It's been a crazy week. I've been working at Kubecka's (my new job) during my 3-hour lunchbreak. I get off from the preschool, head straight there, work my bootie off, then go straight back to the preschool. My evenings have been slightly busy too. Tuesday night Kirk and I ate at a mexican restaurant, then went to his house to watch Spanglish. I can't decide if I liked that movie or not--parts of it were good, but other parts made me mad. I guess that was the point, to envoke emotion, and boy did it! See it, you'll know what I mean. Anyway, after the movie, we sat on the porch swing and talked for awhile. He talked alot about his deployment, it got emotional. It's been nice to be around him again, I'd almost forgotten what a great guy he is. If I had any single girl friends, I'd set him up for sure. Wednesday night we went to Downtown Grill in Victoria. Every Wednesday night they have Lonestar Live, with a different performer every week. This week was Josh Langston, who was really good. Some friends of mine were there, so we had fun, listening and drinking and talking. After the show, we went to Sonic, then headed back to Ganado to meet up with a friend of Kirk's at a party. The friend's having a tough time, so Kirk convinced him to leave the party and come hang out with us. It was nice. Thursday I worked my bootie off, didn't have time to eat lunch, so I just rested that night, hung out with Mom. Friday I went to a highschool volleyball game with my brother, then my buddy Jarred picked me up so I could look at that car, which I might finally be getting this week, but now it needs a new muffler before it will pass inspection (and then it'll be something else, grr, why couldn't he have told me all this crap up front? why'd he hide all these other problems he knew it had from me?). Then we went to the pub. I ran into an ooooold friend, from way back in the day, so we got to catch up. Then we went to The Old Schoolhouse, which we had to leave because I was starting to cry. The only other time I'd been there was with Gerd, and that was a memorable night, so it made me a little emotional being there without him, not knowing if I'd ever be anywhere with him again. I'm okay now, I'm doing what I've gotta do and so is he, so it's all good. Yesterday, Saturday, was my Uncle Bill's 63rd birthday party at my cousins. Everyone showed except my cousin and his wife (because Geri's gonna have a baby girl! so she can't travel, and they're 5 hours away). Yesterday was the first time I'd had an actual one-on-one conversation wiht my Aunt Jane. We talked about my new job, which she thinks I'm going to love, and how she had one similar to it when she was in college. We talked about the military (her nephew is stationed in the same place as Kirk), and family and life in general. She's a fascinating woman, I wish I'd gotten to know her sooner. I played with the little cousins (they're 2 and 5) and they wore me out! Last night, my brother Jake and I went to see Kevin Fowler at Schroeder Hall. I had a blast! Jake and I had groups of friends there, so it was neat. We met some new people too, nice ones that let me wiggle to the front so I could see over the tall people! After the show, we ate at IHOP. I'm gonna miss Jake, he goes to school a week from yesterday. It would be differet if he could come home once in awhile, but I don't know when we're gonna get to see each other. He'll be 9 hours away, and hopefully on the football team, so we don't even have guaranteed Holiday visits. Anyway, things are good, I've been busy. I'll say goodbye to Kirk today, I'll post again tonight. ******************** It's 3 a.m. and I just got home ;) Well, I got in about 2:30. We went to Kirk's grandmother's to play pool with his buddies. They're crazy, it was so much fun. After Kirk whipped their booties, Kirk and I went to his house to watch "Hide and Seek", which was freaky. I liked it. We haven't said goodbye yet, we're going to have lunch together tomorrow to say goodbye. That seems to be the way with us--before he left 2 other times, we went out on my lunch break and said goodbye; we both know I won't cry because I'm going back to work. I'm taking my lunch break for myself tomorrow, so I can see Kirk and go cash my paycheck. Plus, I have to open at the preschool, so I have to be there at 7 a.m. and I really won't feel like sitting at a desk. Wow, I have to be up in 3 1/2 hours, I'd better hit the hay. Night!