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Weeks slipped by again! Wow, isn't life amazing the way it carries us all over the place? I can't believe how busy my days can get! Days like today are full days of Mom's chores and appointments, so many stops to make and things to do. 'Course these days by tuesdays I feel the press of the week rushing by too fast. Its like the alarm goes off monday morning at 6 and when I lay down to sleep its friday evening, just that fast.

Our island has been having the driest mild winter of the decade, it seems, and I already have spring flowers out all over and the hummingbirds are due in a couple weeks...year after year we see the first ones on March 17! Just like a well kept travel plan, they show up on time waiting for their feeders to be filled. Heard the first spring peepers, too. Its really nice to see those first early purple tulips.

I have been spending some time finishing up the orders from the Flower Show, and doing a few other jobs that came in, the taxes and a bunch of other paperwork. My hairwrap production stopped when the supplier sent the wrong wire and I have to wait for reshipment, so its a good time to finish up bookwork, clean the workshop and get set up for a major wrap production push this spring. Looking for a good electric rolling mill, and if we find an affordable one with creative finance-ibility it will make the whole job a lot better. I miss my roller-boy, but life has gotten full and busy for him too, so no more calling to plead for his help and strong arms. But all things must pass, and now I have to mill my own wire, darn.

Some of the best things about the workshop lately are the non-stop Rammstein background tracks! This stuff is so good, a decade of great music! I borrowed a disk of rare cuts and its really fun. Different in feel to all the rest. It completely adjusts my attitude and makes me able to handle my wild days. I was so instantly addicted to their music. I was telling a friend about it and said "Its like they PUT something in this music its so addictive!" I have days where my head is so full of music you'd think there were headphones on! She called a couple days ago as her attachment to the music kicked in, saying "I know what you mean! Its so addictive that I hear it in my head all the time, dream it at night!" I know what she means, me too! Its wild. Today my friend Jimi called me and yelled into the phone "Whats the deal with this music! Its like heroin! I gotta have it, gotta hear it all day, all night and in the car, doesn't matter, I gotta have it!"

Man, I don't know what it is, but it makes me so happy I can't believe it, gives me strength and power and gobs of hope that I really enjoy. Its an instant pleasure for me. Its inspired an interest in the German language, and I could spend every free minute doing translations and learning words. Its so much fun and I really enjoy it, its my new recreation escape. Each night as I spend those evening hours with mom while she watches Wheel of Torment and Jep-bored-y, I work out translations and figure out phrasing...

And old or not, next time they hit this country (doubtful, but anything is possible I suppose) I am SO going! I can sit with the oldsters in the back...or not! I just couldn't miss such a powerful theatric performance of amazing music by the most sexy and natural players I ever saw! And thats natural in the truest sense...real human energy, earthy and dense...and all that dipped in fire-retardand. I'd mortgage 'the farm' (if I had one, that is) for the chance to see them live! I'd like to run away and follow the band across Europe from country to country watching the shows! Like a deadhead or something. Oh to be young and foolhardy! Sigh.

So much fun!
Barb

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