Random Thoughts

Well, this doesn't effect me as much as it does some of my friends like Small Coffey...

It was announced yesterday that Pleasure Island at Downtown Disney after almost 20 years. While I wasn't a regular visitor there, it was one of the places I used to hang out when I first moved down to Orlando and started to work at Disney. After I got together with my future husband, those visits stopped since he didn't like it and he didn't like me to go either. My friend sent me a funny picture from when PI was launched. Tell me this isn't hilarious? The girl in the front of the picture is rocking out her late 80's attire! :)

I haven't updated in awhile....

I've done a few things in the past couple of weeks since I've been back from Indy. I did get my hair cut! Yeah! I got rid of almost 14 inches of hair so I can donate it to Locks of Love. Hopefully someone will be able to use it.

Can I say that I'm really bummed that this chain hasn't made it down to Florida yet? I love the stuff there. A lot of the food is really tasty and pretty cheap too. I know we have Whole Foods and all but its just not the same. I really have a weakness for their chocolate truffles! I even had one of our friends ship me some from Cali since he works at a TJ's out there. Pretty sad huh? But they are SO good and are only like $4 for a box of them. If I tried to get something like that at a gourmet chocolate shop I'm sure they would be twice as much. :(

So...I will try and hit them up before I leave to snag some of my favorites for the road. Mmmm....truffles. :)

I'm glad I drove up to Indy when I did because otherwise I would have been stuck in southern IN after I-65 was shut down today. That's so crazy that they had to shut down a highway due to flooding but it was storming pretty bad on Friday night early into Saturday. Another wave of storms came through Saturday afternoon. Luckily my folks live in the city and that hasn't been to too hard hit at this point. If it keeps raining though, that might change. I just hope that everything is fine and ready to go by the time I head back out on Thursday. As much as I love my hometown and all.....I have things to do once I'm back in Central FL so I can't be stuck in the midwest due to flooding. :(

Hoping it stays dry for the rest of the week!

Well maybe awareness isn't the right word but I'm not trying too look too deep into it this late at night! :)

On our drive up from O-Town to Indy, my oldest Lucas was in fine form asking it seemed like 100 questions. He has ADHD so its not like they are in any form that makes sense either. They bounced from one subject to another. Anyhoo....the topic of music came up because he asked who I was listening to on the radio. I'm pretty sure that I was listening to Mana which is my favorite Mexican rock band. He then started to ask me what they were saying because he doesn't understand Spanish. (I really should be trying to get to him to learn it but I'll admit that I'm not the best at teaching anything.) I told him for the most part songs are stories that people sing. That concept doesn't quite make sense to an 8 year old but he was trying to understand. Of course it probably didn't help that the particular subject of the song I was listening to was about some chick that has 2 men in her life. Does that make much sense to anyone?

I told him that James and I like a lot of the same music but we don't like all of the same stuff. How boring would that be? I'm always making cracks on his heavy/death metal or the fact that he likes Jewel. I'm sorry...I know she's real musician and all but I can't get over her "summer teeth" and the yodeling. Both may be appealing to some but its just kinda annoying to me. His taste in music is all over the place. On the flip side, I know that he doesn't that I listen to rap and R&B. He doesn't get music like that. So we agree to disagree about some things. I just hope our kids grow up and have their own take on music and what sounds good to them.

I remember watching my first video around the same time MTV was first launched. I guess I was around 4 or so and I spent most of the 80's watching MTV a lot. VH1 wasn't cool then so I can't say I watched it much then but now I prefer that over MTV. Being exposed to so much music that early was a great way to figure out what was I liked. That got me to thinking that Lucas is almost at that age where he can learn to play an instrument if he wants to. We have another year to wait though. :P

Can I just say that I hope none of them is big on bubblegum pop? There is a band or group for every generation so I know it will be around as they get older but I can only take so much of that crap.

Okay...I should probably go to bed or something. Its a nasty night out in Nap Town. Just way too muggy for my liking. Yuck!

But I thought I would post it on a seperate entry. My "Mufasa" as I lovingly call my hair, will be gone when I head up north. James keeps threatening divorce if I hack it off but oh well. He doesn't have to deal with it everyday and I have gotten to the point of no return. Long hair is nice and all but at my age, I just have to give up the ghost. I don't want to have super short hair because honestly, it doesn't look that good on me but I want a good 10 or 12 inches gone.

I'm going to take before and after shots so that should be fun. I don't think I'm going to color it because I'm not one for high maintenance on my hair. I'm more of a wash and go type of girl. I own a hair dryer and curling iron but I don't think I've used either of them this year. And its what June? Yeah...I just want a nice cut that I can also pull back if I need to.

Oh for the people that don't know. My hair is at the top of my butt right now. I don't think I've ever had it that long. It grew like crazy when I was preggers and I just got lazy and let it keep growing.

Alright...I guess I will sign off but hopefully I will be posting new pics soon!

So...I'm not going to go to Texas to visit my family like I wanted to. Kinda sucks considering now would be a good time to catch up with my family. My cousin Alex died a couple of weeks ago in a bad car crash and neither my mom or myself could go to the funeral. Its just hard being down in Florida and then driving up to Indy to get my mom, driving back down to Texas and then doing the whole thing in reverse. I like to drive but not that much. Plus with the cost of gas these days its tough on the budget.

I decided to go Indy instead for my vacation. I was planning on going in August anyway but I figured I might as well and go now. Plus I get to visit with my friends who I haven't seen since I was there last August! It should be a good time. My friend Mark is having a birthday party for his boyfriend so I'm looking forward to going to that on Saturday. Then there are all of my girlfriends I always see. Actually, it will be kinda weird going back because it will be the year anniversary of my friend Tammy's death. I can't believe it went by so fast. I didn't get to go to her funeral either. :(

Hopefully it won't be that somber when I'm there. My friend Erin recently had a baby and my other friend Carrie is due soon. There are babies all over the place!

I hope to post some while I'm up there. I got a laptop the other day and I hope to post some pics of what's going on. Now if I just remember to take my camera....:p Actually I will because I was thinking today that I don't have many pictures of my friends. I'm not a big picture taker but I guess I have to break down and do it at some point!