Hey y'all.

Until the summer starts, I am going to continue to be busy, so I am puttng the blog on haitus until I can devote more time to it.

I hope you will keep me in mind and check back now and then. As soon as I get to writing again, I will make sure to visit everyone's blog and say howdy.

Take care.

TTFN (ta ta for now)

Dana

Stephen King is a frakkin' genius!

As a writer, I appreciate his success and envy it as well. I mean, he is a sicko, if you think about it. What must be going through his head to make him think up so many disturbing stories? How can I be just like him?

Keep on writing, I guess.

Last night I watched "The Mist" which is based on his novella of the same name. It disturbed me on so many levels. It made me think, and that is what being a great writer is all about. It didn't just entertain, it made me use my noggin'.

I highly recommend it to adults, but I've already told my 11-year-old that he is not allowed to watch it. Too intense. In fact, I was so upset at the ending that I cried myself to sleep. Call it PMS, call it sympathetic guilt, but it was a story that I'll never, ever, forget.

Hi folks,

I've been uber busy lately with my two businesses and life in general and have neglected my blog. I have to admit though, it has to come last right now. I will, however, try to post at least once a week.

This time, I would like to bring your attention to a new work at home mom website called The Woman's Garden.

It is filled with articles on many topics, including stay at home careers, businesses, women's health, home life, gardening, etc... Plus, there is an extensive forum for members to participate in.

As it states on the home page, "The Woman's Garden is the online work at home mom's (wahm) business magazine. There are interesting articles, recipes, and tips on gardening. Find the family section for specific help with scouts, baby showers, soccer, and more. Consider The Woman's Garden as mom's best helper! "

Y'all go on over and check it out. My two businesses are advertised in the classified section, Colors of the Woods and The Traveling Vineyard.

Hi y'all. I'm sitting here in Louisville, KY, half of the way to my destination in Alabama. It's late, but after driving so far tonight, we are all hyper a bit and need to wind down.

Lots of flooding between here and Indianapolis. I could see it even though it was dark. We passed one river and the water was almost over the dike. If it goes any higher, the stores below will be flooded.

Chicago is under a winter storm warning tonight. Ha! Missed it this time around.

I sold a set of my handmade jewelry today to a lady from Ireland (at left). Got a couple of comissions to work on this week and hopefully sell more on my Etsy shop.

I'll be posting pictures of our trip periodically, so check back.

Happy Easter.

Well, Spring Break is next week and we are headin' down to Bama for some quality family time. Thank God.

I am so sick of snow and cold temps. Yick!

However, seeing as it is Spring in Alabama, there's no telling if it will be nice or I'll spend the whole week in Grandaddy's storm pit hiding from tornados. It's a toss-up.

Before I leave, however, I have to prepare for a wine tasting for when I get back, a vendor fair, I have to wrap up a few jewelry sales and start on a new commission for a friend who wants a lanyard.

So, basically I have no time for myself. Oh, and I have to go to the school library today and check books out to students.

Hope everyone has a nice Easter weekend and gets plenty of chocolate Easter bunnies in their basket.

Today, as I was sitting in my car at the Micky D's drive-through, I started contemplating fast food joints. Not the food itself, mind you, but the restaurants themselves and how they can vary across the country.

For example. Take your everyday, family-owned fast food place. Down south, there are many, many BBQ places with superb food, as well as regular hamburger joints, such as Milo's, Mexican eateries, and pizza parlors, among others, making their way south.

Up here in Chicago, you see Greek places serving gyros, such as Mr. Gyros, Italian places serving beef sandwiches, hot dog places serving their dogs with relish and onions and tomatoes, and a couple of BBQ joints here and there. Not to mention the Thai, Chinese, Polish, and other Eastern places serving a fast-food version of their international delicacies.


Plus we are fortunate to have White Castle. At least my father in Alabama thinks we are fortunate to be able to purchase slyders (White Castle burgers so named because they "slide" down your throat) whenever we feel like it. I, personally, get major indigestion after eating some of their square burgers with their acid-like sauce. But Dad loves to have his White Castles when he comes up for a visit.

Down in Bama, there is Krystals to be sure, but he says their burgers just aren't the same somehow.


Up here, I have a hard time finding a restaurant that serves Sweet Tea. Luckily, the Cracker Barrel down the street serves it just right, and
Famous Dave's, out of Hayward, Wisconsin, who serves southern-style BBQ, Memphis style (that is, with cole slaw on the pulled pork) has really good sweet tea not five minutes from my house.

And this year something miraculous happened: McDonald's started serving their famous southern sweet tea in Chicago!

I was in ecstasy! I love Micky D's sweet tea. It's just strong enough and syrupy sweet enough to satisfy my craving. And, there are five Micky D's within five miles of my house.

Of course, I could make tea at home. My mother and grandmother taught me well, but it's like going out for dinner; it tastes better because you don't have to make it.

Dah dah dah dah dahhhhh. I'ma lovin' it!

Now, if we could only get a Milo's. Hmmmm.

I swear. I must be the most fickle person in the world.

I take on a project, say blogging, and mess with it for a couple of years. Then I take on cross stitching like there wasn't anything better on earth. Then I start my own wine business, which I am still in, understand, but I must have been getting bored because now I am making wine charms and beaded jewelry and plan to sell it too.

Because of all of this, I am neglecting my blog, my house, seems like my kids....but not my husband. Heaven forbid I neglect him. He makes it hard to forget about him when he is constantly trying to get to second base, grabbing my boobs and tush all of the time. Animal!