Off at noon today and I'm gearing up to start decorating for Christmas... (cause FUN that's why!)
...but tiring..oy.
And then - we're heading to New Orleans (again) tomorrow -
food/drinks,
parade,
football,
nap,
food/drinks, the Rebirth in concert,
sleep,
then back to food/drinks.
This is how we do in NOLA.
Family is already starting to bicker so maybe best we decided to leave them to their own devices.
So I was worn out and about to give up on Austin (its turning too pretentious and cliché IMO)
But!!!...this weekend, I was reminded how awesome Austin used to be (and still could be).
I stood next to a tatted biker guy, a Prada/Chloe gal, a cowboy, a rockabilly/pinup gal, hipsters and foreigners and we were all freakin loving the music.
The Continental Club is a great venue, my band is freaking awesome and still so talented.
yes my feet hurt and i was beat not goin to bed til 2:45. I don't regret it though!!!
Also yes, what "everyone" says is true.
Franklin bbq is legit.
We pre-ordered a 6 pound brisket, skipped the 4(?) hour wait line and took it back up to Dallas with us for our Thanksgiving last night. Add that to sides from Babe's Chicken dinner house
and Holy moly...all of us were this.
I'm truly thankful how blessed I have been and am (even more so for this weekend and how great it was).
Finished Graeme/Gideon's Breed story and ....yeah... eh. Not even close to the others I've liked so much.
But I finished it...so I guess that says something.
Jamie and I are heading to Austin to catch the Weary Boys reunion!!!! They apparently don't go on til midnight tonight though. oy...I guess they haven't gotten older like we have...I'm already sleepy.
Annnnd - I got Dixie Chicks tickets!
I saw them for like two songs in El Paso a long loooong time ago - there was a dust storm, they got pushed off the stage and the stage came crashing down after them. So I was robbed of the experience.
Did their long ago "incident" bother me? Yes.But what they said didn't bother me. (they have the right to their opinion)
It was where they said it.
I see it like being on a team (I think anyone who's played sports can understand)
you just DON'Tfor ANY reason stand on a field (especially one that's not your own) and let them in on the fact that you don't stand behind your coach. It makes the team look weak. We just can't have that.
(You have a problem with our president? Pissed off about how things are going? Rant to your friends on FB. Vote. Write a letter. Start a petition. Go to a rally. We'll handle it internally.)
But... well...at least she stated her opinion succinctly with rational thought behind it.
I just pulled these 3 social media comments from one of my FB feeds:
"Obummer sucks" (Obummer...really?! This is your thoughtful feedback?)
then someone replies "your an idiot"(you spelled you're wrong),
then someone else saying "I'll vote for Jeff Bush" (umm...oy. Auto-correct?)
ugh...
and reading about more attacks...really, this is tragic.
Charlie Robison's Wedding Song is one of my favorites w/ Natalie Maines Well, I am still here, you are still here Whether I ever loved you's not perfectly clear The weight's not an issue, you have gained more And when I said I do well I slammed all the doors To a future where I could see Paris in spring And I wasn't prepared for the weight of this ring But we will get by for the rest of our lives
we were woken up at 3:45 yesterday morning by tornado sirens.
none actually formed this time and prolly not the safest thing but couldn't resist walking out to feel/see it.
I never can.
It's so awesome how heavy the air gets and how angry the sky looks.
And so I've got lots of people posting about unfriending the people that piss them off.
Well...not me.
I've already culled my list.
The people left are family and/or people I find interesting.
I may universally disagree with some of them, but personally, I'd get bored if everyone agreed with me on everything. So they're my friend - *until they unfriend me* heh
I'm still trudging along the Breed book. We had dinner with a friend last night...haven't really had time to read...
We were drinking like the Irish But we were drinking scotch Bartender turned on a movie Everybody turned to watch And every single eye was gleaming As he reached the final scene Well, at least mine did Here's lookin' at you, kid It's a mad mission Under difficult conditions not everybody makes it To the loving cup It's a mad mission But I got the ambition Mad, mad mission sign me up I think I've seen the look before,yes, it's kind of non-commital It says come hither, baby, but then he's hard wood to whittle it says it don't mean a thing, but still, somebody does He'd like you to join the club that likes to say there's no such thing as love and It's a mad mission Under difficult conditions not everybody makes it To the loving cup It's a mad mission But I got the ambition Mad, mad mission sign me up Sometimes you find yourself flying low at night Flying blind and looking for Any sign of light You're cold and scared, and all alone You'd do anything just to make it home It's a mad mission Under difficult conditions not everybody makes it To the loving cup It's a mad mission But I got the ambition Mad, mad mission
so it's hard to concentrate but I'm gonna start with what made me happy this weekend.
Dinner at Knife was ok, the pig barbacoa was really good. Everything else was just eh.
the Rebirth though....they're just so fun.
Joyous, lively and I think I'm a little sore from dancing.
I think the friends enjoyed them too. How could they not. A weird thing is that the Granada closed at 11. What's up with that...? Paris attacks..maybe...
I'm also happy that Death with Dignity National center asked me for my story and put it up on their new site. Hopefully any little bit of awareness helps their cause.
I've started reading the last Breed novel. It's contradictory...not the biggest fan so far.
and so *sigh*here i go cause I can't not say anything.
my mind is boggled with responses I'm seeing on social media - the accusations and the name-calling and the pointing fingers
...shouldn't we be figuring out how to help stop terrorist attacks rather than deflect and twist tragedy to personal agendas?
The Governor of Texas wrote a letter to the President today stating that Texas will not accept Syrian refugees.
On my facebook feed alone it's dividing people.
Like...one facebook friend posted "God Bless Texas" - obviously in support. What's interesting to me is...both of his wife's parents are refugee immigrants. Not from Syria but from a war torn country at the time.
And look...if what they say is true and one of those guys did disguise himself as a refugee, maybe right this very second, shutting people out is the right thing to do for the collective whole. What do I know. I'm not fully informed.
This letter as the first reaction doesn't feel to me like the right thing to do though.
I get that he's scared. Who the f isn't worried really?
I think if he just would've suggested a solution or how we as a state and as a nation could contribute to helping anti-terrorism efforts...or anything helpful really, it might not make us look as intimidated.
I've had it with whiny, "woe is me" people.
I don't feel sorry for you.
And really your dramatics and constant pissy attitudes gives me no inclination to care or like you at all.
shut up and fix your damned life.
ay.... ok that was a awful bitchy thing to say.
....it just drives me bonkers how many people perpetuate their misery, then wonder why they're lonely.
Wanna know why you don't have friends? It takes being a friend to have a friend dummy! ugh.
oooo and so speaking of friends!
7ish? of us are heading to see the Rebirth Brass Band this weekend!
Not sure they'll like them like we do...but they like New Orleans (who doesn't)
AND it'll be a fun something to do.
We'll see how having dinner at Knife goes too...he seemed kind of a jerk on "Top Chef" but hopefully his food is good.
I'm in a book lull..i got a rock band book to read but i'm just not in the mood. Maybe i'll just re-read something I liked so I'm not disappointed (again)
we headed for Wurstfest this weekend. Can't handle going both days anymore though so I told Jamie I was ditching him on Friday, got myself a hotel room out near New Braunfels and caught on (and marathon watched) a show called "yes to the dress".
Also read, then slept for 10 hours.
Nothing against my beloved... but alone-time is GRAND!!! I really think I'm going to continue this idea. This is not at all true...
That "yes to the dress" show is a little disturbing though...I really think some of these girls are not going in to marriage with their head right.
There was one that spent $24,000 on her wedding dress AND bought another "after ceremony" dress for like $16,000. Seriously...it's just unnecessary.
I'll tell you a secret...make yourself pretty (of course) but spend your money on an open bar and a mashed potato bar and your people will love you.
Another disturbing story was reading Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive -... I pretty much didn't like the lead for most of the book - she had very few redeeming qualities even though a few times I felt angry on her behalf - but... the most troubling part (besides the obvious) was that her "american girl" story - the comparisons, the snideness, the narcissism - is not wholly unrelateable.
Wurstfest was fun! as always...i just don't think you can be angry or unhappy drinking with friends and hearing/dancing to polka music.
AACK! THE WEARY BOYS are comin back! (...well... back to Austin....) so freakin' excited to see this band again.
So this means we'll be Austin way two weekends this month and New Orleans thanksgiving weekend. ha! love it.
first up! Wurstfest this weekend...(zicke zacke..) oy
i think it's gonna be cold and rainy to be wearin a dirndl.
oh well.... fun fun fun! must remember to take my flask....
oh and read Erin Leigh's Roommates - quick read. a little dirty. And hockey. I liked it!
our friends ancestry.com dna test results came back today!
*best gift every time we give it*
Super interesting! and she's an ALL OVER Europe gal - coulda sworn she had native american but nope...
Given that her mother is adopted and she doesn't know who her father is, I really hope it gives her a little more sense of self.
being too conventional is boring in my opinion though...
I "act like a white girl" for Mexicans
I "don't look Mexican" to Americans
"where's my accent" for a Texan? (...ummm maybe cause I grew up in Canada...?)
"You speak Spanish?!" "You listen to country?!"
But honestly...the older I get the more I like that I'm all of the above.
Fixin' to start reading Luckiest Girl Alive - we'll see....
She’s a flighty good time buddy in the corner of the bar But she’d fight the Devil for ya just for being who you are And she’s the last to cast a stone though she’d love to leave you mad Aw she’s every friend I’ve ever had
made me think of us trying the 3 star Berasategui in San Sebastian.
honestly?...it didn't really do much for me...yeah I tasted things I never had before...like squid ink. And it certainly was an experience...very formal and sterile. The servers were on point.
But would I recommend it over say...Juanito Kojua in old town? No.
That's just me though - what do I know...I never said I was a food connoisseur.
I just like food. (and Spain definitely = food = LoveLoveLOVE for me)
but back to Berasategui...
another thing was, I asked to go back into their kitchen so I could thank the chefs...
We got in there and those poor cooks looked terrified and totally exhausted.
I went in with my camera all like "hey guys! lets hug for food happiness!!"
and instead we backed out awkwardly (and as soon as possible) to help them not be so terrified instead.
That's def a memory in the awkward column for sure....
Finished The Shadows - so wow... yeah aside from getting a little story line/character convoluted, what she did was hard to do. I think she did it well. I'm still hangin on for sure. I saw that the Beast is next. I had doubts on her going back for the King so this time we'll see how she re-covers ground.
Also read Emma Chase's Sustained - maybe not the most believable to go so opposite but a good one!
