Welcome Home Soldier

I came very close to witnessing something very special this morning as we rode down Watson Blvd in Warner Robins ....the throngs of people waiting to pay their respects to a young man who made the ultimate sacrifice for us just recently after being wounded in Afghanistan. I want to post a copy of the article here and then the account by one person who was there .....

A fallen Marine Corporal who was killed in Afghanistan this month began his final journey home Thursday morning.

21-year-old Cpl. Stephen "Coty" Sockalosky of Cordele was killed in action on Oct. 6.
His body landed at Robins Air Force Base around 10 a.m. Thursday.
Dozens turned out to pay their tribute as the funeral procession traveled down Watson Boulevard to Highway 41.
Robins officials asked anyone who wants to pay their respects to Sockalosky to line Watson Boulevard.
The Department of Defense announced Friday that Sockalosky died last Wednesday during combat operations in Helmand province.

Sockalosky was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune.

WALB-TV in Albany reports that he was wounded by an improvised explosive device and died at a U.S. military hospital in Germany.

They reported that he was a 2007 graduate of Crisp County High School.
He will be buried Saturday and his funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Crisp County Middle School.

aubreygirl wrote:

Just some thoughts to ponder:

This morning many of us on RAFB watched the funeral procession pass by for Cpl. Stephen "Coty" Sockalosky. He is the same age as my son and many of your own children, of which are also serving in the military.

As the procession turned up Robins Parkway "with so many people lined up and down both sides of the street to pay their respects while standing either at attention or hands across their hearts", I lost count of the motorcycle brigade after more than 50 went by, not counting all the sheriff/police car escorts.

You could hear a pin drop on the street from the silence until one SUV passed by. The window was rolled down and the Mother of the soldier with hands waving out the window to all, tears streaming down her face as she was sobbing out loud over and over to the crowd...THANK YOU...GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU...THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Moments later the Soldiers Flagged Dressed Casket passes by...

While I know it means so much to the family to see the kind of support visible today, I wish the Mother could have heard the hearts of everyone there in reverential silence saying... I’m so very very sorry for your loss, THANK YOU...GOD BLESS YOU and YOUR FAMILY...THANK YOU SO MUCH!

It's overwhelming and very sobering to even try and imagine what this family is experiencing and yet also know that "Coty” joined the service willingly and gave his life for all of us without even thinking about it. He was probably just doing his job and never really thought about dying for all of us.

What a sacrifice. "Coty and all our soldiers" is our reminder of why we do what we do every day here at RAFB.

It was so moving to see so many people with flags and eager to invite folks who didn't know what was about to happen to come and join them as they waited for a fallen hero to come home. I myself didn't see the flag draped casket or the mother saying thank you to all of those who stood to honor her son....I imagine I would have been crying too....but I think of them and the people who stood along that route home ...it is something I don't think anyone who witnessed even a portion of it will ever ever forget! OOOhRah and Semper Fi young Coty....and thank you!  Loveyameanit and God Bless our military! Queenie

Decorating Season Is Here...Oh And Sorry For My Silence

I know I've been out of action so to speak...I have to claim that a total lack of inspiration is the culprit of my silence these last couple of weeks....the donut lady said I should blog about it but I couldn't think of anything to say! LOL I've been doing a little "fun" housekeeping over at my Mother site Multiply today as well as faithfully apping away you know where! LOL It's always fun this time of year...I get to "dress up" things and listen to tunes that go along with the season to come! I've got things piled up on one of my tables here and my tubs outside..well they've been waiting since last year ...one nice thing is I didn't have to lug them around the house this time...as they've been used as "tables" for piles of whatnot since we took out several old windows and replaced them with new ones. It's really a mess out there and I wish "some one" would do something with all the plunder out there! Begging hasn't seemed to help though! I've also had my nose in many great reads recently which could also be the reason behind a few cases of "dry eye". Ann Rule is one great True Crime writer! The other book that recently finished was all about the Clinton marriage...I have to say that I knew the man was a horndog of mammoth proportions but there were parts of that story where my mouth literally fell open ...and his "wife" has a mouth like a sailor when she chooses to let that part of her show. She isn't as innocent as folks think either....let me put it this way...Slick Willy wasn't the only one having his cake and eating it too. Of course she kept her daliances down to one person over many years. Got your interest peaked do I??? LOL Now that the floodgates have reopened somewhat on this Sunday....I hope there will be fewer instances of dry well in the near future!! Loveyameanit....Queenie

Standing On My Soapbox On A September Day....Never Forget!

A late afternoon on the 9th anniversary of the day that our world changed forever.. I read the lovely sentiment that our former president left this morning and there were thousands of other folks who also read it and left wonderful, glowing sentiments to his sweet words. It was heartwarming to read all the well-wishes and echos of how much people in this country thanked him for being our President during that horrible time. I have to say...and whether you agree with me or not...I am so sorry he is not in office anymore....things are going to hell in a henbasket with the current bunch of narcisstic clowns that are running the big circus up there in DC and it really angers me to see these bozos stomping all over our Constitution. Please excuse the outburst on this solemn day of rememberance...it just sticks in my craw something fierce. I hope that someday....and perhaps I'll put it on my "list" I will get to meet him face-to-face and express my thanks to him ...I just hope I could do it without blubbering and making a genuine fool of myself. It's easy to say thanks in a letter...but face to face to a solider or to this man who helped us through our darkest hour in 60 years...a patriot in his own right to me....is the best way to express something as heartfelt as that. He made us feel safe...despite our uneasiness....and we moved on from that dark day...united as a nation....but are we now....I mean look at the mess we are in....the day was somewhat marred by all the threats to burn a book and then the very idea that someone would think it was appropriate to build a mosque just a few blocks from Ground Zero...makes me feel like they are attacking us all over again. Some fellow wrote a hateful posting on Facebook this afternoon...saying "Celebrate 9/11 and death to Christians and Jews" ....it was vile and disgusting....trying to get a rise out of people on this somber day....and he did. It was under the Never Forget 9/11 status posting ....and folks responded with ugliness of their own against this man. Of course I didn't like what he said at all....but I will not be lured into a verbal exhcange with someone merely out to get attention ....I am an adult and know better. He will be judged for his statements one of these days ....that was the first thought that came to my head as I read those awful things he wrote. It was as if God spoke them in my ear to reassure me. 
I paparphrased a statement that our former President used in his remarks after 9/11....when I sent an email to one of our congressional representatives from Ga....who stated that though he didn't vote for ObamaCare he would not join the fight to repeal it....In my email back to him I told him if you are not for us you are against us....I didn't get a reply back....I guess the part I also included about packing up his office because if the voters have anything to say about this he won't have that seat after the November elections...didn't go over very well! LOL But I was serious....and I hope he does lose his seat...because if he does he will know why. We are tired and weary of the same old you know what on all the different days and on November 2nd....the voters of this country are going to put the hammer down and send some career politicians packing! Do your part and help us clean out the Capitol and in just two years....oh lord it can't get here fast enough...OUR HOUSE...the White House!! No more blinders .....the gloves are off and we will overcome this mess that we are in .....God Bless America! Loveyameanit...Queenie

Witness to Tragedy....Filmed on 9/11/01

Anticipating Inspiration ....Between The Pages Of A Library Book!

This box has been sitting here empty literally ALL afternoon waiting for some sort of inspiration to hit me over the head and make that light bulb come on....still waiting! LOL Tonight's menu is nothing special...just something quick to fill our bellies before I drop one off at band practice and head back home to lose myself in another Ann Rule book....Oh did I mention I love True Crime stories in addition to my overflowing stacks of Debbie Macomber, Sheryl Woods, and Robyn Carr novels???? I think the first book of hers I ever read was way back in the early 90's ..."A Stranger Beside Me". It was an amazing book about Ted Bundy and his horrible exploits and the fact that she and he actually worked together on some hot line at night for a while. Thankfully she wasn't his "type" or none of us who have ever read her works would be able to read her works now. Well that little thought sure got the ball rolling didn't it??? Hmmmm what next.....light bulb is getting dim....Actually I love reading all sorts of things....Maureen O'Hara's autobiography was amazing...I couldn't put it down ....I've read some great Louis L'Amour westerns too!  I remember when I was a teen and read every murder mystery I could find by Robin Cook and Stephen King....I have advised my son that two movies that were made based on his novels ....weren't worth watching as they were terrible...the books were much better!! I swear as I was reading Salem's Lot I just knew the vampires were going to come and get me....that I never read it after dark! LOL Thankfully I grew out of that phase...although seeing Kathy Bates in Misery still strikes me as a true future Thriller classic....or was that as Bobby Bouchet's mama in Waterboy I can never be sure! LOL !

I found my copy of "My Life In France" and I plan to reread it because it is an amazing story...I loved it the first time I read it about this time last year I think it was while I anxiously awaited the movie that I have seen countless times but still adore (Julie & Julia) to come out on DVD. Personally without the inclusion of this story immersed with Julie Powell cooking her way through THE BOOK, the movie wouldn't have been as good....Powell's book was a good read though....and I did read the next book she wrote but I was expecting more of the same as before and it seemed like a got more of Eat, Pray, Love ...which I couldn't get past page 96 because I got so disgusted at the main character and all of her whining and fits of crying on the floor of her bathroom....just really bad. The worst part is I really tried to read further because I have stood by my rule that once you start a book you have to finish it...well I am not going to finish this one I'm afraid! As for Cleaving, I did finish this one...came away with the feeling that I really didn't want to hear about her indiscretions etc....as some folks say it was TOO MUCH INFORMATION.....so I doubt we'll be seeing this little gem on the big screen. I might give the novel she's writing a try though...I wonder if this novel is the one she wrote half of and never finished...claimed no one wanted to publish it at the time.....LOL Oh who knows the next book might be great I shouldn't be so hard on the gal! So I guess today's thoughts were more about books than beef and what else is for supper huh? Loveyameanit...Queenie

Remembering A September Day And Waiting For November....To Take America Back!

 

I was driving in to pick up yesterday afternoon and as I got further into town I saw it....a car that had one of those flags you slip between the door and the window ....it wasn't a college sports team banner that flew in the hot breeze as it made the turn to wherever it was going...but an American flag. It was worn a bit but the fact that I saw it this week with the date looming on the calendar to remind us what happened nine years ago on that beautiful September day caused me to feel a bit sad yet at the same time I was proud that this car crossed my path ....I thought to myself...He or she hasn't forgotten. Yes we have gone on with out lives after our little bubble that we had been living in was suddenly burst when those planes hit those buildings that morning....we have not spent the last nine years in fear....because that would mean that evil had prevailed. We move on and do what we have always done...but I wonder if we have gotten jaded to it all since then....we've tucked our flags, and shirts, and other patriotic paraphrenalia away...sort feels like the upsurge is over with and there is no need to bother until July 4th like we did before. With elections looming...America is angry because folks who are supposed to be representing us aren't...and haven't been for a long time..and now for some reason we are finally waking up and realizing that if we don't stand up and do something and make our VOTES heard loud and clear in two months we will truly be in a mess and the founding fathers and others before us who fought and died for the things we take truly for granted and don't appreciate until we think we might just lose them one by one will truly be spinning in their graves wondering what in the world these folks are thinking and giving anything to be able to stand in the presence of these so-called "representatives" and shake their finger in the faces of those who seem to want to bring it all down into a pile of rubble...and remind them what this country was built on. Nine years ago 19 men brought down two buildings and damaged a third...thankfully the fourth plane didn't reach its destination because heroes on that flight said NO! and did something about it even knowing that they would not live to see their families again. Let's all band together this year and take our country back to what it is supposed to be and get the weasels and chicken hawks out of the henhouses and make double sure that nothing like what is going on now happens again on our watch...United We Stand??? Time will tell. I won't sit idly by and watch my country crumble like those towers did that day that our world as we know it changed forever....will you? Loveyameanit....Queenie

Cooking and Crying Over A Good Book....What I Did Over Labor Day Weekend

It's the last day of a blissfully long weekend and like I said to my cyberbuddy Bren a few minutes ago..I am soaking up every precious drop! Travel-free days are cherished during the school year...especially during football season. In about an hour or so I will begin preparing Paula's Farmer's Pork Chops....this recipe is from her very first "The Lady and Sons Savannah Country Cookbook". As I mentioned in a previous posting I am so thankful to this dear Southern treasure...as she, like Julia, has really helped me in the culinary department over the last few months. Honestly the recipes that I have tried so far in both Julia's Bible and Paula's ....have been "YUM"! Lord I better hush as I feel I am starting to repeat myself!

I finished Laura Bush's memoirs yesterday and I have to say it was pretty good. The section about September 11th was particularly moving as I found my eyes blurred with tears and had to stop reading for a little bit and wipe my eyes...just knowing someone would wander in for something and ask "What's wrong with you?" When I read memoirs like that I often come away learning so much more than I knew before...I felt that way when I read the Reagan Diaries last summer. I was really sorry to be finished with that one. It was an amazing read let me tell you. I've only come away wiping my eyes twice when I read a book...last summer when I read "Honky Tonk Angel"...about Patsy Cline ...and our former first lady's "Straight From THe Heart". I'm not sure how I ventured from cooking to crying over pages in a book but it happened. Shoot when Dale Jr. drove the Wrangler number 3 car to victory lane at Daytona back in July with his Daddy's old paint scheme I had tears rolling down my cheeks....I've always been pretty tenderhearted I guess...let me rephrase that...a crybaby at times...but even though I have toughened up a lot since my nightmarish school days...there are just some things that really touch me ...and if someone is reading this I'm sure you have your moments when that giant lump forms in your throat and emotions and tears spill to the surface. Events and images...and even words on a page can do it.

The house is coming alive with noises of various decibel levels now...soft at one end and I would have to say at a volume level somewhere in the mid-30's on the television in the living room....and the urge to holler..."Turn it down!" is getting harder to squash...or maybe I'll just turn on my iPod to drown it out...LOL since the person who is watching is way over 21...and there is a pretty good chance that that something that his folks have done in the last three years...that really got to him when visiting...he is doing now too although I know he wouldn't admit that just now. So let's go fix some pork chops how about it?? Loveyameanit...Queenie

A Long Weekend And A Soup Recipe

Saturday morning of a long weekend is sheer bliss!!! You can wander around your little piece of heaven on earth and not have to worry about looking presentable. That thought came to me a little while ago as I was making my way to the clothesline ....there is a nice breeze out there and yes it will probably wind up blazing hot out after lunch but I don't care. Thinking about what I can get accomplished over this mini-vacation I know without a doubt I will be right here wandering around cyberspace perhaps sending occasional thoughts out into the void...laundry goes without saying so I don't bother including that! I'd like to get some reading in ...I am reading two at a time right now...can't help it...one is Debbie Macomber's latest Cedar Cove novel that just came out this week and the other is a library book. I know I will be cooking of course....Paula's Farmers pork chops will be on the menu on Monday...and spill over to Tuesday. Lord the morning is practically gone and here I still sit....LOL Oh well. Here is the recipe per request...for Potage Parmentier (Leek or Onion and Potato Soup).  This is a great soup base according to Julia...you can add other vegetables to it like broccoli, carrots, cauliflower...but alone it is YUM!

According to Julia you need:

A 3 to 4 qt. saucepan
3 to 4 cups of peeled potatoes, sliced or diced
3 cups of thinly sliced leeks or yellow onions...if using leeks include the tender green
2 qts of water
1 Tb salt.

Now Julia says:

Simmer the vegetables, water, and salt together, partially covered, for 40 to 50 minutes until the vegetables are tender; if you use a pressure cooker cook them under 15 pounds of pressure for 5 minutes, release the pressure, and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes.

Mash the vegetables with a fork, or run them through a food mill ( probably could use a food processor here). Correct the seasoning...set aside uncovered until just before serving..then reheat to the simmer.

Now you will need:

4 to 6 Tb. whipping cream or 3 Tb of softened butter
2-3 Tb. minced parsley or chives

Julia says:

Off the heat and just before you serve stir in the cream or butter by spoonfuls.  Pour into bowls and decorate with herbs.

YUM!

That's all there is to it...according to Julia! Enjoy! Loveyameanit...Queenie

I Just Love, Love, Love Wednesdays...Especially During Football Season!

Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays are my three favorite days of the week during football season...Saturday and Sunday are easy...I don't have to go anywhere at all...I can sit here on my throne and putter around the house and yard to my heart's content....but Wednesdays...ahhh! During football season this day of the week is very very nice.....I only have to go to town TWICE once to drop off and once to pick up...and then it is home, home, home!!! I love to cook...but it is nice to know that I can just fix myself something of whatever I might be in the mood for on a day other than Friday. It's just the boys and me for supper and then once everyone is all shiny clean sheer bliss...for the rest of the night...not that other nights aren't sheer bliss...but this week there is an away game..which translates to a two hour ride one way on a school bus to get there and then a two hour ride home ..on that same school bus and hubby dragging himself out of bed post-midnight to retrieve one band member back home. Long night! So I really like Wednesdays!!! LOL

I was watching Julia on DVD last night and she was making Quiches...this afternoon I ran to THE BOOK and have decided that I am going to make at least two of her quiche recipes ...they are simple to do and sound YUM!!!! Considering a back to school trip to the library before the week ends...I'm running low on bathtub reading material! Regarding my finding two new recipes to prepare out of THE BOOK....I better be careful or I might find myself cooking through the book...skipping aspics of course! LOL Maybe when I feel the first real nip in the air I'll make me another batch of that delicious onion and potato soup again!!! It was SO good!!! I found out that just like in the scene in Julie and Julia where she is at her kitchen table cutting up that mountain of onions to practice her speed and technique...you really can smell those things before you walk in the room where they are! LOL I cut up the onions for the soup before leaving to go to town on a WEDNESDAY to pick up the boys from school and when I got back....Great jumpin' gosh a-mighty the onion smell was THICK!!! Thankfully there were no tears!LOL So Happy Wednesday ...Loveyameanit...Queenie

Old Bogs, Thank You Paula Deen, And Other Musings

I've been sitting here for some time now on my throne...going back in time. Back to the Julie/Julia project....reading the actual blogs that Julie posted as she was making her way through THE BOOK. I figured since we're neighbors it would be fun to take a peek at it. She is right...Julia taught a lot of us to cook....I know the first time I fixed one of the potato dishes in her revolutionary cookbook it seemed to take longer than it should've ...but the time after that...PERFECT!! The potato and onion soup might have been quite as creamy like you know potato soup usually looks like...but "YUM!" That was the first dish I prepared out of the book by the way.....Ahh memories! Practice practice will eventually produce the yummy sauce for some poulet' sautee' dish in the future...and yes butter is better....margarine is just gross! LOL Moderation is the key! LOL Well that and plenty of Tae Bo sessions...which I might add I still have to do before I fry the chicken for our supper....which leads to my next cook that I have to thank...Paula Deen taught me how to finally fry chicken with a decent crust on it! Her Southern Fried Chicken is fool-proof....love it! Her (well now mine) Chicken Brunswick stew recipe that I found a couple of years ago on the Food Network website is so good you will make "the face" that everyone makes when they take a bite of something and the goodness just explodes in your mouth and you can't wait to take another bite! I saw the character who played Judith Jones in Julie and Julia make that face when she tasted the recipe out of Julia's cookbook when she prepared it at home....and of course the YUM is perfectly acceptable! Paula's first cookbook and THE BOOK are on my shelf here in the kitchen and I peek in them often to make sure I remember the amounts of this or that for recipes that I prepare regularly. Between the two of them....and how my sweet Mammaw always fixed her special eggs for breakfast when I was growing up ...I think I am becoming a better cook. That's what happened to Julie Powell I think in her year-long journey that despite the tears and fights and things that life in general throws at us from day to day...she experienced all that great food and learned a lot in the process. Once we all got our hands on her book and or read "My Life In France" which I highly recommend btw...her magnum opus that she and her two friends put together so long ago experienced a rebirth as copies flew off the shelves. Whether she thought much of the project or not....when she heard about it...I think she would have been honored had she lived to see what it came to be....and appreciated how people once again wanted to learn how to cook from Julia.

The overcast afternoon is drifting away and my chicken pieces are snug in the Frigidaire coated in seasonings...waiting to be coated with self-rising flour, etc, fried and enjoyed. Meanwhile...I see my Billy Bands and the chosen workout for the day sitting here on my island reminding me that I need to get at it. Another week starts tomorrow and also reminds me to make sure I have enough ones for lunch money....and mentally I have started a list of things I need to get done before Friday....an away game...SIGH....two hours away...which means post-midnight pick-up surely! UGH! Poor hubby! Of course a long weekend will give us time to recharge our batteries. Won't that be nice! Now what can I cook for Labor day??? LOL....I'll keep you posted! Loveyameanit..Queenie

Conversations Around The Supper Table

That's right ya'll...in the South we eat supper....not dinner...Dinner is term used for Sunday after church or a special meal cooked for a holiday, etc. Supper is done and I am enjoying it as I converse with you ....my cyberfamily in that ginormous void in cyberspace. A steak and a salad is the fare of choice on most Saturdays around our house. So what went on today ......hmmmm well Saturdays are pretty much more laundry, more cleaning, more facebooking.....LOL Today was the big Glen Beck rally in DC....From what I have read of the festivities they had a great turnout and speakers said some wonderful and heartfelt things that in some cases as I read them I got blessed!!! Taking our country back and regaining the honor that it has held since all of those in uniform and those who founded it forged the building blocks that held it together more than 200 years ago.....one speaker said he can see people turning back to God that sadly turned away ....that we as a nation need to pray ...not just on our knees but on our knees so our children will see our example and hopefully follow suit! Today wasn't about politics it was about standing on the spot where a late civil rights leader stood and told throngs of people that he had a dream.....the speech writer and longtime attorney of that man was there today and said that he would have been honored by what he saw going on. I am so glad to see people who may have been silent for some time finally speaking up and saying ....we will not continue to allow the blocks that are the foundation of this nation be broken apart or changed. 

I heard a wonderful song on the car radio the other day and when they put it up on iTunes I am going to download it and listen to it often.....it said that only two people have ever died for me A soldier and Jesus....and it went on about how each endured terrible horrors and after it was over ....oh it is just what we need to hear right now. James Otto sings it....and it is beautiful!!!

August is about gone and Labor Day is almost here...wow this month went by fast didn't it??? Don't forget Sept 11 ....Remember. It's been 9 years since the day that changed our world forever....the images are painful to watch but you know something...I think people need to be reminded so they don't forget.....Evil brought those towers down .....and the power of Love and the Lord Jesus himself will help us stand against Evil and win....Remember how the bible turns out??? Evil is banished forever....WE WIN.  Don't let evil bring this country down....turn to God and ask him what you can do to bring goodness and honor back again....and watch Him move in ways that you could never imagine. He's waiting for you ......Ask Him.

Loveyameanit, Queenie

Getting To Know Me...In Case You Haven't the Foggiest Notion Who I Am....

"You better come on in my  kitchen" line comes to mind from the Keb Mo tune....It's only me Queenie...that's how my cyberbuddies know me...well most of them know me by the name my mama gave me too...but just the same..it's nice to see you...hope you'll stop by often and visit with me ...I've got some extra stools for you to sit on here at my kitchen island....where I spend a lot of my time..unless there's something else I really need to be doing instead. My hubby calls my stool my throne....well all right! A queen should have one don't you think?? Like the song goes...(I) she is the queen of my doublewide trailer..." minus the polyester curtains and the redwood deck! LOL No we have the concrete block foundation so no tornado is going to uproot this baby! ( Thank you Tim Wilson for the inspiration for that last sentence!) I live in the testosterone jungle ...yes that means I am the odd girl out! As the description of me says...I am a conservative Southern gal who cooks, cleans, .........and refuses to wear funny hats and ugly clothes...but I will grow things in the dirt!!  Oh I do a lot more than that ....LOL We'd be here til Rapture if I kept going....As it is the weekend the most common phrase that will be coming out of my mouth will include the words.."Turn it down!" at least 50 times a day! I'm tickled to be here and anxious to see you stop by when you have a moment between loads of wash, diaper changes, or even if you are waiting for you favorite Facebook App to load...multitasking is not only allowed in cyberspace..it is virtually the norm! Oh, one more thing....I do possess a copy of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and I thank her for showing me how to make a ham or a pork roast taste so much better than the way I used to make them....however I will not do as Julie Powell did ...and try to cook my way through it...But I loved that movie so much!! Meshing the two stories together like Nora Ephron did was a great idea! I still say Meryl Streep got hosed when she didn't win the Oscar..AGAIN...but I did see Blind Side and Sandra Bullock did do a great job...but Meryl you deserved it...and all those other years you didn't win you deserved it too! All right I know when I am rambling on way too much....I've got my Tae Bo DVDs sitting to my right ...so that means it is time to get to work at something else I love...and for those who've never tried it...it's time you did because it works...inside and out! Loveyameanit...Queenie