!
The most prized possession..................................... Integrity

The most powerful channel of communication........Prayer
The most contagious spirit........................................Enthusiasm

Poor Pitiful Pets

This has been the week of hell for our poor pets. My pig-dog-bat-frog, Monty had a seizure yesterday and Lorraine's meow meow has a heart murmur! I guess we're still way ahead of the world when it comes to suffering, but it was scary. You don't realize how much you love the little creatures until you think they are going to die in your arms. Other than rescuing doggies in distress, I am doing fine. Soon, we will all be singing and dancing together at Renn Fest.

Misty, Heat and Kickboxing with the Bass Players from Uruguay

First off the important bits. The Kitty is a girl and her name is Misty. She is growing like the weed she looks like, day by day she gets bigger. She had her first vet visit, and seems to have a heart murmur , which isn't good, but they don't seem to worried. Misty the Muppet Cat does not let this slow her down tho, I never realized how many Things a kitten could get into. Now if she will just learn to use the littler box......

Festival this weekend was nasty and brutal. I am only now recovering from heat exhaustion. It was 90 both days and humid, you could not get enough to drink, and I am talking about Gatorade and water here. By the end of Saturday I was so tired I thought I would drop, and all I wanted was a cold shower, food brought to me and some TV before falling asleep at say, 9. Fortunately the Hotel Sofitel had all of those things right down the road, and I was just finishing dinner, having had the shower, and watching COPS and thinking how I had never noticed what an intellectual show this was before where the phone rings.

It's Big Sexy, from the Tim Malloys and he is saying something about how Adam can't make the gig they have tonight and could I just please please please come and play. From 9:30 to 2.

Brutal it was. The actual playing was a blast, I love those guys and we rocked the bar, everyone concerned had a great time, but now tired has gone so far beyond tired that it's all kind of silly and wild. Speaking of silly and wild , there was a group of people from Uruguay who were great fun and loved the show, about 5 guys and a really beautiful goth girl. After we got done playing, they started , well, wrestleing eachother, all over the bar. The girl took them each on kickboxing, and beat each of them. Then they started wrestleing eachother. It was so funny to be packing up with these bodies flying all over. We started talking to them after things had calmed down, and the girl, who's name is Sol, turned out to be a bass player, turned guitar player. She says she is sending me her cd's and I can't wait to hear them. I wasn't clear if they all lived here now , or were just visiting, but I am hoping she checks in here and drops me a note.

The less said about getting up at 7 to do the festival Sunday the better. I actually fell asleep in between each show for as long as I could. Spent Monday and Tuesday trying to re-hydrate .

It looks as tho we are going to be having an online Halloween Party, with web cams, and sound and IM and anything else we can manage. Miss Malena seems to know exactly what she is doing, and we will work this out, as that would be some fun.

Today is Get a Massage Day, in about an hour. Then work, and of course, practice my parts for recording this coming week. May manage Change Strings and Clean Fiddle up too. And Walk. ( this weekend's one redeeming feature was the weight loss factor, can't eat when it's that hot )

And I 'spect I'll be talking with Malena.

Love and Kickboxing,
Lorraine