Hey gang,

I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you guys that Seth and I are going to Gainesville to watch Antron race. I will be hanging out in Mike Ashley’s Matco Top Fuel dragster pits for the weekend. I am going to stroll around a bit as well and visit my friends in the ESPN trailer and some other friends like Bob Frey, Alan Reinhart, Mike Dunn, Lewis Bloom, and quite a few others I hope. I did receive a few messages from fans wondering if I’d be there, so I wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be chillin’ like a villain with my little brother and favorite Top Fuel racer, Antron Brown. No, he’s not actually my little brother, but he is my cousin-in-law, and he calls me sister sis, and I love him just like my brother! I am also going to visit Erica Enders and watch her race. She is such a sweet person, and I really want to see her do well. It would be so awesome if she won this weekend! I love her car too — it’s so cool! I’ve never been able t o really watch much of the races before, so this time I am going to soak it all up.

It will be really weird getting to wear regular clothes to the races instead of being in a uniform. It’s funny to me to see racers and crew people out of uniform. It’s just something we rarely ever see from each other. Race team members are at the track for so long, and we wear the same thing everyday. Well the same-looking thing, not actually the SAME thing — LOL! Even when we go out to dinner at the end of the day, everyone is still in uniform. Sometimes, I can’t even recognize some people unless they are in uniform. Well, I know it’s a funny thing for me to be thinking about, but this is the first time in 13 years that I get to actually watch the races and to dress like a girl the whole weekend. I mean no disrespect, but sometimes these uniforms just don’t feel very feminine, ya know? That’s why I loved my Bates Leathers so much last year. The girls at Bates really focused on designing a pair of leathers that were meant to be worn by a girl. Especially with all the bling that I added to them, they were really fun to race with.

The best part of the weekend is going to be when I go to visit my boy Andy. If you didn’t already know, I use to have a monkey. His name is Andy, and he now lives about 10 minutes from the Gainesville Raceway. He lives at Junglefriends with about 100 other monkeys. I haven’t seen him in 10 months! I miss him so much. He is actually the main reason that I chose the Gators to go to. What a great weekend it’s going to be for me. I get to see Andy AND the races. I am more excited than I thought I would be.

WOW!!! A transformer just blew right outside of my house. Everything went black. I am on my laptop, so it kicked over to battery and the screen is the only light on in the house. It’s late, so we can’t see a thing. I have to light some candles.

Ok, I’m back. Fortunately, we remain prepared for hurricanes around here, so I have battery-powered lanterns and LOTS of candles. I did buy a Guardian generator after the last storm, but as luck would have it, we still haven’t had it installed. I can hear Seth running around tending to the aquariums. This is NOT good. We now have about 800 gallons of aquariums here with thousands of dollars worth of fish and coral that don’t take kindly to power outages. Seth did pour the slab the other day for the generator, so I bet this will be the push we needed to get it installed. I just hope it doesn’t happen while we are in Gainesville.

Speaking of the aquariums, I mentioned in my last blog that we were going to start a coral business. Well things are looking good so far. It is called Coral Fever, and instead of just dealing with corals, we kinda bumped into another deal. While we were getting our business license, we met a lady whose son owns a restaurant with an aquarium in it. They lost everything in the aquarium during the last storm here. That happened to so many people around here. Anyway, we went to meet him the other day and talked to him about getting his aquarium up and running again and also about doing the maintenance to keep it looking nice. So after thinking about it, it just seemed natural since Seth loves to care for these aquariums. We are going to try to build a little business to sell fish, corals and supplies but also to do aquarium maintenance. I think that more people would have aquariums if they had someone to help them to keep them up. They are so beautiful and relaxing to look at, but boy oh boy, are they a lot of work! Fortunately for me, I just feed the fish and enjoy the view. Well now I will be running the business side of Coral Fever, so I guess I have to work some, too. So if you guys are into aquariums, check us out at www.coralfever.com. I am building the site right now, so it’s under construction, but I’ll be getting more things up a soon as possible.

I also mentioned in my last blog that I’ve been entering my photos in some contests. Well I won the last one I entered. It was for the Louisiana Reef Club’s Web site. You can see my winning photo at www.lareefclub.com — It’s on the homepage. The contest was for pic of the month. No prize or anything, but I WON!!!! It was funny because I kept checking the votes to see how I was doing, and every time I would take the lead, I would get so excited. Seth would say, “Why are you so excited about this little contest? It’s not like you win anything.” I said, “ARE YOU CRAZY? If you win, that means YOU WIN!!!!!” After I said that, I realized that I am sick with the competitive spirit. I mean, really. It is just a little picture of the month contest that is voted on by the members of the site, and here I am nervous to the core wanting to win so badly. I was thinking that as I grew older that the spirit to compete would die, but it hasn’t even begun to dim yet. When I compete at something, I want to WIN!! I even hurt a shoulder muscle recently playing Wii tennis cause I was trying so hard to win. But if you think that is funny listen to this!

My brother cracked his ribs while playing the Wii bowling game! Ha, Ha, Ha! Now that is a competitive spirit! The crazy man was bowling so hard that he slipped and fell to the ground with his elbow between his ribs and the floor and “CRACK.” He tried to get up and brush off the pain hoping that no one really noticed, but after a couple days of having trouble breathing, he got an X-ray and, voila, crack ribs. I am sorry Rickie, but that is hilarious — You crack your ribs playing Wii, I’m never going to let you live that one down brother!

I am working on something pretty exciting concerning my future in racing, but I can’t tell you just yet. I just wanted to plant that seed for the time being. I have a meeting planned in Gainesville to find out more about it, and hopefully when I get back, I will be able to tell you what it is. So wish me luck!

That’s it for now gang. Oh, I forgot, Mardi Gras was a couple of weeks ago. We had a blast as usual. I posted a couple pics for you. Last but hopefully not least, here’s Boudreaux …

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, California scientists dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, headlines in the Los Angeles Times newspaper read: ‘California archaeologists have found traces of 200-year-old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.’

One week later, “The Thibodaux Gazette,” a local newspaper in Thibodaux, LA, reported the following: ‘After digging as deep as 30 feet in a cane field near Houma, Boudreaux, a self taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Boudreaux has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Louisiana had already gone wireless.’