Well. Many things have happened in the last few weeks. Nothing juicy. Just life.
The Trace Adkins concert was so much fun. I might by tickets again for next year. They're pretty pricey, but I think it was worth it. He sang all his fun songs, and he sang "You're Gonna Miss This" which of course made me cry. I tried. I didn't wanna. But I did.
Sean and Josh went deer hunting two weekends in a row. They had fun and didn't shoot anything but cans and bottles. Win-win.
I found some cute pictures on Sean's phone of the fishing trip he took with Josh, his dad, Steve, and Steve's boys.
Brittney had a Halloween party at our house Saturday night. They had lots of fun from the sound of things. We carved pumpkins Sunday and then did trick-or-treat on Monday. Nice weather this year for a change.
Went to a derby meeting tonight. O-Town Derby Dames is merging with Junction City Roller Dolls, so now the juniors will be merging with the Doll House Wreckers. We'll see how it all plays out. There's been a lot of drama, so I'm just hoping things will settle down and we can get some of the kinks figured out.
I decided that I need to make a whole blog just dedicated to my social awkwardness and the dumb things I say. So here are the 3 latest "doh" moments off the top of my head:
At derby tonight one of the skaters (Your Mom) walked by and stopped to talk and she said, "You are beautiful." OK, I am not beautiful, and no one has ever told me that I am. That just doesn't happen to me, so I looked at her, and then I looked around, and I was trying to figure out what the hell she was talking about or who she was talking to. I figured I must have heard her wrong and she was talking about someone else. So I'm sitting there with this "duh" expression, and then she said something about Brittney and I are beautiful and we look alike, and I stammered out a "thank you that's a compliment to me," and felt like an idiot. Ha! Brittney and I were laughing so hard after about how awkward I felt. I hate when people tell my girls they look like me. I'm thrilled, but I don't think they really like it. It's not such a compliment to them, yk?
Next, a co-worker was talking about her pending divorce and what a butthead her husband is being. I wasn't really in on the conversation, but was aware of what it was about. She asked me how I was doing, and I said I was exhausted, and we were commiserating. And then I said something like... But, you know, I'm just grateful for my life. Life is good, right? And then I just felt stupid because life isn't good for her right now. Blah.
OK one more... I made an appointment with a clinic up at UofU to have my eyes checked out and find out why I get a stabbing pain in them almost every day. Since it's UofU they collect stats on their patients and she asked me what my ethnicity is. I said.... Um, white? Like, you know, just normal, regular, whatever... Aack! I didn't mean to say that being white is normal and regular and other ethnicities are not normal and not regular! So then I felt like I needed to explain myself but luckily I just shut up and didn't embarass myself further. I just shouldn't speak I think.
Courtney just started a new job, so I never see her anymore. Boo.
City council elections are next week. Two buzz words that automatically make me not want to vote for a candidate: anything about protecting personal rights/freedoms and anything about values or family values. I find that their values/family values aren't the same as mine usually. The "protecting your rights" candidate came by, so I asked him what he meant by that. He said that he would work to secure our personal property rights. Like, for example, he told me that it's against the law in our city to string a clothesline in your backyard, and he thought that was ridiculous. Sure, it may sound silly at first, until you think about it. I don't want to look out my window and see my neighbor's undies flapping in the breeze. Clotheslines are often ugly, and that's what they're protecting against. I just wanted to ask him if he was really upset because he couldn't dry his laundry outside (he has 5 kids... pretty sure not) or if he's just upset for the sake of being upset. We've had so many problems with the house next door to us and been grateful for city ordinances that protect us as property owners living next to it.
So glad tomorrow is Friday. Brittney's birthday! Yay!
2 comments:
First of all, of course you are beautiful. Have you looked in the mirror? Seriously. And your beautiful girls do look just like you, especially the older 2. So if I haven't told you lately, you are BEAUTIFUL! (Now I know what you're thinking, "No! I didn't post this because I wanted people to tell me that I'm beautiful and now I feel awkward!" Well, too bad! 'Cause you are beautiful!)
Those are some great pictures of Josh. He is so cute. I just love him!
I agree with you on the ordinances being there to protect us from junky, scary neighbors. Some times I think people just pick an issue and then jump on it, regardless of how stupid it is.
That's good to know that you're white and regular and normal. LOL
Your funny. We've all had blah moments where we said the dumbest stuff.
ie on Halloween our head secretary was dressed up as an angel paying homage to her dead horse...so what do i say to her??? Sorry to bug you shari and i'm not trying to beat a dead horse against a pole with my concerns!!! What the was I thinking? Who says that? I'm mean its like not even a real phrase people use. yeah I just need to shut up sometimes.
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