happy two six

HAPPY TWO SIX EVERYBODY!
As those who know know the 26th is always a special day. For those who don’t know, look for it. It’ll only find you if you look for it…

Mom came in town, always a delight. We ate at Joe’s last night, introduced her to my friend MaryBeth, caught up on all her big adventures living with Winn. She was described as “super heady” and I have to agree. Mom, you’re super heady.
We went and had a good old Waffle House breakfast and then she took me to my eye doctor’s appointment. It was another one of those simple silly things you don’t forget you used to do until you do it again. It’s been so long since Mom took me to a doctor’s appointment but my car was still getting serviced and I needed a ride. As we pulled in all the memories of all the times her and I used to go to eye doctors and eye specialists and all that stuff came back. I’ve had glasses since I was four mind you; we have a lot of memories dealing with this sort of thing. Of course it’s been years since she came with me, but it was a nice, normal treat to have her there again.
I had to have my eyes dilated too and so she was great helping me pick out new glasses. Picking out new glasses is hard enough because all of them always look weird because they aren’t the old ones; they aren’t what I’m accustomed to. I couldn’t see a thing with my eyes as big as they were so she was a great help, as was the lady who helped us pick. There’s an art to picking glasses I see so I turned it over to the women folk. Hope they come out all right. I’ll show you when they come in.
I’m off to Vegoose tomorrow, everybody wish me luck. I came up with the best costume idea too. Since I’ve got four days in Vegas plus Halloween, which isn’t until Tuesday, I needed something to go along with my swanky seersucker suit. Then I started thinking that I wanted to be something heady and organic, so what better to be than a super heady organic giving tree? I cut out all these leaves on construction paper and then Brooks, Mollie and me started writing little fortune cookie quotes on the back of each one. I’m going to get a bunch of safety pins and pin the leaves to a green shirt, maybe even a camo top (which really looks like a tree) and then go around the strip giving people leaves of wisdom. Haha! We were having such a great time writing things on the leaves, everything from Shel Silverstein poems to Buddha quotes to anything with wit, like “Call your mother!” I even took some of the blank leaves over to the farm and Jim and Grandma are writing some wisdom nuggets on them too. Whoever gets a grandma leaf is going to have a blessed weekend I can tell. It’s such an interactive costume, organic too! I can’t wait to work the strip with it. I’m going to look for the most lost soul I can find and go up and give them a leaf. If I can help just ONE person it’ll all be worth it…