It's Friday and you know what that means, time for the Friday Five. This week with a Captain Morgan Twist. As always, answer any 5 or go bull in a china shop crazy and answer them all. Ready, here we go...

1-What percentage of the time do you wear a seat belt?

100% of the time.

2-Last thing you opened?

Can of Diet Coke with Lime

3-How many framed photos are in your living room?

Had to go count-the grand total is 33!

4-When was the last time you visited the ocean?

March 2004

5-Pick a dance partner from the remaining contestants on Dancing With The Stars?

Joey

6-Last call you received on your house phone?

The Yankee

7-Last call made on your house phone?

Bev

8-Something you no longer collect?

Teddy Bears...the stuffed kind and also figurines.Angels too. Had to stop because I am running out of room!

9-Was your last power bill, under or over 100 dollars?

Under, but not by much.

10-Something that makes you smile?

When Trooper Junior calls me, "Me-Ma".

11-How many remotes do you have?

4- and I can't keep up with them!

12-How close do you live to a heavily wooded area?

VERY CLOSE as I live IN a heavily wooded area.

13-Last thing you rubbed on your body?

Citrus Body Butter.

14-Last thing you purchased?

4 handbags.

15-Would you ever or do you have another person's name tattooed on your body?

I have The Yankee's initial, along with mine...does that count? Actually, I have been thinking about getting another tattoo with The Yankee's name....just can't decide where. On the other hand, he has very specific ideas about where it should go. We'll see....

CAPTAIN MORGAN TWIST:

16-I like Captain Morgan because....

What's not to like? Captain Morgan is a gentle soul and an awesome writer.

17-Captain Morgan makes me...

His blog always makes me stop and think. Be it the quizzes or the Hitchcock Railroad. I always find something interesting.

18-Captain Morgan has...

The lovely Mrs Morgan, also known as "Chey".

19-Captain Morgan is....

An asset to Blogstream.

20-My personal message to Captain Morgan is...

Thanks for sharing your words of wisdom!

On a personal note, I just found out today from my friend Bev that she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Send prayers and best wishes her way!

Later Ya'll...^Belle^

My niece sent me this! Make up your own caption to go with the photo.

BELLE:

SAVE A HORSE,RIDE A COWBOY!

WHIT:

Fool me once, shame on you

Fool me twice, shame on me

Fool me thrice, I must be horny!

BIGGIE T

After reading this, I bought 27 purses at Walmart.

I've never bought a purse before reading this.

I've never been in a Walmart before reading this.

I'm sitting in my car waiting. This better be good.

POLARB

How about a little "cowpoke",partner?

PUPPY

It's fortunate that I don't throw away my old purses. I can go undercover and see if these guys can be caught! I am a concerned citizen, you know!

Later Ya'll...^Belle^

This song is one of my all time favorites, by one of the greatest singers EVER....BIG MAYBELLE....

Just like Big Maybelle, I have a sweet tooth for a certain YANKEE...

Let me have it or

Later Ya'll...^Belle^

It's Friday and you know what that means, time for the Friday Five. This week with a Secret Twist. As always, answer any 5 or go crawdad crazy and answer them all. Ready, here we go....

1-Do you like your peanuts: Parched,roasted,raw or boiled?

BOILED! Or as my grandmother would say, "Balled"

2-Do you wake to music or alarm?

I really don't need an alarm clock, as Buffy wakes me every morning at 7:00am. When I do need an alarm, I wake to music.

3-What is the current screen saver on your computer?

A very sexy photo of The Yankee in his Marine Corps days, wearing NICE fitting fatigues,sitting on a Harley,Rayban sunglasses on,cigarette in his mouth, muscles bulging. MEEEE OOOOOO WWWWWWW and HUBBA...HUBBA....!

4-What is on the wall to your right?

2 posters, 1 of Elvis the other of Travis Tritt.

5-What is on the wall to your left?

Several posters and photos of Dale Sr and Dale Jr.

6-Tanning beds.....Yes or no..?

Yes. There is one about 2 miles from my house, plus, Princess has one at her house that I use from time to time.

7-Favorite thing to do on a starry night?

Anything with The Yankee.

8-Last catalog you received?

Victoria's Secret

9-How often do you wash your vehicle?

At least once every 2 weeks, but more often than not, every week.

10-Last thing you clipped?

Buffy's toenails.

11-Last thing you took off?

Bra

12-Is your bedtime before or after midnight?

Usually it is after midnight....WAY....after midnight, but for the last month or so I have actually crashed BEFORE midnight.

13- Something that made you smile this week?

As of Monday, April 16, I have lost 15 1/2 pounds since Christmas Day. Yea....for me!

14-What did you have for breakfast this morning?

Peaches and Cream Oatmeal, boiled egg and coffee.

15-Last time you traveled to another state?

Monday night to Georgia for Mexican food!

SECRET TWIST:

16-I like Secret because....

She is sweet and kind. A real doll!

17-Secret makes me..

Remember what life was like when my children were young.

18-Secret has....

Her hands full with Randy!

19-Secret is....

A wonderful Mom, wonderful person and wonderful blogger!

20-My personal message to Secret is...

I am so glad we met via Blogstream......let's have lunch!

Later Ya'll...^Belle^

12 years ago, my life was forever changed. One look into his eyes was all it took. I would never be the same. I may decide to take a stroll down memory lane on my blog next week. But, for now, my mind is all over the place.

This is a special song to me. The Yankee dropped by my office for a visit one day,much to the delight of my employees who were amused to see their boss blushing like a school girl. I drug him into my office for some private time. He was sitting on the edge of my desk as this song came on the radio. I went into his arms like a moth to flame. The story doesn't end there, but in this post it does.

HE IS...

MY LOVE

MY PASSION

MY DESIRE

MY LOVER

MY SOUL MATE

MY BREATH

MY LIFE

Enjoy the song at the top of this post and read some of my favorite quotes.

< I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”

Anais Nin

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”

Anais Nin

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

Anais Nin

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death."”

Anais Nin

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin

"And (she) sang to them ... until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Renew your passions daily. ~Abbe Yeux-verdi

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.” William Shakespeare

“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.” Anais Nin

Sexual pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; …” Simone de Beauvoir

Later Ya'll...^Belle^