Welcome Back The Past

Rusty and Nicole have come and gone filling me with mixed emotions. I wish they could have stayed longer but I'm not sure I could have stayed standing lol. We did a lot of driving, even in the snow...you may or may not know that snow terrifies me. We had a really good time though, well I can only speak for myself but I had fun visiting some old haunts and seeing some old friends.

Seeing Rusty would be plenty, I didn't really need to do anything else. I do wish we could have stayed at mom and dad's a couple of night but maybe next time that will be plausible. He gets to come home so little because of his job and I know mom loves it when he comes for her birthday. Nicole coming on Thursday was great too. We talk pretty much everyday on google wave and I think our in person relationship pretty much exactly replicates those conversations lol.

I loved seeing Sarah, Jordan and their kids. So many memories come back. Sarah being the first real friend I made at college, also the first person I honestly thought I could tell my secrets to, and the first person to go to Vice Versa with me when it was still Class Act lol. It's evident almost immediately that they are great parents and two of the most compatible people ever lol.

I hadn't seen Janice in I couldn't say how long. I pretty much always knew she'd be a great mom and seeing her juggle THREE kids at lunch was great fun. We were reminded of when we were younger and played super heroes and he man/she ra. I should blog about some of those old days.

Seeing places like Morgantown and Fairmont really brought a lot back. It was odd in a way to be there because many of the people I knew when I lived in those places have moved on. Driving by all of the old places I lived, each place holding a story, a memory...remembering mostly silly things...like how every time I mopped the kitchen in the hardwood floor apartment the mop turned red because the floor was bleeding or the dance studio or that constant beeping coming from the kitchen in mine and Steve's place, although we never heard the beeping unles someone else brought it up. The flood in mine and Josh's Morgantown place and me not knowing what else to do but call him in Ohio and him telling me if I was going to get on the computer to get it off the wet floor first lol. Long John Silvers with Lori almost every Sunday....I could go on and on and might in other blogs...

this has turned into yet another blog not ending up where I thought...

It's odd to think about the days that are happening right now and how they will some day be fond memories. It's probably not good to think that way because it takes you away from living in the moments and really enjoying them. I'm working toward really trying to just let go and be IN moments...really IN them and not just on the side. Life is fleeting, moments pass with every second, time is taken for granted and forgotten. Even if a moment isn't everything we want it to be it's still there for us to just enjoy it, take it for what it is and live IN it.... k that's it lol