Girlfriends

I have two good college friends named Jamie and Mary.
Jamie is a foot model. She models for different catalogs such as JC Penney and the like. She loves her job and is very successful at it, although she does have a bit of fungus under her big toe. Jamie use to be a soccer player and was "discovered" one day after a big game. She had put on her sports sandals and an agent who happened to be at the game noticed her feet and set her on her path of success.
Mary is a dancer. She travels around doing one-woman routines. The reason for the one-woman routine is that she also has anxiety. She becomes very anxious around other people. She dances beautifully but she must make sure to not make eye contact with anyone in the audience. It can be disastrous for her performance if she does. She does not like to talk with people to whom she is unfamiliar.
I met with the both of them this weekend in Michigan City to watch Mary perform.
Well, that's the story we told Frank, a guard at the Indiana State Penitentiary. We did indeed go to Michigan City....but it was strictly for a girls weekend away! Saturday was rather dreary so we ended up an Irish bar named Ryan's and didn't leave for 7 hours! That's where we met Frank! I'm not real sure that he believed the whole story or if he was just going along for the ride. In any case, it all just rolled off my tongue and took a life of it's own! Although I wasn't sure if Frank was beginning to tell stories of his own when he told me that his side job is to voluntarily teach people how to shoot firearms. OK then....
It was a great weekend. A LOT of laughing. And because we don't get to see each other too often, a lot of catching up. I love those girls! I love all my girlfriends. Each little circle is different from the other. Each circle provides me with different experiences and conversation. But ALWAYS, each circle is abundantly full of laughter! What a wonderful common thread!

St. Patricks Day and Rites of Passage

Another good St. Patricks Day! Lunch at 12:30 with the husband and kids before heading out for the day with my girls! At Crowleys by 2:30 and didn't walk out till 7:30. We only go there on St. Pat's Day...see our favorite bartender "Tom-dog", drink some beers and share some laughs with our friends from years past, and always meet some new ones! It's just a fun day....lots of laughing! Well, except for the traditional cry between me and my sister over missing our Dad....the man who made us believe that St. Patricks Day is a national holiday! By 7:30 it was down to just me and the sister...we called G. for a ride home...well, not really home, just a bar closer to home. Our personal taxi dropped us off and was on call for when I officially was ready to call it a night...at 1am I threw in the towel and called my man to come get me. I was done. However, I did have him run me through the Chili Time drive thru for a quick cheese coney! I also reminded him of what a good husband he is. He appreciates hearing that!
Needless to say, I was feeling a bit rough yesterday! I let A. drive to his girlfriends house for the first time. It's a 20 minute drive on the highway and I was worried till he was safe at home. I hugged him the minute he walked in the door and said a little prayer of thanks. I was thinking about how when they are little and you take them for walks in their stroller, and then they want to walk , and then they ride their bikes and you tell them to "wait at the corner for me", then you let them ride their bikes to a friends house and "call when you get there"....all those rites of passage...this is just one more. Hard to relinquish the control that comes with each step...but a part of growing up just the same. If I could have one wish, I would wish that I could have 1 week of my kids being 2, 5, and 6 again. When the back yard was as big as their world got. A week of Power Rangers, and Barney, and lunch on top of the jungle gym ,and filling the plastic baby pool, and nap time, and walks to the park. I miss all of that soooo much. I like the young people they're becoming....but I miss my babies! It won't be long and they'll be out with me for the duration on St. Patricks Day...and then G. can come pick us all up, and I'll tell him "you're still a good husband"

Question

I'm just wondering if anyone out there has ever been to Savannah and/or Tybee Island?
If you,or anyone you know, has ever visited...please share...just looking into a few ideas for summer trips!

Once again...missed out on tickets to Jimmy Buffett. They sold out in 15 minutes. I guess that's God's way of saying "girl, you're getting too old for that!". HOWEVER....I refuse to believe that I am getting, or will ever be, too old for St. Patricks Day!! The party begins 12:30 on Saturday...I'll recap it all for you after the event!! (maybe not all!)

Erin Go Bragh!
S.

My Crew!

Just learning how to do all of this fun stuff on here like everyone else!!
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PS. The time is changing tonight and so is my template...I'm just the kinda gal who likes to change things up a bit!

Bring It On....

It is so beautiful outside today that I can hardly contain myself!!
A wonderful 60 degrees and sunny!
Gary has the Harley out and shining it up....I know he's about ready to crap himself...he's been waiting so long for this day.
I'm sure the kids are in school, staring out the window and making plans on how to spend this day as soon as they are sprung!
The dog is not quite as eager to get back inside the house.
I'm feeling good, and hopeful, and happy....all those things that Spring seems to bare.
Ahhhhh...life is good.
We have to believe that.
We all have to believe that.
S.

With all it's sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
It is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
-Max Ehrmann

C-R-A-Z-Y

So I was at the gym last night, walking on the tread mill, well, barely walking because my damn foot hurts so bad...ANYWAY...watching the TV, when I heard something I just couldn't believe!!! Anna Nicole's first husband (I think they were married) Danny, father of her beloved Daniel, wants to have Daniel's body exhumed and moved back to the U.S....WHAT???? This man has had no contact with this boy, no father/son relationship ever existed, and now he wants him closer to him...Too late, buddy!! Now, according to the report, this is all a ploy, he is incahoots with crazy lookin' Vergie who wants Anna buried in Texas. Anna's request was to be buried next to her son. So if Daniel is moved back to Texas, they then feel it would be ruled that Anna should also be moved to Texas. Give me 5 minutes with these two...I will smack the shit out of them!! Are they really that ignorant? Are they that self-involved? What do they have to gain by this crazy notion? Not a daughter, not a son, that was already lost. They were survivors (to some degree) in this world without the help of Vergie and Danny..THEY ARE GONE NOW, V AND D, THEY ARE NOT ALIVE IN THOSE BOXES BURIED 6 FT. BENEATH THE GROUND!!
I surely hope some Judge does not rule in Danny's favor...'cause then I'd have to smack the shit out of him too!!
P.S. Excuse my language!