An Eternal Embrace!

Discovered in Rome!

They say arrow heads and pices of pottery were also found around this couple guessed to be in their mid 20"s.

Was it Love that wasn't suppose to happen between maybe a royale family and a peasant family?

Was one killed and the other went to their recue and also was killed!

We can only guess what might have happened to them at that early age. but the way they are embraced with each other it's diffently love that bonds them together.

What bonds you with your spouse or loved one? Love is something we can't control and it makes us do weird things especially if one tells the other 'I don't love you anymore'.

Working your way through a relationship takes a lot of work and it takes to two to work at it but in the end some how some way Love always wins. One thing about Love you can't love someone one day and then tell them you don't love them the next if your being honest with yourself.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

MMMMM...A Romantic Dinner for Two an Eternal Embrace of the evening.......

WHAT WAS COOL WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG?

I can remember way back when they came out with plaid clothing but at first it was worn by farmers. When I was a young girl my parents were raising 6 children I being the oldest. Money was tight for a family of that size Daddy was the only who worked in the family and mom's stayed home taking care of the children and the home and did the cooking, sewing and gardening.

My Mom was raised in an orphanage and she lacked a lot of those skills there was no one to teach her how to cook, sew, gardening but she was a very good housekeeper that was about the only an orphanage taught them. There wash no love no toys to speak of just a roof over your head you wore uniforms. You hair was all cut the same very short to protect from head lice. Life was just very uniform and when you think about this it makes you think how lucky you are or maybe the importance of adopting.

As I grew up these same ideas came with my Mom. I can remember when I was 10yrs old she went down to Montgomery Wards and took all 4 of us girls that Saturday morning to buy school clothes. On them racks was plaid dresses yes plaid dresses we each got 2 brand new dresses in plaid she told us money was short and the dresses would be exactly what she could handle because we could wear them more than once a week without laundrying them they would hide the dirt. I hated those dress we were all dressed a like. I never voiced my opinon to my mom though I cherished her and still do to this day. We have talked about those dresses since then and I told her how us girls felt in those dresses and she told us she didn't realize it at the time but she was acting out her childhood and she guessed she was dressing us in a manner that was of the same without ever realizing this. UNIFORMS. To this day I totally hate plaid and I wouldn't care if they were or ever become the coolest thing to be wearing or if it made you so cool you just had to have one.

As I got older and could earn my own money it was important being a young girl and being cool in school to be excepted by others or being popular and clothes had a lot to do with and it's still that way today.

How about the HOTPANTS, weren't they coolest thing you ever had. I had a hotpant suit that was white on top red around the middle and dark navy blue on the bottom and it zipped up the front. It hugged your figure and showed off every curve, that was hot.

How about the BELL BOTTOM PANTS the kids think they have something on us today with bell bottoms well when we were young the bigger the bell bottom the cooler you were in fact we took material pices of flowers and sewed them in tie make them bigger, and that was cool. And the cotton shirt with the buttons down the front you brought the tails around to tie to show off your belly, not your belly button though that wasn't allowed.

HIP HUGGERS woops the belly button appeared in this darling outfit and then you learned to swing those hips to when you walked.

MINI SKIRT my Dad put the breaks on this one I couldn't have a mini skirt but my mom had one and wore it out with Dad on seeral occasions little did he know that the minute we were on the bus or out of his sight the skirt we would have on we would roll it up around the waist to get the same look. This one you din't dare bend over in zI remember learning how to stoop very carefully but the boys would alwasy watch hopeing they would catch a glimps of something.

ANGORA SWEATER couldn't never figure what was so hot about this one I always itched and so did everybody else but you just had to have one and pink angora was the coolest. We also bought angora hair strand to wrap around a boys classring to make it fit that was cool too.

And today they dress sloppy or as little on as possible, everything is baggy the other day I saw a teenage girl with knee knockers on with a pink short skirt over that dirty tennis shoes untied, a sweater wrapped around her butt and some see thru cotton shirt that only covered her breast, with her belly hanging over none of this matched, her hair was pulled off the one side high on her head in a pony tail and she was very much overweight. But she had all kinds of girls with her and others hollering out her name. I must say most of them were dressed this way. And the boys with their pants down below their waist with boxer shorts hanging out the back side of their pants stepping on their pant legs all chewed up. Besieds all the fac piercing why coverup soemthing so pretty on a girl or look so hard core on a guy. I ran into one the other day and he had piercing over both eye brows, all around his mouth, in his nose on both sides, his ears and he wass good looking I walked by him and I just couldn't help myself I said Hello stud to him. He just tipped his head and smiled. I think they lack attention from somewhere and thats to bad. If they only knew what they were going to look like when they turn 30, 40, 50, 60 with all that piercing.

MEMORIES

This'll bring back some memories.
I came across this phrase yesterday "FENDER SKIRTS".














A term I haven't heard in a long time and thinking about "fender skirts" started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like "curb feelers"













And "steering knobs." (AKA) suicide knob













Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first.
Any kids will probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you. Remember "Continental kits?"
They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental.














When did we quit calling them "emergency brakes?"
At some point "parking brake" became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went with "emergency brake."

















I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the "foot feed."

Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could ride the "running board" up to the house?

Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore - "store-bought." Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy.

"Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term "world wide" for granted This floors me.

On a smaller scale, "wall-to-wall" was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure.


When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase "in a family way?" It's hard to imagine that the word "pregnant" was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company So we had all that talk about stork visits and "being in a family way" or simply"expecting."

Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in usage. I said it the other day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just "bra" now "Unmentionables" probably wouldn't be understood at all.

I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an affectation.

Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I came across the other day - "rat fink." Ooh, what a nasty put-down!

Here's a word I miss - "percolator." That was just a fun word to say. And what was it replaced with? "Coffee maker." How dull. Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this.

I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux." Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"

Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil anymore.

Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts.

I thought some of us of a "certain age" would remember most of these.

Just for fun, Pass it along to others of "a certain age"!

See how much the children of today know about the culture of the yesterday.

And here's a few more you might mention phonograph, 78 record, the record player, 45's, or album's, how about the eight track player, cassettes, typer writer, word proscessor, how much can we say about canning is it done anymore?

Learning how to conserve is in the past we seem to make it then spend it never worry about the future but I myself do not feel our economy is very stable to take all this so lightly.

Did you know that 1 cup of eggnog has 450 calories and you can cut the calories by 100 if you remove the alcohol...just how ridiculous is that?

Just for your eyes.




















I hope you all enjoyed these ice sculptures. I'm headed for the ice myself let me see 1 shot of Tequila, Lime mix ice blend well dip rim pour mixture mmmm scoot down in hot tub hmmmm oh yeahhhhhh...........hugs, goodnight ;)

NUDISTISM

It's simple you started out young, went skinny dipping on a dare with friends , then next maybe some guy your dating, being Nude isn't anything new I myself find it relaxing. Yes I've been to nudist camps, beaches. You'd probably find a guy talking about this usually, but I'm telling you about it.

I started out incently with the skinny dipping and some girl friends.

When I got interested in boys oh yeah I dared him, this was a good way to see what he had to offer I laugh at that one knowing most guys can't wait to get you out on a first date and in the back seat but I dated one that couldn't even kiss me goodnight on the lips, boring , yes, challenging OMG....

We happened to be a a hog roast and I knew just about eveybody he didn't know a soul..this makes it even more fun...they had a cabin on the lake I mean right on the lake....we wondered off and I said how about a swim, he said okay of coarse I stripped down to nothing he just looked on and I said well what are you waiting for he had to remind me of all the people around us, I said so they don't even know that we've wondered off.......well he got down to his skivys and in he came I just looked on with disgust and told him he was the biggest chicken I ever met.

Double dare time now you had to do it at one time on a double dare so off came his skivies under water of coarse damn am I ever gonna get to take a look........so where out there having fun needles to say I didn't know my friends were getting all the cars position and wouldn't you know it headlights came on all over us....OMG we've been caught. He's upset all as hell over it I'm laughing, he ducks down behind me, whats his problem he's down in the water my breast are bare as hell for the world to see, really I found it to be exciting, getting caught that is, so up out of the water I come walking towards the lake frontage at the back of the house. He's behind mr. chicken hiding what ever he thinks he's got all the way up to where are clothes are horns hanking everybody whistling, I'm getting more excited. Maybe it's because of the idiot behind me hanging on to me and the what ever he thought he had.

Oh it doens't end there either.

Later that evening where laying around the campfire in lawn loungers (chairs) the idiot and I were cuddled up under a blanket in the same lounge chair....I commence to undressing again under the blanket he's having a fit, good lord he coud feel me up and have a good time what's wrong with this guy.....I think he started to nausuate me....so I'm finally naked again I managed to even get his clothes off finally....OMG ...he should be proud of that and yet a virgin no way...never mind what happened let your imagination run wild it was a good time till oops my girlfriend walked up and gave the blanket a good yank....caught in the act.

Later in years nudist camps became an interest...clothes being an option no less....lolol on that one...after a while you do as the romans do and totally feel comfortable with it. This ype of lifestyle is interesting and fun everybody has the same thing in common and anybody will talk to you....so with this final note I double dare you to experience it.....one margarrita coming up hmmmmm....hello my name is Paris and I just happen to notice...(or pete sake it wasn't the towel they were sitting on or the chair they were sitting in and sure the hell wasn't the sunshades they were wearing either.....;) Paris

WHO DESIGNED SOME OF THESE CLOTHES WE'RE EXPECTED TO WEAR?
I swear when it came to a bra it must of been a man...
1) Bra straps always slipping off...does he like watching you reach inside your top and pulling the dang thing up all the time...doesn't it seem like they may fit a man's shouder's as far part as they are...

2) Tops ...how about the sleeves that go down past your hands....it must of been a man with long arms again....

3) Panties....how much of the assend can we have sticking out......or the top band slips down off your hip bones and don't forget how they roll when you take them down...

4) Skirts with big bottom flares up at the smallest wid breeze or the thight one when you can't raise your leg enough to get in the four wheeler they plan on taking you out in....

5) Elastic stockings.....their a whole lot of nuisance to try and pull up let alone keep up all of a sudden there you are and they start to roll down...so your grabbing at your skirt to try and pull them up again...

6) Intimate night wear you never even get to wear it all night...but they want you to slip into something sexy
7) Tops with a deep V in front how mush do you want me to show...what cover myself up...you bought me this top to wear out in public you deal with it....don't bend over I'll fall out...stop it your making me look down at myself to see if my breast has fallen out....


Myself I like just plain being nude....I have nothing to be ashamed of.....and nothing to hide...sometimes I feel like a dress up doll. That may not all be bad but sometimes I get the feeling men display us like a trophy on their arms..if he really want to show me off take me out nude sometime...I'd love that and the reaction I wonder what it would be....

MY MEMORIES OF JIM

The night I slept with my friend.

I met Jim in 1990 in a very small pub where they were having a Karaoke contest that night. Jim was in the contest. The same night I met Jim I was with another man whom I have lived with since 1982. We were sitting up to the bar as there was no room at any of the tables and Jim was sitting next to me. I introduced myself and my boyfriend and we talked about a lot of things that night. They called Jim's name to come up and sing and he ask me to wish him good luck why I did it I'll never know but I gave him a kiss on the cheek for good luck and winked as he got down off the bar stool. As I watched on this man had the most beautiful voice I had ever heard and he could make you feel what he was singing and it came from his heart. He ran chills up and down my spine. When he was finished the whole house applaued and cheered him on. I couldn't help myself but the man completely had captured me.

After the evening had ended I gave him a hug and another kiss on the cheek and said goodbye and hoped to see him around again sometime. On our way home (my live in boyfriend) asked me if I would like to have a threesome with him, I gave him a dirty look and asked him why he even would think of such a thing, after all isn't it every man's dream to have a threesome with another female not a male the subject got dropped immediately.

We had been back to that small pub several times since then not really my choice but my boyfriends and why I don't know to this day. We ran into Jim once again and this time my boyfriend sat next to him and carried on a conversation as for me not to hear what he was talking about but I had it figured he was trying to sell me but not as a prostitute to Jim. As time went on we keeped running into Jim and Jim and I became real good friends. Plenty of times when I was out and about on my own I would run into him also and he ask me to go for a cup of coffee and I did. Jim never and I mean honestly never made a pass at me all the time I was with my livin boyfriend. But I won't say I wanted him too. Jim got so he would even call the house and talk to my boyfriend a lot, till one day he had asked us to meet him at a different pub where he was in another contest, he didn't want to go but told me to go ahead and go, I felt very uncomfortable about this we just didn't go to pub's without each other at all, in fact he turned around and got on the phone and told Jim to come and pick me up. I was in total shock that he would even do this. Well as it turned out I had found out he had been cheating on me and I guess you can guess it from here this was his way of slipping out some where else with her.

When I had found this out I had leaned on Jim and confided in everything with him I shared my secret thoughts and my whole life with Jim. But I wasn't ready to give up on the man I thought I was in love with. This went on for 10 years. Somewhere along that 10 yrs Jim got his own show together and I helped him out one day I asked him to teach me to sing I had tried but it was awful and I wouldn't try without first learning. Jim took a lot of time with me and taught me to sing I told my boyfriend about it and he just would laugh, well he started coming back into the pub where Jim and I was working from time to time and check us out (probably was having problems with his cheating female so I suspect) Jim kinda thought so too. He did tell me how proud he was that I learned to sing.

Everything seem to be going great again between us (boyfriend) till one day I came home from doing a show with Jim and the whole house had been cleaned out. I got into my car till I found the bastard he had moved in with his whore. This all happened in April of 2000. Still 10 yrs and Jim had never made one single pass at me.

Around July of 2000 was the change of my life Jim and I went to do a show as usual but a lot of his friends were there too after we walked in they took over told me it was cut loose and party time with an old friend of mine named Jim....they set the show up and I was seated on a barstool along side of Jim we drank southern comfort and sevenup and done hotdamn shots...a good share of the night we toasted to everything under the sun..when Jim got up to use the rest room one of the bar tenders keeped coming over to e telling me how much Jim was in Love with me and had been for years but would never say anything.....we'll to make a long night story short Jim and I were pretty well loosened up so to speak of and his friends decided neither one of us was fit to drive....they had made arrangements at a motel for the two of us and drove us their...now to rush this let me tell you I didn't believe the bartender at all I'd seen Jim in action he liked all the ladies and was friendly with several (but never took one home) and I got to admit several times a littel jeousy rose up in my mind, soemtimes I imagined him flirting with me like that but it never happened Jim was just that Jim to me my best friend in the whole world.....he was always there for me listened, cried when I cried but never did he tell me how to make the choices in my life.....

Off to the motel we were escorted by Red...another good male friend of mine...and he told us to sleep it off he would pick us back up in the morning.....Jim took me by the arm and led me to our room he opened the door and I said oh no twin beds we said twin beds didn't we and Jim said yeah we did and just looked on and laughed so I started to laugh too...I told him I think this was planned somehow...he didn't say a word....I fell back on the bed with my clothes on and continued to laugh...Jim said well we can just sleep in our clothes how's that I said Ok sounds good to me....we were laying their and Jim ask if he could kiss me.....I giggled and said your always kissing me he said no I mean really kiss you like the woman that you are....he got near my lips and I couldn't help it I burst out laughing again....and ask if he was trying to seduce me he said no of coarse not so Igot up and said well let me help you then....I turned around with my back to him and unlipped my pants ever so slow looking over my shoulder watching him watch me.....and down they fell to the floor...very slowly I unbuttoned my white silky blouse and slipped it ever so slowly off my shoulders still watching him still with my back to him then I sat slowly doen on the edge of the bed and told him to cuddle up close to my back and bring his hands around to my abdominand told him I'm all yours....he was ever so gentle and carressed ever spot on my body...we managed to get him out of his clothes, too I had never been kissed like he kissed me and held like this in my whole intire life...I had no inhibitions about myself that niht I did things I thought I never could or would do with a guy...we made love till morning..holding on to each other all night the words of love were never spoken between us.....this man I neverr new till this point took care of me in more ways then the book was written for 101 ways to amke love and satisfy your partner......Red came back and picked us up in the morning as promised and we were still holding each other...we were taken back to our cars and sat in my car for a while and leaned over and kissed me again and just smiled and told me I was something else and he would never forget it ...he asked me if I was sorry that it happened I told him no I was glad it had happened.....after a week had passed I can honestly say I wass not in lov with him as he was with me but I never told him that he was my best friend still throught the years till he was killed in 2003...I miss my friend and he always sang "You Had Me From Hello" to me at every show we did.....I wrote a peom about my friend and it's posted below this...his exwife knew about our relationship and she placed the poem at the head of his casket......I leaned over and kissed him goodbye one more time but my memories are very fond of him.....and to this day I do believe that yes I was in Love with him but never knew it and I stayed with him till the end....I can stillhere his voice sing this song.....


You Had Me From Hello ------Kenny Chesney
One word, that's all you said
Somethin' in your voice caused me to turn my head.
Your smile, just captured me
And you were in my future as far as I could see
And I don't know how it happened, but it happened still
You asked me if I love you, if I always will
Well you, had me from
"Hello"I felt love start to grow
The moment that I looked into your eyes, you won meIt was over from the start
You completely stole my heart
And now you won't let goI never even had a chance you know
You had me from "Hello"Inside, I built the walls
So high around my heart, I thought I'd never fall
One touch, you brought it down
The bricks of my defenses scattered on the ground
And I swore to me I wasn't gonna love again
The last time was the last time, I let someone in
But you, had me from "Hello"I felt love start to grow
The moment that I looked into your eyes, you won meIt was over from the start
You completely stole my heart
And now you won't let goI never even had the chance you know
You had me from "Hello"That's all you said
Somethin' in your voice caused me to, turn my head
You had me from "Hello"You had me from
"Hello"Girl I've loved you from "Hello"

JIM

Who was this Man
He was a man who didn’t have much but he had a lot to give
He was a man who loved but didn’t expect much back
He was a man who lived a life of happiness something money couldn’t buy
He was a man who sang from the heart and his voice was well heard
He was a man who walked a life of truth and trust
He was a man who’s heart was richer than gold
He was a man who wasn’t left behind but to touch your life
He was a man who God called home
He is the man who waits for you
He is the man who will greet you
He is the man who will welcome you to his new home
He is the man who will sing again
He is the man who will show you a life beyond what is expected
He is the man who will give you love again
He is the man who has it all and still has a lot to give
He is JIM