The story is stuck

I spent Thanksgiving in Lubbock.
I am having a hard time trying to think of what to write about, concerning my visit. You see, my main reason of going was to see two friends….a mother and her son. The mother is ill….

Hmm…

I really don’t know how to go on with that story so I am just going to hold it in my heart.

I also saw my sister and her family and that was awesome. That Zoe has the curliest hair I have seen!



She said. “Sarah, you have curly hair like mine!” I replied, “yes I do.”

She also told me my fingernail polish was “beautiful” and asked if I would paint hers. Lily, her little sister said “Me too!” and pointed to her nails while repeating “purple” as that was the color of the polish I had on (really, it’s more like a lavender).

Lily’s two most common phrases are “me too” and “share.” Can you tell she has a big sister?



Those girls are so fun to be around. There momma ain’t too bad neither. How did you like that sentence?

My sister Susan.
I got some really cool pictures while I was there. Some fun ones of me and the boys playing with fire, pictures of the house I grew up in, the place where Dale and I met, playing with a “mask” at Clint’s house, and this one:

That’s a shout out to you, Jeff. I want one of those shirts in a medium.

I’ll share more pics later.

An unfortunate name for a lovely dessert.

Josh Johnson’s girlfriend, Tirzah Rose, will be turning 29 on the 17th. What an awesome name, ya?
To celebrate the final year of her twenties, we went to Truluck’s for dinner and drinks. Josh, Dale, Tirzah and myself enjoyed the evening even though our waitress was a twit. When I asked her for another gimlet, she came back with a vodka martini. I asked her if it was a gimlet and she looked at me like I had three heads. After waiting a moment for her response, which never came, I said “I don’t think it’s a gimlet as it has olives in it.” She muttered something about not knowing what I was drinking and so she looked at the bar receipt from my previous drink and it said “vodka martini.” I am sure it did as the bar probably billed it that way but I can’t cut her any slack since I asked her for a friggen’ GIMLET!


After dinner, the waitress brought a tray of desserts over and began reciting a memorized presentation about each one. There was a carrot cake, a chocolate cake, berries and cream, key lime pie, and this:



So when she said “and this is our chocolate sack”, Josh started laughing which sent me into the laugh spasms that I tried to immediately squelch. My attempt was weak and instead of stopping the laughter I produced a snort which made me laugh even harder.

This is NOT proper etiquette, friends. I blame it on the cocktails.

We ended up ordering the Key lime pie. It was so-so.

That is all.

Rotten Style

This past Saturday, I made a nice little sign to show some support for the Red Raiders. Dale and I both grew up in the flat lands and Dale graduated from Tech. Therefore, we have a soft spot in our heart for the team.

I took a white wet-erase marker and wrote “Wreck em’ TECH!” on the black board.
Josh and Juan came to the house to watch the game with us. What a game it was, eh? I guess the critics can’t say deny the skillz’ of Leach’s boys any more.

But
I
digress….

After the game I went to bed while Dale and the boys stayed up to drink a few beers, tell a few stories, and change my sign. Actually, Josh was the sign changing culprit.

When I woke up the next day, the sign said “Snork em’ TECH!”
I thought that was funny and decided to change it again to: “Snork em’ TED!”

Josh came over Sunday afternoon to help Dale with some home improvements. He took it upon himself to change the sign to “Snork em’ rotten style TED!”

I had the last say and changed it to this:


The blue marker indicates the changes that were made throughout the evolution of the sign.


I think it has a nice ring to it.

Carry on.

More Halloween pics:

Again, let me remind you that my camera has a focusing problem. Having said that, on with the show!

Spitting image

Josh dressed late revolutionary guerilla leader Che Guevara.


The Real Che


Flamboyant Che

This guy went as the skull and crossbones:

Another flamboyant pose…must have been something in the cookies.



Here we have Chuck as “Silent bob” and the lovely Misty as a “dark fairy.” I’m not sure if that is the actual title of her costume but It will do:


Amy dressed as some sort of evil, satanic high priestess and some how managed to remain just as beautiful as she is normally.



Marvelous Mandy rocked the “demon, ass-kicking, punked- out roller girl” look. Lefty was Flavor Flav:


There were lot’s of people in attendance but I only have these pics to offer. Here are a few more:


We totally got pwned by chuck and his rabbit fingers:




This guy was hilarious!


The side view is better…well, it would be if it were in focus.


Tirzah did not get to dress up but she did photo document the evening. I am sure her pics are way better than mine:


This one features my home made gloves

Hand pained by yours truly

The gals (Misty and Mandy) went all out with the decorations:

Reminds me of “Eddie.”

Any-hoo, I hope you all had a fabulous Halloween/Dia de los Muertos.
Good day.

Sarah of the Dead

Whew boy, I am still recovering from last night’s party. It was so fun and we stayed really late. I woke up early this morning so I am a bit sleep deprived. I can’t think of much to say so I am just going to post the La Catrina pictures. I’ll post other pictures soon. I don’t have many as the focus feature on my camera went caput.
Here we go:




This one looks like a mug shot


Up close










There you have it.
We had some problems with the crappy Halloween makeup but fixed it with some super bright eye shadow. All in all, I think Josh did a great job creating and implementing the designs. It took at least an hour to complete. I had to wash my face 4 times to get it off. It was definitely worth it. A few people did not recognize me until I started speaking. One guy thought I was some sort of Voodoo character. I got many compliments on the costume and that made me happy. It’s funny that I am using the same expression in all of my photos. I was trying not to smile so that the mouth stayed neutral as intended. In between photos, I had a permanent smile.