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About Ireland �

Remember how Mom said that Patrick had that castle built for me and that I thought he was crazy for doing it? I just remembered that when Mom said that my reaction was something akin to - �Why this is ridiculous! Why you�re a foolish man indeed!� � I could hear myself saying that in an Irish accent. Lol! I had forgotten all about that.

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Annabelle and Ireland:

Oh boy�. I have another coincidence for you. �You�ve Got Mail� is on tv, so I decided to take off my makeup and then go downstairs to make a bowl of ice cream that I can eat while watching the movie. Well, on my way downstairs I heard Tom Hank�s character shout, �Hello, Annabelle!� Lol!

Now, if I hear that name again soon� then I'll KNOW that that was my name.

Also, I receive a lot of spam e-mail but today one of them was an �Experience Ireland� email. Lol! That�s the first time I�ve ever received that one.

And this might be nothing, but a couple weeks ago I couldn�t sleep. I just wasn�t tired and so I got hooked on watching �Far and Away,� which I�d never seen before. (I missed the beginning of the movie). I stayed up until like 2 am to watch that movie� set in Ireland by the way.

Roosters?!

By the way, when I was looking for something to get your mom to include in the package, I came across these plates that you hang on the wall and they had roosters on them. (I wasn't thinking of getting them for your mom- I just happened to see them) and they caught my attention because I was also looking for something to put on a bare spot in my kitchen and so I decided that I absolutely loved those plates so I bought 2 of them. Well when I got home I realized that I hate roosters. lol. So now I have 2 plates hanging on the wall with roosters on them. Anyhow, the point of this is that I later thought that maybe your mom likes roosters and that's why I felt compelled to buy them? I don't know but something did because I never would've bought those on my own. I can't stand roosters but I freaking bought not one but TWO of the stupid things and now they are on my kitchen wall. lol. Oh and when I was shopping for things to put in your package, I did feel like there was a presence with me helping me pick things out, so maybe it was Patrick.

Oh my God. Lol! Mom and I are ALWAYS making a joke about roosters in kitchens. My brother HATES them and he is always telling us that we have too many roosters in our kitchen. (We only have one fancy glass �window� picture with a rooster, a little canister and a fancy iron pot rack with roosters� and to my brother that�s extreme. Lol!) So whenever Mom and I are at the store and we see statues of roosters, etc. we always say we�re going to buy it just to tick my brother off. Lol! I think that�s so funny. Maybe Patrick impressed you with that. You did say he�s really good at impressing things upon people. Sort of like mind control. (Reminds me of the Phantom. Lol!)

Patrick/Rampant Lion

And also, the other day I was in Walmart and I was waiting in line to pay for my stuff and there was a mom in front of me and all of a sudden she turns around and yells "PATRICK!!!!!!!!!!" REALLY loudly! Scared the crap out of me! LOL! I just thought that was funny. About a couple hours after that I was driving and a truck passed me and on the back was a paining of what looked like a lion from a Scottish crest or something and underneath it, it said "The Scottish Lion". I thought that was weird too. lol

Another impression? (Through music)

I woke early this morning, and so around 9 o� clock I decided to work on my story. I often listen to music while editing or writing, and this morning I decided to put in the cd of a song my brother composed over his computer when he was 16. It�s called �Kingdom Skies,� and has a very medieval feel to it. It�s like the song is telling a very old story. My niece used to call it �The Beauty and the Beast song.� Lol!

It AMAZES me that my brother wrote this on his own when he was so young. He doesn�t even read music and wrote it all by ear/trial and error. Anyway� when I heard that song that�s when I pretty much decided to definitely start writing. I had notes written down, but never actually sat down at the computer and started writing scenes.

Anyhow�. listening to �Kingdom Skies� got me thinking about how you said that Patrick is very good at �impressing� people. I often wonder if Patrick somehow impressed/influenced my brother to write that song; hence it�s medieval/fairytale-ish quality. And in doing so, he knew that my hearing that song� which was sooo creative and really did tell a story� would catapult me into the writing. Light a fire under my arse, if you will.