karaoke nights and AIDS fundraiser

tonight we went out with a friend for her birthday.. she chose mexican and karaoke so off we went.. it was a fundraiser for AID Gwinnett which inluded both a silent and live auction.. so wasn't I happy when I spied a photo of Jennifer Garner.. one of my girl crushes..I had to have it!! no one had bid on it at all and I can't imagine why..



so I watched her.. hell I stalked her all night long.. checking back to see if anyone had bid.. no one had.. finally about a half hour before the bids closed, someone bid.. I waited.. (as any good ebay bidder knows how...) 5 minutes before it closed, I struck.. and then I waited some more..
no one came back.. and she was mine! all mine!!!
it was for a good cause, and it is a great photograph.. and she will look great in our autograph alcove.. Generally I don't bid on celebrity autographs, half the fun of getting the autograph is the experience of actually getting the autograph.. but I made an exception for this one.. and butter was most gracious in letting me take her home.. thanks baby!

If I could put time in a bottle

Time travel.. it’s something everyone has probably thought about.. but I actually experienced it last week, as the signal from my daily staple DAVE FM’s RADIO FREE LUNCH slowly faded into the distance it happened. (insert weird wayne’s world music here”
I was taken back instantly 20 years as I flipped through the dial on my radio station in north Florida.. I heard Rod Stewart, the Pointer Sisters, Tina Turner, and “Johnny Cougar” Mellancamp.. surely it was just one bad station.. I continued searching..
Lionel Ritchie, Kenny Loggins, and the Bee Gees.. the list goes on and on..
There was not ONE decent radio station all the way into Central Florida.. I thought perhaps when I got near UF, I would at least get a rippin college type station… well if it was there, I couldn’t find it.. County music was totally current on all stations I switched to… but there was not one Adult Contemporary station that was even in this decade, being that it was not a planned trip, I had one mix cassette tape with me, since I just got this car, I haven’t had time to outfit it with XM or even a decent CD player yet (oh but I will soon !) So fortunately I was able to listen to the Dixie Chicks, Pink, Sarah Bettens and Cathy Richardson, to remind myself that it was still 2006!
The funniest part of this is on the way back just after I had sent a friend the following text message, “on the road again”…. The very next song on the AC station was…… you guessed it….. Willie Nelson.. OTRA.. I was just amused as hell..
So, blogpals, if you are driving in north florida.. PLEASE!!! Make sure you have some decent music with you.. don’t say I didn’t warn you!

a good man's life cut too short

Robert Jalbert- United Flight 175


A husband..a father... a grandfather.. a brother.. a son... an uncle.. a cousin....
a friend...


Missed by many.. loved by all..

(reposted from 9/11/05)

the long and winding road...

a long day .. driving from georgia to florida.. seems like it shouldn't take so long but it's actually a long and fairly boring drive..
exhibit 1

Georgia

exhibit 2


florida


notice any difference? there isn't much..
but after some rather nasty storms and a couple of bad accidents... (that I drove upon, not involved in) I got home safe...
now it's off to bed for a day of fun at the hospital with dad in the am.

rest in peace Elissa Hadley

This comes from another biscuit.. an angry biscuit.. Elissa Hadley is a singer in the Atlanta/Athens Georgia area, someone I haven't seen for a while, but heard she passed away just a week ago. She will be missed, and everyone has missed hearing her voice.. she was one cool chick.

Someone you love may be dying as you read this, much sooner than you think or are ready to deal with.
They could be silently suffering RIGHT NOW and not even know it.

It doesn't have to be that way.

DO something - make a difference - declare your love.
Don't wait until there's no choice, do it while you have one.

There is no excuse.

Read angry_biscuit's story. Celebrate Elissa's life and musical legacy. Save someone YOU love.

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