I watched a little bit of Sundance Channel’s, “Runnin’ Down A Dream: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers”. Tom Petty’s music has been a part of my life for as long as he’s been around. I like his easy style of rock and roll, the bluesy feel of his music and his story telling. As his music grew and changed it felt as if it was following my path of maturity.

When the Traveling Wilburys came on the scene in 1988 the timing was perfect! Hearing Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne play some of the most inspired music of my lifetime I’d felt as if I’d found the perfect rock band. Well, I’m not sure if rock band is even a way to describe them. I remember sharing their music with my sister (who passed away at 33 years old of Leukemia). We’d call each other and talk about something we’d hear in one of their songs. We’d listen to that tape, yes it was cassettes back then, over and over.

Then Roy Orbison died. We really didn’t know much about him until the Traveling Wilburys. We had missed out on a lot of good music. It hit us hard. We knew there wouldn’t be any more music from that original group. I thought no one could replace him, the mix was too good. I still think I’m right. The mix of so many talented musicians having fun and making excellent music is hard to find.

Speaking of having fun, do you know the names each of the musicians used on their albums?
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Volume 1
Nelson (George Harrison)
Charlie T. Jnr. (Tom Petty)
Lucky (Bob Dylan)
Otis (Jeff Lynne)
Lefty (Roy Orbison)

Volume 3
Spike (George Harrison)
Muddy (Tom Petty)
Boo (Bob Dylan)
Clayton (Jeff Lynne)

The video of The End of The Line pays tribute to Roy Orbison as you can see his guitar in the rocking chair and his photo in a picture frame.

As our vacation gets closer I am beginning to think about my time away from my desktop computer. Usually when we are at Disney I’m so busy that I don’t concern myself with this. I’m having way too much fun especially with my family to worry about my blogs, our eBay store, our website, Squidoo pages or email. This time around though, I’ll be spending most of the day indoors and most likely at the hotel. I may even end up in our hotel room if I continue to feel this poorly.

What will I do with my time? Yes I’ll be bringing along lots of books. We can rent DVD’s for free. I know I’ll be sleeping too. But no internet?? Can I survive six days without it? I don’t have a laptop so I’m pretty much stuck. There’s always the pay as you go computers in the hotel but those add up fast. I can ask Hubby to drive me to a library but I really don’t think that’ll go over too well.

That’s one of the things we’ve been deciding about for almost a year now. Should we splurge on a laptop? Now with the upcoming wedding it’s a big fat “no”. I do need to speed up my desktop as I’m pushing its limits a great deal. I’ll look into prices of dell memory and see if it is something we can afford now or not.

What a great celebration last night for the end of Vacation Bible School. I had to be there so my Mom drove me to get my blood test, took me and Peanut to lunch and then picked up some dinner for us. This way I didn’t have to cook dinner. I was able to nap for two hours in the late afternoon so that gave me some energy to be able to go for the parents’ get together at 7 PM. For some reason that’s about the time I keep falling asleep each night.

I was so happy that I was able to go. Most of the time I had to half sit, half lie down in the chair but I got to see all of the children especially my Peanut sing and dance to the songs, listen to them recite their verses and watch a puppet show.

I was supposed to teach this year but wasn’t able to do so because of my health. It’s so nice that people turned out to volunteer though. Peanut really had a good time and learned a lot. Tomorrow at church she’ll be doing a song along with the other children. That allows the members who weren’t able to attend VBS see some of what the children learned.

Do you associate cravings with pregnancy? I used to but not any more, not since they’ve been happening to me on almost a daily basis for the last week or so. I’ve been trying so hard to eat properly especially with my handy dandy list of foods high in Potassium. I don’t have much of an appetite though so I usually have to force myself to eat especially breakfast and lunch.

But I get hit with these food cravings that are driving me crazy. One day it was chocolate. Nothing unusual with that and we have a lot of it on hand. Then it was tacos or something with meat (chicken or beef), cheese, taco seasoning, sour cream, etc. I was going crazy trying to find something to eat that would suffice until Hubby came home with the ingredients to actually make them. While I waited I melted some cheese in the microwave, added some chopped tomatoes and ate it with tortilla chips. Anther day it was an Italian sub.

These cravings hit me pretty bad. Without being able to drive I’m stuck waiting on Hubby to get home from work with the goods or calling family and friends subtly asking them if they’re going out and if so where. Then I drop the bomb with my need for a banana split.