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Truths for Mature Humans

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all of those times I didn't want to take a nap when I was younger.
4. There is a great need for a Sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions out on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after blu-Ray? I don't want to have to re-start my collection...again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my 10-page report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never, ever wash this. Ever.
15. I hate when I miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? @%$# it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good, and then not see anyone of any kind of importance the entire day. What a waste.
17. I keep some people's numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I bet you on any given Friday or Saturday night, more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.
20. Google Maps needs an "Avoid Ghetto" option.
21. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize that I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
22. I would rather carry 10 overloaded plastic bags on each arm than make two trips to my car to bring groceries in.
23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text message.
24. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word that person said?
25. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty. You can wear them forever.
26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
27. Is it just me, or do high school kids get dumber and dumber every year?
28. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you know you're going to die from leaning back too far in your chair.
29. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers. But no matter what method of transportation, I always hate bicyclists.
30. Sometimes I will look at my watch three consecutive times and still have no idea what time it is.
31. Even in ideal conditions, people have trouble locating their car keys in their purse, finding their cell phone, or Pinning a Tail on a Donkey... but I'll bet everyone can find a snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

Mirror, Mirror On the Wall... I Am My Mother, After All!

So today was my Momma's birthday. We ate lunch at Granny Di's and it was awesome as usual. We had cubed steak, cream corn, a special recipe of macaroni and cheese, baked beans, okra, rolls, dressing and turkey gravy, tomatoes and cantaloupe. Then we had a cake for Mom and I made the Cake Batter Truffles that Hannah mentioned in her last blog. (see it here) The chocolate didn't melt like I wanted and the cake batter balls didn't hug the chocolate as well as I'd hoped, so they weren't very attractive. But they tasted delicious! I tripled the recipe that the original blog called for and melted milk chocolate chips in one pan and white chocolate chips in another. So I had white chocolate cake batter truffles and milk chocolate cake batter truffles. And then just for fun I did some of them half and half. :) I took them all to our family lunch today.

Sometimes I'll be talking to Greenleigh or singing a song with Skyler when it will hit me- I sound just like my mom! At times it's in the way I enunciate certain words, and at other times it's the phrases that I use. I would have sworn otherwise 5 or 6 years ago, but in the end, there are worse things I could've turned out to be. We may not always see eye to eye, but my mom is my mom, and I love her. Quite a lot.

This is mi madre and me. My eyes are the exact hazel as my daddy's, but when I wear my blue contacts, it's unnerving sometimes how much I look like my mother. Do you think we look alike?

Reason # 8,093 Why I Love Tyler Bryan

I forgot our iPod charger yesterday on the way to Chatsworth, so we were listening to local radio on our way home when "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not" by Thompson Square came on.

Bear in mind that my husband rarely listens to country music, and even less so listens to Thompson Square.

We were riding over the mountain with that song in the background when Tyler turned to me and said, "This song has always reminded me a lot of our relationship."

Shocked that he even had a clue what the song was about, I asked him why.

His reply was this: "Because that's how I felt when I kissed you that first night on the couch, like you were waiting on me to just do it already. And when we got engaged, you were just like, 'Just ask me to marry you already!' when we started making plans."

I smiled to myself and we rode in silence for a second.

Then I looked back up at him and said, "Because I knew."

<3

Love you babe.

In the town where I was raised, the clocks tick and the cattle graze...

It's a well-known fact that I have a love-hate relationship with my hometown. I grew up there thinking, "I can't wait to get out, I hate this place", but that was wrong. I love Chatsworth; what I hate is that almost everyone that lives there seems to be nosey, narrow-minded and ridiculously conservative. It took leaving there to really open my eyes and see the world for what it is, not just what people wanted me to see. I've changed a lot since I left simply because I have been able to experience life in an unsheltered state of mind and without worry about who was going to be gossipping about me at the hair salon the next morning.

It definitely has its ups and downs, but it's home, and I love it. When I turn onto Highway 411, my heart smiles and I roll down the windows. I see Fort Mountain to my right and I know... this place has a piece of my heart that will never ever be replaced. I may not ever live there again, but it will always be "home".



There is a playlist on my iPod called "Chatsworth". In case you were curious, this is what it consists of:

• Famous in a Small Town by Miranda Lambert
• Small Town USA by Justin Moore
• Hick Town by Jason Aldean
• These Are My People by Rodney Atkins
• We Rode in Trucks by Luke Bryan
• Kick It in the Sticks by Brantley Gilbert
• My Town by Montgomery Gentry
• Suds in the Bucket by Sara Evans
• John Deere Green by Joe Diffie
• Small Town Girl by Kellie Pickler
• Tattoos on This Town by Jason Aldean
• Wal-Mart Parking Lot by Chris Cagle
• Back Where I Come From by Kenny Chesney