How in the world do I follow such a touching post from Honey? We’ve talked a lot in private about the drastic change in ‘normalcy’ that our lives have endured in the past 6 months but reading his post brought tears to my eyes again. When I stop to think how different things are nowdays, I am beyond stunned. Everything Honey said is true and for me I feel even more so. One of the things I’ve been stuck on lately is my mom. I keep dreaming about her. And then I wake up and think she’ll be back from her travels soon and then we can talk again, or go out to lunch or something. Anything. Then follows this empty space: the harsh realization that she’s not there anymore. Sure, she’s always “there,” or “here” with me…I feel that. But I don’t get to hear her laughter or her witty cracks or her nagging me about my poor use of grammar or her complaints about her hair color/cut/whatever.
Basically, it boils down to the fact that I miss her. I really do. Sometimes I cry about it, other times I laugh and feel good that she’s always in my heart. I do feel she’s always with me. I just wish I could hug her again.
Okay enough of that.
We had a great weekend. It turned out to be an almost normal weekend! It was go go go and fun fun fun!
Saturday we took Sister her belated birthday present and visited with her a bit. Then we went to the in-laws’ house and set off their alarm for some excitement (they’re out of town and it’s always a gamble whether or not they’ve set the alarm!). Fortunately, we dug up and punched in the magic code before the cops showed up so it wasn’t a problem! We dropped off mama’s birthday present and picked up a couple of tools we needed to borrow (don’t parents just have the coolest stuff to borrow?!).
Then we went to a new nearby coffee house called Enchanted Grounds. An old family friend of mine and dad’s and a motorcycle riding buddy of Honey’s created a new board game that incorporates motorcycle trivia and poker! It’s called American Throttle and it’s TONS of fun! I barely know anything about motorcycles but I still had fun guessing at some of the trivia questions. The good news is they’re not all about motorcycle parts and pieces: some of the questions are about music or movies that are sometimes associated with the biker lifestyle. And some of them are pictures of common traffic signs you’ll see along the road so as long as you have a driver’s license, you have a pretty good chance at guessing the answers. 
This coffee shop we were at has been open about a year now and it’s literally less than a mile from our house but we’ve never been there before. Well, on Saturday we discovered it’s way more than a coffee shop! They sell a bunch of comic books and rare and intellectually-based games. Not to mention they have several tables set up that were full of people (adults, kids, geeks all alike!) playing Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering and other such role playing games. It was fun to be sitting in the middle of such an environment playing American Throttle with our friends. It’s usually played with a beer or cocktail in hand but it was equally as fun with my big bottle of water! We spent a few hours there and I came nowhere near winning but it was fun anyway!
We came home to watch the Simpsons movie. Fun. Stupid. Typical Simpsons. Just an extra-long episode that referred to some things the creators couldn’t refer to on national television! Good for a few laughs. The night before we watched Superbad which is a total GUY movie with way too much cussing for me. Although it did have some laughable moments — it wasn’t too bad.
Sunday Honey had an appointment to get his second tattoo of a pair he had designed over a year ago. The tattoo shop was closed so it was just me, Honey and Fish, our inky artist. I got to lie down and chill out on their big fluffy red sofas while Fish put Honey through three hours of pain on his arm! The finished product looks great…I’ll show you pictures next week after it heals a little bit.
By mid afternoon, I was completely out of energy and in quite a bit of pain. Extra pain meds did not work and the Xeloda was taking its toll on me. Honey brought me home and “poured” me into the couch where I napped throughout the rest of the evening. I’m still in a bit of pain today and now Dobby has caught whatever Scarlett had last week so I’m not only nursing myself but also two sick dogs and little Miss Ophelia that we’re dogsitting for dad (he picks her up today — it was fun having her here even though she hates Scarlett!). So it’s a mellow day alone here — just how I like it sometimes. I’ll be back on my feet tomorrow, I’m sure. I just need a day off from GO GO GOING! ya know?
How was everyone else’s weekend? What’d you do?
