BrittanniaRain

HIIPPIE  QUIZ:  HOW HIP IS  YOUR INNER HIPPIE?

WHICH ONE DOES NOT BELONG?
A - Tree Huggers
B - Butt Huggers
C - Hip Huggers

WHICH BAND DID NOT PLAY AT WOODSTOCK?
A - Led Zeppelin
B - Jefferson Airplane
C - Canned Heat

WHAT WOULD  A HIPPIE NEVER WEAR AROUND THEIR NECK?
A - Love  Beads
B - Dog Tags
C - Ankh Symbol

FINISH THIS FAMOUS HIPPIE PHRASE: "TUNE IN, TURN ON AND.......
A - Light Up
B - Be Free
C - Drop Out

Thats it!  So how did you do?

damn, I thought i was going to have to take a class on how to navigate writing in my journal,   they have changed it up a bit.   Sometimes too many choices is not a good thing.   Like journal entries and donut shop selections.
Its one of those nights that I cannot seem to stay asleep..  So here it is, 4AM  in the morning  and I have given in,  made coffee  and settled in with my first cup of the morning.
I've been doing quite a bit of research on family history lately.  Got a subscription to ancestry.com.  And although i think its a bit pricey, the information available to you can be remarkable.  You can turn up some of the most surprising things.
For instance:  After doing a DNA spit kit for 23and me,  I discovered that i am about 71% northern european, irish,  a bit scandanavian,  a teesny bit south asian,  2.7% neanderthal....(really..for true).  and 1.7% native american.   The european and irish didnt surprise me.  Looking in the mirror and my grandparents surnames  kind of validated that one.  But,  the native american thing  I didnt see coming.  Curious as to where i got that from I began to ask questions and do research......and hit brick wall after brick wall.  OH these ancestry websites will dangle bits  of temptation and information at you...just enough to let  you know that THEY have some of that info but you cannot have it unless you buy a subscription .....so months go by...and my obstinancy turns to  defeat and kicking and screaming I go ahead and purchase a membership to ancestry.com.
As for the native american connection i assumed it must have come from my maternal grandfathers family.  Although his surname is Maxwell whose scottish ancestor emigrated to America around 1740,  my grandfather was born and lived in LeFlore County Oklahoma which is in the heart of the Choctaw Nation.  It turns out that his mother Jane Hull's mother was Sarah Dodson who is a descendent of some guy named Chief Joseph RainCrow.  A minor native american chief,  I did the math on what percent of native american i have gotten from just this one ancestor  and it turns out to be a miniscule 1/ 128th..which means my mom was 1/64th, my grandfather was 1/32nd, his mother was 1/16th  her mother sarah was 1/8th, sarahs dad was 1/4th which made him the grandson of Joseph Raincrow. and son of Josephs daughter Piolly Raincrow Dodson.l  Pretty cool huh?   But, that would not add up to be my 1.7%...so there is more somewhere back there in time.   Waiting for me to find it.   But I did run into more interesting stories and mysterys  in my research.  Which i will share with you all soon.

So....I have moved into a little one bedroom cottage on the edge of downtown with my boyfriend.  (hate that word...boyfriend.  One would think there would be a better more realistic word  to replace 'boyfriend' with when you're over 40.  I mean its been several decades since he has been a boy....)  ANYWAYS..... its cute. cozy.  has lots of potential.  Built in probably the 1940's  which means real walls (plaster not sheet rock),  higher ceilings with cupboards that reach all the way to the top, built in drawers  for clothing and stuff and all kinds of cubby holes, shelves  and such that you dont see in modern places anymore.  Like a shelf built right into the wall just big enough for a telephone.  how quaint right?  I pictuire the phone my grandmother used to have....a big black  weapons grade heavy affair  with a huge dial right in the middle that made a ch..ch..ch...noise when you dialed one of the numbers.  this  phone did not do one single solitary thing except make and recieve phone calls....anyway i can picture that old dinosaur right on this phone cubby  in my cottatge living room.    lol.
My new place also has an attic that hasnt seen human contact in years....I know right?  I need a ladder.  a good flashlight,  some bug spray and some medicinal quality weed from the pot store and just make a day of it up there....

I am the worlds worst when it comes to giving thank you and your welcome responses.  Please dont take it personal.  I know its a horrible habit i need to overcome.  So to all of those whom I owe it to;  here is a big Thank You for the comments and faves and watches and a big  Your Welcome  to those who have thanked me for faves and other things.
I do apppreciate and love you all.

I have been procrastinating about this for too long.  I mean to get around to updating my journal but get busy with something else or get sidetracked looking at deviations .
So....I will be back shortly to do this very thing....right now i have to go throw some laundry into the wash....