How did you get here?

That's something I wonder about when I look through all the blogs I keep up with, and after thinking about last year at this time when Maria set up my blog. How did I find these other blogs, or did they find me and leave a comment that I traced back to their blog? Or did I follow them from a comment they left on some other blog? Does that make me a stalker? Or just a Pen Pal from back in the day?

I know Jolea's blog was the first blog I ever kept up with, and after many weeks of her asking "Mom, did you read that blog I told you about? The one with the lady who lives on a sailboat in Mexico? You'd like it." I checked that blog, but by the time I got there the lady had moved to Japan and was only wishing she was back on the boat. But I still keep up with her as she travels the world, winding her way back to Mexico. And of course I keep up with Jolea's..... I have to, she doesn't call.

I have added several more blogs to my list from both Jolea and Maria, like minds I guess. But then there are those that I'm not sure how I ran across. Or by someone I do read suggesting I check out their blog because that other person just so happens to live in the town I grew up in... Debi. Maybe I got bored one day and just started clicking that little 'next blog' app up there. I found some pretty interesting blogs this way.

So what I'm getting at here is, how did you get here? I know there are those people (mostly relatives) who I've told about the blog to keep up with Jody and his cancer battle. But you other people... how did you get here? Do you remember? If so, I'd love to know. Does that make me an even more twisted stalker? Maybe I secretly want to be a Private Investigator or I enjoy looking at family trees, or I need to go back to work because my brain is shutting down.

We'll go with the latter... since that happens tomorrow. I sure hope I can remember all my passwords at work.

BTW... Jody and I celebrated (if that's what you want to call it) our 28th wedding anniversary Friday. We thought about going down to Walgreens and reading cards to each other, but Jody decided against that when he remembered they didn't have any chairs to sit in and the blood pressure monitor would be too far away and I'd have to yell across the store to him.

So we went to Jalapenos and had the most disgusting Mexican Food I've ever eaten. People who like this place have never had good Mexican Food. It's got to be bad when I say that because everyone knows, I'll love anything that has a good amount of chili powder and grease in it. Then we went to the grocery store to get the ingredients for the Chocolaty Treats we would be taking to Garland. That was considered an outing... Jody doesn't go to grocery stores unless it's an emergency. I'd already told him I had all the ingredients but he insisted and we added a Chocolate Pie to the basket. Good pie!

To make up for Jalapenos on Friday we went to Dos Banderas in Garland on Saturday night. Now that's more like it. I had Avocado Enchiladas with Cilantro Cream Sauce!!!! OMG. I could be a vegetarian.

That's how we roll around here, kind of laid back and unexciting. We like it that way.

Speaking of unexciting.... how about sitting on your deck typing and listening to the dove in the trees and the air conditioners hum when all of a sudden the pounding of hoof beats rapidly approaching startles the s#!t out of you. Someday I'm going to install an spring loaded self-latching gate.

This is Izzy, she's about 45 pounds of 6 month old puppy power. She bursts in from time to time for drinks. She lives two doors over and doesn't get out much. She's severely deprived of walks and enjoys making a break for it. She's in training to be a professional Scare Dog. She's getting quiet good at it. Made me have goose bumps this morning.

So let me know how you got here.... I'm making a family tree and all I have to work with are a bunch of dead leaves.

Have a great week. It's back to the 8-4 for me... I think I'll break out my bike.