Life In a Small Town

I need a hooky day. I've been on the go so much lately....doing this for you, doing that for her, doing the other for them.....I need a *do nothing* for me day. Too bad I don't have time to take one!

I went to the funeral of friend's dad today. He and his wife would've been married 40 years this month. Til Death Do Us Part No truer words were ever spoken. It got me thinking... that statement is true for so many other relationships besides that of a married couple. *for friends *for lovers *for children and parents I sat there thinking about how that could just as easily be my father in the casket. Her dad had cancer, my dad has emphyzema and COPD, but he still smokes, regardless of being on oxygen 24/7. What if it were my father? or my boyfriend? He's got a bad heart...high blood pressure...takes meds and pops nitro like it's candy some days. What if that were him in the casket? or my mother? What would I do without my mother?? Sure, she drives me crazy with her judgemental ways, but ...she's always there for me. What will I do when she's not? I realized that I'm at the age now where funerals will become more frequent in my life. Parents of friends, hu...

Yep..that's what time it is...the ButtCrackofDawn. Could be earlier...I ain't seeing no dawning out there yet. And it's gonna take a helluvalotta Diet Coke to jumpstart my butt today. This week is killing me....but it's nearly over. Our big JA project is Friday night..and if I don't collapse before then, I'll be fine. I've put in so many hours in the past 2 weeks on it...including this morning...being interviewed on the radio at 6:45am...before school. Noone else would do it ....."I can't get up that early"..."I'm doing good to get out of my house by 7:00".."I've got kids to get ready".... Yeh Yeh...Whatever...MEfreakinTOO! So here I am...up...about to rouse my children an hour earlier than normal... going out every afternoon this week hanging more flyers, selling more tickets.... our town is papered in flyers announcing the spaghetti we'll be serving up. We better serve a LOT, for all the work I've done. I...

Finish a thought...... 1. My uncle once took me and my cousin fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off FL's coast, and we caught small sharks and filleted them for dinner. 2. Never in my life will I be a man. 3. When I was five my mom cut my hair so short I looked like a boy, and the girls in Kindergarten wouldn't let me play with them. 4. High school was not such a bad thing. I had friends and boyfriends, and even tho I wasn't a cheerleader or student council representative, I did ok. 5. I will never fully trust anyone to keep a secret, ever again. 6. Once I met my (insert a club) JA friends, I started feeling like I belonged somewhere in this town. 7. There’s this boy I know who steals my heart everytime he smiles at me. (he's 6 yrs old) 8. Once, at a bar, I flashed the doorman to get in w/o paying the cover charge. .....Ok ok...more than once! 9. By noon, My school day is half over, but the curriculum left to teach isn't! 10. Last night, we grilled some AMAZ...