Vicki Hamilton

My girlfriend’s very first movie line is, “Well, hello ! I’ve been waiting for you to call all day.” LOL

We have a 4 day convention in Nashville this week, so I’m driving up there tonight. The convention was going to be at the Opryland hotel, but it got flooded in May when Nashville had that terrible time with the Cumberland River flooding the downtown and hundreds of homes and businesses along the river. So we are having the convention at the Renaissance Hotel instead.

The best part is that I will get to see one of my college friends while I’m there. Alexa works in the Nashville suburbs and is going to drive downtown to meet me for lunch on Friday. I wish we had more time together, but this convention is a pretty full schedule.

Well, I’ve discovered Facebook. I guess I’m not an early adaptor, as I heard about it a long time ago but didn’t feel the need to sign up until just recently. Now that I am on board, I love it! I have found al ot of people from previous jobs, high school – even summer camp as a teen. It’s great to reconnect with all this cool people from my past and find out what they are doing now.

This is a shout out to my friend, Jenny Corbett. We used to live in the same neighborhood and although she is a little older than me, I remember a lot about her and her family. I would love to gt together with her and talk about the good old days. So, maybe putting that in writing here on my blog will reinforce my level of commitment to make that happen!

I’m headed for Nashville this afternoon for the Tin Pan South festival. This is the week that Nashville honors the songwriters. There are shows all over town at all the different kinds of show venues for gatherings of all the great and the new songwriters.

I have an all access pass, so I can go to any show that I want. This is going to be so much fun! Plus I get to see one of my Facebook friends, Wendy, while I’m in town. This is going to be a great week!

My darling neighbor is Evelyn Dewars. I have known Miss Evelyn for probably 20 plus years. She has always been next door as long as I can remember. so imagine my surprise when we bumped into each other at the gas station and she mentioned something in her blog. I didn’t eve know she was writing a blog! So I thought it would be nice to mention Miss Evelyn in my blog and see if she likes that.

One of my girlfriends is expecting a baby in August and I want to buy her some baby gifts. It is getting harder and harder to find unique baby gifts that will be useful and appreciated. But I am still searching.

Jenny started writing a blog and although it is not a day by day accounting of her pregnancy, it is a nice journal that she will be able to look back on and read, years down the road. I think that is really cool. I hope she keeps writing and adds some pictures of the baby after she is born. I think you can even export everything you’ve written and print it out as a scrapbook or diary. That would be unique!

The kids are all talking about a new game and cartoon series called Bakugan. I don’t know much about it, but the cartoons are the Japanese anime style cartoon and seem to be entertaining with an ongoing storyline of “right is might.” What I like is that the heroes include some girl characters, although they have an annoying way of crying a lot.