Well, I'm a bit of a slacker. I am waiting until the morning that I'm going back to Texas to blog about my last trip to Texas. I'll just hit the highlights. Mom and I went down there in early March right before our birthdays and we had an okay time staying awake on the ride down there.....the way back was a different story. We pretty much switched off sleeping and driving. On the way down there we did pretty good on time. I had AT LEAST 2 hours or more in between each bathroom stop (which if you know me well that's phenomenal for me, I usually dehydrate myself for trips). We didn't leave until about 1 in the afternoon that day so we pulled into Braums in Oklahoma City late that evening for a bathroom and ice cream stop because Braums has some amazing ice cream! And it was my turn to drive so we switched out and we're exiting the parking lot, I'm behind these people, they put their brakes on to start pulling into this parking spot and so I had some room so I went to the right to go around them to exit the parking lot.....seemed like an okay thing to do, people do it all the time right?? Wrong! Those morons couldn't pull their stoopid car into the parking spot correctly the first time so they start backing out as I'm going around them and I slam on the horn, didn't have enough time to check behind me to make sure there wasn't someone behind me, and they lightly tapped the car. So I'm laying on my horn, mom's yelling at them (and me too probably but I've blocked that) and we get out of the car to look and see if there's any damage. We're looking at the car, and an appropriate 10 seconds has passed and I'm waiting to hear "Oh I'm so sorry did we do any damage to your car?" But did I hear that? NOPE! Those rednecks (and no I don't feel bad calling them rednecks because if I was anywhere in the world I would still call them rednecks) get out of their car, and go to walk into Braums! Are you kidding me! That's insane! So I look carefully at the car and I can't see any damage and I'm looking hard because I really want to rush in there and get them out of the resturant to come look at the paint scratch they've doomed upon the car. But alas there was no scratch or anything so they ate in peace while we steamed about it the rest of the way to Texas. Unbelievable!! Prior to that mom ran over a big piece of tire in the road that you couldn't see until you had already run over it. Poor car. Then there was the big black truck that was swerving a bit in the road and I knew they weren't going to come over into our lane so I stayed calm while mom freaked at me for driving past when they could've run us off the road. Oy. So that was Saturday.
Sunday was uneventful for the most part. Monday grandma was supposed to have her surgery but it got cancelled (naturally since we drove down there so we could help out after the surgery) because some of the lights burned out in one OR and there were several critical surgeries.....so we had some extra good days with grandma pre-surgery. We went out to have lunch at one of mom's favorite mexican resturants and this guy was inches away from getting hit by a car....it was crazy! I could've needed therapy for a LONG time. (no comments necessary, really)
My 91 1/2 y/o grandpa had me outside in his backyard cutting and "pruning" some bush bases or something....idk. I was taking pictures outside and he wanted me to take his picture next to his peach tree. It was super cute. A couple days later he had my aunt Martha and myself digging in the dirt. They had some sewage problems and behind their fence was a hole big and deep enough for a coffin and the backyard had all this hard dirt that was unevenly dispersed and it was driving him nuts because then the grass wouldn't grow evenly. So I wore his overalls and plaid shirt and dug in the hard Texas dirt to make it more even with my aunt, grandpa helped out too. Sure enough an hour later the guys who were supposed to have come and done it a couple days prior showed up to finish up what we didn't get finished....boooooo.
Grandma had her surgery EARLY on Wednesday morning, it all went well. We had to wake up earlier than 6, I just can't bear to write how early it was. I fell asleep in the waiting room (shocker). She did really well and it was interesting to be on the other side of the pt/family member thing. Later that afternoon I went to Hastings and picked up my cousins and we went and ate at Whataburger, it was yummy! We made a Starbucks run before church that night.
My aunt got a new little puppy the day we showed up and he is soooooo cute! He's tiny and white and he has a little bite. I liked having a little puppy around, I want one now! Mom and I headed home on Friday, it was our birthday. We had a good day in the car together despite being tired and switching off driving. We had a great dinner with dad at Texas Roadhouse when we got back and did presents and relaxed. It was a great trip. And I'd better get packing because I'm heading back there in just a couple hours!!
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