Honestly, the sand, the sun, the surf...the beach....where the heck else WOULD we be on a day off?

Next month it's the white gypsum sand beaches of the Motherland....(or is it the Fatherland? or the ancestral land?)....Mexico!

All is well in the universe again!

What's wrong with this picture? Hint: Matt Kenseth drives for Roush Racing....

I didn't even realize I was wearing my Dupont/Hendrick Motorsports #24 Jeff Gordon cap until I looked at the pics'!! Of course, my Jeep is plastered in 24's!

We gave away the spa on the island last week...it was so hot and I haven't been feeling well, I almost passed out! The hair went up into the USAFR ball cap in about 30 minutes! I've been so dizzy and nauseous...it has to be stress making me feel so tired...I am sooooo busy at work...and with vacations coming up it's only gonna get busier in July!

  

I have to say that going to watch the Hook's play baseball is one of the highlights of my week, when the boys are in town... this week, Channel 6's Sean Horejs put me on his Hook's footage! I didn't get to see it, but a whole bunch of my  friends recognized me and called me! Ha ha! That was ironic! Oh well... Anyway, it was a strange night to say the least..I felt  a little off kilter...but hey, I am a pro and when duty calls, I deliver. I guess it's one of my strengths when I am weak. I haven't felt well the last couple of days.
 
I hate that dimple on my cheek! I actually have two...one on each side! Austin did all the call-ins from Whataburger Field while I chatted with the listeners and registered them for all the stuff we give away.
    
Brewster Street was packed on Thrusday night for the Bart Crow Band Show! Even Seamus the Promotions Guru for the Hooks was hanging with us backstage....the guy is so smart and funny too! Had us all cracking up! He is a fellow thespian! We were goofing around quoting Shakespere and trying to come up with new words to add to the American lexicon. Our newest employee: Amy the Intern! Seamus, Me and Wendy from the Real Country Crew!! It was a really late night....after a day at the beach!
 
You can't really tell in this pic, but in honor of Farrah Fawcett, I pulled out the hairspray, hot rollers and curling irons was rockin' the Farrah-do to BSIH. It looked good before I sat under the misters out on the big deck! When we were little girls, my sisters and I would play Charlie's Angels...I couldn't be Jill cuz I wasn't blonde (well heck none of us were!)...my other sister had wingy black hair so she was always Kelly...of course I was always bossy...so I got to be Sabrina! LOL!!

I'll Just Hold On....Damn! What a song!

She Wouldn't Be Gone....Wow!

This is me today (well a few weeks ago!)

The funny thing is that I still feel like this girl below in 1983... It's been 26 years and it's time for a reunion of 49 former pageant queens and the crowning of the 50th...I am the same size...I have the same vitality (I was called the Energizer Bunny three times last week by various people!)...the same smile...my winning dress was stolen in 1989--but I fit into my evening gown with a little room to spare!...I felt like a butterfly in the flowery dress---which I do still have....and in many respects I am like that butterfly...
   

Martina McBride has a new song out, the refrain says " Everyone calls you amazing, I just call you mine."

I heard that song and thought  "Wow, I want a man who loves me like that!"

I made my decision.

I made my choice.

I let the Army Boy loose. (Do they TEACH lying in the Army? Been there, done that way too many times!)

I let my  heart decide instead of my head. WHICH IS SOMETHING I NEVER DO!!!!!

In retrospect, letting my heart decide was the right choice. You can't choose who you fall in love with...it just happens.

Then my life came to a screeching halt after what I thought was a perfect afternoon and evening.

Again.

And I don't understand...why, why, why?

Oh well....

I give up.

I'll just wait around for the man who thinks I am amazing and wants to call me "mine"...

(I gotta be careful with what I hope for though...the last time I "gave up", Jeff entered my life so unexpectedly and you know the rest of that story....)

My friend Jerry Dalton, invited me to join his dart team based out of the Hi Ho Bar! I didn't know the least thing about darts, but after my 2 hour lesson today at Click's....bring it on! I am ready and excited to be the token gal on the team!! Ha ha! It will be fun.

Once he showed me how not to throw the dart like a baseball...I caught on pretty quickly! Jerry is left handed and really good. I tried to imitate the dart grasp albeit doing it in mirror image cuz I am right handed...and bingo!

I need to do something that is fun that is not station or work related and hang out with folks who are not in my business! I love my peeps, but what the hey, I wanna have some fun without them!! LOL! Jerry gave me a set of darts to use and I hit a few bulls eyes!! Yeehaw! We start our team playing on July 18th and we will have  scrimmage some time before that.

I thought it was funny that the name, I guess it's a brand name, on the box is Tarantula! I am absolutely freakingly scared to death of spiders!

I was trying to figure our what the significance of today's date was. It just kept buzzing in my brain...duh! It's the Army Birthday today!

And my Army Boy just came back home from training late last night... but he got the news that he is getting deployed for one year. His unit is going to Afghanistan. That doesn't make me very happy...I was surprised to say the least...I mean you always know it's possible...but I guess having been married to an active duty soldier that was permanently stuck here...I've never had to deal with deployments the way my poor sister does with her hubs.

He really missed me while he was gone and I was "absent" from his life...

I did too. Even though I hate to admit it...but duty calls.

He really is the "boy man like me"  that I've hoped for and it scares the hell out of me.

What am I gonna do?

Choices. Decisions.

I hadn't seen Kevin since last October! My he looks great! He's lost alot of weight too! He said I looked hot! Woo hoo! (The last time I saw him he said I looked sad...almost made me cry...he had no idea the hell I was going through at the time...but I kept right on going doing my thing!)   I DON'T LOOK SAD ANYMORE!!! Austin Daniels, ever the comedian! ran into Kevin backstage when he was doing the CDB backstage stuff and warned him about "Della, your next future ex-wife!" Very funny Austin! If I married KF, I sure as heck wouldn't divorce him!!!!! LOL!!! Plus he is married and it's cheaper to keep HER!

It's time for Kevin to cross the line over to superstardom!!
  
I pitched him the hook lines for a song I am writing that was inspired by a guy that broke my heart! He liked it.
AND I ALMOST FORGOT, CHARLIE DANIELS WAS ALSO PERFORMING AT THE CONCERT!!
Even Mark joined the KF picture club!
    Mark and I had another great time hanging out together!
He says he has alot of fun with me...and I have alot of fun with him too!

MY LIFE IS SO GREAT! ONE YEAR AGO, I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD BE SO HAPPY! I LOVE MY LIFE! I LOVE ME! I LOVE MY CHILDREN, MY FRIENDS, (MOST OF) MY FAMILY, MY LISTENERS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, GOD FOR GIVING ME THE CHANCE TO DO WHAT I LOVE TO DO EVERY DAY! I AM SO BLESSED!

Oh yeah baby! That's me! Della Adame WITH DANCING WITH THE STARS CHAMPION AND INDY 500 CHAMPION HELIO CASTRONEVES!! Here's the best part: I asked him (jokingly) if he wanted to dance...AND HE TWIRLED ME AROUND ON PIT ROW!!! OMG!!! Then we stopped and took this picture...and he gave me a thumbs up! Having not danced with anyone but my now ex-husband for the last 13 years...it really felt great to take a spin with this Brazilian babe!! Helio went on to win the IRL race at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday (6/6/09)...probably because dancing with me gave him good luck! (Just like my kissing Jeff Gordon before his first TMS win last April!!)


I must admit, I didn't think that my day could possibly get any better...but it did get better when I got to meet and talk with none other than DARIO FRANCHITTI, INDY CHAMP and husband to Ashley Judd! I got so many great pics of him during qualifying! He kept gazing over in my direction so I just snapped away. When he finished his interview with the SPEED Channel rep, another guy stepped in front of him and he told the guy to hold on a minute and then moved him out of the way and came over to where I was standing!!!! I was smiling like a cheshire cat at that point. We shook hands, I introduced myself to him and he gave me a hug, told me I had a pretty smile (THANK YOU BLEACH BRIGHT OF CORPUS CHRISTI!!) and posed for this picture! This dude is so gorgeous! I didn't see Ashley anywhere and didn't go in for a kiss (like I did with Jeff Gordon)--didn't want her going all Faith Hill on me!


The view from the Grandstands at TMS! That's pit row right behind the infield logo.


I am so short (5'3 3/4") that I got to stand on the top photographers row in Victory Lane and managed to snap this shot with my Blackberry camera as Helio raised the trophy! Perfect timing! I was standing next to AP, Fox and ESPN photogs!! I took over 400 pics with the Blackberry cam! My Cybershot camera battery died just as he rolled into Victory Lane...


Here is a close up shot of the gorgeous crystal trophy! It was on display in the media center all week! YES! I touched it! But no one saw me do it!



Helio signed autographs for fans as he exited his hauler rig in the garage area and made his wayover to the grandstands for the driver introductions, as you can tell, the fans are in FRONT of him, while I am on HIS side of the barricade!
 

Hell, I almost forgot! I got to meet Shaquille O'Neal too! He was there to utter "Gentlemen, start your engines! Again, I am very small. I think I came up to Shaq's bellybutton! He is HUGE!! His hand  is almost three of my hands across!


My trip to TMS would not have been complete without reliving some of my April memories with Jeff Gordon!! I snapped a picture of my own grafitti on the Barr Tunnel (it goes from the grandstands underneath the track and into the infield) wall! Yep, it's still there!



Of course I just HAD to get into one of the Indy cars and pretend I was a driver! Unfortunately, if I had gotten in all the way and leaned back into the seat, I would have disappeared into the car!! 
   

Picking up my media creds! I get so excited about having this wonderful privilege...and what a PERK it is!


There's a winners wall in the media center, where Jeff's name has been added as the Samsung 500 winner from April, I just had to get a pic of me next to his name on that wall! In November, I'll get a pick next to the Victory Lane wall that has his name on it...and maybe Jeff will be standing next to me!!!! Ya never know!


Things are quite different with the Indy races. For one thing, the dress code is totally off the hook! Seriously, shorts, flip flops, bikini tops...the Pit Lizards are out and about in all their glory! I have to say that I initially showed up in NASCAR mode, jeans, closed toed shoes, etc...even though my ex-hubs Rick said I could wear shorts...I didn't want to take a chance, so I took a change of clothes and shoes..and thank goodness I did! IT WAS FREAKING HOT! In April we were freezing in the morning and sweating by the afternoon. In June, I lasted all of an hour in my jeans and then changed into my shorts and I was representing!!! Corpus Christi Hooks flip flops, khaki shorts and a HOWDY Y'ALL KFTX T-shirt!! (Oh yeah, the tanned legs are really starting to look good thanks to my running!)


  
This WAS a perfect weekend!

I met alot of people in my industry this weekend and they were all so nice and showed me "the ropes" since it is only the second time I have covered a race. I also met alot of folks in the racing community who are movers and shakers...always a good thing...never know when you are gonna need  a sponsor for something!!

I wanna get a NASCAR hard card..../

It started out great too thanks to Mark! We actually got to hang out together at BSIH and then he took me to the beach...our favorite place! It was a perfect night and there was a ring around the moon. We had  fire going on the beach too! I just loved how he said he wanted to send me off on my big weekend in a happy mood! (Long, long story that has to do with B2B!) 

(I can hardly wait for THIS weekend coming up! Mark has agreed to go to the Kevin Fowler concert at Concrete Street  with me y'all!  Am I gonna need a back up date? Again, a very long story that has to do with B2B.)

I had dinner with my one of my best friends, Deb, at Joe T. Garcia's in Fort Worth...yumola!! I went to Billy Bob's...my son Nicky had fun and hung out with his sister Ricki...I spent a great weekend with my ex-hubs and his wife Hope, whom I absolutely adore for being such a phenomenal woman! (and here I thought I was the only one like that! LOL!) I spoke with my oldest sister Hope but didn't get chance to make it out to Grand Prairie this trip...but we plan on spending one whole day together next time and having a family cookout!

I am really starting to learn my way around DFW. I'm not afraid to hit the tollways and parkways anymore...of course it helps that my ex-husband is like a human Tom-Tom and can tell me exactly how to get where I need to go from memory!! Amazing! He is so much like my Daddy was in that respect...and others too...but we won't go into that!

The only thing that would have made it better? Jeff finishing 1st at Pocono instead of Tony...oh, well, I'll take a top five finish over a DNF anytime!! THANK GOODNESS FOR THE BLACKBERRY VERSION OF NASCAR.COM! Lap by lap coverage! We aren't that far from the lead...but damn, Tony is using Hendrick engines...and he's beating our drivers, what's up with that?

Somebody's got some 'splainin to do!!!