merry meet, y'all...
wow, what the heck am I gonna put here... i'm at a loss. i'm too damn lazy to capitalize my sentences, so if you are an english teacher, get lost, cuz i don't wanna hear it from you. in case you didn't notice, i'm also being lazy about grammar.

basic info about me... my name's dana, and my fortune city username is Te Chatoui. it's cajun french for "little racoon," my grandpa's pet name for me since i was kneehigh to an alligator. i'm basically a cajun with no accent who's been transplanted to the memphis, tn area. wouldn't leave here for the world. have already been gone seven years and now i'm back with a severe case of time warp. so much has changed! let's see. looks? five foot six... brown/brown... my hair's down to my butt, i look like a hippie. don't need to iron my hair, that's for sure. somewhat overweight but not overly so. i can draw, but i haven't done anything serious in years. just bought a set of acrylic paints and i'm not afraid to use 'em. i can also sing but am too chicken to do so unless everyone else's joining in. hell, i can do a lot of things, but i'm too chicken or too lazy. maybe that will change sometime soon.

it's 4 july 1999 as i put up this page. my friend marc just left for florida. he had to tell me goodbye when i left for the army so i guess it was my turn to say goodbye to him. we all went to mugs in raleigh the last week of june and then had a "last hurrah" going-away party last night. i'm still kinda worn out, didn't get enough sleep. will be posting photos once i figure out how to get them here.

i'm bummed about that, i'm also bummed because my son is not here. he's in georgia in the custody of my in-laws and it looks like he's staying there. i wasn't particularly horrid to him but i wasn't the best mother either. sometimes you want to go running out to change the world and you forget who you're saving it for. and also sometimes you feel so isolated and alone that you go emotionally dead and you forget to take care of people you're supposed to be caring for. hence he's gone. of course, my bitch-in-law isn't happy taking him away from me, she has to have her pound of flesh as well. so she's dragging my religion into this, my failed marriage, every fault i ever had or that she wishes i had, et cetera, ad nauseum. if this crap continues i will be putting up a ranting page so i can complain about her. sounds like a winner, yes? i also want to put up a brag book here so you can all see how adorable sean is.

other stuff i want to put here is old pictures from high school, maybe some of my artwork, maybe some religious content. i love all things pagan. if i had to pick a christian denomination on pain of death, i'd go catholic cuz the motherless protestants don't seem to understand the concept of how special it is to give birth to god, hence they ignore mary. i might set up a sort of shrine to the goddess here if i'm feeling ambitious enough. i also love to talk politics so watch out, i will rant about such things eventually. i do a lot of ranting, actually, because if i'm quiet, people don't hear me.

am i seeing anybody? somebody always has to ask. yes, i am. not sure where that's gonna go, just enjoying the ride right now. i just came out of a really crappy marriage and i'm not sure how much of that was my fault and how much was my ex's, so until i figure myself out, i'm not sure how serious i want to get with anybody. i don't want to inflict myself on somebody who deserves better, yanno?

here are some cool sites to visit, meanwhile, til i get some kind of content here. you can always email me too. oh yeah, and if you've been kicking around in fortune city and have encountered the lounge lizards web site, could you pass on the url to me? please. i want to link to them here. i know some of those crazy people (hey, look who's talking, i'm nuts too) and they put up a couple of photos of me there. they're not porn, not even nekkid, so shaddup.

oh yeah, the sites. hold on...

Church of All Worlds my church... although i'm an inactive member at present.

The Witches' Voice very cool networking site, mostly aimed at wiccans, though any neopagan is welcome.

National Organization for Women no, i'm not a feminazi. there are no such things as feminazis. don't believe me, look it up.

iVillage.com very cool web site for women, get free email.

my brain is fried. will add more stuff here as i get up the motivation. oh-bee-kay-bee? okay.

people have switched to Kotex from their regular brand.