RTT - Road trip

 It's Random Tuesday Thoughts today, well tomorrow but I'm writing it on Monday but will publish it on Tuesday but you get the picture. I've been awol of late because life and work are keeping me really busy. If you have a few random thoughts let Stacy know, she'll hook you up.

JR and I celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary over the weekend (March 19th was the real date). We decided to take a road trip to Bentonville, AR. I know! We are exciting. I plan to regale you with more in depth posts about the trip (for the Spin Cycle) but thought I'd give you a random bunch of photos. See how I'm squeezing 2 possibly 3 posts out of the same trip? Clever, no? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Anyway:

 JR, Nessa and I stopped for a beer and a snack in Fayetteville, AR. This fulfilled my part of the road trip deal I made with JR a long time ago. Here's the deal, JR is willing to go to any and all museums/historical sites/big ball of string crazy places that I want to see as long as there is at least one brewpub visit. I chose to get the deal out of the way early in the trip. Cuts down on the complaining about driving and my working while he drove. I had a speech on Houston founding and railroad history to give on Monday at the Junior League.(FYI, I rocked it. If you ever want to know about the founding of the city of Houston or the beginnings of railroads in Houston let me know...because I'm your gal.)

Down town Eureka Springs. They were having a St. Patrick's Day parade. It was interesting. Crowded. We thought we'd have a hard time finding parking but the first parking lot we pulled into had a single space available and the meter still had 56 minutes on it. How cool is that? I pushed in a couple of more quarters to give us some more time. Than JR and I went to lunch. Ate very passable but not great food.

This is the reason we drove 8+ hours. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.  I'll post much more about this later in the week but just know, it was worth every minute in the car. I think after her 4 mile art walk even Nessa would agree. 

On the drive up we enjoyed the fabulous display the Texas wildflowers put on. I think they need another couple of days to be perfect. The blue bonnets were out but the Indian Paintbrush still has a few more days.

My phone did a great job of filling in for the camera that we once again forgot. This is the story of our life. We each remind the other not to forget the camera than both of us do. Do you do this?

There is the quick version of our weekend. There will be more to follow. Including a new "we can afford that", the Road trip Spin, and a wildflower show. There maybe a couple of more posts I can squeeze out of the trip but I can't think of them now.

How was your weekend? Do anything special?

Now, go visit the other people posting random thoughts.

Love, 

M

Houston, We have a problem. Well, not really a problem so much as an observation

You knew I had to say that, right? It's because I'm corny. I blame JR. He's corny. After 28 years I just picked it up. Corny that is. They say that after being married for as long as we have you start to look a bit like each other.

I just don't see it. I'd have to grow 12 inches, lose a little hair (he'll want me to say that he hasn't lost near as much as his middle brother Paul. He has some issues about that. It's okay, we all have issues of some sort. We won't go into mine. It would just take way too long to list them), what hair I had left would need to go gray, and grow a beard (yeah, ahem, let's not go there. Have I mentioned that menopause sucks? Well, it does. FYI)

And, while we don't look like each other we sometimes sound like each other. I'll say something that sounds like something he'd say (with a lot less swearing). It's that kind of thing. I don't mind that so much because JR is really clever. Me? Not so much. He is very good at puns, wordplay and wordsmithing (screw you Blogger that is a word). I'm lucky if I can string 4 words together into a meaningful sentence.

Now, if I can get him to stop interrupting me we'll be fine. In the last few years this has become a problem for me. He doesn't see it that way. MAYBE, because he's interrupting me, not the other way around. I'm sure there is some sort of psycho-babble about this syndrome but I'm not buying it. It's rude. I'll break him of it real soon. I've broken him of several annoying habits in the past, this one shouldn't be too hard. :-)

You know that thing that old married couples do? Where they sort of look at each other and know what the other one is thinking? Or someone says something and one spouse looks at the other with a little half smile because whatever it was that the person said reminded them of something in the past? That weird sort of knowing that you only get by creating a history with each other?

We do that! And, it's annoying as hell.

Not really. Okay, maybe a little.

It must be annoying for others though. Maybe, not for our friends who have been married as long or longer than we have because they do it too. In fact, we have been very close friends with this other couple so long that we do this as a group. Talk about annoying for others.

Did ya'll notice that I didn't talk about any of these photos? That is because I have no clue what they all are. When asked I said some sort of plane thingy (just like I said to the astronaut a couple of months ago. Because, I'm awesome like that)  We went to NASA awhile back with some friends and while they were oohing and awing over all the plane-like thingamajiggs I was checking out the wildflowers that were in bloom.

I'm claiming to be the smartest one in the bunch. JR would problem disagree with that statement but I'm sticking to it. The wildflowers in Texas are not to be missed and they only last a few weeks. I can go to NASA any old time.

Love,

M

PS: I'm heading to Austin today to visit the Blissfully Caffeinated bunch, oh and to work but that is totally secondary. I'll be sure to say hi to them for you.