BIRTHDAY!!

Well, I'm another year older. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. And I love birthdays and I celebrate them in an over the top kind of way. I know some people don't get that, but it's just my thing. Christmas is some people's thing, birthdays are mine.

So this year as I turned 34 I planned a whole weekend because, well, my b-day fell on a Friday! Deidre, Mom, Gina, and I went to see Jim Brickman in concert at Nokia Theater. Holy hell was it awesome. And let me just tell you about the Italian Canadian pop singer, Mark Masri, that had our eyes popping out of our head when he walked out on stage. Scrumptious. And his voice: AMAZING. Afterwards they did a meet and greet in the lobby and I took his picture, nonchalantly which actually turned into him seeing me take it, but oh well it was worth it! I now have a new screensaver on my phone. heehee

Saturday night Deidre and I (for less storytelling purposes only) finally ended up at Opening Bell Coffee shop to hear Alex Dezen of The Damnwells play acoustic. I was mesmerized. He is truly talented. I never wanted him to stop playing! I'm so glad we went. Afterwards we headed to Adairs for a birthday celebration with Michelle. WOWZA is all I can really say about it. If I had to pick Mo Robson out of a lineup I wouldn't be able to because I can't tell you one song he sang or what he even looks like. I think I had 5 or 6 drinks maybe and one shot. At closing time we didn't have a ride either because the car was at Mockingbird station....that's part of the storytelling I left out. So at 3 am when Lil Joel was taking us to Deidre's car so we could go home......yeah.

Here's some memorable quotes:

• Ladies can you still text with the lights turned down this much?
• Are we in the right place? None of these pictures look like where we are sitting.
• The only spare seats are right in the front row. Fabulous.
• I need a fork. (3 times at least)
• How about I'm going to make a request and play the song I want to play?
• riding in taxi, there's a loud THUD. OMG was that a baby?
• A BABY! NO! I have 5 babies of my own.
• I've never walked in through the front door at Adairs. Feels weird.
• You see Kings of Leon over there? He's mine I saw him first.
• Ok I will go talk to him and find out his name.....
• DAWN RENEE what are you doing you were supposed to go talk to him! Me: Sorry I had to pee first!
• love you? I lust after you.
• Joel what time will you be done here? Can you please give us a ride home? we have no transportion here
• "Where's my jacket?" "You're wearing it." "oh."

Coconut Loco

Last Wednesday I had a girl's dinner with Heather, Tracey, and Deidre. We ate at my favorite Chinese restaurant. I hadn't seen Heather or Tracey in what seemed like years! I enjoyed catching up. Our lives go in so many different directions these days that it's nice to stop and spend a couple hours together doing something non music related.
On Thursday Deidre, Allegra, and I went to HOB and saw Needtobreathe. AMAZING! Such a magical night. I fell in love with a banjo player. Deidre fell in love with Matthew Mayfield. He had the flu. Deidre told him she loved him eventhough he had the flu. He was gracious. We bought his cds. one word: LOVE!
Friday, we passed up seeing EYB at Gilleys for some Braun brothers at Hanks. I agree with V, Gary needs to cut his hair, shave, bathe, whatever. Didn't stop me from looking at him. haha It was a great show. Jordan, Lori's daughter, and I stood front and center. She'd never done that before. Micky bent down and played the guitar at her and smiled. She swooned. It was so stinking cute. She was a fan of standing at the front of the stage.
Saturday I really didn't have plans, so Mom and I ate a late lunch at La Madeline and then did some shopping. Whilst shopping I got the best text EVER from Lori asking if I wanted to go with her, Jordan, and Cori to see Reckless Kelly. I mean how could I pass up seeing 4 Brauns in one weekend?!?! They played 2 new songs that will be on an album apparently coming out in February. Willy looked HOT. Then I was snapped back into reality when V text me and said...."not to alarm you but Willy is wear the EXACT SAME outfit as last night." It's ok, he smelled good, so he had to have showered, right? haha ok, ok, it's Dirty, but whatever. The setlist was amazing. The night was amazing. Jordan and I stood front and center again. We sang together. It was fun! Jordan asked me if I thought David looked like Mike Eli with his hair like that. I could see what she was saying. I told her, yeah maybe, but David has better hair. haha I love her.
Sunday I went to my grandparents to visit. My Papaw looks so much better since he got the steroid shot in his back for his herniated disc. Their kittens have grown up. They are so stinking cute. If you know of anyone wanting a kitten, let me know. I took pictures and can share them if they're interested.

On the agenda this week: Drew Kennedy at Adairs Thursday night, Charming Gardeners at the Doublewide Friday night, Eyb & Gary Allan at Starplex Saturday night. Should be an awesome weekend!

Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious

Hello everyone. All 5 of you.

Everyone at my work is deathly ill. They have been for 2 weeks. Even my mother. I've somehow managed to not get sick. I think it has something to do with the weather as to why the illness is lingering everywhere. I bathe in antibacterial here at work about every 5 minutes. And if they cough in my vicinity I spray lysol in the air. I will not get sick. I will not get sick. I. will. not. get. sick. Does that work saying it 3 times like Beetlejuice?

This past weekend was fun. On Friday night we went to the Doublewide and saw a really fun band called The Room Sounds. The other 2 bands, eh. They are from some northern state and just moved to Frisco, Texas of all places. We talked with them for a bit. I hope we go see another show. They gave us a free sticker. I love free stuff! Afterwards we hit up Adairs for a late night grilled cheese and fries. It was crazy in there. On Saturday Deidre and I went to see the Charming Gardeners. The girl that sings in this band was great and I love the songs. Can't wait for a cd! It was over right before 10 so we went to City Tavern and met up with Robby and Matty to see Charlie Shafter. I'm not sure why I didn't notice it before, I think it was the hat the first time, but Charlie Shafter is CUTE! And I still love his music. And I was blowing up V's phone with all kinds of texts. Thanks for humoring me. I even managed to talk to him. Go me! On Sunday, Julie and Deidre and I went to see "Mary Poppins" and then walked around the Fair looking for the new fried foods. The musical was just as spectacular as it was in NYC. At the Fair we had a corny dog, fried peaches n cream, fried grilled cheese, fried cheesecake, and fried pecan pie. All very good. I think the fried cheese cake was my favorite. However, by 9 pm that night I had a stomach ache! Good grief. Good thing it's only once a year!

OH! We saw Oprah while we were there. She came in to the Embarcadero building and tried all the fried crap we were trying. She was filming a bit for her show the next day. The whole friday crew was with her. It was all very exciting....if you like that sorta thing.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

I had an eventful weekend! On Friday night Deidre, Mom, and I went to Winstar Casino to see Gary Allan. If you've never been to a concert there, I'd highly recommend it only if you buy VIP or the sections on either sides of the stage....to row FF. Behind row FF is a rope that separates it from the rest of the crowd. When the performer begins everyone runs to the front of the stage and remains there for the rest of the show. Kinda like being at Gilleys, but better. I've never seen Gary Allan live. To be honest, I've never LOVED Gary Allan until recent months. He won me over on Friday night. From full band to solo acoustic to full band acoustic back to full band he rocked the stage and gained my respect. I can't wait to see him again on October 24th at Starplex with my EYB boys.
On the drive home I convinced them to stop at Shooters to see if the Motorcars were there Friday night or Saturday night because on the way up there we could tell on the sign. Well, it was double bonus night because they were there and still playing and so we went in and listened to the rest of the show. I saw 2 Garys in one night and it was amazing.
The next afternoon my friend of 21 years, Karen, got married. It was a very short but sweet ceremony (like maybe 10 minutes at the most) and then we all went to South Fork Ranch for the reception. It was all beautiful. And Karen was so pretty and happy. I drank some Shiners, ate some food, hung out at the fun girls table, had my picture taken in the photo booth with 2 of my favorites, and when I started getting up to go dance on the dance floor I decided that it was time for me to leave. So at 10 pm I left.
I drove home and changed clothes and drove to Dallas to meet up with Deidre and we went to Adairs. Another bonus for the weekend was Ryan Bales playing there. So I drank way too many princess drinks to the point I felt like throwing up. I couldn't even drink the jagerbomb Deidre bought. The 2 Joels were working and don't think B Joel didn't remind me of the shimmy I did the week before. And once when we needed drink refills those 2 jerks did rock, paper, scissors to decide who HAD to wait on us. They thought it was funny, we didn't. I've decided to not do redbull drinks anymore, from now on I'm gonna do cranberry juice and vodka because I couldn't sleep to save my life that night from all the redbull I had consumed. Ugh. I think we finally ended up leaving about 2:30 am.
So Sunday I didn't do a darn thing but lounge on the couch. Then about 1 pm I crashed and slept until 4:30.
I'm actually looking forward to this weekend because I'm not doing anything. I'm not going out. I'm not stepping foot in Adairs. I'll be in Allen if anybody needs me :)

I don't think so

I've had a lot of "I don't think so" moments lately.

Let me get the "date" answer out of the way:
Yes, I had a date, it was so long ago, that right now it's almost laughable. I went out with a guy that I've known since I was probably 20. We tried the whole dating thing before, and I'm willing to admit I let my friends at the time influence me into not persuing the relationship further. And today I'm quite ok with that decision. In no way am I saying there's anything wrong with him, we are just 2 completely different people with different priorities, who just happen to have a couple things in common. So for the date I went to his new swanky loft apartment in downtown Dallas and he cooked me dinner and we watched a movie and some Michael Jackson funeral stuff. Yes, the date was THAT long ago! We talked alot about what's been going on in our lives. I was there probably 4 hours. And finally I just said I've got to get home. It was already past my bed time! I had a good time, but realistically, I just don't see us being anything but friends, and that's ok!

ok so let me just explain my little adventure to Adairs this past Saturday. Since Adairs is a favorite among the what 4 readers of this blog, then you'll at least get a laugh out of my embarassment. So Michelle, Deidre, and I are there around midnight and we are sitting at the bar. Cue the band in the background playing one original song to every 5 cover songs. The band just happens to be playing "The Joker." Michelle and I are singing along...."really love your peaches want to shake your tree" to which I do the little shimmy part. Out of nowhere Big Joel comes from the end of the bar towards me and asks if I just shook my and points to what is obviously my boobs. I told him maybe I did. He goes as loud as you all know Big Joel can be, "Dawn, you just shook your boobies?!?! do it again do it again." and then cue his Big Joel laugh. I. am. mortified. I'm 10 shades of red and yelling at him to leave me alone. But, of course he doesn't. He asks me why my face is the same color as my drink (redbull vodka with grenadine, my princess drink as Deidre likes to call it) and I just tell him to shut it and leave me alone. He walks away laughing his Big Joel laugh. About 2 minutes the girl bartender (sorry I can't remember her name) walks towards us and I'm thinking she's coming to see if we need more drinks but no. She asks me why my cheeks are so red. I tell her to tell Joel to leave me alone that he's not funny. She just laughs and I can hear him from the other end of the bar laughing. So, I learned to never shake any part of my body in Adairs. That's an "I don't think so" moment.

Here's another "I don't think so" moment for you, courtesy again of Adairs. So we're standing outside because it's now closing time with Lil Joel and he's talking to us. There's these 2 girls that are waiting for him to follow them to her house or something or another. The one driving jingles her keys over her head and yells rally. He tells them just a minute or whatever. Deidre and I just look at each other like, did she really just do that? Just let me preface this by saying Dawn had her fair share of drinks and you 4 who read this know Dawn when she drinks a little more than she really should, especially when she's saying the room is sorta spinning. Ok, now that Dawn goes, "does that really work to get a guy to follow a girl?" Lil Joel tells me yes, but then goes on to say he's just long time friends with them etc etc etc. I'm thinking that's the biggest bunch of crap I have ever seen. THEN he says to me that if I'll just jingle my keys and yell rally he'd follow me. I was like I don't think so, maybe some other time. I mean really? Do I seriously look like someone who would do that?!?!?!? I told V about it and she told me she didn't think that was going to become my go-to move. She's spot on with that one! Ridiculous.

Times, they are a changing

There's some things that have been happening at work and to be quite frank it's ridiculous. And by ridiculous I mean grown women throwing temper tantrums, then writing official notes to the boss without one shred of factual information in it only to make themselves look like the victim instead of the perpetrator. That shit drives me crazy. I don't understand the point of lying when there's too many people who witness this outburst that can go, "um no that's not how it happened." I'm guessing this person was also the type who was a tattletaler as a young child. You know the child everyone hated and wanted nothing to do with, but didn't have a clue that's why everyone hated her, so she was a victim of being hated for no reason. Yeah, I work with that person. Aren't you jealous?

And while I'm on my soapbox, I don't understand some people and the way they rationalize themselves. If I hear about all the time you have to go to shows and watch TV marathons and scrapbook and make this or cook that and clean this or drink that, then you've got time to find a J-O-B. It's that simple. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm trying to be realistic. If there ever was a truer statement, then it's this: The $buck$ stops here. And from what I hear it's stopping soon.

OK, I'm off my rant.

On a happier note, Dawn has a date tonight. Wish me luck :)

Recitals

So, I survived this past Saturday. I was in the auditorium for 12 hours. I got there at 9 am and left at 9 pm. It was a very successful day. My classes did very well on their dances. My intermediate baton class all caught their toss turn arounds. That was an AMAZING accomplishment. I managed to snap one picture the entire day. The above is a picture of my 3-4 year old class. Aren't they cute?!?!

After recitals I met up with Deidre and we went to Adairs. How I managed to still be awake, I have no idea, but I made it all the way until I got home at 4 am! Michelle and Courtney came out to Adairs with us. Courtney had been to some 80s party and showed up looking like Suzanne Sommers a la Crissy Snow. Funny! Afterwards we went to eat at Cafe Brazil. My banana chocolate chip pancakes were incredible! Michelle was on some kick about bringing back the polaroid camera. She even polled the table next to us. It was funny. I think the concensus was it's instant gratification. I mean who doesn't want to "shake it like a polaroid picture?" haha

Interesting

I was just perusing the blogs listed to the right and found it interesting that some of them had removed me from their lists of blogs they read. So, I know I'm not that interesting of a person, but for some reason I took it personally. I know that's ridiculous, but I just sorta felt rejected. I mean really I don't have any kids to post pictures of and I haven't discovered a cure for cancer and I haven't written a hit song and I haven't been on any exciting trips. I have hit a point in my life where everything is status quo.
I understand I hadn't written since April. That was only 2 months ago!
I'm gonna blame it on the restrictions that have been placed on me and my co-workers. Myspace AND Facebook have been blocked. We were all told to make a list of websites that we only use for company business then the rest were going to be blocked as well. I can understand why. And I'm fine with it. It's just sad that it had to come down to that.
This week is an entire week of dance. I think the only day/night i don't have anything dance related is Friday. I'm tired already and it's only Wednesday.
I've decided that I'm in love with a boy. He may never realize that I am because well if you know me then you know I'm never going to tell him. And I don't think I'm a very good flirter, which is probably one of the reasons I'm not married....or well, don't have a boyfriend. But I'm just putting it out there on the interent since apparently no one reads this anymore anyway that I fancy someone and that's probably all it's ever going to amount to.

YAY!

• this is my final week of dance. the only day i don't have dance this week is friday. saturday I will be stuck in a HS auditorium from 9 am until probably 10 pm.....followed by some kind of alcohol consumption asap.
• in 2 weeks (June 13th-June 19th) I leave for 1 glorious week in San Francisco, CA! vacation cannot get here soon enough!
• if I'm home in time June 19th my favorite Willy Braun and the rest of Reckless Kelly will be playing Hanks. sigh.
• June 20th I will take my favorite Jordan to see the Jonas Bros. don't make fun of me because I'm actually looking forward to it!
• June 21st--just bought my tickets for Randy & Wade acoustic at the Granada...**happy dance**

I FREAKIN' LOVE THE MONTH JUNE! ;) (not to mention one of my most favorite people in the world will be celebrating another birthday! **cough Deidre cough**)

Happy Easter!

Well, once a month updating isn't so bad, right?

As of right now I'm a week into a really bad sinus infection/bronchitis. After $100 worth of prescriptions, I've still got a stuffed up head. My chest feels better and I'm not coughing so much, but if my ears would just pop I'd be one happy girl. I've resorted to sticking cotton in whichever ear is open so I don't feel like I'm suffering from vertigo. My allergist told me if the infection wasn't better when I returned in 2 weeks I would have to go see my ENT again to see if there's scar tissue in my nose from my surgery I had 3 years ago. My cat scan came back normal, so I don't have any polyps up there...whatever that means. I'm just ready to feel better.

I had a great time with Jamie in Aransas Pass for Spring Break. I caught a fish! Actually it looks like a mini shark, but I have my picture taken with it and everything! It was fun. Jamie, however, not a fan of the fishing. She cracks me up. We got to see dolphins out in the bay. It was beautiful there. We even saw Ryan James, Wade Bowen, EYB, and RRB. It had been 2 long years since I'd seen Randy. Awe Randy how I had missed him! He was fabulous! Anyways, I hope I'm able to go again with her this summer.

The following Thursday I went to Adairs for Drew Kennedy and Rodney Hayden with the girls and had a scrumptious burger and fries. On Friday we saw EYB at HOB. This band, Trailer Park Choir opened for them. If you have never seen a 300 pound man do the worm, you must youtube them and see if someone has gotten a video of it. Good gracious it was funny. Not exactly a band I would choose to open for EYB, but it was certainly different. EYB sounded fabulous. Way better than the week before in Corpus. I won't mention what I thought of that show.....Saturday I met up with Heather at Adairs. That was fun. Never a dull moment there! Then Sunday we went to the first TXRDR backyard bar-b-que in Ft. Worth to see some Mike Eli acoustic greatness. He played a new song he wrote with Blu Sanders, "War On A Desperate Man." So freakin good. I heart him.

Last weekend I hardly made it out of the house because I started getting sick. And well I've already mentioned how my week has been. Tonight I'm going to try and make it to Jason Boland at Hanks with everyone. Hopefully my head will either explode before then or I'll be sporting my cool cotton in my ears. Everyone will be jealous I'm sure!

Everyone have a Happy Easter!

I forgot I had a blog apparently.....

Or maybe I just haven't been into writing. I hardly get on the computer anymore since I have the iPhone that checks everything from e-mail to facebook to twitter. What did I do before the iphone? Oh yeah, I blogged....
Well I have no idea what I wrote about last time, so let me tell you what I've done the past few weekends....
Saturday before last I went with Deidre to see Solly at The AllGood Cafe. We ate at Monica's before heading 3 doors down or whatever to AGC. Interesting place, I had never been there for a show. Some random man named Bob who is supposedly in some movie about him or something was there. I'm positive he wasn't all there mentally. But, he brought his little casio keyboard and an American flag and his hard hat. While Solly played he stood in front of the stage, faced the audience and held the keyboard up and bopped his head. When he got tired of that, he sat down put on his hard hat and waved his American Flag while drinking his coke. The show was over before 10 so Deidre and I headed to Adairs. Nate Kipp or someone was playing. I just remember him playing alot of covers. I only remember this because I drank 5 redbull/vodkas in one night. You read that right. Michelle came out after her shift to hang out with us. We met some random guy who told us that he started coming there when we were probably 12. He proceeded to tell us that he loved everybody because he was rich. Apparently he's worked hard all of his life...you know like none of us apparently do. I won't be mean though because not only did he buy us a round of drinks but when he got ready to leave he gave us $100 to pay our tab at the end of the night. We tried to give it back to him, but he was insistent. We just had to hug him a few times and talk to him, so thank you to the powers that be for that nice gesture :) I'm sure Lil Joel was enjoying the $30 or so tip he got with the change. Other random things from the night include fake purses, drunk grandmas, grandmas in fur, propositions for make out sessions in the beer closet, and singalongs with the band. The next day was not very pleasant. I barely made it from the bed to the couch and back.
Fast forward to this past weekend. Deidre and I went to the North TX Irish Festival at Fair Park on Friday night. We were done with it by 9:30. So where else should we go but Adairs for Owen Temple. I really like Owen Temple. Not only is he really nice, I actually enjoyed his music. I had a whopper of a headache by the time I was ordering my 2nd drink. Lil Joel graciously had some excedrin to give me. Excedrin, a coke, and a grilled cheese sandwich cures most headaches, I'm sure of it. I didn't drink anything close to like I did the weekend before, so all in all it was fun. Some random things from that night include, "I don't remember seeing kilts when WE were in Ireland," ice fight between Deidre and Big Joel, Deidre's new liquor closet bedroom, $3 koozies as opposed to my free one, designing koozies, bathroom plungers, and realizations that the reason Deidre and I are single is because we aren't the girl right now we are the type of girl you marry.
On Saturday night we went to see some Brauns at Hanks. Stu made a last minute roadtrip up here for the show...I mean it was his birthday and all! Chanda came out too. It was like a friend reunion show....minus Sara, Heather, V, and Jamie. Ok, so maybe it wasn't but I saw people I haven't seen in a really long time. We even ran into Adam from galleywinter. Most memorable comment (made by Stu), "I love you Gary Braun. Gary Braun you make my heart smile." So when the show was over, because shows are usually over at Hanks before 12, we all headed to, you guessed it, Adairs. I think I'm becoming a regular. I know nothing about Emory Quinn who was playing. I'm sure he was singing, but I don't remember one thing about him. It was crowded. There were cute boys. Chanda taking 1000 pictures. Mike Mancy sighting. Drunk Stu dancing. And a million other things going on. I had 2 drinks and a large water. It was fun. I wasn't happy about getting home at 4 when it was really 3, but what's a girl to do. I think I've had more of a social life in the past 2 weeks than I have in a year.
I have officially put myself on an Adair's hiatus until Drew Kennedy plays there on the 26th.
On this weeks agenda: Thriving Ivory at The Loft on Thursday, St. Patty's Day parade with the girls on Saturday, then my favorite Kristin's b-day whirlyball party Saturday night, "The Pajama Game" musical with mom on Sunday afternoon, and then Adele at the Granada with Deidre and Michelle that night. Looks like I'm gonna be busy once again....
T-minus 1 week until spring break with Jamie in Aransas Pass. yay!

If you need a good laugh...

Go see "New In Town." The entire theater was full on Friday night and we all laughed throughout the entire movie. Sometimes I just need to see a movie that I don't have to think about, one I can just watch and laugh and then go on about my life.

So we got the next section of our fence put up this weekend. My dogs are happily back home after being kenneled for a week. They were exhausted last night and slept quietly!

I had a good time at Heather's house on Sunday for the superbowl. I saw people that I don't get to see near as often as I like to. I may be the only one besides Tracey who was less than impressed with the commercials during the game. So, if I never see another superbowl game, I think my life will continue! I'm not really that avid of a football fan, I really just went to see everyone that was going to be there. I'm a social football enthusiast perhaps.

Not much going on this week. I hope everyone has a good week!

Bad weather days

So I just got news that dance is cancelled for tonight. I'm not really happy about it seeing as I have to make the classes up some Saturday before June. I'll get over it though....probably about the time I get home and realize I can put on my fleece pants and lay around all afternoon. haha

I had chicken noodle soup and a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch. Am I the only one who still eats Campbells soup from a can? And I heat it in the microwave without adding water because I don't like it all watered down.

I'm sore from digging post holes this past weekend for our fence. The muscles around my armpits hurt and my hands. I feel like an old woman complaining about my joints and arthritis. It's just sore muscles but man can it make you feel like crap! Obviously I need to work out. And I have more fence duty to look forward to this weekend. I'm just hoping to be done so I can make it to Heather's for the Super Bowl party! This means no roadtrip to Lubbock for RRB/EYB this weekend either. Things I do for my freakin' dogs.....haha j/k

I've finished reading all the Stephanie Plum books. I've finished the Stephanie Meyers books. I've done more reading in the past few months that I have ever, except for college, but that was mandatory reading so it doesn't count! I need suggestions on what to read next. I just picked up "The Song Reader" by Lisa Tucker. And so far it's really good.

Thanks to V for getting me hooked on secrettweet. I swear some of those tweets could be written about me or by me. And like Tracey said it makes my life seem relatively NORMAL. I feel like making some random tweet on there...one that all of you will know that I posted just to see if anyone sees it. haha I need a life.

A new year begins....

So I started off the year at Lori's apartment with her, Deidre, Jordan, and Jake. Lori's son is so cute. He came into the room and hugged Deidre and I and said, "Thank you for coming. Happy New Year." We watched "Mamma Mia," drank wine then champagne, watched the ball drop in NYC, then rung in the New Year on channel 8. The best part of the night was Jordan watching the Jonas Brothers on tv. She was trying to record it with her phone. OH! And she took me to her room to show me the life-size cutout of Joe Jonas hanging on her wall that she got for Christmas...I kid you not she opened the door and I was taken back to 1988 when my walls were adorned with NKOTB, especially Joey Mac. Her room looked just like mine, just a different generation and a different band.

Friday night I went to a baby shower for my friend, Maritza, who was in town from NYC for the holidays. I've known her since we were in jr. high. And the funny thing is, we both look just like we did back then. I don't think either one of us has aged! haha I was glad to see her. We used to see each other twice a week, but since she got married and moved to NYC I've seen her maybe twice in the past 1 1/2 years! I've missed her! It was fun hearing about her new life up there.

New Year's Eve morning my friend's Mom died. We all knew it was coming. She had been battling illness and was just diagnosed with a brain tumor, so they've basically been keeping her pain free until the inevitable. I spent Saturday attending the funeral. Now funerals are sad, but they always bring people together that haven't seen each other in a long time. I experienced this. I enjoyed seeing these people despite the reason we had all come together.

Saturday evening Mom and I went to half-priced books. The whole time I'm piling books in the carrier I'm hearing an old college professor yelling at my class about never buying a book a half-priced books because the author never gets one cent of that money. Well, then don't sell your damn hard back books for $30 or more. So, to spite him, I spent $100. Go me!

Sunday I got had lunch with my grandparents! We met at our favorite Chinese food. It was so yummy! I'm so lucky to still have a set of grandparents still alive that I can spend time with. I am blessed.