Weekend of Win

So yesterday Shawn and I ventured out to the Austin Celtic Festival. It had been a toss up between a quick trip down to San Antonio/Sea World or the Festival. We opted for the festival since it's only here once a year. If we'd gone to Sea World, we may have spent the whole time feeling emo and wondering how the Festival was, since we couldn't find out for another year...so we chose to go to the Festival.

We had the misfortune of getting stuck in UT Football traffic on the way down, but still got down there around noon. We brought the camera, but sadly there wasn't really anything worth photographing. Lots of cute dogs...but not so much in the way of authentic Celtic activities. I did learn that the Celtic's are way into Tye Dye shirts. Ok maybe not, but there was a huge shop display :)

We're glad either way that we ventured out and tried something new in the city we both know hardly anything about. I work next Saturday, but the weekend after that I think we're going to try a ride on the Bertram Flyer . Yes we are doing touristy things, but technically we both haven't done or seen very much here. Any native/long term Austinites have any good suggestions of fun things to do??

TGIF!

Today has been a long day. Something about getting in a car accident, staying out until 2am, and being to work by 8am. :o) I had a few weird back spasm/pain things during the night sleeping, and was generally sore and very exhausted all day. I talked to Janna around lunch time and she gave me a contact person for her insurance company so I could find out about medical claim/coverage. She and I both opted to go to a doctor to be checked out as a precaution.

They took some x rays that the doctor should have back by Monday. I got a prescription for a muscle relaxant and if needed, I still have some pain pills left over from my surgery. I doubt I will, but it's nice to know they're on hand!

Tomorrow Shawn and I are going to the Annual Austin Celtic Festival ! It's an all-weekend event, but we'll go check it out for a few hours tomorrow and see if there's anything cool. If anything I'm sure there'll be some cool people watching experiences. G'night all!

Good Times!

So last night I went with Janna and some of her friends to the Parish for the Marc Broussard concert downtown at the Parish. We all went out for dinner before at Outback Steakhouse and I have to say I had the BEST steak ever. I must have been craving red meat because that did the trick!

We split up in separate cars for the drive down. Janna and I in her jeep, and everyone else in her friend Suzi's car. We're a few blocks away from the concert and are stopped at the light when suddenly Janna tells me "Hold On!" I didn't understand what was going on until I heard the crash and felt the impact. Some guy driving behind us just totally crashed into the back of us! The impact crashed us into Suzi's car in front of us too! :(

Here are some pictures (that I casually borrowed for Janna's blog) of the driver's car-white and Janna's Jeep. The driver's airbags deployed, but the damage on Janna's car was isolated to the bumpers. Luckily we were the bigger car there.

We all had a great time at the concert once we finally got there, but partway into the concert we were all feeling the effects of the crash. I sat out for the last few songs, and most everyone else took a break too. We waited around to be able to get pictures/autographs with Marc but apparently he set up a meet and greet that none of us had known about. What a bummer! Marc missed the super fans that came to see him DESPITE being in a pretty significant car crash!

I got home around 1:30 am, and have decided that a) going out with friends and actually being social is FUN! but b) I'm really, really, really old. Wish we'd gotten some group pictures, but hopefully next time!

something is on my mind

So....my ex-husband got remarried last weekend to the woman he left me for. I wasn't surprised, but at the same time I was. The man that I'd been with for nearly 7 years is officially starting his new life with woman 2.0. For a very long time after he left, I waited to hear through the grapevine that she had dumped him and that he was miserable. I needed that to happen so I could feel justified that he'd made a mistake by leaving me. That I wasn't the crappy wife he'd told me I was, and that God punishes people who are unfaithful.

That clearly didn't happen. Instead he proposed to her and now he married her. Maybe they'll be happily married for 57 years, or maybe they'll end up painfully divorced. Just so we're clear, I hope for the latter.

I'm not in charge of their future and I'm really tired of wondering about their life together. I keep waiting for the day that I'll stop wishing bad things on them and move on with my own happy life. The more time that passes since we separated, the more worried I become that I still have all these unhealthy feelings.

That's all I have to say. Thinking out loud about this makes my brain hurt.

Mexico or Bust!

This is three-day old news, but my brother Thomas got his mission call this week. He'll be serving a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS/Mormon Church) in Mexico City, Mexico. He'll report to the MTC in Provo, UT to learn Spanish on Feb 3rd.

I'm not able to visit Utah to see him right before he leaves because it's during the black-out time off/merger at work. I've booked a flight a few weeks earlier to see him over President's Day Weekend. I'm in complete denial that my brothers are growing up so fast. More than half of the kids in the family are out on their own in the world now!!

I'm also excited that Shawn and I will be able to be together this year for Christmas. Last year (our first Christmas together), he flew home to visit his family in Kentucky for the Holidays. This year he's short on vacation time and said he wasn't in the mood to travel during the holidays, so I'll get to have him around this year! We're going to plan a road trip to go Kentucky in the spring time to visit his family and pick up a bunch of random stuff that's stored at his parents house there. I haven't done a long road trip in an really long time, so I'm looking forward to it-and to see different scenery besides Texas and Utah :)