Monday Morning Musings - I ♥ TX

This is our first Hunting Season in our new home. Apparently you don't need to set your alarm clocks around here during hunting season. At the very first faint sign of light, the guns start going off. Don't those people have to go to work or something? You should have heard it on the morning of opening day. It was flat our ridiculous. It was like a firework finale that lasted for hours. I don't know what they were shooting at for so long. There is no way there could have been any birds left after the first few minutes.

I had never seen an episode of Matlock before. And then Zac was born. And I found myself at home in the middle of the day with a sleeping child I had just put down for a nap. I had some quiet time all to myself so I made lunch, sat down in front of the TV and started looking for something to watch. And there he was. Ben Matlock. In his ugly grey suit. And from that day on I had a regular lunch date with Ben. That is until I had seen them all. I went years without watching it. And then, suddenly, a few weeks ago, I picked up the habit again. It has been so long since I have seen them, they are all new now. Anyway, to make a long story even longer, everyone seems to get killed off in that show when they are busy in their garage doing something. So the other day I was in my garage and I was leaning over vacuuming out my car, and I kept looking up to make sure no one was going to sneak up on me and kill me. Anyway, go ahead and make fun of me for watching it in the first place. Steve always does.

I went into the Home Depot the other day. I got this weird feeling as soon as I walked in the door. You know how it is when you have been away from a really familiar place for a long time and you go back? It was like I was home again after a long vacation. It was only a year ago that I was making multiple trips there daily. One day I went to 6 different Home Depots. In one day. I don't miss it, so I don't know why I felt so attached when I went in last week.

Speaking of being away from a familiar place for a long time. Steve and I went out to eat one night last week. The place we were originally going to (think lettuce wraps)(Mmmmm...OK, STOP thinking lettuce wraps, I'm really hungry) was just closing, so we opted for the place next door. I usually don't like to eat at this place, 'cause I don't like fake. But when you're hungry, you're hungry, right? So anyhoo. The place we ended up eating at was Texas Roadhouse. Go ahead fellow Texans, make fun. You already made fun of me for watching Matlock, why stop now? Ohhhh, it made me so sad to be in there. Peanuts on the floor, Fishin' in the Dark on the radio, the BBQ smell, fake TX motif. Right then at that there moment, my heart longed to be home. It has been TOO long. Next month it will be 4 years. Four whole years! How did that happen? I hardly even say Y'all anymore! What's wrong with me?