Oh Thank God For Friday's!!!

Hey everyone! Happy Friday! Hope everyone is out there having a good mail day. I am not sure what the mailman bought me hopefully he bought me a million dollar check and no bills! HA! A girl can wish can't she?! I am looking foward to the weekend although I will be chillaxin at the house! (chillaxin- to rest peacefully at home with no disturbances) The weatherman says its going to be a chilly this weekend in Atlanta but I don't know how much I believe him its been almost 70 degrees thursday and today. When I got up this morning at 5:45 am to get ready for work I promise you it was already 68 degrees! I woke up and went to take the dog outside and I said to myself "you have got to be kidding me"!

Well I don't plan on doing much this weekend. I am going to go to a co-workers son baseball game. Not a fan but I will go support the kiddies. Hopefully it will be as pretty as it was on Wednesday and Thursday! What's going on in you all's neck of the woods?

I have not recieved that much mail this week just a couple of things from swap bot and one letter from sendsomething.net. Becky sent me an envie! I recieved a home made post card almost 2 weeks ago. So I have been punished by the mail gods for being so lazy in my mailings...but thats okay I am going to continue writing! Well you guys have a good, safe, blessed weekend!

SMOOCHIES!

Heidi aka. Lolastar!

Good Morning Everyone! Happy Wednesday! Well I am back for like the fourth time while doing my blog. I haven't even been blogging long but Im back! I moved to my new place everything is unpacked and I am ready to get back to my normal everyday routine! My new year has been off to a okay start. I moved at the beginning of the year and I must say I will never ever ever for the rest of my days ever move at the beginning of the year ever again! However I love my new place! I think that I am excited at the fact that I don't have carpet! Carpet is not my friend! I have a dog and where I stayed before the grass was kinda non existant becuase the trees hung so that it did not let sunlight in so they had mulch down however when it rained it just was a mess on top of mess and the carpet was super light! HOWEVER, the new place has wooded floors **GRABBING SWIFTER JET** yes!! Plus I have the best landlord well hes the best right now!

I have recieved some very nice mail over the holiday and new year! Limner sent the best Christmas gift ever first of all I loved how she packaged it I did not even want to open it! I must say since beginning to pen pal I have gained some lovely pen friends! I just want to thank everyone who has taken the time to write or has read my blog! Its much appreciated it! Well I am still catching up on mail I think its a non ending process but be patient with me! **WINK**
You all have a great Wednesday!

Heidi AKA Lola Star...

New Year

It's the New Year!! Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays! I sure did. I have been on the go non stop since November and after this weekend I will officially be thru with runningt he streets for awhile. This week I am relocating..YES I am moving to a new apartment. I am so looking foward to it!

I am also looking foward to just starting afresh. I have always looked at the New Years as a new clean slate. Sad to say I never make it thru my resolutions. But hey show me someone who does. This year i'ma make a resolution to keep my resolutions. **SHRUGS**....

I do however have some Pen Pal goals/resolution for the year

1. 1 week turnaround.

2. Blog at least 2 a week.

3. Make blog a little more interactive/intresting

Those are the only 23becuase I haven't been doing neither lately. Life when it gets going it really gets going. Well thats all for know folks! Happy New Year!

Before I go...Let me leave you all with something!

"WELCOME TO FLIGHT 2012"

Welcome to flight number 2012.
We are prepared for take off into the new year.
Please make sure that your attitude and blessings are secure and locked in an upright position.
All self-destructive devices should be turned off at this time.
Should we lose altitude under pressure during our flight, reach up an pull down a prayer, prayers will be automatically activated by faith.
Once your faith is fully activated you can assist other passengers.
There will be no baggage allowed on this flight. The captain has cleared us for take off.
Destination greatness.
Enjoy your flight.

Time to start afresh...

Hey everyone! I know I have been missing in action. I have been around. As you all know I was gone to Las Vegas when I came back I was in the last two weeks of class and I had finals and papers due so something had to take the background. My blog and letters got behind. I am so sorry and I should be caught up by the end of this week. I am actually writing you all from Florida!! YAY!! I am on my week long vacation. My birthday was this past Sunday and I turned 31. I am feeling some kind of way. Don't get me wrong I thank God for everyday that he gives me here, but I had imagined something so different than where I am at right now. I know everything happens in his time and not ours but I am trying to patiently wait until it does..well enough of the pity party.

How has everyone been??? I absolutly LOVED LAS VEGAS!! I had wrote a blog on it but when I went to publish it somehow it got erased. I was devastated and didn't rewrite it..lol. We stayed at the Tropicana Hotel it was right across from the MGM Grand! Everything was so lovely and I won in all about $1000 dollars! The last night I was there we went to Las Vegas Hilton. It was at the Hilton I won almost $800 dollars. After leaving the Hilton (I was grinning from ear to ear) we went to Bally's to eat dinner. After dinner as we were waiting for one of our friends to use the restroom I put a $20 bill in the slot machine and hit for $236 dollars...YAY! When I say you couldn't tell me anything! You couldn't tell be nothing bout nothing (like my dad says0..lol I came back home with some new friends and a pocket full of money!

Now I'm in Tampa for my vacation from work. This is where I grew up at. It was after high school that I moved to Georgia. I am enjoying my break from work and the hustle and bustle of Atlanta so far. However by the end of the week I am sure I will be ready to get back to my bed! Right now though I'm enjoying mom and grandma! Well you all have a great week! Talk to you soon!

Heidi

VIVA LAS VEGAS!

Happy Mailbox..

Hey everyone!! Happy Monday! Hope all is enjoying your day. I have had a pretty hetic end of October and hectic month of November. The last weekend of October I went out of town to my alma mater for homecoming, then I went out of town this past weekend, and on Thursday I am leaving for VEGAS BABY!!!! I am so excited becuase I have never been anywhere past the state of Louisiana and this is my first plane ride. Please wish me luck! Before leaving I am going to go to the post office and stock up on stamps and postcard stamps. So i can write all of you all or at the very least drop a post card in the mail. I want to do that my first night there. I'm soooo excited.

Let me tell you all my mailbox has been busting at the seams. I have received all the love and then some. So here are some pictures. I had to take them with my cell phone. I have for whatever reason misplaced my camara which hurts my feelings becuase I need it for my trip to Vegas. But here are all the goodies I have gottenI have gotten more than this but I had this mail on me to post. I love the post card that Limner sent me! Then I got a card/letter from a pen pal her name is Heidi too! Then one from Austrailia and Russia! I'm on a ball yall!

If you turn your head sideways you can see all the nice mail I received from Bev!

We were destined to be snail mail buddies. Bev got my name twice in a swap and plus she had already written me! awwwwwww.....

Movin on. This is a card that I got from my pen pal in west sacremento, california. Hands down its the best card I have gotten so far. I absolutly love it and whenever my friends ask me about how pen palling is going I pull out this card and show them and of course all the other lovely mail I have recieved too. You all didn't tell me pen palling was this fun!

Well I am to end here with a big Thank you from my mailbox to yours.! Enjoy your week!

Heidi aka Lolastar

HAT'S OFF TO YOU ALBANY STATE...

Since I usually blog about mail or pen palling. I have decided to not only dedicate this blog to just mail but everything not mail. Give you all an insight into life here in the Big city, NO not New York, But Atlanta,Ga and an insight into my personal life (not to personal) . So here goes: (I preface this as saying I hope NO one takes any offense to this blog, when race is involved you have to really careful.) This blog is dedicated to my alma mater Albany State University

Here in the south WE LOVE FOOTBALL. I am sure this is the case with everyone all across the country but down here in the south, its just something about fall and football that makes everything right with life. If you don't know, now you know, I am black. (not that is matters) I attended a HBCU in Albany, Georgia by the name of Albany State University. For those of you don't know an HBCU is a historically black college university. ASU is located in Albany,Georgia which was one of the key cities in the Civil Rights movement it was here that Martin Luther King went to jail. So as you can already probabaly imagine this city is filled with history, not all good but not all bad either. Albany State had meager beginnings first starting as a bible institue, then it turned into a teacher and agriculture training college, then 1943 became Albany State College, after enrollment started to increase greatly each year it reached University status. 1996 was the year it bacame Albany State University. To all alumni like my grandma who raised me, myself, and others this was a dream come true it was everything I imagined. It was here that I learned my potential. As a matter of fact our motto is POTENTIAL REALIZED (take a moment a reflect on those two words). Attending a historically black school was diffrent. It was momentous. The experience was life changing, it was an experience I will not soon forget. It was where for breakfest they served fish and grits, Sunday dinner consisted of collard greens and chitlins.(your laughing but i'm tellin the truth and if you don't know what chitlins are look it up). This is where I became a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta, Sorority Inc. I graduate December 13th, 2003 with the people who I came to love and look at as family, a united front of talented young african americans who wore their potential as a badge of honor.

Every year is the annual homecoming festivites. This is joyous occasion uniting all classmates young and old. This weekend is homecoming. I wish I could just tuck all my pen pals and those who read my blog into my purse and take you all with me. Since I can't you all will have to settle for pictures which does the event absolutly no justice what so ever. This weekend I will be traveling to the small city in South Georgia to reminesce on all the good times. This time of year is to BEAUTIFUL for words to even describe it. I have been excited all week. Mentally i'm already there unfortunatly my body is physically still in Atlanta. This time tomorrow I will gas up the little toot boot (my nickname for my car) put the dog in the back seat and going back to where it all started! I will make sure I take plenty of pictures to show you all.

So I hope you all are planning a happy fun filled weekend. I can't wait to come back and tell all of you all about it.

On to the mail news:

I've had a good mail week I must say. Thanks to all have sent me mail. I'm going off the top of my head so if you sent me a letter and I didn't mention you please forgive me. Bev Sykes Thanks for all three letters we must be destined to be pen pals since you got me two times in both swaps. Kimi..Thanks for the love! Emily from Canada and Melissa thanks for the postcard. I will be sending out all mail that I owe out tomorrow because I doubt I will be doing any writing this weekend! Happy weekend and talk to everyone really soon!

Heidi