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2 days until my DAYTONA BEACH VACATION!!

So me my mom (tinarenee) and my grandma a.k.a nana r goin to the truck races tomorrow, Saturday June 28!!!! It’s a nite race and we go every year. Its at the Memphis Motorsports Speedway. We have a tent and we usually cook out. We bring bandanas, a cooler and those handphone thingy majiggs don’t remember what there called. I have a blast and we have the same seats every the row at the very top of a section so all I have to do is climb backwards over the seat to go pee. /the concessions have the BEST funnel cakes!!!! Last year Jack Spragg won!! He drives or did drive for Conway. (were my dad works) We also got to a bush race in October! Usually the day before my moms birthday. I love goin to the races except for parking!! It takes FOREVER to get out of there I promise u! So next year if u get a chance u should come to one!!!!!!!

On June 7, I had the chance to attend a Vince Neil concert in Newport, AR. Ironically, I was on the last few chapters of The Dirt, so I considered it apropos to tag along with some friends and check it out. (Just noticed on Vince’s site - there is talk of making the book into a feature film!)

The annual music fest is held at Jacksonport State Park, at the water’s edge (White River). Can’t say I’d ever heard of it before, but it seemed a pretty good deal - advance tickets were only $7.

Our spot on the beach was a good distance from the stage so I couldn’t completely see how bad or good years had been to Vince. (I must interject, I was a complete Motley Crue freak back in the day. I have a copy of their EP “Too Fast for Love”. I have fond memories of the “Theatre of Pain” and “Girls, Girls, Girls” tours.)

Crue’s latest tour starts in July, so evidently Vince was touring around here and there, drumming up some interest for it. I was delighted that most of the songs played were Crue - there were a couple of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath tunes tossed in. Since the Music Fest was a family affair, Vince kindly censored himself - no ‘F’ bombs that night.

Backing him up were Dana Strum (bass) and Jeff Blando (guitar) of Slaughter and Zoltan Chaney on drums. That Zoltan was a maniac! The guy was like a flea on speed behind the drum kit!

I was on cloud nine when they played “Don’t Go Away Mad”, which has some personal meaning to me. Working up to the final song, Vince asked the crowd, “How many of you remember this one?!” before the intro licks to “Looks that Kill” blared into the night air. All us old folks stood up with our fists in the air and screamed.

I urge anyone who was/is a Motley Crue fan or is interested in 80’s hair band music to check out “The Dirt’. You’ll be surprised to know that the most *normal* person in the band is Tommy. Nikki has been my love since I first heard “Live Wire”… until I started this book. Love went to hate, then disgust, then pity - by the final pages I had decided to buy his autobiography.

At 37, you’d think I’d be responsible enough to know not to count my chickens before they hatched.

*Sigh* Evidently not.

Hubs and I were looking for our Stimulus Payment on Friday, direct deposited into the bank account -ready to S-P-E-N-D.

*crickets chirping. tumbleweeds blowing across the great emptiness that is our bank account*

I spent approx. 45 minutes on hold to the IRS (Stimulus Payment Hotline 1-866-234-2942). While listening to the nutcracker music over and over, I surfed the net looking for information. Based on the IRS website and other news sources, you will receive your payment as a paper check if:

1. you filed your return through a rapid refund company.
2. you paid for your tax return filing fee with your return $$$ (turbotax).
3. you filed your return after April 15.

Other interesting news included the fact that 15,000 direct deposits went to the wrong bank accounts.

Here’s a new one I haven’t seen listed anywhere else on the net yet.

If you chose to have your 2007 refund amount split between two accounts when direct deposited, you will be getting a paper check. (Sounds a little like Jeff Foxworthy - if you blahblahblah, you might be a redneck getting a paper check.)

The gentleman I spoke to at the IRS was courteous and patient. Although, he wouldn’t have had to talk to me if the IRS had listed this as a reason on their FAQs!

Later… T