54.) Learn to Play Texas Hold'em

April 4Th (Easter),

I spent with my best friend Rachel and her family, my second family.

We had an AMAZING dinner that looked like it was straight out of a five star restaurant.

After the night was settling down and everyone was leaving or going to sleep it was just me, Rach, her younger brother and mom.

Her younger Brother, Lish, came in and asked me if I wanted to play a game.

"What game?" I asked.

"Texas Hold'em" He responded.

We played for hours, and I was so happy to cross another thing off my Bucket List.

Oh and guess what.

I won almost every game,

and by the time everyone gave up and went to bed I had almost all of the chips.

If only it was real money!

Keep Austin Weird {Day Two: Saturday}

Seeing how we stayed up late (or should I say early) the night before 10am came too soon,

We slowly got out of bed to enjoy a fun filled day at the Texas Capitol!

My best friend Rach and my mother
Me and her mother (my second mother)

Inside the capitol,

It was so gorgeous!

House of Representatives

The henge's on all the doors

After the fun adventure at the capitol we went to sixth street and ate at the Old Pecan Street Cafe.

It was a beautiful day,

we ended up sitting outside on the enclosed patio...

I was in heaven

Blue Bonnets

The sucker/ jaw breaker/ gum

that made my mouth sore and is the reason a piece of my tongue is missing..

Oh how I was I was joking...

All together,

It was a fun trip. I'm ready for another adventure

Keep Austin Weird {Day One: Friday}

I know my last blog I was aggravated about having to pack but I didn't say where I was going.

Well,

I went on a mother, daughter trip to Austin Texas with my mom, best friend and her mom.

It was an exciting trip... very interesting.

We went to see "The Phantom of the Opera" since we missed it when it came to Houston,

so when we found out it was coming to Austin we said "ROADTRIP!".

Above is my dress for Phantom. Its floor length, I wish I would've gotten a better picture of it.

We hit the road early (well.. eleven is early for us) and took Harley to the kennel/ boarding place which was terribly sad and traumatic.

He had never been away from me for more than a few hours! He is like my child! But I had to do it… Turns out this man was checking in his female yorkshire terrier at the same time and Harley was a bit more interested in her than me leaving him. That’s my baby boy!

The road part of the trip went by really fast.

We stopped at this hole in the wall gas station for a yummy veggie pizza (my mouth is watering just thinking about it)
Austin is the biggest party/ college town ever! It was an intense experience.

We finally got to our hotel and got dressed and went to the show. It was good.

We all enjoyed it.

Then went to get the car and Peri (my best friend, Rachel's, mother) put the car into reverse TWICE when we were trying to go forward and almost took out a bush.

It was pretty scary.

There were close to a hundred people standing around us laughing.

Then we tried to find something to eat. There were gangsters and partiers EVERYWHERE!

Traffic was terrible it took us two hours to find the restaurant we wanted to go to (although we got lost a couple of times and flagged down by these total creepers trying to hit on us. I laughed at them, Rach wanted to beat them up. It was pretty funny)

and then we had to wait thirty minutes to get a table.

On the way to the restaurant we seriously witnessed a police chase.

There was a car right in front of us, kinda in a T-bone position and there were cops on bikes checking all the cars for drunk drivers and when one of the cops tried to shine his flash light in the car the car sped off and almost took out one of the cops.

But the guy in the car was completely stupid because there was a cop car DIRECTLY behind him, he only made it like a block. It was funny though.

When we got to the restaurant we were so hungry and tired I think we were like half drunk or high or something because we were laughing at everything and everyone and just acting crazy.

But it was fun. Anyways after that we went back to the hotel ate a huge piece of chocolate cake and then me and Rach snuck downstairs and attempted to work out.

We finally went to sleep around five am.

GOOD DAY!

hehe

I wrote a schedule out for the next couple of hours.

Giving myself a set time to,

Do my work out (which I've skipped out on doing all day),

take a shower,

pack for my trip (yeah, still haven't done it),

take my sleeping pill and try to go to bed before 2am.

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" just came on tv

bye bye schedule.

Hello to

last minute packing,

a sleepless night

and showering without enough time for my hair to dry.

Packing Pains

Remember when you used to get so mad because your mom would pack for you and you wanted to do it yourself?

Well I did.

And now I couldn't get her to pack for me if I begged...

ugh.

I don't want to pack...

If I'm having this much trouble with just packing,

I wonder how horrible it is going to be unpacking.

Why is is always more fun packing then unpacking?

Go, go, go

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Shakespeare's Sonnets: 154

The little Love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep,
Came tripping by, but in her maiden hand,
The fairest votary took up that fire,
Which many legions of true hearts had warmed,
And so the general of hot desire,
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarmed.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy,
For men discased, but I my mistress' thrall,
Came there for cure and this by that I prove,
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

Even if you don't understand it,

(which I've had years and years of practice)

The words are beautiful