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Monday, August 28, 2006

"Responsilibrities"

Why is it that all day long I think of a thousand and one things I want to post about but when I finally have the time I don't remember any of it?
I started class last thursday. I'm going to love my Petrology class, Geochem is sorta boring because there are only 3 people in the class and my prof is a tad bit too technical. Calculus should be a breeze this semester and Geomorph was alright today. I'm looking at about 6 weekend field trips and a term paper. Other than that I'm thrilled to be back in the swing of things and very glad to know that my Tarkington experience did not suck all the intelligence from my brain.
Brian started school tonight. He's got class on Monday and Wednesday night till 10 pm which puts him home around 11pm, bleh. Tonight I'm bored to death without him. However I am enjoying the house to myself to do my homework and just chill.
We've had the kids for the past two weekend in a row. Angelina is a doll and she's stuck to me like glue the whole time she's here. But Blade is different. I guess because he's older and a boy. I'm sure resentment has set in and it might take him some time to warm up to me. I must say it's been a transition I wasn't even aware of, having the kids around. I find myself all too easily slipping into the Mom role. Although I'm far from one of my own. Not till at least 28, probably 30. I've still got some things to accomplish before I tie myself down too much.
Other than that life has settled itself into an easy flow. We get up, go to work, go to school or visit family, and go to bed. Our families are meshing all too well. Brian's dad is in for the week and staying with us. My mother told me I've made a terrible mistake because now that Brian is here we are outnumbered and will probably never get our way again, haha! He and Dad are quite the formidible force when they so choose. My Uncle and Brian are the 'dream team' at work becuase they are of course the fastest and the best. My Dad has so much hope for Brian and sees all the potential I see. He's so excited about school and loves working with Dad. I'm definately pleasantly suprised becuase in all honestly I wasn't completely sure he had it in him. I hoped and I prayed, but I stood back and watched and let him take control and he's done exactly what he needed to. I'm very proud of him. We've come a long way in our relationship.
And in the interest of comic relief I'll leave you with a nugget of genius from my current favorite Ali-G
Was the big band louder than drum 'n' bass?

♥Oh, so vintage... 8:55 PM

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Is it wrong to start planning the wedding before he's technically "asked"?
I mean we've talked about it numerous times. I know I want to marry him, but I want a winter wedding and I want to wait till I'm finished with this year of school. So that leaves next winter. I'm thinking January-ish, What do you think?

♥Oh, so vintage... 9:26 AM

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Friday, August 11, 2006

Well when the wind don't blow in Amarillo
and the moon along the Gunnison won't rise...
Time to spend 24hours straight in a vehicle with my parents without losing it, haha. Not really, but this time tomorrow I'll be in North Texas Colorado bound. From Raton to Gunnison to Crested Butte and back again. I can't wait. Going to Colorado is like going home for me. Be prepared for fabulous pics and great stories!
I'm going to miss my baby though. Have I mentioned lately that I LOVE THAT MAN!!!???
alright see ya in a few.

It's snowing on Raton
Come morning I'll be through them hills and gone

♥Oh, so vintage... 1:52 PM

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Friday, August 04, 2006

Amy

It's time to talk about Amy. I just received an email from Ashley, her twin sister. It reminded me that I have neglected to talk about someone who was so very special to me and to honor her in the way in which she deseved to be honored.

Amy was on my drill team for two years at Tarkington High School. She graduated this year and she and her twin sister ran to me before anyone else. I remember being so happy and touched that they would want to share such a special achievement with me. I knew the both of them and how hard they had worked to get through high school. I taugh the underachievers who couldn't be bothered to apply themselves. These two girls were nothing of the kind. They worked harder than any of the students I had.
Amy was a light. She was the girl everyone on the team was friends with. The one everyone went to because they knew she was the voice of comfort. I watched Amy go through hardship after hardship and I watched her come out stronger and more beautiful after every one. She received the smile award at dance camp because she ALWAYS had a smile. She was absolutely precious.
I remember being so proud of her when she walked across that stage with that beautiful smile. I had written her a note as I did all my senior girls. I was blessed because we do not always have the opportunity to tell the ones we love how we really feel about them. I told Amy how proud I was of her and I told her that I knew she was going to go away to college and do wonderfully in that note.
Its always the ones we "least expect", or the ones who "didn't deserve it" that leave us so early. Monday evening after the weekend of graduation I was checking my message that I had allowed to pile up in an effort to wind down from the last week of school. One of them was from a former student. It said Amy and Ashley had been in a bad accident. Ashley was ok, but Amy wasn't wearing her seatbelt and she was in critical condition. To make a long hard story short she fought with all of her heart for two solid weeks. We even lost her once. I remember my girls calling me and being so upset. I just kept reassuring them that Amy was going to be fine. Because really I believed it. I didn't have a bad feeling about it and I had faith that my Amy would be ok. However, Amy had greater things to accomplish looking after all of us elsewhere than she had left to do on Earth. I keep her name card from her graduation invitation on my rearview mirror and have since I learned of her accident. The funeral and the viewing were hard on the girls. Most of them had never seen a dead body and all of them had special memories with Amy.
The hardest part for me was seeing her twin sister. Ashley seemed so grown up in such a short time. She came to me and told me they put her purse in the casket with her and that when she was looking through it she found the note I had written her. I pretty much lost it then.
What do you say about death? It affects us all quite differently. I told her mom was a blessing she was to all of us. She was so badly broken and swollen that it didn't even look like her in the coffin.
Amy I will always be so proud of everything you accomplished in your beautiful 19 years with us. I love you and miss you dearly.

♥Oh, so vintage... 11:33 AM

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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

I know the greatest secret EVER and it's kicking my butt not to tell anybody!!!

♥Oh, so vintage... 7:47 AM

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