At the end of it all….

well just about the end ~ we were sitting there my fellow roadtrippers and i watching our favorite Adam and Drew doing a live radio show… Drew Kennedy played my song… Goodbye

well after a weekend that began with too much rain… a tour of DFW ‘cause well Maureen hadn’t seen just exactly HOW big it is… more man love than should really be allowed at a show ~ although i did enjoy my first Mickey and the Motocars show… i will see them again… it was truly a perfect ending to hear him sing… to the ones who do in fact ‘…deserve much better than tryin’ to hold me together’ ~ but in the words of Mr. Kennedy the song is in fact more fiction than truth ‘cause i am also not that big of a person…

seriously ~ i spent the weekend… with most of the ones who either literally or musically helped me keep things together and gave me hope for the better during what has been the worst period of time in my almost 35 years here on this earth ~ the number of people missing from this weekend is the smallest for me ever… when talking about being in a place with the ones i love the most… it’s the closest i’ve ever been to having them ALL there… that dawned on me at the airport waiting for Maureen and brought the first tear

the roadtrip… ‘cause really that’s almost as much fun as the destination if done right ~ was filled with so much laughter that the fact that i didn’t wreck even though Joc was certain i would SEVERAL times… is borderline miraculous… we got cute boys to call meg’s cell phone ~ which i call BS… i get well you know what i got… and you get cute boys… ~ we found the sweaty roadside porn ummm yeah trailer… no we didn’t stop no matter how hard she tried to convince me that Maureen wanted to… OH WAIT… five minutes into the ride down 75… Maureen asked if we had ever watched Oprah and Gayle’s Roadtrip… apparently Joc and i resemble those two ladies… Joc is Oprah… there were blue bonnets… kolaches… potty breaks… potty breaks in stinky nasty roadside stations that want to charge 2.59 for Chapstick… more blue bonnets… ok yes i’m happy now i see them ~ i really did think they would be bigger… the exception to the rule everything is bigger in Texas ~ except the flowers

we arrived for lunch and Hugs… ‘cause you know ~ ‘if they love us they will hug you…’

we are so fortunate… and the best part is that this day was all about celebrating just exactly that… not sure if that restaurant understood what was going on… we had people that had come from… Seattle; Springfield,MA; Tampa, FL; Las Vegas, NV; Houston via Boston, Allen via Vermont, and so many from this great state we all love including a couple of surprises ~ yay for Joc and Stu… it wouldn’t have worked without you ~ and to watch us… people must wonder… you can’t help but see the love radiating from all of us ‘cause we are part of something so amazing and we are a family… even though we don’t share a drop of blood… our tie that binds is much stronger than that… we love ‘a little piece of music soooo much’ to quote a movie that many of us agree even to be our favorite

k… that’s all I can do for right now… there will be more ‘cause well I’m starting to spill over