J's Journal

Nappy Who Year!!! hahahaha

Friends are truely amazing. They are always there when you need them. I had a hard Christmas this year. Dear daughter was absent and was without Mom for the first Christmas ever. She moved is all. But it is a hard season to be without your family! I am sorta lonely and you know it is hard to do things all alone. I think my friends know how I have been feeling and have decided to try and fix me up. Hope they have better luck than I have. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Now it feels like December, even if it is just for a couple of days! I LOVE THE COLD!!! Plus, no school for the kids today, my daughter is in heaven!!! Now the only problem is that Tx is unprepared for this kind of weather, so driving to work will be an adventure. Everybody be careful out there today!

Why am I up so early? I just looked in the bathroom mirror and realized I hadn't taken off my face from last night! Went to a totally awesome Christmas party with Santa Gray last night! Something about getting all dressed up in a lovely party dress and party hair still makes me feel like a little girl playing dress up! All you girls out there know exactly what I mean, right? You feel like a princess, going to a ball, all perfect and pretty! Something happens when you pull out your little black dress and slip into it for the party, something sort of Cinderella-ish! At least its that way for me. I have to admit it, I looked good! So did Santa Gray, in his dress up clothes and Santa hat ;), being out with him is always a party, as I'm sure some of you know. So, the party was at Barton Creek, in the hotel, but the invitation said something else. Of course we ended up at the wrong place where a bunch of little kids were having their own party. Imagine their surprise seeing Santa, sans the white beard and big belly, ha ha ha. A few minutes later we arrived at the right place, got some poker chips and grabbed a couple of drinks. So many people, all decked out in their own party attire. I met some nice people, gambled some, which is actually quite freeing when it isn't real money, had a bite and people watched-which I love to do. And all too soon, its over. I had a brilliant idea on the way to the car, as we walked down the hill. Then into the car and back to Santa's for comfy clothes and a bit of snuggling and yummy kisses goodnight. Didn't get to stay over but a very memorable evening! Big plus this morning, still have great party hair, credit my stylist at J. Thomas Salon! Jessika ROCKS!!!! I love party hair!!!

YEAH!!! for cooler weather coming today!

Was just getting in the habit of posting once a week. Hell, I don't even think anyone reads these, just me! ACL was just too much for words! My daughter, neice and a friend of mine went on that last day and just had a kick ass time. Coldplay ROCKED the park! Franz Ferdinand, Jason Mraz, The Bravery, wow! Even the heat and dust weren't so bad with all that music. Hard to get up the next day, but no prob. Later that Monday morning I got a call that my Grandma passed away. It was hard to hear. Even though I knew it was coming, she was getting up there in age, I will miss her, a lot. It was a long week after that. Then Friday went to see Serenity friday night. What a great movie. I miss Firefly, was a big fan. I was so surprised by the packed theatre and the movie had everything, happy, sad, funny. Just the kind of movie a sad girl needs to pick up her spirits!

I am sitting tonight hoping that all is well with my ex-hubbies family in Beaumont, Galveston and Houston. Blessing that Rita took a turn, but that turn may have been for the worst for some people in Louisiana who I pray for everyday. I cannot imagine the loss. I called my daughter's father and found myself saying "If you and the wife need a place to go, you are welcome in our home". Funny how that just jumped out of my mouth! He said "Well Jo, I appreciate that and we may just have to take you up on it." How easily his pet name for me slides across his lips during our conversations. How it warms me when he says it, even now, after all this time apart. I have contacted his family and all is well. I pray all is well and stays well.

Looking forward to the weekend and some down time. It has been go, go, go all week. Can't wait till my sister gets her car fixed. I don't mind helping her out, but she can be so tiring. Even now, she still has all this power over me. She is so mean sometimes, always jab, jab, jabbing away at me. According to her, I don't even drive right. You would think she could find something about me that is not wrong. I just turn and smile and stay oh so quiet.

ACL this weekend!!!

Worked hard all week and it was a tough 'cause I was on call. Sure the little extra money is always nice but it is hard to put life on hold and be tethered to the house by the cell phone! I treasure the two weeks between on calls. So work has been hectic this week, K has been putting in 17 to 20 hours a week for her first PT job. I am so proud of her. Anyway, work hectic and a lot of it, but this weekend has been so awesome. Went to see the Wallflowers at the Backyard with G and had an incredible time. Charlie Sexton opened for them and he was great tool. We danced and carried on, it was great, great, great!!!! The weird part was that it seemed like we were the only ones dancing. I think even the security people noticed we were having a lot of fun, ha ha. I am so glad we got to go, really made my month and the pre and post concert activities were to die for too! Had a bit of a scare on the way home, this white truck with a couple of kids was driving crazy and the guy in the passenger seat was screaming out the window at me when they got close to the car, trying to inch me off the road. Why do people do stuff like that? Don't they know how frightening that can be? Got my hair done Saturday too. Looks fabulous as usual. Hats off to Jessika who takes such good care of me!



"And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know."

My daughter lost her key to the house the other day and has been feverishly looking looking for it ever since Sunday. Now I know she had to have it to get into the house on Sunday, hahaha, so where the heck could that elusive key have gone? So, when did I hear that the key was missing? Monday night, while getting ready for bed. So Tuesday evening after the traumatic doctor appt, off we go to the Ace Hardware store. Not my first choice in places to have a key made, bt hey now, it's the only place here in the big city of DS. You walk into the store and immediately notice on the door that it closes at 7, it's 6:45 when I walk in. So high school boy comes over and says "Can I help you"? I tell him my need for key copies, he takes my house key and off he goes. Four copies later I am out the door, on my way and the store closes behind me! So of course, you know the keys don't work right? Hahahaha! I went back this evening and for the second time came home with keys that did not work! Not losing my sense of humor was key for me at this point plus today I went to the store earlier! Third time was a charm and I am home with several working keys now. YEAH!!!
We just moved here to the big city of DS over the summer. I moved for the sake of my daughter, problems in the AISD. So, we moved from happy home in Austin, where I had lived for eight lovely years. I had everything at happy home. A very spacious apartment, close to shopping, friends, most of my immediate family, work, the gym and well, everything. Now, it takes me 30 minutes to get anywhere, 45 minutes to get to work, it is a major undertaking to get anywhere, see my friends, go to the grocery store at the Y in Oak Hill. Going out on a date, right, another major undertaking. If I go out with friends, I have to spend the night in order to go for more than an hour. Not to mention the fact that I went from 1200 sq ft to 850 sq ft and one bathroom for a teenager and me! Plus there are all kinds of scarey animals out here and icky bugs. I am not good with bugs! Yuck! People in my life refer to me as "the princess", enough said. No one I know lives anywhere near here except my very judgemental and very critical of me sister. Yep, color me crazy I moved two houses away from a woman who does so much damage in my life (long story). I really am finding it hard to like living out here!
DS does have one very awesome thing that the city does not. THE DARKNESS! It is so beautiful out here at night and I am a sucker for the moon and stars! I could stare at them for hours and hours. I love it! And tonight the Moon is so orangey and gorgeous! No street lights, not a lot of houses but a great crescent moon. What a great way to end the day, getting to look out at it.

Tuesdays that feel like Mondays are very strange. A lot of people I know are not "Morning People". I on the other hand, I am not a "Monday Person". Laughingly I say this because I AM a morning person, I love the morning! Quiet, shy but quickly mornings creep up on you and pounce like a kitty, playing with you sweetly and turn you on to the day ahead! I love it. Mondays, now they are a different animal all together, coming on like a bad dream and squashing my Sunday, oh so laid back Sunday evening, watching a movie, laying on the couch and get a massage mood. Tuesdays, they aren't so bad themselves, one day closer to the weekend, until a holiday comes along and turns my Tuesday into a Monday. B(
Had an overall okay day, just so sleepy from a restless night and had a Dr. Appt which is never agreeable. Loads of fun over the weekend. Life is grand!!

Sometimes it's hard. I hate being "the nice girl" all the time. Nice girls do NOT finish first! What's a nice girl to do??

The squeaky wheel gets greased.

So, I have been going out with the girls a lot lately. Heard some very strange things and have translated them for all interested parties! 1: "So, I'm in a band...." Translation: "Please have sex with me because you think I'm cool." 2: "My face is numb!" Translation: "I'm trashed!" 3: "Can I get your number?" Translation: "I think I like you, but won't know until I see you when I'm sober!" 4: "You look so beautiful in this light!" Translation: "Man, I wish there were better lighting in here!" C'mon, there are more! Tell me yours! Everyone has heard a line! This is my first journal entry, I'm having a drink, waiting on a plane, typing in this journal! Did not know what to write and this is my stab at it!!