Starting off the day like most: being nagged endlessly by my child, lol. Well the happy part is debatable, but at least she's happy. Going to get some sunshine in a few. Feeling very relaxed after a great vacation this past week. That was just what i've need for a while now.

Apart...The Cure (off the awesome album "Wish")

One of my favorite shows, House Hunters. I love HGTV and real estate.

That's Havana. We actually went in to eat lunch, but the menu was limited and i wasn't in the mood for any of the food. We wound up leaving and eating down the block at a fabulous italian restuarant. So many great choices in downtown Asheville.

What made me happy yesterday, since today is a new day now: Getting home safely after a long day of travel (after a very nice vacation)... Getting the sweetest hug from my sweet child after missing her the past five days, and hearing about all the great fun she had on her fantastic week in Wildwood with my family... at 1am getting ready to be happy hitting the pillow (or pretty soon)...and still have 2 more days off of work!

Join Together...The Who

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey...The Beatles (goodnight, you...)

That may apply to when you meet strangers, but many people develop feelings for people they know, in time. Having common interests are more important in the long run. How you treat people in your life is important too. Looks fade, and people tire of looks too. You need much deeper connections for a relationship to thrive. If you don't learn to look beyond the shallow exterior you will never find a girl. Even a nice one.

I Can't Help Falling In Love With You..Elvis

Do you mean Havana? Didn't get there yet, wound up eating South American food which was delicious. There are so many great places to eat here.

So far very nice. I loved the waterfalls yesterday and we gotta go back so i can get under it!!! Okay let's get going, i wanna try that Cuban cafe for lunch. Downtown Asheville is a great place! I'm trying to get Speed to post a pic of us...

Lets Spend The Night Together...Rolling Stones

look up a few post you will see i just said that, lol....

Speaking of North Carolina, i just arrived in Asheville today. Very pretty area and met a nice friend. Getting ready to have a delicious seafood dinner. That will make me happy too. Gonna see Looking Glass Falls tomorrow and probably eat more seafood! Ledbaby says hi to everyone who misses him...

Your Time Is Gonna Come...who is the artist? lol

My name is "mud"...Primus

Blue Morning, Blue Day...Foreigner

Highway Star...Deep Purple

Hell is for Children...Pat Benatar

Just Like Heaven...The Cure

You should make sure Tiki gets a good brand of pellets. I have read rotating pellets a few days a week with seeds (so the bird doesn't just pick out the seeds he wants to eat and leaves the pellets) is a good way to feed them. Pellets are loaded with nutrition the bird needs. As for people food, you should add fruits to the diet. My bird loved apples, grapes, apricots, peaches, watermelon, canteloupe, honeydew, cherries...and yogurt, cheese, scrambled eggs, Honey bunches of Oates cereal with milk, pasta, chinese food (lol, okay it is loaded with sodium), Jasmine would stand at the edge of my dad's plate and eat off it sometimes...the point is a variety of fruits/veggies and other healthy people food. You can even feed them some poultry (yikes!). FYI...no Avocado or chocolate!

Probably a regular old "budgie" then...tiki is a cute name! Well most parakeets are good talkers so you should have much enjoyment to look forward to. Do me a favor, read up on the best way to care for your pet bird (if you don't already know) and try to take care of him the best you can. I love birds and it saddens me how many pet birds live a life in a cage with bird seed as their diet. Sorry, but this is something very sad to me. One of the subjects i can get "preachy" about, sorry.

How sweet...what type of parakeet, what's his name and what did he say? I had a Grey cheeked parakeet for 17 years, he died a couple years ago. He was a "shoulder and hand" bird, lol...he died in my dad's hand actually (caught a bad Respiratory Infection 2 winters ago). Still 17 was pretty old for his species and he lived a great life. Jasmine's favorite word was "Baby Bird". He/she (because we never knew the gender) loved rock n roll music, especially The Beatles and Don Henley.

The big hugs and kisses from my daughter. Otherwise, i have to call today a very sad one.

Of course you have. She murdered her parents with an axe. Happened back in 1893. In the movie "The Legend of Lizzie Borden" Elizabeth Montgomery played Lizzie (you know, from "Bewitched"). http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorio...en/index_1.html By Russell Aiuto Lizzie Borden Took An Axe The day is stiflingly hot, over one hundred degrees, even though it is not yet noon. The elderly man, still in his heavy morning coat, reclines on a mohair-covered sofa, his boots on the floor so as not to soil the upholstery. As he naps in the August heat, his wife is on the floor of the guestroom upstairs, dead for the past hour and a half, killed by the same hand, with the same weapon, that is about to strike him, as he sleeps. "... one of the most dastardly and diabolical crimes that was ever committed in Massachusetts... Who could have done such an act? In the quiet of the home, in the broad daylight of an August day, on the street of a popular city, with houses within a stone's throw, nay, almost touching, who could have done it? "Inspection of the victims discloses that Mrs. Borden had been slain by the use of some sharp and terrible instrument, inflicting upon her head eighteen blows, thirteen of them crushing through the skull; and below stairs, lying upon the sofa, was Mr. Borden's dead and mutilated body, with eleven strokes upon the head, four of them crushing the skull." (From the closing arguments for the defense of Lizzie Borden, made by her principal attorney, George D. Robinson.) Lizzie Borden The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime for over one hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew J. Borden and his wife, Abby Borden. The bloodiness of the acts in an otherwise respectable late nineteenth century domestic setting is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster-daughter, charged with parricide, the murder of parents, a crime worthy of Classical Greek tragedy. This is a murder case in which the accused is found not guilty for the violent and bloody murders of two people. There were the unusual circumstances considering that it was an era of swift justice, of vast newspaper coverage, evidence that was almost entirely circumstantial, passionately divided public opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, incompetent prosecution, and acquittal. Lizzie as a young girl However little one might know about Lizzie Borden, she is forever immortalized in the playground verse: Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.