So I have dreams about Dolly Parton. I admit it. I think this is because she is my FAVORITE singer/song writer/ performer/ overall star personality.
Nine times out of ten when I listen to my iPOD I choose my Dolly play list. Why you ask? Because I know all of the songs and I like them!
Any who, last night I had a dream about her. My Mom, my brother, and I were at a Dolly concert. It was in a really nice small venue and I was in heaven.
After Dolly finished singing, this announcer guy came onto the stage and told everyone that we were all going to have a meet-and-greet with Dolly! I was BEYOND EXCITED.
For those of you who know me well, know that I have always said that I don’t think I would want to meet Dolly in real life because she is on a pedestal in my mind. And if I were to met her and she was having an off day or something and was mean to me, my whole world would be crushed.
So let’s go back to my dream. After the announcer said that we were going to have a meet-and-greet with Dolly, she came and sat down close to us while her area was being prepared for the meet-and-greet.
I was talking to my family when my Mom and brother said they would give me there meet-and-greet time so I would have THREE times as much time with Dolly.
I started clapping because I was excited and Dolly turned around and look at my square in the eyes and rolled her eyes and sighed really loudly. I was shocked!
She then turned around and said something rude to the person sitting next to her. Something like, I cannot deal with these types of people, don’t they have a life
I started crying and begging my Mom to take me home.
Of course you can imagine what kind of nightmare this was for me! I woke up from my dream with real tears in my eyes and I was crying!
I cannot believe she acted like that in my dream, AS IF. I know she would never do that to me in real life and I will never find out BECAUSE I am really never going to meet her now! What a nightmare!
Mysteriously, the apple stems and stickers have disappeared from the selection of daily fruit offered to me. I smell a conspiracy here :) However, I still glare at the water fountain everyday and think about how clean it is. I am a rebel!
Seems like time is flying by these days! Andrew and I have been super busy these past few weeks. Andrew has been getting into soccer (with Danyel's help ;) He really likes it and I kinda like it because it gives me some "Amy" time. We are going to Galveston for July 4th. I got a really good deal on a room at the Hotel Galvez. I think that minitrip should be fun! Then in September we are going to LAS VEGAS baby! I am excited to be going to Las Vegas, and even more excited that I will be there for my 30th b-day! YYIIPPEE! More to come on that later!
I believe God sends each of us a handful of true friends during our lifetime.
One of mine is moving away.
Tonight, our families went out to dinner. We had a great time and the thought of Mel Mel not actually being here in Houston did not hit me until we went to say goodbye for the evening.
In that instant, my heart broke into a million little pieces. I felt "the lump" grow in the back of my throat. That lump was the ONLY thing that held back the tears that swelled like waves behind my eyes.
I managed to look at the ground, at the tree in her yard, at anything besides Mel Mel to keep from crying. In my glances, I could tell that she had "the lump" too.
I held in the sadness as long as I could while saying our goodbyes. But as soon as I got into my car, much like a tsunami, the waves of my tears came crashing down. My emotions overcame me and I bawled like an inconsolable child all the way home.
Andrew tried to comfort me with his words and promises that we would go and visit often. I think at that moment in time, he would have promised me the world to make my tears stop.
But they didn't stop.
With each of his promises, I cried a little more.
While I am excited, happy, overjoyed, you name it for Mel Mel and her family, I am tremendously sad inside.
I am sad that I won't have her here physically beside me.
I am sad that I won't have a lunch/movie/bitch about everything date that is just a phone call away.
I am sad that I won't see Sweet Baby James grow up before my eyes.
I am sad that James might not remember me as Aunt MeMe.
Obviously, I am sad for a lot of reasons (all of which are extremely selfish!) but I am also happy for them for a lot of reasons. BUT damn it I am gonna miss them! I really am!
I wish them all of the best that this life has to offer. I wish them happiness and contentment in knowing that they are in the place they need to be and that they are back home.
I know what it is like to yearn to be back home. I don't think a day goes by that I don't wish I were back in Lubbock. Back where it feels like home.
Goodbye Britt family! Be safe. Be careful. Be happy. And remember that your Houston family loves you too!
This morning, I was walking into the building and this guy almost knocked me over, literally. I was just about to open the door and his happy ass walked right in front of me and just FLEW in. I was like, what the hell. I looked around to see if anyone else was around and there was no one. You know, it was kinda like when you park you car way far out in the parking lot and someone, some idiot, parks right next to. WHY? There are like 100 empty spaces all over the place, but OH NO, they park right next to you. You have to look around and wonder, what was this person thinking, or at least that is what I was thinking when this go-getter almost knocked me over. There are like six other doors he could have walked his little happy ass through, but OH NO he chose the one I was walking in. F*CKER.
Someone asked me what my office looks like, so here are some pictures....
Just like the good ole' days! I wish I would have gotten a picture with Bubby, Mel, and James. Oh well! I was too busy gabbing!
What a time! Busy, busy, busy. I had something to do and/or someone one to see the WHOLE time Sparky was gone to FL.
Wednesday night-Sommer, Alison (with baby Emma), Cara, and I hung out over at my house. We ordered Mexican food, drank beer, and talked! It is also so nice to see the butterfly girls :)
Thursday night-Melody and I went to dinner at the Olive Garden. I realized how much I miss her! It has been a little over a month since I left that evil place, but I miss my Melo Shulsie :) She was great company!
Friday night-Sharon and I went to the new Studio Movie Grill (over off of Hwy 6). It was really cool. You buy your tickets and then you stand in this line. Then they let you in the theater and you order your food. Then the movie comes on, the food arrives, and you eat and watch the movie at the same time. Pretty cool! We saw the Divinci Code and it was also very very good!
Saturday-I got Carsten in the morning time. We had some errands to run, so we did those, he took a nap, and then we went to James' b-day party. We had a blast! I love being around Bubby! He is Aunt Meme's little Angel! I also got to catch-up with Karol, Lisa, and Mel.
Sunday-Cara and Danyel came to pick up Bubby Sunday morning :( Then I laid around the house and tried to take a nap and watch a movie. I did manage to watch Memoirs of a Geisha (very very good) and cook some fried rice (the fried rice is a Laffitte specialty). Sparky came home around 8-ish. He looked like something the cat drug in, but he still managed to stop at the store and buy me roses! Always a romantic. I would not touch him until he took a bath though :)
Sparky came home Monday night! I was so excited to see him. We had a nice evening catching up. He came to have lunch with me yesterday. I am so glad to have him home!
I have been talking about my OCD problems lately, so here is another OCD problem that affects me everyday.
A few months ago I saw a cat get hit by a car. It was very traumatic for me because I love animals and because it really pisses me off when people do not take care of their animals, but I digress.
So every day since that day, I have been obsessed with looking for animals on the side of the road, preferably LIVE animals that I can rescue.
At first, Andrew was cool about my new obsession to save all of the animals in the world.
NOW, after months of me screaming that I see an animal on the side of the road and it turning out to be trash or what have you, he is ANNOYED! I can see why he would be annoyed, because I am starting to get annoyed at my obsession!
Any who, the other day I was driving home from work on 529. For those of you that are not familiar with 529, 529 has six lanes (three lanes going each direction), so it is a very large road.
So I am driving down 529, and all of the sudden I see people swerving. My heart starts to skip a beat and I start to get upset. Then I started to see pink colored stuff all over the lanes.
I wanted to start crying because I just knew for sure it was an animal. Then I started to think that whatever animal it was, it must be a large animal because the pink stuff is all over the road. I made a quick decision in my mind that it was a horse. Yes, a horse.
As I get closer to the scene, I started to get more upset. I started yelling to myself, “WHY, WHY, WHY do people not take care of their pets?”
At that moment, I talk myself through the situation. I told myself that the animal is in a better place now, blah blah blah (Even though my Grandmother scared me for life when she told me as a small child that animals do not go to heaven because they do not have souls, but I digress).
Finally, as I approached the scene I said a little prayer to myself and closed my eyes. Obviously, since I was driving, I had to open my eyes back up and when I did guess what I saw?
It was not a horse, or a dog, or a large cat, or a person (heaven forbid).
The pink stuff all over the road was the guts of watermelons! YES, WATERMELONS! All over the road!
Someone had lost about a 100 watermelons and people were swerving so they didn’t run over these giant watermelons!
As I drove over the scene, I was relieved that it was not an animal and I thought to myself, what a pleasant smell that is coming through my car air vents. IT SMELLS LIKE WATERMELONS!