WOOT!!

KAIA AND AVA ARE COMING!!!!

I am SO excited! I get to keep Kaia and Ava for a couple of weeks (more if I can hustle Brandee) in January!

You guys!!! Is this too exciting or what??

Talk about the best Christmas present ever!

Brandee, you the bomb!

Sobered on a Tuesday

Do you have someone you'd love to go back and be able to say "thank you" to?

Believe it or not, I was watching Good Morning America this morning - (I went to the bathroom after the weather or it would have been switched back to Fox) and they had a lady on there talking about a man who was kind to her in her first year of college.

She was one of those undesirables - overweight, glasses, shy, pimples. She'd been teased unmercifully for her whole school life and only went to college after she'd dropped out of school because it was so bad.

You all know the kind of person I'm talking about.

So she spoke on how this guy was kind to her. He was popular and hot and so girls hung with her because she was his friend. Guys talked to her because he was an 'in' group. He wouldn't let anyone talk trash about her - told them to 'Back off, she's a good friend of mine." He stood by her the whole time he was in college.

She ended up leading a normal life after all just because he spoke to her and drew her in to a better world. She saw a sweeter life because he showed it to her. He allowed her to put a foot in the door of a place she'd never been before - normalcy.

And he wasn't in it for anything but the fact that he saw the way she was treated and not only knew it was wrong but refused to allow it to happen around him. (They reunited after like 30 years on the show and of course I bawled.)

Youth is so given to the wrong people.

What would I give to go back and be the person who stood against that? I saw it happen to others, but while I don't remember actively engaging in the brutality, I didn't stop it either. And it's not because of a "what a wonderful person that Jackie is!" complex. I'ts about not standing in shame before my God.

So I learn and move on. Because that all I can do now.

Amy's got my Back

I crack myself up.

There is this sort of embarrassed pride that I have the (sometimes horrible) habit of speaking my mind. People misunderstand, I use no tact, that's not what they need to hear . . .etc . . .

Like I said, it can be horrible. I get in trouble all the time.

Then I heard myself sluffing something off on Amy. I have to do something really hard and was talking to her. She offered because , hey, what else is she gonna do? and I jumped on it like stink on Brymers breath.

I guess it's good to know that even Jackie has limits. Does this mean there's hope?

It's a Cozy thing

I'm all hyped about the weather change. Man, I LOVE this time of year. Got the fire going, cleaning out under the couch. Doing laundry. Listening to Jade and Nellie snore. And dodging Brymers tongue.

I needed it after 'j to the 5th' left.

There's some stuff coming down the pike I dread. Like with a Capital 'D'. So i think I'll just enjoy the calm while it lasts.

Zicam

I have been fighting off the flu since friday night when Robert pulled into the drive and stated; "I'm getting sick." headache from 'not heaven', running nose, and sore throat . . . .

Oh joy. J to the 5th is coming . .. I finally get a chance to get out and away with my trailer and horses and he is working on getting sick. Peachy.

So we run to the Walmart in Seguin and pick up the Zicam stuff you spray in your mouth (not your nose - how gross is it to have THAT on your counter next to the toothbrushes?) And just because he's all head achy and snorting beside me, I use it.

Never got sick all weekend! How cool was that?

So I come to work today, leaving the zicam at home because "I have beat it but good" and round about 1 o'clock, I get this horrific headache and now my nose is running. The zicam is sitting all alone in my bathroom.

Wadda bummer!

WADDA LOOOSER!

Brymer has been all droopy and stokes at the drop of a hat. I noticed that he had no energy and his hair looked all dull. His breath is four shakes past HORRIBLE! Honestly, like decomposition in August. I was, I feared in the last days of Brymers life.

About three days ago, I saw him doing his best to gum a piece of crust!

The guy can't use his teeth!!!

I am been starving my dog! As soon as I put food to soak up water, it was carnage!

He's so much more perky now.

Age

Found out what's up with my leg - About eight weeks of no riding and physical therapy. Bad buzz. Along with the arthritis, insomnia, more frequent trips to 'void' at night, forgetting little things, unable to run . ..

This age thing . . . man, how come so many people do it? I start laughing about all of it and people think I'm nuts. But what else can you do? When you dwell on it, you get all bummed. But I miss so many things. And I'm not even 50 yet.

I'm so glad longevity does not run in my family.

At my funeral . . .

Remember me with smiles and laughter
For that's how I'll remember you all.
If you can only remember me with tears
Don't remember me at all.

Don't you just love shows that make you cry because they're all sappy?

Case in point: I was watching 'Remember Me' from the Little House on the Prairie show.

Ohmiword!!!! It's about this lady who has three kids and she finds out she's going to die. So she goes before her congregation and tell people that she needs to find a home for them. Then, on her deathbed, she makes Charles vow to take care of it. She has the reverend read that poem (above) at her funeral.

So these people come who just want the boys because they can work the farm, and an old lady comes and just wants the little girl so she can have an heir. No one will take all three. So he's got to split them up.

There I was, ready to go to work, and I was bawling!

Oooooo

I was looking at the clock, thinking that I wanted to just go home. But hours are hours. Looks like I'm going to need'em as I stare at the word 'Obamanation' I have scrawled across my calender. And thinking that our days are now numbered here at work.
Which made me think that I get to now do what I want.
which means clean horses,
which means clean stalls

which means clean trailor,
which means load up trailor,
which means horse show which means Tornado.

This is tornado jumping.

Amazing how the mind works.

Sorry Kim, I couldn't Resist

I learned a cool word today while watching 'Becoming Jane."

"Impecunious" Having little or no money. It's fun to say. But I was wondering . . .

Is the Road to becoming imperurious voting for Obama?