Happy Dad Day @ MindSay 
good day today
Our dads were a lot a like in some ways. Both hard workers, both big men and both with great sense of humors. Both were WWII veterans with a love of their country. Both were gentle and loving with kids and animals. Both of them had family that adored them.
My father (Sam) passed first in 1995 .... then Dave's dad (Al) in 2000. I miss them both.
I remember them this weekend with love and respect. And hope they know they will always be in our hearts forever. Forever.
Till we meet again .....
Peace. J.
On another note, I was one foot out the door to work this morning when my 16 month old son starts calling :"dad, dad, dad." I look back and I say "yeah what's up?" The kid hands me my cell phone. I swear to god I was speechless. Not only would that have been the ultimate pain in the ass to have to go back and get my phone, putting off my work schedule all day, but the kid shows some big-time awareness. 16 months old people. Safe to say he is more than a little bit smarter than his father. If only the kid knew how to sleep now...
my dad wants me to mow lawns with him. and i didn't want to say it, but dude. no. i'm not mowing lawns? jesus. do i look mexican to you? jeez. but it is a lot of money involved. but really. mowing lawns? i mean. gah. someone's going to ask what job i have and i'll say 'mowing lawns with my dad'. holy crap good one becca. fucking poor or what? who the hell mows lawns? people can mow their own lawn. for free. and i don't even know how to work a lawn mower.
i told him i'd think about it though. seeing as there is a whole lot of money involved.
and i've decided on doing basketball managing instead of winter track. i'm thinking i'll help more people managing basketball than running winter track. but i'm still somewhat split.
1. i know nothing about basketball. but i just want to help any way i can.
2. girls' basketball or boys'? at first this wasn't even a thing. but then a friend asked me which one i'd be doing and i was like wow i could do boys' basketball. but then i was like wait a minute what's wrong with doing girls'? but i don't know. boys' could be a lot more fun, simply because they're guys. but then again, i'd rather be on a bus full of chicks, you know. ;-)
and that's what's up now.
Saturday May 19, 2007 at 2:45pm daddy walked a woman down the aisle and as I tried to be strong the tears began to build up. My mind asked all the things a little girl ask, will dad be there to do the same of me if and when my turn comes? Will his smile be as large as it is at this very moment? My father is fifty thee yeas old, while no spring turkey, he is no where near in the grave, but will he be there to share in my joy?
I was happy for the gift he was able to give and understanding what this walk past a row of well wishers meant, especially because this woman was one of his four sisters and my aunt Nancy.
Aunt Nancy and her husband of thirty nine years were renewing there vows and daddy was standing in for their deceased father. I must say I did great until the minister asked "who gives this woman to this man". Yep a little bit of a tear, but I didn’t wail...lol. I saved that for later.
The wedding ceremony was very classy, fun and pleasant. The guest consisted of a wide variety of family, friends and co-workers all enjoying a love which lasted every test thrown their way. As my eyes glanced around the room I saw couples well over there fifties trying to do the dance called the “butt” “moon walk” and new couples making eyes and I was still asking When...ok when?
Sometimes you really do need to be quiet and be still. The dj played the song To Dance with My Father Again and my Father walked to the center of the dance floor with auntie and they danced as I cried. My brother looked at me and said its ok and I cried, but that was it.
I wailed when my uncle came out of the blue with an all white tuxedo singing y aunts favorite song. Auntie is that one that picks and never lets up and you just want to say PLEASE! Not today, she cried and I cried with her.
39 years still married and still in love. WOW
I woke up this morning after only 4 hours of sleep, and pretty much decided I wasn't going to school. (I ended up staying up late on talking to Derek and Eric online, oops) I gave dad the 'ol standby cramps excuse (granted, I am cramping, but I've had much worse, I coulda toughed it out today) and got back into bed. I slept until 1 when my dad came home for lunch, then I got up and made myself decent for the second part of the day. I went to school and grabbed an oh-so-healthy lunch of chips, Coke, and Reese's. MmmMm. We took the pre-test thing the school district suddenly decided everyone needed to take in all their classes (to show how much progress we've made throughout the semester, but it's stupid that we have to do it right now, because we're already 1/2 way through the semester.) in History today. So it's good I didn't miss that. But I really went to school because I knew it wouldn't be good to miss Algebra, I hate being behind in math. We also got our test scores back, and I made an 83! I know it doesn't sound that great, but I'm really happy about it. My grade in that class is now an 88, heck yes. Apparently the cast list for The Crucible was posted today, but I didn't ever get a chance to look at it. I'm fairly sure I didn't get cast, but I'm really not all that disappointed.
Lately, I keep getting the suggested tag "happy dad day". Wtf? I'm using it for the hell of it.
So basically, the day wasn't all that great, I feel kind of bad about not going this morning, but it's not really a big deal. I'm glad I got myself there for algebra. To be honest, I'm still feeling pretty good because of all the good stuff goin' on with Derek. (shh, don't tell him I'm this happy about it :P) If you didn't get the memo yesterday, he got a new Mindsay account. (degraaf ) Which could prove to be a little tricky, but I think I can keep him from seeing most entries I don't want him too. (You hear that Derek? Don't go snooping! Lol) I did a bit of rearanging on my Network even though I'd been putting it off because word on the street is there's going to be a new system for setting up Networks pretty soon. If some of you can't read certian back entries, don't be offended, it's just because I changed up the groups a bit. We'll see how it works.
I have more to say (after I said I wasn't in a blogging mood, haha) but this is an 'everbody' entry, so I think I'll stop for now.
<3 Courtney
P.s. Courtney + Alyssa = Good :D
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