diamondlynii's profile

I'm an Oilfield Brat so I've been to a lot of West Texas Places while growing up. Since then, I've visited a few cities I probably wouldn't have ever seen - all because my youngest daughter played on a travel softball team until she started college. Plenty of places left, tho, that I would like to see .. I especially would like to go to the Diamond Field in - is it Alabama? (Arkansas? heck.. you know where I mean, right?)... hmmm you know what they say- diamonds are a girl's best friend!

About me, eh? Well, let's see: I'm 61 and fixing to officially retire. I'm single, not my choice, but have moved on;  I try to treat people the way I want to be treated and kill with the kindness the ones I can't. I have friends that have been my friends for 20 years or more and will be till the day we/I die - thank God for good friends. They are our Angels here on Earth.

I'm pretty much a "what you see is what you get" person. I'm serious, sometimes too much; I like a good joke and I have a great sense of humor-when things are too serious or nasty, I tend to try to laugh at it or myself and loosen the tension-I do have a sarcastic wit-some people just don't get that life is toooo serious - toooo short --- so LIGHTEN UP for GOD's sake!

 I work hard (but I'm tired), I'm honest to a fault (but will tell a "little white lie" sometimes to save a friends' feelings); I pretty much lay my cards on the table, so to speak, and am outspoken and talk too much when I should be listening (can I help it if my brain runs ahead?).

I like myself as a person and I know (most of the time) who I am and where I am! Seriously, I don't want to grow old; I don't want to be alone but I'm not ready for a serious relationship-not yet but getting there; but I would like to make some new friends and open those horizons some. I would like to travel some and see places I haven't seen (I'd love to do it in an RV/Coach, where I could take my time, stay a while, then move on when ready).

My ideal place to live - in a cottage on a lake with a boat ramp and pier where I can fish at night when I can't sleep and answer to no one else if I DON'T WANT TO. - doesn't mean I wouldn't like to have company now and then... who knows where that road leads to? I've learned to never say "never". The hard way.

UPDATE: I now live in a small house by a LAKE.. YEAAAAA - not exactly how i envisioned it, but hey, it's a start. Things are improving - no job now for nearly 2 years - hanging on by a toenail, but hanging.. i now sell Avon - see the widget.. shop shop buy buy buy..

Wishing you all a happy summer!

 

 

Love to camp (I'm NOT a tent camper-sorry), fish, boating, do crafts (ceramics, watercolors, make windchimes) love to read, love to watch birds (keep a feeder in my back yard; love the hummers, too); fresh flowers - my hibiscus;

Environmental charities; SPCA; would like to form my own to help people who get laid off and can't find employment and are about to loose their homes, cars, or can't buy groceries or pay their utilities -having a hard time with this myself at the moment.

I'm kinda between on music right now. I listen to an oldies station; I like the older Country Music (love Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty) some Garth Brooks), Love Peter Frampton Live, The Doobie Brothers; I really like the old smooth music like Michael Bubble is bringing back. Whatever happened to Dino and Frank... miss their type music a lot - but don't tell my dad! That and the big bands is what I grew up on.. and really like hearing it today).

National Treasure (Nicholas Cage), Con Air (Nicholas Cage), The Pirate of the Carribean" Movies; RV with Robin Williams (OH MY GOSH..HYSTERICAL!), the original KING AND I with Yul Brenner, Any of the old John Wayne Westerns, Independence Day (with Will Smith), Funny Girl (love that movie), Sound of Music, - and so many more.

A lot of favorites - "Crown of Stars" series by Kate Elliott", love Robert Jordans "Wheel of Time" Series; enjoy Nora Roberts, the Stephanie Plum stories, gosh.. there isn't enough space here to continue on...

One of my own that I tell my daughter every single day, it seems - "Kill 'em with kindness - no matter how much you dislike them or they you" "Never let them know how you really feel". NEW: IT IS WHAT IT IS!

My family - my youngest daughter - My parents (just my dad now -we lost my mother in 2008) - my grandparents (all of whom have passed but are always in my heart) My best girl friends Cin and Donna, and my "other kid" - Roshan - all mean so much to me. Single and plan to stay that way!

I love my little dog, Charlie (I've posted his picture); I also have a bird (Corky) and a huge, monster cat named Connie. I've had to have my blessed Sheltie, Herbie and my blessed "Ole Man-Cat" Peabody, put to sleep because of Old Age and health issues they couldn't survive - nearly killed me and I miss them both to this day! UPDATE: Now have 3 dogs- a "Weenie dog"- named "COOPER" and I have "inherited" my daughters long haired mini "weenie" Zeus and of course Charlie....and a Tom Cat - Kit Kat (named by my dad)