The day after losing my mind…

Frustration and joy…

I found out that I have to be at work at 5A on Friday. Joy. I’m SOOOOOO Excited. Maybe I can get some shopping done before my shift at 9A.

When it rains it pours…

A week ago I didn’t think Joanna and I would have Thanksgiving plans.  Since I work at the aforementioned 5A on Black Friday, I would be unable to have Thanksgiving with either of our families in Hurst and Fredricksburg.

We’ve been busy doing things for other people and getting Jewelry parties set up as well as wedding showers for Joanna and we’ve been too busy to think of what we are going to do for Thanksgiving.  Just Sunday night, her parents asked us what we were doing for T-Day.

I just stared at her as I held her on the couch and said…

“Right now we don’t have any solid plans,” I said clueless to the Big Guy’s plan.

Because my usual single place for Thanksgiving – Dennis and Kristi Simmons , well, he’s the wide receivers coach for Tech and I had it in my mind that he would have practice in preparation for the FRIDAY game and not holding Thanksgiving this year.  Except the game is on Saturday at Jimmy World in Dallas.

So they kindly invited us back for yet another year of shenanigans starting at 2. BTW Kristi cheats at cards.  I’m not kidding, just ask Dee Brown.  But I still hold the Turkey Bowl Trophy for spades against her and my wife to be. (Have I mentioned that they cheat horribly?)

COOL! We are normally done at 7 or so and I usually rolls myself into bed for a nice winters nap.

WRONG

Yesterday we were invited at 7 to the Dalby’s for a Thanksgiving Feast. I love Kym and Mike Dalby. She’s a nurse, he’s a firefighter and there isn’t a bad time that we have EVER had with them.  Every year I find a way to sneak out a Fantasy Football win against him and he is always yelling my name in vain.

By the way GO NEW YORK NASTY BOYS!!!!!

SCORE!  So we get baby Ava time with the Dalby’s because Mike won’t get home from the Fire Station till after 6-6:30.  Every man needs to wind down a bit before he has to carve turkey!

Then this morning at 7:45 in the morning… we were invited to the Kruegers for a Thanksgiving shot of goodwill Thanksgiving morning.

A couple of days ago I was cursing because I felt that Thanksgiving would be a quiet one between Joanna and I.

Now , we will be surrounded by our friends being very thankful that they are in our lives.

Tonight it will be “Go to the wine store and figure out what Lubbock wine will go the best with Turkey!”

I’m a blessed man.

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Now I admit last night I got very frustrated because I was working on an accounting issue for someone I love.  However my English and her English were not meshing.

Because she LEFT SOMETHING OUT!

Now the logical part of me is going crazy because she doesn’t give me all the facts.  It was like this…

“How does 2 +1 = 4? Because it doesn’t!”

“But 2 + 1 + 1 = 4!”

“Where did the other 1 come from?”

“Didn’t I tell you about the other 1?”

“NO!” (red angry face)

“Oops!”

I’m a logical person but in every equation you can’t solve for X if there isn’t a X to solve for.

25 days and I can’t wait.

Each day we get closer and closer, and each day I look more forward to it all being done and she being mine…

FOREVER!