A friend of mine sent me this link, photographs of support from around the globe. It brings tears to my eyes to see the support of so many. The candles, the flowers, the country-wide 3 minutes of silence in memory in the Netherlands – where people are actually out of their cars on what looks like a highway. It says so much about the human spirit…
Friday night I went out with Kymberlie, Steven, and other friends of theirs to “Texas Tumbleweed” or whatever the latest name is of the local country bar. Yes, I pulled the ol’ boots out of the closet and headed out. It was nice, I needed a break.
The down side to that was that the bar itself is a place I used to go with the Insignificant Other all the time. It has been stressful lately, and being there alone, with a couple of margaritas, only made me sad in some ways, and made me miss him. Not to mention I had called him regarding a bank issue earlier in the week (we used to have a checking account with both of our names on it) and hearing his voice on the answering machine earlier in the day didn’t help. In a temporary fit of insanity I actually called him when I got home. Thank God he didn’t answer. I laughed this morning when I was cleaning out my e-mail and read this horrorscope from AstroCenter: “It’s true, Christine, seduction is passionate. But passion is not always a positive emotion, especially when it puts you at risk of going off your path. Today’s aspects suggest you consider whether the people you tend to fall in love with are ultimately beneficial to your life. Do you often find yourself in the embarrassing situation of being with a person you no longer care about, yet you’re too bashful to tell them? This doesn’t do anyone any good, Christine…” Eeeck! Yes, he would put me off of my path. He is NOT beneficial to my life. And in reality, I no longer care about him, I am still frustrated over how he treated me earlier this year. Oh well, he didn’t answer. Knowing him, within a week or two of ending things with me he was already spending the weekends with someone else and has hopped right on in to bed with her. I am hoping she was there and they were sound asleep when I called… That would amuse me.
So Saturday morning I got up early and went to get my hair cut. The stylist didn’t seem to understand I wanted only half an inch to an inch cut off … she took off about two. Oh well, it’s hair, it grows. She did a *great* job and I love the cut, just wish it was long enough that I could pull it into a ponytail. I even told her that I was happy it was finally long enough that I could finally do that. Oh well… After that, it was a trip to Discount Tire to have 2 new tires put on The Car Formerly Known as White Trash Honda. Then… off to Galveston! Chelsey’s boss, Queen Anne, has a beach house down on Jamaica Beach in Galveston. To hear Queenie describe it, the place is a SHACK. Ha! It was wonderful. A cute little house, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, plenty of space. Adorable. We had steaks for dinner, visited, enjoyed the breeze on the patio – just across the street from the houses that are right on the beach, and the way the lots are lined up we had a nice view of the Gulf. (I’ll post pictures later this week.) Sunday morning we got up, had breakfast, and then headed across the grass to the sand and spent the afternoon just enjoying life. It was great. Jason & Chelsey’s son Jordan had the boogie boards out in the water, Doug was playing with the dog (his black lab) and Chelsey and I were just chillin’ in the comfy chairs. I am so glad we went down there. We needed that. Got home late last night (almost 9pm) and hustled Jason off to bed as quick as I could. I watched Queer as Folk and part of Leap Years and then went to bed myself. Woke up this morning refreshed & ready for a new week!
I received this letter today instead of the Busy Woman Tips letter that Susie normally sends out. I felt it was so perfectly written that I asked for her permission to post it here:
I had an article set up to send today. But amidst the recent tragedy, I can not bring myself to send it. My thoughts today are on all the different people who’ve come to our beautiful FREE country for many reasons. But most of all, they’ve come here for FREEDOM. I’ve been in a haze since what happened actually sank in. I have all of the same feelings that everyone else has. Unfortunately, I’m hearing of hate crimes that personally hurt my heart. So this is what is on my mind as of right now.
FEAR – My fear is for my friends who are Muslim or from the middle east. Most of these friends are Christians. The ones that are not are still wonderful human beings who would NEVER wish this upon us or anyone.
Our country is supposed to be based on diversity. It feels like people often use their diversity or rather uniqueness to advance themselves or get things. But this past week, almost every American has not called themself something other than “American.” While that warms my heart, I’m still hearing and seeing horrible things happen to other “Americans” because of nationality.
My prayer now is that no longer will we have White Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, etc…, but only “AMERICANS.” I love everyone no matter what your race, religion,
etc…
Unity is now flowing on the river of tears we’re shedding for those who’ve been lost or injured. New bonds are forming that would have never been possible before. People everywhere are coming together as friends. Americans just took a MAJOR tragedy and are turning it into joy.
Let us not forget, yet let us move on in this manner forever.
I was shocked the other day when orders started coming in. But people told me that they refuse to allow the terrorists to destroy us. Our President has told us that we must continue on or the terrorists have won. I shut down for the last few days barely able to eat or sleep. I didn’t and don’t want to work. I just wanted to sit in front of the TV. But today again my friends are reminding me that they need to move on and set up their schedules. Our children need us to continue in stability for them.
Thank you for allowing me to share that Susie. It breaks my heart to hear over & over from people how they have friends of Middle Eastern descent who are being mistreated like this. Such a shame. Please people, spread the word – stop the hate.
I kept thinking on Tuesday that I wanted to change the blog, that I wanted to add a “skin” in memory of the fallen and all of those who are out there helping right now. I just couldn’t do it though, I couldn’t make the graphics. I wanted to, but it just wasn’t there. Today I came across a set though by Full Moon Graphics that really touched me. So it has been added now as skin 1, and is the default skin when you visit the site. I have kept Mar’s design, it is skin 5 now. Skin 1, “911”, should work in Netscape4 just fine, it worked for me. It looks better on a browser that can handle the stylesheets though.
I went in and changed everything to point at the “right” place instead of the long numeric address path. So if you see anything that is broken, let me know. Thanks. I think I will be adding more skins tonight. Speaking of skins, when I come to the site I always get the “default” skin, also known as skin #1, Freshly Made by Mar. Doesn’t matter what I had it set to the last time. When I go to change the skin, I see the last skin I was using. Anyone else having this problem? Or is it just me? Maybe I need to clear out my cookies and see if that fixes it.