It's going to be a good 4 day weekend, so today I'm preparing for the roadtrip up to the Chambers Farm pow wow at Ft. McCoy (NE of Ocala). The last pow wow was so easy... practically right down the road. But I love these trips, hours spent listening (and singing to lol) my own CD music compilations. It's a pow wow I go to every year, but this time it's gonna be SOOOO different... I'm actually allowing someone to come with me lol  (my close friends are probably freakin out over that lmao). He's an old friend from high school, that just over a year ago I found out is living right here in Florida over on the east coast. You have no idea how weird this is gonna be for me... I'm the one who goes everywhere by myself, just the way I like it, with lots of time to think and ponder while driving. No set time to leave or arrive, do what I want when I want. Guess I'll consider this a kind of "therapy" for me rofl, because as my friends all know, I hiberbate ALOT. My HS friend Jimmy has become aware of this and respects my need for lots of space. He's one of the only two people I actually pick up the phone to CALL once in a blue moon roflmao (the other is my daughter). I've driven over to his place a couple of times this year, and he's come over here too. But I gotta tell ya, he likes to talk ... alot lol... and I DON'T. So I'm picturing the long drive to Ft McCoy in the car, stereo blasting and him trying to converse with me lmaooooooooo. I think our comfort level with each other is good enough that I'll just be able to tell him to shuddup (laughing while I say it of course) without him taking offense. We'll see lol. Oh... and I DID remember to call the motel where I had a room reserved to tell them that one king size bed will have to be changed to two full LOL.

A few years ago, when I used to meet with David E. at events like this, I'd drag along enough food to feed a small army lol. NOT gonna do that this time... just gonna bring one large and one small cooler with snacks like cheese, summersausage, crackers and other stuff (plenty of Pepsi One.[my PLASMA lol] ... some OJ, vitamin water, & Gatorade). I'm betting I won't be able to get him to try frybread . I went to the grocery store with him one time and he actually LOOKS at labels to make sure it's like low fat etc. But he WILL have his first buffalo burger . And for the second time (the 1st being when my sisters from New Zealand were here), I'll have someone to run the mini camcorder FOR me. I already have the equipment to convert the mini tape to DVD... but haven't yet figured out how to get clips from that onto the computer to share. Anyone out there know how I can do that? Seems the one I bought had a "known" issue, so plugging it in to upload on here doesn't work .

I hope those of you that celebrate Thanksgiving have a wonderful day and enjoy your turkey (I had mine at the office). One birthday gift I got just over a week ago was a gift card to my supermarket... so I treated myself and now have two beautiful filet mignons ripening in the fridge - one for today and one to freeze. That with a potatoe to nuke and I'll be as stuffed as your turkeys lol.

I'm so grateful - every day- for those I call my FRIENDS and am thinking of them all with good wishes and lots of love. And our dear friend in common, TGO, who began his soul journey recently, is residing in a special place in my heart. I've been missing our almost daily email joke exchanges ALOT. With his sense of humor, he's probably tight with George Carlin right now lol. TGO, I'll dance for you this weekend...

Anyway, will be returning home on Sunday and scheduled Monday off from work. So I'm going then to visit my daughter , who will be 36 this Sunday . If she remembers the plan, that is roflmao...

I don't know how my head got to wandering around to so many places here lol. Time to get back to chores and stuff. Maybe I'll get around to posting again after the long weekend. Tok'sa ake