Hey, baby, let's go to Vegas.

Maxine said...

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride".

 

Substitute the Chardonnay with some Jack and Coke, and this is my motto for life.

 

Me and 6 of my friends are headed to Vegas in 46 days. 15 hours. 25ish minutes. But who is counting? To say we are excited is quite possible the biggest understatement of our lives. Of the 7 of us going, only one has never been. Hanse will be the 9th virgin for me to introduce to Vegas. True story. I am getting good at this...who would have thought it? I take pride in saying that I have opened the eyes of my friends to the fact that there is a big ole world out there...Some would say, "Vegas. Really?" but hey...this is our life and it's funny how some people stumble through it and never find a group of friends who are so totally in tune with each other as we are...We are blessed.

 

So, in 49 days. 9 hours. and some odd minutes...7 very tired and hungover people will be back to their ordinary, blah lives. And they will try and explain to people, who never...in a million freaking years...would venture out of their comfort zone, just how fantastic of a time they had...and there may be one person out of all those who listens to the tales who decides that the next time the pack heads to vegas, they are going...  And I get another notch on my belt.  :)

 

**Last blog was Wade Bowen...try not to listen**

Sometimes I get captured by the way a song sounds...

I love music. In fact, my blogs are all gonna be titled with a line from a song that will be appropriate to whatever I am spewing. Debating on whether or not to leave people guessing or include the name of the song in the post. My current obsession is Taylor Swift, hence the name of my blog, Speak Now. I have flooded my facebook in the past two weeks with references to her newest CD. So much, that I am sure if i post one more reference to her lyrics I will be deleted from some. Truth is...she is an awesome songwriter and she is 20 years old. I think that I have the ability to write lyrics and maybe one day I will.

The love of music is something that I have passed on to my daughters, and my oldest has already passed it on to hers. Funny how things like that work...

Btw...my first blog....you know the one...it was kind of harsh....The title "People are People" was a reference to a Depeche Mode song. Remember it???

People are People,
So why should it be,
You and I should get along
So awfully.

People are People

I decided to start my own blog with encouragement from my daughter's lifelong best friend, Josh and my sister from another mister, Tammie. I have always read OF other blog's--and never actually followed one. I began reading Josh's, enjoyed it, LEARNED from it, and thought I should do that....so, here I am. I have been searching my mind for the subject of this first entry...funny how things tend to fall in your lap.

My maternal grand-mother died this morning. So what. WOW. That sounded harsh.

I have always tried NOT to judge people. My own life experiences have led me to understand MOST people have a reason for being the way they are...Circumstances can shape a person as much, or more than, genetics. Knowing this, you would think I would have more compassion towards the woman who gave birth to my mother. I don't. She was a bitter and hate-filled person until the day she died and I can't understand how  you go through 80 years of life living with this cancer inside of you.  My mother and her siblings were victims of this "cancer" ALL their lives. And yet, at the end, they were all there. All with demons of their own. And they received from their mother exactly what they should have expected. Nothing.