Saturday, 15 November 2008

• Living la Vida Loco

  Yep, I am still around.  I have thought often about visiting all my old friends on Xanga and maybe posting something.  I have become mostly mindless, which is sad.  I sit most evenings on Facebook and play silly games, and watch silly shows on the telly, because thinking about reality is just not fun.  Right?  Still here I am about to expound on the state of Tricia and other things.
  
  The economy has taken its toll on most and believe me I know it.  Some funny things happen when life is tough.  Scott and I are spending way more time together as we have started riding together to work to save gas.  We plan and scheme to make our money last and in the effort I feel that we have become more of a team than maybe ever before (yes I ended that sentence with a preposition, throw the grammar book at me).  Of course poverty does sprout the occasional spat, but we find cheap ways to have fun, like dancing in the living room on Friday night to the radio instead of going out and talking, yikes.  We have friends over more for dinner and we go over to friends more for dinner instead of eating out, and that's cool too.  Last weekend we rode with friends to Hot Springs Village, AR and shared a condo for a couple of nights and visited family.  Not Mexico, but still we had fun, and we hit all the free tourist spots, and you know what?  I learned things about Hot Springs I never knew and I have been going there since my childhood.
  
  

  
  
  You can't read the sign.  This is where Bill Clinton grew up.  Somebody lives there and they haven't kept the place up very well, but hey... I stood in Bill Clinton's front yard where he played as a kid.
  
  
  
  Other than the homeless people (which I might join soon) the springs were awesome.  You can see the steam coming off the water.  It was a beautiful day, around 72 degrees, so the steam is because the water is really hot, God is quite spectacular when you think about things like that.
  
  

  I thought of dad this morning, he was so economical.  I really miss him still.  Is that crazy or what?  I guess that never goes away.
  

  
  

  Son communicates mostly by e-mail and IM, but he is still in school, and seems to be somewhat happy with New York... at least that is what he says.  He has decided that he a vegan now, a phase I am sure, but I am glad that he is being health conscious and taking care of his health.  He has lost weight, but he needed to lose a few pounds.  Funny, I am poor and can barely afford food, but I am still quite the butterball.  I can't wait to see him at Christmas, and I think he can't wait to see Texas.
  
  

  
  

  
  I really miss that dry sarcasm. I can't imagine where he learned all that from (not me), but he is quite brilliant with the witty banter and the "are you crazy" looks.
  

  
  Since my last post, the country elected a new president.  I am praying for our country and our new president.  I am hopeful that the necessary change will indeed happen.  I am confident that good things will happen, as bleak as the post may sound I am actually quite optimistic.  My mom shared with me the other evening stories from her childhood during The Great Depression, she says she doesn't really remember being poor, even though she had to live with aunts and uncles and other family members.  I think our world needs a wake up call and we are getting it.  We must walk away from this more humble and aware of the needs of others.  We have to learn to let God.  We certainly have to remember to conserve and not be wasteful.  These are things we are learning through this economic crisis and things we will remember, but someday perhaps we will look back on these days fondly, as my mother remembers her childhood, spending evenings with family and having meals with relatives, watching her brothers go off to war so they could send money home and being proud of them. 
  
  Well, honestly I didn't intend to write so much.  School is great, I am tired when I come home, so I know I am working hard, but I have a wonderful group of kids this year... and I am grateful to have them.  We are taking a field trip to a local university on Monday and the mayor is coming to visit on Friday and then it will be Thanksgiving, yay!
  
  

   
  I had to change classrooms this year.  My room has not one single window.  Good thing my kids all have sunny, bright smiles, at least most of the time...of course you can only see the back of their heads, so you will have to take my word for it.
  

  
  Hope this post finds you well, and know I love my Xanga family.
  
  Peace, Love and Energy,
  Tricia
  

  
  
  

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