Hi all, When I became medically retired I decided to do some of the things that I had always wanted to. I especially wanted to do those things that would be a little risky with a white-collar job. I wanted to grow a ponytail, pierce my ear and have a tattoo on the back of my shoulder. Well I grew out my hair to ponytail length. I thought it would be great. I could wash my hair and tie it back. No worrying about getting a haircut every six weeks or bad hair days. Unfortunately I didn't realize how hard it would be physically for my bad shoulders to wash my hair. So just about the time my hair was the perfect length I cut it all off to about one half inch. I love it. It is indeed now wash and wear. It's funny. In the late sixties my dad wanted me to have my hair like it is now. I protested obviously. Now that my hair is very short my dad hates it. Go figure. I also had my left ear pierced. I then decided to have it pierced again. That's probably enough. I wanted to have a tattoo on the back of my shoulder, but my fibromyalgia is also on the back of my shoulder and I'm a little afraid of what all of that activity might do as far as flairing up my fibro. Since I don't particularly want a tatoo any where else, I decided to not get one. Oh, the funniest tattoo I ever saw was on the butt cheek of this guy who was taking a shower at the rec center. It was a circle about the size of an old silver dollar. Inside it said " USDA Choice". I thought it was great! Maybe I should get one like that. Maybe not. lol Larry

After that display of talent and speed and coaching, I fail to see how anyone can even suggest anything other than the best team is now the National Champions! A playoff is needed, but that would require, imo, a conference champ from each conference. Perhaps Big ten should try that instead of sitting at home watching the other conferences claim their champions then complain about a 50+ day layoff. 50+ days for The Gator nation to listen to all the talk of why they were not deserving to be on the same field with THE Ohio St. Bucks. How about Tom Brady,x Mich. saying it ought to be Mich. , Florida isn't very good. HAAA! BS Great job Gators! You definetly proved the point! I couldn't help but notice all the beautiful palms on the UF campus when I made a return visit to The Swamp to check out the renovations at Fl. Field in July of 05. Palm trees and UF! God must be smiling down on Gainseville Fl!

Thank you so much everyone!! A tattoo on the big toe! I think that that would hurt 80 million times more than these did! It wasn't that brave Terri. It only took maybe 20 minutes to a half hour. And a lot of wincing. LOL Stacy, do you like shopping for shoes? My foot is a nine and WIDE so I hate shoe shopping. I only go when absolutely necessary. Blech. :) I haven't named them Flamey, BUT the girls have claimed one each. Claire insists on the littlest one even though she's not my littlest girl. But that's okay. :) So Kim does it hurt less on say the back or leg because I was thinking that there was NO WAY that I could sit for hours of that. It was ouchie. :D Thanks again everyone! I love how they turned out. Danielle

Babka, I think you have to look at Great Expectations as an annual. Kind of like the annual flowers you plant to brighten up the garden. You can enjoy it for a couple seasons, and then its gone. I have two right now that have lasted two years, and I am guessing they won't be back. But, I only paid about $6 for them, so I can live with that. The first one I had lasted about ten years. At that time, I didn't know it was fussy.....so when the Elegans next to it got huge, I moved GE cuz it was smaller. The next year it was gone