Another brief one…

This will be a quick one, basically designed to touch on just a couple of things…and to say once more, I’m getting out of dodge this weekend. I’m going to spend the weekend with my other good friend that lives in Dallas.  I have lots of casual friends, for which I’m grateful…but only two people do I consider sisters, Leisah is one, and this girl is my other one.  It is also ironic that for many years, folks looked at each of our marriages and thought we had the "perfect" lives.  Of course they had no way of knowing what was going on in mine…although their was a time that I thought that too. As did my friend…until her Pastor husband decided to have an affair…of which he has never ended, even during the 18 months that he was supposedly trying to "save" his marriage. They are now just days from a divorce, and one of the reasons I’m going is to take an objective look at her settlement papers, along with 3 other people to make sure she isn’t making any big mistakes.  Of course her attorney is looked at them, but there are always little things that only that people that know you very well might catch. Anyway, I’m looking forward to spending some time with her.

Also, I’m not going to delve greatly into my behavior of the other night. I think Leisah made some very valid points in her note…but otherwise, I’m just going to consider that I had a good time, I paid a big price with a really bad hangover, and I probabaly don’t want to go down that road again any time soon!!

But, I cannot write here without delving into the weirdest thing ever in my book.  David Carradine’s suicide.  You have to understand…my husband WORSHIPED David Carradine and everything "Kung Fu". Back years ago, when he was in the Navy, he had taken Kung Fu for several years and then when he moved to New Orleans and we first met, for several years on two separate occasions, he took Shotokan (I don’t think I spelled that right) Karate from a man named Takayuki Mikami (you can wikipedia him to find out how good he is..he is still alive) and he learned a LOT of discipline from this. So, when Kung Fu was on the air, early in our marriage, he never missed an episode. We bought a TV because of this show.  Years later, before the advent of TIVO or DVD’s, we had a VCR, and they were reshowing this show on TBS and he would get up in the middle of the night to make sure it was "recording right". Then in the 80’s when "The Legend Continues" came out he recorded every episode.  Since my husband was not much of a Tech person….one of mine and kids greatest pleasures was finding out that the first season of "kung fu" had come out on DVD, and we bought it for him for his birthday or Christmas, I don’t remember which one. But he was SO excited.  We went on to give him each subseqent season as they came out and he watched them over and over and over again.  If I had to pick the item he would have grabbed in case of a fire, it would have been those DVD’s. 

I saw it on yahoo early yesterday morning and it made my skin prickle. Seriously.  I sent my youngest son a text and he freaked the hell out.  I decided not to mention it to my older son, in hopes that he would miss seeing it…well, obviously not, since I got an email yesterday that just said "He beat him by a month" with a link to the NY Times article.  You would have to know my older son to recognize the hostility in that statement.  So, this is simply one of those coincidences that just makes you go "huh"…

So, I’m off to Dallas, for what will hopefully be a nice, easy weekend. I hope ya’ll have a good one as well!!