today i drove for the first time in two weeks. it was an absolutely gorgeous day. warm, sunny, bright. perfect early spring weather. i took the really long way to my sister's house today. she lives 45 min away anyway but i went the longer way, i just took all the backroads and avoided the highways. weaving the windy roads through other people's neighborhoods with the windows down and music up was very, very nice. i love love love to drive. you don't realize how much you miss it until, well, you haven't done it. and sure, it's nice to ride. you get to look at more things when you are riding. and if the scenery is worth it then i'd give that a try. but driving is much better. you are in control and you get into this kind of rhythm when you are driving. i do at least. it used to be more apparent when i drove a stick and it's funny because i haven't driven a stick in almost two years but i still keep my right hand on the little gear changer that changes from park to drive. it's that i'm ghost shifting in my mind.
so the surprise party went pretty well. my nephew almost fell down the stairs when the lights came on and kids screamed surprised. i think it actually scared the crap out of him at first. i think the kids actually scared the crap out of themselves a little bit. then he of course had a blast because he's 12 and it was his birthday. deedee and rosie were so cute today. they are like little copies of each other. i took some pictures with my camera phone of them but my picture blog is having technical difficulties. i think it took my own neice and nephew some five years to figure out who i was and actually learn my name. i'm pretty sure they were both scared of me until they were school age, and maybe a little after that, because i never really saw them that much when they were really little. angel was the aunt babysitter, not megan. anyway, these two little girls break my heart, because i walk in today and have seen them only a handful of times and they both just yell out my name and plaster themselves to my legs in hugs. it's the cutest thing ever.
which leads to the next scary thing. seeing cute kids makes you want to have your own. my older sister was going pscyho nuts today. she had screaming kids all over her house. fights breakin out, messes being made, bumped knees and bruised elbows. i saw all this and i still got that "i want one" feeling. it must be some girl brain thing, like a part of our brain is programmed to think that way. i can't explain where else it came from. especially with all the insanity that was happening around me. as soon as i left i began to think better of it. it's like something clicked in my brain and i came back to reality. so rest assured, there will be no little megs running around causing trouble anytime soon. thank goodness. that would be trouble and a half.
oh, and then tomorrow, or later on today, is the elite eight game for tech. i'm going to watch it. sort of watch it. follow it. i'm not a basketball fan. really i'm not a sports fan. well, i am. but i'm not. i am but for specific reasons. i like tech though. but i don't want to be bad luck. which you sometimes feel like if you don't watch sports teams all the time. so i'll be careful. and tune the game out if we are doing poorly b/c it'll be my fault in an unlucky charm kind of way. yeah. go tech!
