Tressa has become such a fashion girl, I call her the "fashionestta."  Her biggest influence is our neighbors Shannon and Lindsay.  They took her shopping the weekend before school and she came back with an arm full of clothes and some wisdom for life for example, "belts go with everything," "never date a guy who rides a moped," "don't drink till your 21 years old," of course...  Those ladies treat the girls so good and are great mentors for the kids.  When I was a kid I had the same type of older girl who taught me some lessons for life for example, "ice goes great with milk" "be active in school" and the best of all "The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniels) will become #1" , who knew...she did.  I recently learned that this wonderful girl died of Cancer which saddens me.  I should have written her a letter a long time ago to tell her how much she influenced me.  Never wait until it is too late another lesson in life.

I recently read the book Julie and Julia, my sister the other "L" in the family always says that the books are better then the movies as in Eat, Pray, Love, not true in this case, in my opinion.  Sometimes I had to turn a couple of pages to get back into the book.  I did some research on the Author Julie and read that after she published the book and it started taking off she had an affair on her husband, TERRIBLE!  In the book she explained how he helped her so many times and sacrificed so much for her, as it should be, in my opinion (j.k).  Anyway,  maybe she started getting an ego with the book doing well and slipped down the wrong path.  I am so thankful that I am not famous, they have such an ego problem.  Hey, I can get an ego sometimes on 900N, I start thinking I am the queen of the block, then my neighbor Shannon shoots me down because she can always do things better then me, she is the Martha Stewart of the block!  She always brings me back to reality.  Thanks Shannon!

I end this blog in memory of Dapper, thank you for the memories I hope that your soul will rest in peace, Amen.