Everglades Stage	Sunset Stage	Sunrise Stage	Swamp Tent	Florida Native Stage
4:00 PM			Theresa Andersson (4:00 - 5:00)
				Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes (4:30 - 5:30)
5:00 PM
			Hot Buttered Rum (5:30 - 6:30)
6:00 PM				Buckethead (6:00 - 7:00)
7:00 PM			Benevento/Russo Duo (7:00 - 8:30)
				Perpetual Groove (7:30 - 9:00)
8:00 PM

	Everglades Stage	Sunset Stage	Sunrise Stage	Swamp Tent	Florida Native Stage
11:00 AM
		John Ginty Band (11:15 - 12:00)
12:00 PM	Lotus (12:00 - 1:00)				Jesse Jackson (12:00 - 12:45)
			Rose Hill Drive (12:15 - 1:15)
				Lake Trout (12:45 - 1:45)
1:00 PM		Steel Train (1:00 - 2:00)
					Suenalo Sound System (1:30 - 2:15)
2:00 PM	Kinky (2:00 - 3:00)		Drive-By Truckers (2:00 - 3:00)
				RJD2 (2:30 - 3:30)
3:00 PM		Michael Franti & Spearhead (3:00 - 4:00)			Boxelder (3:00 - 3:45)
			Burning Spear (3:45 - 4:45)
4:00 PM	Umphrey's McGee (4:00 - 5:30)
				Brazilian Girls (4:15 - 5:15)
					Crazy Fingers (4:30 - 5:30)
5:00 PM
		The Flaming Lips (5:30 - 7:00)	The Meters (5:30 - 7:00)
6:00 PM				The Disco Biscuits (6:00 - 8:00)
7:00 PM	Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals (7:00 - 9:00)
8:00 PM

	Everglades Stage	Sunset Stage	Sunrise Stage	Swamp Tent	Florida Native Stage
11:00 AM
		The Lee Boys (11:15 - 12:00)
12:00 PM	New Mastersounds (12:00 - 1:00)			Brothers Past (12:00 - 1:00)	Burnin Smynans (12:00 - 12:45)
			Pnuma Trio (12:35 - 1:25)
1:00 PM		Slightly Stoopid (1:00 - 2:00)
					Heavy Pets (1:30 - 2:15)
				Kid Koala (1:45 - 2:45)
2:00 PM	Mofro (2:00 - 3:00)		Los Amigos Invisibles (2:00 - 3:00)
3:00 PM		G. Love & Special Sauce (3:00 - 4:00)			Legendary JC's (3:00 - 3:45)
				Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (3:30 - 4:30)
			Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra (3:45 - 4:45)
4:00 PM	Robert Randolph & The Family Band (4:00 - 5:30)
					Spam Allstars (4:30 - 5:30)
5:00 PM
				Lyrics Born (5:15 - 6:15)
		Wilco (5:30 - 7:00)	Keller Williams (5:30 - 7:00)
6:00 PM
7:00 PM	The Black Crowes (7:00 - 9:00)			Secret Machines (7:00 - 8:00)
8:00 PM

Thank you to everyone on blogs4me for your advice over the past few days, you all have helped me out of my funk! 

Rest in Peace Big Poppa!

I was laying in bed last night and I saw across the ticker on Sportscenter, Marlins 22 Nationals 12, I asked my self did I see that right, is that a baseball score?  

Yeah freakin baseball, so the Marlins have won 6 out of 7 of their games since Spring Training has started.  I know it's just ST but c'mon after all the trading and such in the offseason I figured we would be lucky to win any games.

Bottom of the 7th marlins up 8-1 over the Red Sox!  GO MARLINS!

Look what I figured out guys!!

It's Tuesday and my plans for this week are going to consist of work, bed, work, bed, and yeah some more bed.  If anyone needs me I will  be in bed.  In a super pimp bed because I went out yesterday and bought all new bedding, I went to Bed Bath & Beyond and got a new duvet cover and featherbed and feather comforter.  It is like being on a cloud.  So fluffy and nice. 

I am emotionally and physically exhausted.  I cannot take anything more, I feel like I am going to just break down at any moment and start crying and not stop for 3 days.  Which for anyone who knows me is very unlike me.  I am the strong one, I don't take any shit.  At this point everything is too much to handle. 

I talked to my mom last night, she wants me to go to counseling, sorry I don't do counseling I told her.  She thinks I have some underlying issues in my life that need to be resolved.  I don't get this way very often so when I do she goes all mom crazy.  I am the crutch for everyone I know.  Dammit I need a crutch. 

Manic Monday has been a day of reflection for me.  I am sitting here at my desk where I have got absolutely nothing accomplished, thinking all day while staring at the birds.  I am having a bad day.  I guess I am just getting to the point where "I need to shit or get off the pot" with my life. 

Lately reading JoeD's blogs have made me wonder what my purpose is here on this divine planet called earth.  I am having the same feelings of going back to school, and than there is the dreaded, money, time, and energy that I would have to put in it.  I don't think that school is the answer although I would really like to go back. 

I really think I need a hobby.  I just got a pamphlet in the mail for an indoor soccer team, and I think I am going to join.  I played soccer all of my life.  I miss it, sometimes I go over and watch the kids play in the park by my house.  That always makes me happy.

Tonight I have a surprise birthday party planned for my friend Steph.  I don't want to go, but I have to because I planned it.  I want to lay in my bed with my dog and be by myself.  This roller coaster of non stop partying is really getting to me.  I am trying to figure out how you go about leaving your old friends and creating a different lifestyle.  I love these people they have been there for me for the last 5 years.  How do you let go of the people that care the most about you? 

Until next time...

I got a phone call from my great friend Scotty 2 Hottie last night, he was in the mood for some drinking and good conversation.  I hopped in the ole Subaru and headed to Scotty's to do some more damage to the old liver.  Somehow I knew I wouldn't make it the whole week.

Scott is one of the first people I met in Ft. Lauderdale.  He was my best friend Casey's boyfriend.  At first this guy rubbed me the wrong way.  The first time I met him he was in a heated rage at Casey and he was throwing tables and shit, and smacked Casey in front of me, which is never a good idea.  I picked up his Napoleon complex little ass and threw him up against the wall.  Ever since that day, we have been the greatest of friends.  He said he never had any woman ever fight him back, and on that day he learned a little respect for Natanis.

Scott is an angry little man, his nickname is DVS and has it tattooed inside his lip.  He was one of those guys that just had so much terrible crap happen in his childhood, that he never got over.  I have a theory about people who have bad childhoods, either you deal with it and move past it or it makes you angry for your whole life.  Scott has been in and out of jail several times, the last time was hopefully the last.  Ya see after hurricane Charlie came through Punta Gorda with all his rage, Scott decided he would rob a liquor store during martial law, another bad idea.  Scott got sentenced to 1 year in county.  I wrote letters back and forth to him the whole time he was "in".  I sent him money for use at the commissary, really I was his only friend during his stay in the clink.

So last night Scott was feeling a little dry and wanted some help with the bottle of Captain he bought, and who am I to turn down a friend?  We sat around a chit chatted about old times, it was great.  I got a killer back massage and passed out with Scott.  It's nice to sleep with someone, and know that he's not wondering if I'm going to "put out"!  I awoke this morning to find that I was attacked by s sharpie in my sleep, I had a spiral on my forehead and multiple freckles and marks down my arms and legs. 

I tried to put in a picture but this image box cannot locate it, I dunno, so it's on my pic page!

I successfully made it through the first day back to reality with my new boss the "Task Master".  I got to work and there was a note on my desk saying welcome back and a list of about 50 things to do for my new boss!  So I got my bottle of Gatorade and went to work.  It was nice to be busy for a change around here.  A lot of the tasks that he wants me to do will make the transition between companies go smoother.  So I don't mind.

Ended up working late last night I got home about 7:00 ordered some Domino's Pizza and laid on my couch to enjoy some W of F.  Woke up a 9 am this morning to my dog jumping crazily for his morning walk!  So all and all my 14 hours of uninterrupted sleep has got me back on track. 

I am supposed to get my Langerado tickets today, I left the UPS guy a note saying to leave them, but it specifically says that I have to be there to sign for them, that they won't leave em!  I dunno, all I know is if I don't get them they are gonna see me REGULATE!

I had the best weekend that I have probably had in a long time.  Timbo, I cannot thank you enough for creating this wonderful little place.  I hope you have a great birthday, and win lots of money at the casino!  As JoeD said everyone has many different feelings of this weekend, my only feelings were of pure happiness!!! 

Friday night was a drunken debauchery at Twostripes house, good times good times!  Saturday night we went out in Hartford, that was as very strange evening, but I did accomplish one thing that I wanted to do which was get Cavutto a b-day shot, apparently it was Jager...  I often found myself all alone not being able to find anyone I knew.  Although I did make friends with a few of the Pig's Eye bouncers!  I am really not sure how it went down at the end of the evening, sorry little lapse in time there!  I am pretty sure that Twostripe and I made a complete ass out of ourselves in the wrong Tower looking for Timbo's.  Yeah we were a little inebriated, go figure! Sunday was a day of rest, although still ended up feeling a little rough Monday morning.  Woke up Monday and  hung out with Andrew who rocks pretty hard core!  Sorry I couldn't go out for Nachos, maybe on my next visit.  Went to lunch with Timbo, Meg (great to meet you) and Fleur at Chili's than we were off to the airport where Fleur nearly missed her flight.  My great friend Heather picked me up from the airport and took me out to The Treasure Trove for a little welcome home night of coronas and shots of Greygoose. I had a great time with everyone, but it was nice to get home.  There will be more, yes more pictures from the weekend to follow.

Thank you to everyone that showed us a great time this weekend, and Twostripe thanks for the hospitality!!

P. S. For me it will be Gatorade and throat lozenges this week!

So little time!!!

As everyone on this site and perhaps the world knows, I am meeting Fleur in CT to party it up Hartford style this weekend.  This is where I become an anal retentive nut case.  I am so super excited to go away, but I have so much shit to take care of.

It is the end of the month and the changing of the guards in my company has offcially came to a close.  My new boss' are Chris & Rick, they are full time pilots for NWA and now I am officially their office bitch.  Well the good thing about this is I got a raise along with the two new boss'

I am already sick of there little slogan, "Positive Attitude, Positive Results, Postive Rate... So yeppers Postive Rate Financial will be signing my checks from now on! Woot!

See ya'll tomorrow!

So I wake up this morning to the front page of the Sun Sentinel saying that the United States are debating on whether or not we should allow an Arabian company to operate several of our ports.  WTF??  Are you kidding me, am I crazy or does that just sound like a BAD idea???

Currently a Brittish company runs major commercial operations out of cities like Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia, but Brittain is a close ally to the US. 

After Sept 11th don't you think we should be operating our own ports? It is widely known that our ports lack protection but when you add to that being operated by an Arabian counrtry, it will prove to be volatile to the US. 

 I think by allowing this to happen we are making it easier for persons of interest to do harm to our country, I dunno!!

Well today is the last day of house sitting in suburbia, I have to say this weekend has been absolutely beautiful.  I laid in the sun for a few hours yesterday working on that tan!  Most of the day was spent guzzling corona limona's Yummy! 

I spent hours last night getting to know someone, by the way you are awesome...you know who you are! 

I have a trip planned for next weekend Hurricane Natanis is coming to invade Connecticut, woohoo!  Can't wait to meet everyone I am super stoked.  I haven't been out of town for a while so I think it will be the little break I need!

Until next time, Cheers! * Raises glass to blogs4me!

I had the best freaking time last night, I got to Revolution at 9 last night just in time to see Method Man and Rza walking off the bus with a plume of smoke billowing out behind them.  Doors opened at 9 and unfortunately I was half cocked when I arrived.  I brought my camera so I could take some pictures for Moonz, and the rascally little bastards at the door would not let me bring it in.  I tried to take some pics on my cell phone but the quality just sucks. 

I generally don't like to go to hip hop concerts because of the gangster scene. I went this time because it was a little club downtown, and I felt I would have a lesser chance of getting shot!  At the last two "rap" concerts in Miami there were shootings, so you can understand my concern. 

I really can't stand going downtown, the place just pisses me off.  I'm more of the laid back beach girl!   Everytime I go down there it's a mob scene.  Guys walking around with there chests all puffed out trying to impress the ladies.  You can almost smell the testosterone in the air!  So no big difference last night.  It was the ususal scene you walk out of a bar you are having a good time, and boom there they go two, three maybe even four guys last night beating the shit out of eachother.  I can't tell you how many bloody faces I have seen downtown.  Annoying and not to mention a total buzzkill!

So the concert was great they did some of ODB's stuff they played Shimmy Shimmy Ya which is one of my favorite ODB songs!  Danced my ass off, blazed through the entire show and had a blast. Rza & Method did a fucking awesome rendition of This Thing!  They played a good mix of old stuff and new, all together worth the $32.50!!

and I'm addicted to game shows...Wheel of Fortune to be specific.

I have a problem when it comes to WoF, I am borderline psychotic when it comes to this game.  Every night at 7:00 for my entire life I have watched WoF. Well at least as long as I can remember.  I am pretty sure that I am not the only one that has this problem since the show has been on for 24 seasons.  Good ole Pat & Vanna they are timeless creatures. 

This week are the shows that they taped in Ft. Lauderdale.  Since I know you are wondering if I tried out, yes I did.  This year I didn't get on the show but last year when I tried out I was chosen to be a back up in case anyone got sick, which they didn't!!  So I have been sitting here on my couch from 7:00 to 7:30, solving these damn puzzles before the local morons.  ughh!  Why didn't they pick me, why am I not spinning for $100,000.  The thing is that when you watch the show on TV you are at a disadvantage because you can't see the puzzle at all times.  I am better than these people at actually playing the game.  They don't know when to spin or stop, they are calling out letters that have already been called.  As you can see this is driving me crazy, but I just can't stop watching.

Well that's my rant for now, I won't get started on my love of the Game Show Network and LINGO!!

I am going to go see The Radiators with Crazy Fingers on Friday night.  Ever since this new venue opened up in downtown Ft. lauderdale there has been so many good shows.  I have to say that lately I have been listening to alot of jam bands. 

I go through these phases with my music.   This morning while going through my Cd's (yes people CD's) in my car I saw many different genre's of music. 

These were the Cd's in my car;  Phish, Grateful Dead, Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, Erick Sermon, Sean Paul, Nelly, P Diddy, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, NIN, Tool & Nirvana. Also a few compilations I made with old school Blondie, & Stuff. 

By the way I chose Tool!!

There's only a few things in life that I hate more than laundry. (Celery is one of those things)   Since I have moved into my new apartment I have to go to the laundry mat.  I have managed to be spoiled and at all the places I have lived we've had laundry facilities on premise. 

Today is an easy laundry day though.  My good friend Pete is letting me do my laudnry at his house today.  So before I came to work I dropped off the laundry, started the first load, I just went to lunch switched it over and it will be done when I get out of work. Sweet!!   I wish he would let me do it at his place every week. 

It sure does beat going to the laundry mat and having to hang out there for 4 hours so no one steals my damn laundry!!

My boss (and friend of 8 yrs) has decided to shut down my company.  I knew this was coming but at first it was the end of March, than last Monday we were going to close down in the end of February and as of Friday he informed me that he can only pay me till the end of this week.  Now this would not be a big deal if I had savings but like a lot of people I know I pretty much live paycheck to paycheck. 

Now for the good news, (I think) two of my co workers have already started another commercial mortgage company with a residential lender in Ft. Lauderdale.  I spoke with them Saturday and there is a place for me...yippee!!  My role would be as an office manager for both the commercial and residential companies.  The only thing is I am just going to have to figure out how to get through this month. 

I'm sitting here listening to the 1998 Phish Lemonwheel show, god it is making the memories of this show flow sweetly through my mind. I have so many memories of good shows I have been to over the years. Big Cypress 2000, anyone that enjoys Phish has to get a copy of that weekend, it was one of the best Phish shows I have ever been to.  They played all the good shit.  I can't wait until the next good weekend festival, 6 weeks til Langerado!!

Great site for free downloads, if you like jam bands and such...

www.nugs.net

The story behind Ben T....

Well as noted in my last blog the reason why Ben and I broke up was because of the events of one evening. 

Back in the summer of 1999 I was dating Ben.  I have a very extroverted cousin named Chuk.  Chuk is my step father's nephew, no blood relation.  My step father (Gary) came over one night to meet Ben, I was ok with this but needless to say Ben was very worried.  Gary had just came back from the stock car races, so Ben was excited because he had something to talk about with my step dad.  Ben tells Gary that his father Carl was a stock car driver from back in the day.  Gary asked him what his dad's name was (we live in a small town) and Ben says Carl (can't remember last name), well Gary looks at me with this astonished look and says "Natanis do you know who that is?" I was like hmm No, than Gary proceeds to tell us that Ben (26) who was always an only child is Chuk's brother.  Carl had fathered Chuk with Gary's sister, and than had Ben not even 8 months later.  Chuk and Ben grew up next to each other for 20 years and never knew that they were brothers.  We got in contact with Chuk and I put them together, it was amazing.  Needless to say Ben & I broke up. Now we take yearly trips to San Francisco for all of us to get together.  Last year Chuk gets an e-mail from this girl named Victoria who had been looking for him for 10 years.  It turns out that Carl had fathered Victoria nine months prior to Chuk.  She lived in the next town over also. So because of this one day my step father came over a family has been reunited.  Ben thought he was an only child his whole life and now he has a brother and sister.  I'm sure there are more out there, we will see.

This is an account of my relationship history, ( I need to figure something out) so if you don't care to know stop reading now.........

Jason D-Summer of 1998-  I moved back to Maine and was living in a  tent at a local campground when I met Jason.  He was amazing.  After only a few day's of hanging out with J we decided we'd be a good match so I moved into his little shack for the summer.  It had been raining for two weeks which isn't fun in a  tent.  Chasing my cooler every morning...ugh!  At this point we decided it would be a summer romance because he was moving back to Texas and I was moving back to California. Jason and I had so much fun, we went sailing and hiking and kayaking all the adventurous outdoorsy stuff.  This is where my love of sailing and Jason developed.  At the end of the summer we departed ways he went to Texas to sell Christmas trees and I went to Cali.  I couldn't get over him.  Jason introduced me to Ben. I am still friends with him to this day.

Ben T-Summer of 1999- I met up with Ben the first week I was back home.  I had came home with a fistful of money so I rented a house for the summer paid in full.  Ben was a good guy with a bad reputation.  He used to (and still is) be a major alcoholic with anger issues.  Story is he used to beat up his ex, but he never dreamed of hitting me.  I had a lot of good times with Ben we used to go on trips to Sugarloaf and hike and play Frisbee golf.  He was an artist. A very good one at that.  One day a very strange thing happened between us.  A six degrees of separation story that I will go into in my next blog.  On this day we decided it was best we broke up. I moved to Florida, and I am still very good friends with Ben.

Aaron K- Winter of 1999-September 22, 2004 (We broke up on my b-day)  I was recruited for a job in Florida so I moved down here form Maine.  I was working at the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo and I had met some guys one drunken night and they stole a golf cart and we went for a ride.  We get pulled over by security and the golf cart had been stolen.  Unfortunately they had taken the golf cart from the richest member of the club...oops!   Needless to say I got fired, this is where Aaron comes in.  I was drowning my sorrows at the crew bar and a guy came up to me in a drunken state and said hey beautiful you want to go back to my yacht?  Cheesy, I know but it worked.  We got back to his yacht and needless to say this is the only one night stand that led to anything.  He brought me home in the morning and I said to him by the way my name is Natanis and here's my number call me if you want...and two hours later he called.  Aaron felt bad for me I guess so he put me up in a hotel in Key Largo and we were inseparable for that week.  I ended up meeting someone in a bar that worked at the private club next door to the Ocean Reef Club, and got a job working there.  I stayed with Aaron for the next 4 years, we moved back and forth from Maine to Florida seasonally and had great times together.  After 2 years in the keys we moved to Ft. Lauderdale and he started working on yachts again :(  He was gone every 2 weeks in the winter and gone for the whole summer.  This was fine for the first couple of years but than it took a huge toll on our relationship.  He was always gone and the phone calls just weren't enough.  He drove home from Virginia one night to propose to me and there was a guy sleeping in our bed, (I was on the couch by myself) two guys & a girl on the floor and another guy and girl in the spare room.  This is pretty much where things went sour.  He was sick of supporting my party life.  I hadn't worked in 6 months because I knew I would always have him to fall back on.  He backed up a U haul and moved out the next day.

Andy W - January 2005 - January 2006- Well have you ever heard the old saying "Take one for the Team"?  Well that's how I ended up with Andy (Sluggo).  My friends had informed me that cute little Andy hadn't been laid in over a year because he was shy.  So yep you guessed it one drunken night I took one for the team and had sex with him.  He still hasn't left.  We were a group of couples, my two friends and Andy's two friends were all dating each other, we did everything together we went to baseball games together, and concerts.  We used to have so much fun and thean they moved to Colorado.  Things don't exactly work for Andy and I, we hardly speak we don't get along and I have kicked him out several times, but he has no where to go so I always let him back.

So here I am now trying to analyze my past.  

My trusty Impreza is just going to hell on me!  It seems like every time I get in it something else stops working.  1st the speedometer stopped working, than the little temp control that goes from heater to ac broke and for awhile it was stuck on A/C but dammit now it's stuck on heater.  This morning I realized it's not shifting properly, sometimes the transmission doesn't "catch" and before I know it I am red lining coming out of the toll gates!!  Ughh my poor baby has 220K on her, I guess it's time to dump some more money in her!!

www.jobpredictor.com

Natanis-Professional Tramp!!!  Ha wtf ?!?!?

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