Alaskanforgetmenot

 My beautiful niece Vanessa with her mother Sara.  Vanessa playing volleyball in school.  Vanessa working in a "Gentleman's Club" in Portland, Oregon.  She was bragging that she made $600 in one evening working as a stripper.  The men pictured look like whoremongers to me but a rap singers I guess.  She thinks working as a stripper is a pretty good occupation I guess taking her clothes off for a bunch of whoremonging men. 

I love Valentine's Day.  I don't know why.  Maybe because February is my birthday month or the cute little valentine bears?   Or perhaps the romantic poems and movies about valentines?  I remember years ago I dated someone named Bill Dobrinz in Washington State.  He worked in a restaurant and once called me to come to see him.  He'd gotten me a dozen red carnations for valentines.  How sweet can you get?  And when I went with Sidney Cates in Alaska he was always buying me flowers and sweets on valentines.  And then there was the visiting teacher I had in Anchorage who "hearted" my door and left me a pretty pink carnation by the door.  How sweet can you get you know?

Yesterday I went to walmart to do a little shopping.  I've been using those handicap carts for sometime now because of old back & knee injuries plus I've been sick with the flu for sometime.  I am not nearly as heavy as these poor ladies and some black kid walked by and called me a fat woman.  I almost called him a "nigger" with an attitude problem, but two wrongs don't make a right.

My mother loved Tom Jones!  I love singing this to my cat Sissy Marie.  She looks at me like I'm half crazy though and probably thinking----"Oh pleaseeee!" 

Well a New Year is here and can't believe another year is upon us.  I had a pretty nice Christmas this year and was given many gifts I didn't expect.  Such as a blouse and cookies left on my doorstep from "Santa Claus" and two books by Brother Pontius "Visions of Glory" and a book he'd written before he died of cancer in December 2012.  And the meat.  This was from my home-teacher and his wife.  Brother Rich has been so good to me and his wife too.  Left a bunch of food on my porch this past year too.  I feel blessed to be part of the LDS church.  The Lord does watch out over his sheep in these last days.  Sissy is doing fine and is fat and sassy.  I don't think I could love a cat more than I do this one. My family have kind of forgotten me and sometimes it really hurts.  My sister Carolyn had Open Heart Surgery in November and I guess it was pretty serious.  It took about 5 hours for the surgery but she is still with us....

Janis  & Karl Boise Temple Deborah, Carolyn, Janis three sisters at Boise temple

I was able to visit family in Oregon & Washington this past September.  My sisters Carolyn and Janis and her husband Karl came for a visit to Boise.  We went through the Boise temple visited Mt Home where mom lived as a little girl.  We stopped in Baker City and spent the night and went through a Pioneer museum & got lost outside of Pendleton, Oregon.  It was a fun trip.  I got to see family I hadn't seen in almost 10 years.