Satisfied Saturday Six

Satisfied Saturday Six is about taking the time to focus on the good things. Post 5 things that made you smile during the week. It doesn't matter if it happened to you, in the news or to someone else. Just put aside the negative for a moment and share pleasure. Because happiness and smiles are precious and balance the world.

1. Pay Day! Got paid this week and it was a nice fat check with all of the overtime from my Houston, TX trip.

2. Went to the Farmer's Market in Angels Camp on Friday with the kids. Got some cherries (red and yellow) as well as some organic peaches, tangerines and plums. Wesley could eat nothing but fruit for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Last year the Farmer's Market was in a parking lot downtown in Angels, but this year it has gotten larger so they moved it to Murphy's Park. After I looked around the Market, we set out a blanket in the grass and I read my book while the kids played on the jungle gym.

3. Got off work an hour early on Friday, and got paid for it! They had to let us all go an hour later for a computer conversion and they paid the staff for the extra hour. Very nice!

4. Found the new Stephen King book "Lisey's Story" at the grocery store. I was actually already reading the book as I had found the hard back edition at the local Library. I don't particularly like reading hard back though, so I of course bought the paperback version at the grocery store and returned the library book. :}

5. Found out that the kids are going to Vegas to see daddy for the month of July. I am certainly going to miss them, but I could really use a break too.

6. Picked out the quilt pattern so that mom can quilt my piece for the show next month. I really like how it turned out and it's my first attempt at curved piecing.

Happy Birthday Johnny Depp

Of course you knew that I would be posting for Johnny Depp's birthday, didn't you.

Interesting facts:


Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2001.

Appears in Tom Petty's 1991 music video "Into the Great Wide Open."

Johnny's two children with Vanessa Paradis have the same names of the two main characters in "Legend" (1985): Lily (b. 1999) and Jack (b.2002).

Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 19 November 1999. Tim Burton and Martin Landau were guest speakers.


Purchased Bela Lugosi's Los Angeles home.


Co-owns a restaurant/club in Paris called Man Ray (named after avant-garde artist Mana Ray with Sean Penn and John MalkovichThe restaurant is located in a renovated theater and serves Tibetan cuisine.

Dropped out of high school at 16 to pursue a career as a musician.

As a child, he was allergic to chocolate.

His parents divorced when he was 15.

Born in Kentucky but moved to Florida at age 7.

He is the youngest of 4 children.

Owns a customised 1960's 650cc Triumph Bonneville motorcycle.

Johnny Depp quotes: "Anything I've done up till 27 May, 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life."

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."

After being asked if he is a romantic: "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."


"When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."

On his daughter, Lily-Rose: "I see this amazing, beautiful, pure angel-thing wake up in the morning, and nothing can touch that. She is the only reason to wake up in the morning, the only reason to take a breath. Everything else is checkers."

There's nothing - you know - nothing else like music. Nothing that touches us on that, uh, that deep level. Music can open up so many emotions that we didn't know we had. It's the magical thing about musicals, you know, on the stage or on film or whatever. Love songs. They work so well because music touches us, emotionally, where words alone can't.