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TRW, Speaking of gay movies... my all time favorite is" Birdcage". Have watched it a hundred times. they keep putting it on cable at least once a month.....
Charlotte

just got home from work i took the cut so the other 2 could make the money tonight,this afternoon when i came home from the day job,the ex and i went all over the house unpluging everything,hot water heater, coffee maker,microwave,toaster,the other computer,the ac units we never use anymore,everything except the living room unit and fridgethe bill we got on thursday was 450,which meant they guesstimated last month because that one was only 176,so every little bit helps,right? other than that it was a nothing day,cane bay was packed when i drove through at 3:30. i see an asian lady everymorning downtown just up the block abit from the cafe,she carrys her box turtle across the street and stands with it in the sun for about 20 minutes,she holds it up really close to her face so the first time i saw her i thought it was a video camera,the next day i walked past her to see what it was because i'm nosy and then i saw it was a turtle lol, so there you have it another downtown character.

hey they're doing the drag queen episode on project runway right now,back in the very early 90's i worked at the gay 90's in minneapolis which bills itself as the largest gay bar in the upper midwest,it's one big 2 story building with 8 different themed gay bars under one roof,one was the happy hour which was the hardcore drinkers bar that opened at 8am, then you had the main bar where they served up dinner and male strippers,then you had the dance annex for high energy dance music and then in the back you had the leather/porno movie bar,no women allowed,then upstairs you had a pool table bar,a retro bar,a coffee shop, a dyke bar and then finally the 150 seat show lounge,i'd wait tables downstairs over dinner and then at 10 i'd either go over to the dance bar to cocktail order or upstairs to work the show lounge so i got to know all of the drag queens,i loved those women i liked watching them come in as men and hit the stage as women,these women were funny fierce b!tches,they fought verbally like hell with each other but showed me nothing but the love because i was from north dakota and that was my first job in mpls,the 90's is where i met the ex,he always came in for dinner on friday nights and somehow ended up in my section and well the scrawny little shit always ordered 2 full dinners and ate all of it,so i tossed out the guy i was living with at the time and called him up and well moved in with him like a week later lol how lesbian is that lol a uhaul on the first date(inside gay joke,don't get offended),but anyway back to drag queens, it's odd how the drag queens taught me the streeet ropes in both denver when i was 20 and mpls when i was 30,these women have guts and talent

We are home and it was a trip from hell. Commercial travel has become completely unacceptable. We bought our tickets 2 months ago and ended up on standby as they overbooked the flight. Hubby managed to get JJ and I on the the flight, I don't know how but he got us on and in first class. We were miserable. JJ crying for his daddy and me trying to comfort him telling him that daddy would get to us soon. Just as the door was closing hubby made it on the plane but not sitting with us. JJ spent the flight comuting between our seats much to the dismay of the flight attendants. We got food and daddy didn't so JJ was carrying his food back to his daddy and kept opening the curtain so we could see each other. I just let him commute as I was so pissed off at the way we were treated and JJ was minding his manners saying excuse me and being very quiet. Well we are at home and survived the trip and got our luggage so I should not complain.

the first time i hitchiked across the states i was 14 and bored one morning in grand forks so i walked out to gateway drive and stuck my thumb out and got a ride to the interstate,then i got a ride from grand forks to bismark and then this dude in a vw picked me up and said he was going all the way to the west coast,lol now at 14 i had hair and was kinda cute so i kept waiting for the guy to touch me but he never did he just wanted the company,well you have not truly lived until you have driven through the rockie mountains in a vw and stopping when there was a stream close to the road and chilling down a 12 pack of beer and smoking cigarettes,i think it was probally the truly first "awesome"experience i'd ever had at that point in this life,it took us about 3 days to reach the west coast and when we got to oregon he dropped me off and i looked around and then went to a cop shop and turned myself in as a runaway and mom had me on the next flight back to grand forks with very few questions asked,lol yeah i got grounded for awhile, the next time i hitched across the states i was 15 and went kinda the same route but ended up in northern california,i don't really remember alot about that trip,no touching and no hassels just drunk the entire time, the 3rd time i went across the states i was 16 and had my own car and i ended up in provo utah and lol thats where i learned how to siphon gas*in the mormon cathedral parking lot) and steal clothes from clotheslines,not something at this point in my life i'm proud of but something i needed to do back then to get by,so once again i turn myself in and mom flys down and drives back with me,somewhere in that era i bussed it down to fargo with this chick i knew at the time and her boyfriend and we holded up at this lowlife residence hotel for a couple weeks and when the money ran out i had to turn a few tricks to keep paying the hotel bill,lol the movie carrie was in the theatres at the time and i saw it 6 times,so whatever that year was i don't know,but then once again the mom found me and came and got me.

now you need to remember this was the 70's and i'd had realtionships since i was in the 4th grade,first with my cousins in southern minnesota on the farm and then when we moved to laredo i was in the 4th grade and i fell in lust with adult mexican construction workers lol,so i started young and this is one of the reasons i feel that i've lived a few lives before, my earliest memory is being a young boy running through the streets of UR in ancient sumer before egypt was ever heard of,but anyway i digress, i knew that i liked guys and actively pursued it when i was that young,it seemed natural to me,i was the one to approach these guys lol and they were like whores in church,lol really nervous and i'm not really sure you could label them pedophiles because i was the one that voluntarily went looking for it,lol 4 or 5 days a week i had at least a couple "dates" a day from the 4th to the 8th grade,but i still managed to maintain good grades in school and more or less follow the rules at home,lol until we moved from laredo to north dakota,once again i was never abused in any sort of way,i knew what i wanted and went for it.

so when i hear about how difficult it was for some people to come out of closet and all the angst they had,i truly have no patience,hey maybe thats my bad,,but when i realized i liked guys i accepted it with no questions asked, i never came out to anyone i just was,number one it was no ones business but my own and if they wanted to know they'd ask and number 2 i did not need nor look for anyones acceptance including my parents,christ i was dragging boyfriends over to the house and telling mom that this is my new boyfriend and lol i never once asked her if she cared or what her opinion was and only once did she ever complain about a boyfriend and that was buster the cement layer from one of my earlier posts, she said he was kind of a nag hahahaha and she thought it rather interesting that my denver boyfriend was a catholic priest,but once again she never asked just raised the eyebrow when i told her, and to this day i have no patience with closet cases or reluctant homos,i had a way different life than most and it was of my own choosing,the ex just looks at me sometimes like i'm an alien,he just cannot wrap his head around my life.

and so today at work i was waiting on my favorite high end island homo whom i truly do like and appreciate and he asked if i had gone to a certain party this weekend and i said nope and thought to myself lol why on earth would i want to go and hang with people i consider mediocre(sp) and boring,just because we're all gay does'nt mean we want to spend time with each other,lol 9 to 5 fa&s are some of the most boring people on earth,lol always trying to fit in and be accepted lol whereas i don't give a shit and my whole attitude is go f*ck yourself,hahahhahahaha

and so here it goes, my biggest darkest secret,when iturned 18 i was dropping acid every day and drinkin alot of jack and going through about an ounce of pot daily,hey is was 1980 so my chick friend from the fargo story stephanie moody and her older boyfriend tom ralston convinced me to start burglarizing houses to pay the drug bill,lol so the first one we hit as a 3some well we had the car loaded up and went back to stephs apt and started unloading the stuff through a window into her place at like 4am and so of course someone saw and called the cops and we got busted.,lol so i got sent to the ND work farm for 6 months and those 2 got serious prison time, and i thought oooooh jail,lots of boyfriends and so i was'nt stressed out at the time,well the BF thing never happened and my parents got me out after 4 months and my record expunged,lol so it never happened.

hey i'm watching the movie freedom writers again and i guess my favorite scene in the movie is when the inner city street kid tells anne franks biographer that he's never had a hero before and she is his hero and she says no young man you(meaning the students)are my heros and your faces are etched on my heart,it's just so erffing powerful

Where's all the other posters who used to fill us in on their lives on St. Croix? I know Tammy just got back home, but I miss hearing all the fun stories of island life. Can't wait to hear some J.J. stories again!!! Anybody else want to let us in on what's going on in their lives? After all the rain,mosquitoes, and run of the mill happenings here at home it would be nice to live vicariously through you! Linda J. and Alexandra-- where are you?! Fill us in on what's happening in your lives-- even if (especially if) it's something as simple as you spent a lazy day out at the beach with a good book! Sounds like heaven to me right now. Spread alittle sunshine, folks! 😎

Well, Paula, I don't live on STX (yet!), but I'll chime in anyway because I'm all excited that some books I ordered about STX arrived today. I got "Life in the Left Lane," a cookbook full of VI recipes, and another one whose title I can't remember at the moment... something like "An Embarrassment of Mangoes." I read "Don't Stop the Carnival" when I flew to STX in February, and I'm leaving for Roatan soon, so I'm going to read all about STX on the way.

I agree with what another poster said in another thread about "Don't Stop the Carnival" -- it probably is much better after you've lived there for a while. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was great, but I think it'll be even better after some personal experience.

And having said that... what are you STX residents up to?? It certainly has to be better than what I'm doing this weekend, which is studying and trying to remain nocturnal because all of my shifts at work this month are nights... and trying not to crack open those new books yet!

hey you STTr's ok we read about the miller guy in the papers and about his navy career but who is he,is he a local?whos his mother?

Yesterday was a good day . . . volunteered down in Gallows Bay for an animal shelter event (big thanks to everyone that donated, there were some very generous people), then headed out to the rib cookoff at Cane Bay -> some excellent ribs! I hope they do it again next year. Yesterday afternoon we took the dog to the beach but I stepped on a sea urchin so the trip didn't last long.

hey goal i learned years ago down here to always wear some type of footwear in the water,i have an old pair of tennishoes for the ocean while it's not as comfortable,it's safer,a few years back i used to walk the beach inthe morning and swim with danielle from st tropez well one day we were out swimming and i was backstroking and backstroked my way into a really big jellyfish,well i got zapped of course i had full back contact with it and had to go to the hospital but i at least found out i was'nt allergic.

so i went to namaste a couple days ago for a depth charge and there was a young couple in there with job apps from the place so i chatted them up while i waited,they want service jobs been here for a couple of weeks,so i rattled off the usual suspects,you know the ones in the paper all the time and a few other places that are always looking for servers and the young woman asked me about tats and piercings(she has lower arm tats and a nose piercing) so i told her the high end places will probally want you to wear long sleeves and the dumps like sharky's probally wont care and again with the nose thing the high end places will probally want you to take it out and she said,well i won't work anywhere that makes me take my nose ring out,now i just wanted to smack her when i heard that,am i getting to old?

No, Rodney Miller was an import provided for by a headhunter group that did not do their homework as well as the RLS.

Well I must apologise for being such a whiner in my last post. I caught a terrible cold a few days ago and I guess I was just out of sorts about almost not getting back on island. Other than the stress of being put on standby. Normally I would have just tried to find another way home and not been such a baby about it.

After we arrived home and brought in all the luggage, played with the dogs we went to Chenay Bay for dinner and to let JJ get his crab fix. He caught quite a few crabs in a few minutes and then proceeded to show our waitress and other patrons his wonderful crabs.

Our yard looks like no one has live here for a few months. Everything is so overgrown. Normally a friend comes by every so often and keeps things trimmed back but I guess with all the rain he has been busy working on other lawns. It was nice to see how green everything is but I sure have a lot of work to do. I want to put in a big veggie garden but I am going back to states in October for the birth of my grandson so I am wondering if I should wait until I get back.

It is so nice to be home though I must admit that the humidity smacked me in the face when we landed. Though unusual for August, we had very low humidity in Virginia while I was there. I sure I will readjust in a couple of days but I am looking forward to those beautiful St. Croix winter days with low humidity. The ocean of course took my breath away. It is so incredibly beautiful here. Everytime I leave and come back it is like seeing all over again for the first time. I must say I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to live here. I am hoping to live here for a very long time but if life circumstances don't allow that I feel very fortunate to have had this experience. With that being said, I did have a rough time leaving the states this visit. I feel bad not staying to care for my mother and she has asked us to put her in assisted living. She is still at my brothers house for now but feels so isolated from other people and she is very lonely. Then there is the new grandson coming. I am going to hate not being around him as much as I want too. I told my daughter that she needed to move to the island for at least his first 10 years. He needs his grandmother to teach him to be a pirate and go on treasure hunts and to catch crabs and sing to the bats to eat the mosquito's. Such a dilemma. Well I won't worry about tomorrow because tomorrow will take care of itself.

Have a good day everyone.

Tammy

thank you Ronnie,you are a great font of STT info,and Tammy i'm so glad you're home!!!

wow i just got like 50 limes off my tree,it's so full of big fat limes because of all the rain the branches are touching the ground. time for limeade

I got off about 8 Friday night, went to EL Flamboyant and danced all night, then walked through town but not much was going on except at Club 54 so we continued on to Rebound to get something to eat then went home, Saturday morning woke up and went with Chris. He had to install some security camera for someone. Picked up some food from Cool Out Bar then went home...ate then went to work. Got off around midnight ran home showered and back out, hung out at Parrot's Cove and Bongo's...then made our usual early morning stop at Rebound for food then home...Just got dressed for work and I'm about the head out the door...so that was our weekend...Melissa

We went to breakfast at Chicken Charlies midmorning. Gave me heartburn. I planned to spend the day in the yard after unpacking but this cold or what ever I have is kicking my butt. I did manage to go out and check on the fruit trees and some of the flower beds. I have about 8or 9 small limes, little green tangerines about the size of a half dollar, 2 or 3 tiny green oranges and a few large lemons ready to ripen. The trees are not producing very much fruit so I am not sure what to do about that. I have only had them in the ground for a year so maybe next year I will have more. The grapefruit has not produced anything. Not even flowers. I would like to cut the grass and weed the beds but I have no energy so I will spend the day unpacking and getting JJ ready to go to school tomorrow. His first day of kindergarten. He is so excited but I as usual hate giving him to someone else for 8 hours a day. It is nice to have a break but I always wonder what he is doing all day and if he is ok.

Ric and Terry had a dive date at N 2 the Blue this morning so I headed over to Sandcastles early, about 10. Got my usual spot under the tree and went out to snorkel. The water in the west was warm and calm. Back to the chaise to read and doze. Very few people on the beach this eary on Sunday. Ric, Terry and Annie came by at about 1 and by that time things were picking up. We went over and had brunch and visited for a while. Everyone else went home and I went back to my chair. By this time the beach north of me was pretty full and the DJs had the mucic cranked up. It was a fun contract to earlier. Read for anither hour and then home for showers and naps.

The northshore is having a potluck this evening at Sylvies for a couple who are moving to Key West.

All in all a pleasant Sunday.

Wow... thanks you guys. I just felt like I got my needed island fix. Things alittle stressful around here lately, nothing too big, it's just nice to hear about the island and remember what it felt like to live there. (was 30 years ago, but that island feel stays with you if you loved it) Now when we visit and i get off the plane it's like I can take a really deep relaxing breath again. I'm home!

Roadrunner-- All good choices!! I read Don't Stop the Carnival back in 1970 and it was still very relevant-- even to a 16 year old! Have you read the Blanchard's '' A Trip To The Beach"?

PS-- just wondering if anyone knows: last April when we were there my husband and I found a 'private' road just up the road from the old Grapetree hotel beach that had two or three rental houses on it. Only one rented and we had the whole beautiful beach to ourselves. As we were walking it we started to notice small squarish jellyfish being pushed up on shore. About 2'' by 2'' or so. I've personally never seen these while on any beach there even though maybe I've just been lucky. Are they harmless? We thought about renting one of those houses next time, but not if those jelly fish are common there (and harmful).

Paula