catching up (girls/ light / glitter)

Girls night was fun! our husbands are cool but it's nice to just be you without your chosen every once in a while. I'm glad we did that.

And so we caught up a little with my college freshman dormmate that I hadn't seen in years (the glory of FB) she told us she's divorcing because she found out her husband recently fathered two children by two different women. Oy...tough.

I can see how it's changed her. Hard to describe but she has such a light - fun loving, never met a stranger kind of person -

and she still has it...but it's just a little shadowed now.

Her eyes are... harder?

Shame on people who take peoples light away. But good for her for being able to keep even some of it (and hopefully getting it all back one day) - she's doing her band thing and they sounded really good.

Being at that venue brought back memories of dancing to this Eleven Hundred Springs song live way back when. Good band..good times!

I'm meeting up with my gal C for lunch tomorrow (been a long while there too), then going to the Rangers game, then my sister and I on Sunday before Jamie gets back home and football/Cowboys fanaticism resumes.

I've also got KMM's Burned to read, I think I'd rather read Christina Lauren's new one though first.

oh BUT FIRST FIRST I'm so excited!!!! once I get out of work I'm breaking out my halloween stuff and arts&crafts-ing!!!
No one shares my enthusiasm....but oh well. Project Halloween glitter bomb blowout is on!
I bought a huge skull at Home Depot. I'm making it into a sugar skull. I've got a whole rainbow of paint colors and stickers and glitter...YAY!!!

...we'll see how I'll mess it up...ha.

never gotten taller makin' someone else feel small

And so my nephew goes to Macarthur High. I've been informed on what happened with the kid and his clock. 
And...perhaps people might consider imagining you're the teacher and you hear a ticking clock coming from a backpack in your classroom? When you question what it is, the kid's not very forthcoming and all you see is a bunch of wires connected to a ticking clock...
Not that I'm saying all subsequent actions were the right thing to do. But there are other viewpoints to consider....

And honestly I really don't think everything is racial. 

In fact, (my experience, for the most part) prejudice only really happens when people of any race - by choice or circumstance - constantly surround themselves with those that look/act/think like themselves. Then add dramatics/paranoia and it goes bonkers. 

I wish they'd break the mold. 
Cause really...i've said it before...how boring to always converse with someone who thinks like you and agrees with everything you say. 

AND since I just can't stand it anymore....I try really REALLY hard to not say anything if I've got nothing nice to say BUT 
no I don't like Donald Trump. 
why? 
Not because I'm a woman, 
and not because of all the many (i'm from El Paso MANY) of Mexican descent people I know that aren't murderers, drug dealers or rapists 
but because I saw what a bully he was to the Scottish. 
I don't like bullies.
Kudos to you Scots for pushing back!!  
I can't wait to see y'all next year! Our trip is coming along very nicely. I love people that don't take shit from anybody.

I guess if I have to make a choice and affiliate with any party it's Libertarian.
Just do no harm, mind your own business and stay out of mine.
...ugh. 
This presidential election already makes me weary.

I'm reading the second in the Gone series, I'm starting to lose interest already. It's easy to put down and watch my Rangers instead. #1 #nevereverquit. 

And Jamie's gone on a guys trip for the weekend. 
I swear he's offended that I'm not just waiting at home for him to come back?...I've got plans yo!!!! I'm having a girls night tonight! Going to see my old college roommate play with her band.  

OH and it's North Texas giving day. Good idea!! I wanted to go a little more local this year. I'm down. I gave to Dwell with Dignity and PatriotPaws. I'll give to "my main" national cause in December.  

ooo i was in a pissy mood yesterday.

ooo i was in a pissy mood yesterday. Everyone was getting on my nerves.
Rude people, snarky comments on FB, the new girl's voice....

then we gathered with some friends for drinks last night and recalled our memories from 14 years ago for a bit. And my perspective was set straight again.

I'm blessed.
truly truly blessed.

It's interesting too...after visiting Pearl Harbor, it adds another layer of how important it is to remember the past. The sacrifices, the heroism, the consequences... #neverforget...

We head to Lubbock tomorrow to catch a football game (and for Jamie to reminisce his college days).

I'm listening to the new Turnpike Troubadours cd.
Yes a real old school cd.
Love Love this band.  

Well people anymore
They've got no staying power
A love you come by easy
It'll leave you just the same
You want something bad
You've got to bleed a little for it
You've got to look it in the eye
You've got to call it out by name