home.

so, i am home for the weekend and i am always amazed at how much more i love coming home the older i get. i loved growing up in wichita falls, i think it was a great place to be a kid. i had a wonderful high school experience here, as small town as it can be, i wouldnt change any of it. its just amusing to me to come home and see it in a different light. to see people who have continued growing up here or going to college here...living in their late teens and 20s in a city that i didnt know had things to even entertain people of that age group. i spent those years of my life in places many of these people will never even vacation. college on the beach in florida, my early 20s going out in the city of philadelphia. as blessed as i know i have been by living all over, there is still something so amazing about coming home. i appreciate the little things about this smallish town and i appreciate things that i am sure used to annoy me about growing up here.

all that being said, i am having a great time being at home. its almost always relaxing. i love getting to spend time with my family. i have been able to eat the food i always miss when i am not here, spend money on things i probably really dont need, and laugh a lot. aside from sleeping on the air mattress...things are going pretty well. its amazing how i slept on this same air mattress for 2 months and didnt have a single complaint about it, but now i feel like i need a massage the minute i wake up and my body just doesnt seem right all day long. either that or i am just getting old. thats always a bummer.

yesterday i spent the day with my mom and we had a great time. went to lunch with keaton and her at samurai...amazing. then we ran around and did some shopping. i had a hair appointment that i made my mom come with me to, so we did that last night and then went and got dinner. afterwards, i went over to my dads house to hang out with him and see keaton for a bit. well, keaton ended up just breezing and going upstairs and going to sleep without so much as a goodnight. stinker. but i had a great time hanging out with my dad, played a little guitar hero. actually, i think it was more like, i got schooled in guitar hero. needless to say, dad is apparently an expert and i am a mere, mere beginner. it was fun though. i learned what star power was and how it can be detrimental to someone like me who cant seem to raise the guitar without missing the next note. also, apparently i shouldnt sing when i play because i tend to get distracted and more caught up in singing than actually playing the guitar. i have definitely concluded that rock band is the game for me...it encouraged singing and my hands are far more coordinated to play the drums. i am keeping my fingers crossed that he will purchase that before i come in town next time.

today was a lazy day...i slept for so long!! thats because i didnt sleep all night due to the fact that my moms was FREEZING!! i finally got up around 8 and found a bunch of blankets in the closet and piled them on and was able to sleep until she came and woke me up around noon. oops! i had no intentions of sleeping the entire day away. we tried to go see a movie, but it just wasnt working out so we ended up getting lunch at el chico...excellent...and then going shopping for a bit. i am always game for shopping. obviously. i really need to quit spending money - apparently i think i have it these days. so we finished shopping and came home because she had to go to work. i went over to my dads to check on the progress for the crawfish boil that is happening tomorrow and everything was in place and ready to go!! so exciting!! all we need is that delivery by noon and we are set!! i cant wait to see all those little crawfish crawling/swimming around... then madison and i went shopping for a few hours, met up with keaton and his friends at chilis and had dinner. keaton and madison and i came back to my moms to hang out, but we all got tired and they ended up watching tv and i read for a while. apparently, i am not that tired anymore considering its 2am and i am still awake writing this. actually, i was falling asleep, but this book was so good and i wanted to make sure i finished it before i went home on sunday and i wasnt sure i would have time to read tomorrow. phew. good thing i did.

speaking of tomorrow...i am so excited!! i have been looking forward to this crawfish boil for weeks!! a lot of fun people are coming and a lot of them have never had crawfish before. its always fun to teach people how to eat them and even more fun to watch them try them for the first time!! i am excited to dump those little suckers into the boiling pot. i am gonna get up and go to lunch with my dad and then try and go for a run because i keep not doing that and i am really feeling like i need to. then shower and head over to dads house for the rest of the day and for a good time. crawfish...dirty martinis...old friends. what could be better??