What is a sweat lodge?  Never heard of that...lol

It's a ceremony done in an enclosed tent like thing with rocks in a fire pit in the middle.  Water is poured over the rocks to make steam.  Fasting is done for 12 hours before lodge.  Native songs are sung, the pipe is smoked and prayers are made.  It is for clensing the body and mind and giving prayers to people in your life, animals, the earth and nature.  It is a sacred thing and invitation only.  And not an easy invitation to get........lol  Once again, no drugs or alchohol allowed.....

Oh Mason........do you reeeeeeeaaaaaaaaly want to know the answer to that......lol

I was a member of another forum and those in 'higher places' (mods) didn't like me there.  My views were different than theirs.  They told me to "go find another forum" because I wasn't wanted there.  They eventually banned me once I refused to succumb to their need of having me keep my opinions to myself. 

Instead of 'finding another forum', I just built my own.....lol.  There have been forum wars ever since (with the exception of the last week)...lol

Lots of members here came from that forum as well.  Some still post there.  It is a great site, just has some of the wrong people running it.

There are alot of headaches that come with running a forum.  I've had some really bad days on here, but in the end it is worth it.  I love being able to give people a place to chat and discuss things.  I am all about the internet.......thats where I met my husband...lol.

If we ever reach like a thousand members.....I'm just gonna hide and let the mods deal with it though....lol j/k.

Well a little ditty about me,

 I come from an Irish father and an English mom. Born in 63, the year the wars started between ireland and England. At least over a particular peice of land. My father could not get a job in England, just because of his last name. So thru alot, my parents divorced and we all ended up in California agian. Though all of this happened I was tooooo little to remember. We used to go to the Irish faires yearly. It was alot of fun. To this day I get sort of sad when I hear Irish music. In my heart, I feel like I am missing something great. Both from england and Ireland.

I've been in California ever since.

twinkletoes wrote:

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 Puttin510 wrote: We used to go to the Irish faires yearly. It was alot of fun. To this day I get sort of sad when I hear Irish music. In my heart, I feel like I am missing something great. Both from england and Ireland. thats a real shame .. have you ever thought of taking a trip back to get back to your roots? Ireland = Guiness = my partener a farmer works for Lord Ivor who is the heir of the Guiness company but has got into farming .. lovely bloke, you wouldnt know he was in the top 5 richest blokes in the u.k ~ Sorry Puttin just saw a connection lol alittle/long ditty about me an my life im 23 and and was born in taplow Buckinghamshire. my birth father was a Tree-surgeon and my mum was a private gardener for the lord and Lady of the estate. I spent hours of my childhood playing with there kids and remeber it fondly and wish i could go back.. not neccesarily to see any of them but just to revisit some other memories of the area. I  remeber Big Country Filming a video for one of their songs and watching them talk in the living room an smoking~ they stayed out our house as they were just starting out an were pretty un known and were not mega-rich to have trailers etc.     My mum and 'dad'  ended up getting divorced and we moved to suffolk i never saw my real dad again ~ but i didnt care an never have because of thing that had happened.Well my mum remarried a great man who feels like my biological father whom i love an adore I went to college and trained in childcare .. met a man there got married to young and with false hopes of what a marriage was about .. we ended up great friends in the end not in love so we decided that enough was enough and moved on. I then moved back home which wasn't easy considering i was used to independance of my own home an later met michael an fell in love and we have been together ever since with a gorgeous addidiotion to the family Harvey our dobie .. got the internet .. and found this forum ~ and here i am and the happier for it  

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Twinkletoes:

Kewl!

We are touring Europe next year.  I can't wait.  I want to tour on a bicycle but noone else is interested. LOL!

Have you seen About a Boy with Hugh Grant. That movie is hilarious!  My mom loves that movie.

So cool Twink!

Puttin- Sounds like you need a trip to Ireland......hehehe  I'm Irish too...can i go?.......lol

Prettydobie-  We have a snow corn snake.  He is about a foot and a half, maybe two feet long now.  He's my son's.  I like him but i hate feeding him

Ansy, this is a really neat thread to start but I hesitate to participate.

Seems any time and EVERY time I respond to a thread like this I get stomped. Don't wanna deal with the headaches. Also any time I have discussed anything about me here it has only caused headaches.  

Oasis- I decided to become a hairdresser because everyone always told me that I did such a nice job with my own makeup and hair color and what not. Also, I didn't want to go to a "real college", I'm not the college type, so I thought 14 months in cosmo school would really be cool and it was, usually.lol

  Yeah!  Ansy is married to a funny ,goat loving guy!