Dreams Do Come True

So, one of my lifelong dreams has been to go to Nebraska! Yes, Nebraska, the state. Well, after 28 years, it is becoming reality and I'm going!! YEY!!!
My agenda is as follows:
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - Mom, dad, and me drive to St. Louis and stay at Harrah's and hopefully I can win a million dollars
Thrusday, July 2, 2009 - we drive to Fremont, Nebraska, the town where my grandmother grew up
Friday-Sunday - celebrate
Sunday, July 5, 2009 - I fly back to Nashville and mom and dad start the drive back.

I am so stoked. We are going up for my great aunt's 90th birthday. So, it's like a mini family reunion with the side that I never see, or most likely never met.

Why my obsession with Nebraska you might ask? Well, it's where my grandmother, Grandma Vernon, grew up until she was 13. It's where my dad and his family always went on vacations and there has always been tons of Nebraska stories. I can only imagine, Grandma, Papaw, and their 5 youngins' making the drive to Nebraska, it had to be intersting. One day when I write my memior, I'll include some of these stories!!!

Also, why do I like Nebraska??? It's where mine and Angie's alter ego's are from!!!! Yes, when we don't want to give people our real names, we tell them we are Franchesca and Gwendolyn from Omaha!!! It has come in handy on multiple occasions, but never has it been as believable as it was at TJ's night before his wedding party.

On the LONG drive to Farview, we said we should tell people there we are Franchesca and Gwendolyn from Omaha and we work at Primus there, which TJ works in the one in Cool Springs, and we talk to him so much on the phone that we decided to load up our motorhome and drive down for his wedding. We decided to test his luck since his soon to be wife had her friends there that we did not know.

Well, lo and behold, would you know it, there as a motorhome parked down the street from TJ's condo, so not only did we tell them we were Gwendolyn and Franchesca from Omaha, but we also had a motorhome we could point out and tell them it was what we drove down here in!!! It was hilarious, they actually believed us, and unless someone told them different, they probably still do believe it. So, yes, I'm excited to go back and see Franchesca and Gwendolyn's old stomping ground!!!

Actually, I told my girly's the other day that we do not have Nebraska names, and we should change them. All of dad's girl cousins have double names, Theola May, Jo Elfin, Cora Lee, and Micky Sue. I called dibs on Theole May, but we came up with a new one for Heather, Tana Rose! I think she'd fit right in and more people would believe she is from Omaha!

So, I'm am pumped beyonds words to go to Nebraska, one more place I can mark off of my places to go. I'll fill you all in on how great it was when I get home.....hopefully I don't talk Nebraska up to much

Looking out my front door

So, if you ever want to experience an episode of Cops, just come hang out at my house for a little bit, gurantee you will see something!!! We'll, maybe that's a little dramatic, but it is pretty close to the truth.

I've seen many of people get pulled over in front of my house for gunning it through downtown Nolensville, I've seen people doing sobriety test at 2am, I've seen people involved in hit and runs be arrested and even I, sweet innocent lil Becca, have been pulled over in front of my very own house by a Nolensville cop. **side note, I have loads of respect for cops and I really do appreciate all they do and they have helped me out, so this is not a police bashing post**

I even once pullled out of my driveway, rolled down my window and offered my assistance to the cops, on the mentioned above hit and run case. I think he might of taken me up on my offer had it not of been me and three others sitting in the car in our Halloween costumes!!! I think they managed to stutter out a no thanks while picking their jaws up off of the ground.

They came to my rescue this past October when I arrived home from New York City around midnight to find my back door wide open, no robbers, just an overly excited tourist who didn't shut her door. Yet, they've also given Christian a speeding ticket while she was sitting in the back of my driveway, actually, under the barn I do believe. Oooppsss.....my neighbors love me!

Well, today I saw a new incident, a situation that made me immediately call me sister to share the gossip since we both have the same kind of warped sense of humor. I just got home from work and was turning my music on when I heard sirens. I walked to my living room to be noisy and noticed that the cop, the cute Nolensville cop that pulled me over to be exact, had pulled over a blue van in front of my driveway. No biggie, just another speeding ticket.

A few minutes later I walk by, and my front door is open, and I see the cop backing down the wrong way on the road. Of course cars were coming to a halt, so I watched to see what was happening. I see him get out of his car and about the same time a lady and a little boy who appeared to be 3 or 4 were walking down the street toward the cop. Well, the cop proceeds to go pick up garbage from the middle of the road and meets the mother and child and hands it to the little boy. It also appeared like the cop and mother were possibly lecturing the little boy. So, the little boy and his mother come marching back down past my house to their car, him holdng what looked like a Krystals box the whole time. Poor thang!

I kind of felt bad for the kid and was surprised that they had him walking down the busy street. But, at the same time, good for the cop, people don't need to liter! It makes me so mad! Yes, this is coming from the girl who recycles EVERYTHING, but still, don't liter, there is no need for it. I'm constantly picking up garbage from my front yard. I was talking to my neighbor once about it and she said, and I quote, "I think we must be the last yard before the beer store, because everyone seems to throw out their empty beer bottles in my yard!"

So, start the kids young and teach them not to liter. You never know, the Nolensville cop might come and getcha!!!

Welcome???

Well, I've always enjoyed journaling and I sometimes feel like I'm decent at it, so I decided maybe I can join the technology world and start a blog. I've been thinking about this for a while now, so here I am. Even if I don't share it and it's just for me, it's still something to write my story.

I've done quite a few blogs on Myspace, so I might move some of them over here, in case I ever decide to do the unspeakable and delete my Myspace account***GASP**** Well, if nothing else, I think they delete some of the blogs after a while, and I don't want my talent to go wasted in computer land!!!

Another good reason to blog, to tell you that I went and saw NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK last night! My lifelong dream came true and I was whisked back to being a young, innocent, youthful 9 year old, except, I was drinking a beer and they were a little too raunchy for a 9 year old in my opinion. It was awesome, the pre-show hype with the power points gave me goosebumps, 15 years they walked away and one year ago they came back to continue the party!! I know, a little cheesy, but still goosebumppy??? (is that a word)

Speaking of words, I sometime like to invent my own words and I've recently came up with 2 new ones.
1.) Fringle-this is a combination of free and single, whenever anyone ask why I do what I do, my response is usually, because I'm young, single, and have freedom galore, so now I can just combine the single and freedom part and say because I'm a fringle!!!
2.) Manalyzer-my friends and I, and probably 98% of the female population spend the majority of our time analyzing men, therefore we are manalyzers! Makes since right? We can spend hours analyzing a 3 minute conversation with a boy. We need to get a life!!!

So, I get distracted easily, can you tell??? I once took an online quiz for adult ADHD and was told to stop what I was doing and go to the doctor to be tested, I figured I could just cut out red food coloring and it would help, and then I remebered, I really don't eat/drink much with red food coloring, so I need to find something else naturally to help me.......this test was done about 6 years ago, still haven't figured anything out yet. *one thing I do remeber from a child development class I took was that if you cut out red food coloring from a childs diet it can help with their ADD, which, red coloring is basically red sugar, therefore, cut out sugars, GENIUS!*

Well, that's enough for now, but so far this is kind of fun, maybe I'll continue. I'll let you know!!!
Becca :)