Unexpected Date Night

Yesterday we did alot of relaxing during the day. We spent the morning getting FOUR new tires on my car and then we came home to sit. I took two naps. Don't get me wrong, this was a very rare thing for us. A completely free Saturday? Never happens. So as the afternoon moved into evening, we both started saying "let's do something".

Last night was the first LSU home game, so we knew that we basically had the entire city as our playground. No one else in the city of Baton Rouge would be doing anything but watching that game! So, we did something neither of us have ever done before. We went to see a show at the planeterium!

The only thing showing was called "Cosmic Rock". It was basically a bunch of screen saver looking things set to heavy metal music. It was fantastically well done, but we both came to the conclusion that to get the full effect we probably should've taken some LSD or Acid before the show. I've never been on an acid trip, but that show was what I think it would be like! It was very cool but I was a little dizzy afterwards!

After that we went and had dinner at a Hibachi steakhouse. We sat with the nicest people. There were 2 women with their 2 daughters who were from The Woodlands (Holla back to Texas, ya'll!) and then the sweetest family on our left. That sweet sweet family overheard our conversation with the Texas people and when the check came they tried to buy our dinner since we were newlyweds! How sweet!!

My sweet husband thanked the man several times but insisted that we pay for our food. (It wasn't too cheap). It was a wonderful thing to offer and it made me feel all gooey inside. There are such nice people in this world!!

It was a wonderful date night that was totally unplanned but we had a great time.

Anyways, we're going to church in a little while. I should probably get moving since my hair is still wrapped up in a towel. I'm sure this looks really attractive!

Happy Thoughts

Okay, so my last 2 posts have been very sad, and anytime I read them I get all blaaaaaaah again. So I'm going to have a cheery post! Here are my happy thoughts:

1. Our dog, Moxie, when Grant gets home from work. It's quite the performance.

2. My niece Scarlett saying "Mine".

3. My niece Grace with her enthusiastic squeals and smiles.

4. My niece Juliet when she gets excited. (She flaps her arms like a little bird).

5. Laying on the couch reading a magazine under a big comfy blanket while my dog is on my feet chewing on his rope and my husband is watching golf.

6. Christmas!

7. Looking through my wedding album

8. A clean closet!

9. The Olive Garden breadsticks

10. Curling up on the couch while Grant is out playing golf and watching a cheesy Lifetime movie.

11. Remembering hot tub days with my besties!

12. Broadway show soundtracks

13. Making up a song off the top of my head and hearing my sister somehow sing the words with me in unison. Freaky.

14. My sister Shannon's laugh.

15. Being in the car with my parents while mom and I intentionally annoy the heck out of my dad.

16. Dad getting kolaches.

17. Grant calling me "Sweet Girl"

18. Worship on Sunday mornings

19. Pedicures

20. Double dates with Chase & Ronda

21. Talking to Joanna Montana on the phone

22. The Houston Children's Chorus

23. Sitting at the Brian Regan stand up comedy show with Lindsee, wetting our pants.

24. Knowing that I only have 3 weeks left for the season premier of The Office!

25. Watching Tinkerbell fly at Disney World.

26. The nervous-excited feeling I would get right before I went on stage for a musical.

27. Movie nights with my husband

28. The fireplace at my parents house and the big comfy chair in front of it.

29. My mom's mashed potatoes.

30. IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Lord for your many blessings!

Donna Jo

I've never blogged about this for some reason. Maybe I was in denial, I don't know. My dad's little sister, my Aunt Donna Jo, was diagnosed with cancer over two years ago. She has fought very long and fought very hard. Things have taken a turn for the worse. She is now in hospice care and she wants to go home this weekend so she can spend her final days there.

She is only 50 years old and none of this seems right to me. My dad is having a hard time but he sent an email out this morning to the family, a poem by Robert Browning. I thought it was a beautiful image:

"I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then some one at my side says: 'There, she is gone!'
'Gone where?'
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when some one at my side says: 'There, she is gone!' there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: 'Here she comes!' "

It is comforting for me to know that she is on her way to be with our Lord and Savior. She is indeed going home.

I'll keep everyone updated. Please pray for my grandparents, her husband Kerry, and my cousins Tony, Katie and Joey.

WOW

What a day it has been, and it's only 9:30. Grant and I didn't get back from Houston last night until well after midnight. We were absolutely exhausted. I woke up this morning, and felt beyond sick. I have a headache, I ache all over, I think I have a fever and my throat hurts really bad. But, I had to go to work since I took yesterday off. So I got ready as usual, and I left the house a few minutes early so I could stop at Walgreens to get some medicine.

I pulled out of my parking spot and started heading towards the main road, and then "thud thud". Flat tire. Again. Another flat tire! I am so tired of this! So I call Grant, head back to the house, take Grant's spare key and took his car to work. And I got here late cause I still stopped at Walgreens.

Honestly, we need to put 4 new tires on that car. I just don't know if we can handle that financially right now. And I feel so bllaaahhhh that its hard to get any work done. I have to get stuff done though cause I'm a day behind!

Hopefully this DayQuil will work...........