here today. . .

Imelda, Brenda, and I. We took this on Wednesday, Brenda’s 28th birthday.

We celebrated with a girls day out. Imelda and I kidnapped Brenda from work, after getting permission from her boss, and we had a whole day of girl pampering. Brenda was completely suprised. We had gone out of our way to “forget” her birthday until we showed up at her job at 10 a.m.! hehe.

The picture was right before we sang her happy birthday and filled our tummies with chocolate raspberry mouse cake. Mmmm. It was a good day!

Not at all like today for me . . .last night I decided to drink a Canadian beer. My brother bought them for me when he went to Canada this summer and I’ve had them in the fridge forever. I was watching a movie and got a hankerin’ for a beer.

Went to bed, everything was normal.

Then about 7 a.m. I wake up and as I got up to head to the restroom I realized I had this huge headache. The kind that you wake up too and it hurts even to stand. I went to the restroom and then went straight back to bed. Around 9 a.m. I wake up again and just stare at the ceiling. My head still hurt but it wasn’t as bad. So I decide to get up and then WHAM, there was the pain again. I don’t think I’ve ever had a headache this bad. I stumbled to the kitchen, grabbed a banana, ate half of it, and grabbed some aspirin and a bottle of water. I laid down back in bed.

I woke up around noon to use the restroom and as soon as I got up, my head felt like it was about to explode. It was time to call mom. “I think you have a migraine. Either that or stay away from the Canadian beer.” All my brother could say was, “DUDE!” I don’t know if it was the beer or just one of those days. At one point it hurt so bad I threw up the banana. Which ended up giving me a comforting feeling. At about 3 I was given some Excedrin. By 5 I got up and no more headache. I couldn’t believe my entire day I spent it in bed with a damn headache.

Now, I’m wide awake and I probably will be until it’s time to go into work. Bleh! Not cool!

Yesterday morning my mom decides we should take my dad out to breakfast to keep his mind off of some bad news he received. Apparently one of his childhood friends, Juan, who happens to be his brother’s best friend, was at the hospital in San Antonio. His wife had gotten really sick two Friday’s ago and she went to the hospital in McAllen. They wouldn’t take her because she didn’t have insurance. Well, let me re-word that. . .they took her in but couldn’t do much since she didn’t have insurance. She kept getting worse and worse and finally they said she had a deadly hepatitis. They took her off life support yesterday.

In a week, just like that, she’s gone. I didn’t even know there was such a disease. I mean, I know it happens every day and like the saying goes, tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone. This time it just hit really close to home.

My dad was really bummed out. He had just been in San Antonio from Monday – Wednesday at a work conference. He was arriving to Dallas when he got the call from his brother that Juan was in San Antonio with his wife and she was really sick. I don’t know exactly all the details. What I do know is she has three kids, the youngest being 2, and she had just opened up a salon not even 2 months ago.

My mom and I were trying to keep my dad from thinking too much about it because he was just really bummed. At the restaurant he was telling us more about it and he looked at me and said he was going to San Antonio and to be by his friends side and he felt horrible. He was going to offer them money and he just put his head down and said, “I can’t believe we offer money. It doesn’t do anything. I wish I could offer more.”

I couldn’t help but tear up and think of my own friends. It’s so hard to see a loved one go through something devastating knowing you really can’t do much but just be there.

My dad is over there right now with Juan and his family. Trying to help as much as he can.

It sucks getting older. Life sure doesn’t get easier, that’s for damn sure. The only thing I look forward to in life as I grow older and older are those laugh out loud moments, or unforgettable memories that happen with my family and friends.