Austin

Settled.Grateful.Excited.Sleepy.Warm.Happy. Home.

moving

I've decided moving is a desperate, stressful, almost hit your wall, better do it with your family so you can yell at them, spiritual experience.  You could say I've hit my wall.  Without my wonderful family - I'd still be in the fetal position laying in the grass somewhere between SLC and Big D. 

Heavens to betsey I had no idea just how heavy my crap is!! There might have been a moment today where I wanted to swear off all possessions and resort to a life in a teepee somewhere in New Mexico. Whenever I have my run away fantasy - it is always this.

I knew this wouldn't be easy, I knew it wouldn't.  I've been so sure that this move was the right thing that I hadn't really thought the logistics through. Today, with my neck completely locked up (the good Lord knows he can keep me down with a really good kink in my neck) and me running on fumes, I really had to just sit down and watch.people.help.me.  Watch them sweat and strain and push and pull and lift and tug just.for.me. I had to accept it, I had to say no to my inner self crying to get up, do it all myself and then make them all a big supper.  It was hard but I think it really is okay to take some help when it is needed. I think.

Because I am at my wall, I hired to big dudes to come and unload the uhaul tomorrow when we get to Austin.  I may be poor, but I am not crazy.  I think sometimes saving money and doing it myself is really more a show of my pride than my frugality. Two big dudes meeting my rig at 3pm tomorrow - you are the best damn $90 I've ever spent.

Almost there

I'm laying in my old bed at my dad's house in Dallas. My sister and I just drove from Salt Lake to Big D in 2 days... long drive but beautiful-man, the West is gorgeous. I'll be here a few days, load a very small uhaul with everything I own (and lots I don't), and head south on I-35 towards Austin.

I am so grateful PK made the trip with me. The old me, the attempting wonderwoman, would have done the whole trip alone, on no sleep and in record time. All for what, a prize? I don't want to tell you how many close calls I have had with falling asleep behind the wheel driving home the day after finals. My momma always says I have at least a dozen guardian angels on my side and I am starting to think she was right.

Anyway, on this trip, even with a good night's sleep before, I just couldn't do it. Could stay awake or sit upright or get my eyes to focus. My body really couldnt do it, and it was a good reminder of my new limits that i need to accept (you know, 6+ years after they've arrived). I drove 2 hours and PK did the other 19. As much as I would like to talk my talk and declare that one really can do anything if they make their mind up to it, well- some things one should know better than to even try. I'd still be in some shady motel in Cortez, CO if I hadn't actually accepted help on this one.

Everyone keeps asking me if I am scared of the big move and living in a new place, etc. Honestly, not a damn bit. I am as cool as a cucumber about the whole thing. I know it is where I am needed and where my next little life is ready to start. Officially.

Wonderwoman - recovered.

This made my day.

Couple Take Wedding Photos – 88 Years Late

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Wu Sognshi (left) and Wu Conghan

 

The bride wore white and the groom brought his cane.

Nine decades after they first became man and wife in China, the still-happy couple, Wu Conghan, 101, and his wife Wu Songshi, 103, have gotten around to taking wedding photos.

The pair, married for 88 years, sat for photos recently, recreating their wedding day. According to Today, they wed at a time when cameras were tougher to find.

The centenarians donned wedding apparel for their official portrait. The groom wore a cream suit with black bow tie, while the bride donned full wedding gown, veil and held a bouquet of red roses.

The photos were taken as a part of an initiative by a collective of local photographers in Nanchong, China, located in Sichuan province. The photographers volunteered to shoot the wedding portraits of older couples who could not have photos taken on their wedding days years ago.

In a fitting bit of old meets new, the couple got to instantly see the digital snaps on the photographer's

my veterans

Every year at this time I am amazed at how little I have helped, or even thought about, those many many servicemen and women who do so much, who have done so much, for this country. To those who serve everyday in such dangerous places so far away from home with so little recognition - I am thinking about you. 



And to those little heroes of my own... thank you, thank you!

ps - how cute is my little top gun up there on the top right.  His call sign was, 'big bird.'  Not quite as tough as 'maverick' but when you are 6'4'', you take it. 

pps - remind me to tell you the story of the date I went one whose call sign was 'metro.'  that one should have been my first clue.

not political. promise.

here's to hoping their recent breakup is just a little hick-me-up.  I need them.