No, I'm not Brittney Spears, and I'm not playing with your heart(!), but I did say I was gonna do something, and then not do it, and this isn't the first time - so sorry! I mentioned that I had begun an experiment and that I would post the results over the weekend, but the weekend didn't quite go the way I'd planned...
Saturday ended up being a "house" day - rain gutters and window shades and I finally finished my curtains for the gigunda picture window (just the short privacy ones, not the long decorative panels for the sides),and so I couldn't finish the experiment then, and we'd already planned on doing this yesterday after our usual visit to Greg's parents:
After the benefit we went over to our friends' house to hang and it was too late (and I was too tired) to do anything but go to bed when we got home. I didn't win any of the raffles at the benefit, but I did get a patch for my jacket and a sticker for my helmet:
I think the reason the "LOVE" is in quotes is because that was Brenda's middle name, so it has a double meaning. It was an emotional day, and quite exhausting, but there's some closure. We were talking to one of the guys who went up to the hospital right after they took Brenda there, and it was his opinion that she was pretty much gone on impact - felt no pain and all of that, so that was helpful information. I got to meet her parents and her aunt and uncle, too - they came up from "Pennsyltucky" for the benefit - and it was great insight into where Brenda's openness and "I love everybody" nature came from. Great people. I don't know how many people were actually at the benefit, but they sold 2,000 advance tickets, and there was still a line out the door of people who were buying them there. Standing in line for anything to eat or drink was a looooooong wait! All the proceeds from the raffles, tickets, patches, shirts, stickers, etc., go to Brenda's boys (she has three, ages 10-18).
Greg is driving Chris' work truck now instead of the rusty beat-up van, and I rode with him in it yesterday for the first time. Weirdness, for sure... It has provided some humor, though. I'm 5'6" and Greg's 5'9", and I think we're both at least several inches taller than Chris, and we're trying to figure out how Chris could see over the hood of this truck to drive! Greg says Chris had the seat all the way back and all the way down, and so he had to move it up and forward to see out, and can't figure out how Chris was driving it the other way. I was trying to figure out how he could climb in and out of the thing - even with the running boards it's tricky, at best! We both had a good laugh about the whole thing, so that's good, right? We can talk about him with humor and fondness and not so much with tears - progress...
We're hopeful that the worst is behind us and that no more of our friends will die any time soon, and we're living our lives slightly differently now. Things that we used to talk about in future tense are getting more priority and moving closer in timeframe. Things that we feel strongly about are getting more time invested while petty time-wasting things are falling by the wayside. We're quicker to tell those we care about that we do, in fact, care about them. We're in each other's space more. Little things that matter muchly...
I plan to carry on with the experiment later today, and I'll share that tonight or tomorrow, for sure! Hope your week is starting off wonderfully, and thanks for stopping by!
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