Well, this weekend started with a Texans United/No Nonsense in November house party at Chris & James house to listen to the conference call with Glen Maxey, head of NNIN as well as to raise funds and talk about the amendment (oh, and have a good time in general!). While Glen certainly isn’t the world’s most motivational speaker, I enjoyed thinking that Texans across the state united in defeating this stupid amendment were all listening in at the same time (more or less, we recorded it and played it back, but you get the idea). It was encouraging.

Saturday evening was my Richland High School 10 year reunion. Wow I’m getting old! Not really that many surprises (I’ll fill you in on all the gory details Stephanie and anyone else who reads this and missed out). It was good to catch up with a few people I hadn’t seen in a while. Mostly though, I’ve stayed in touch with the people I was friends with, and I’m really glad that I have. Ian was a real sweetheart and tagged along. I didn’t think it would be THAT bad for him, until we got there. Half the people (those who went to Richland) were chatting it up and catching up, the other half (their spouses) were standing behind the first half awkwardly. Still, we chatted with friends that Ian knows most of the time and met some others we enjoyed chatting with.

Today was my late grandmother’s family reunion in east Texas. It was the first one since she passed away. It definitely had a different feel to it, much more somber than in the past. She would have wanted it to continue though, so of course it did. Random things since her funeral have made me think of her. It takes a very long time to deal with the passing of someone you were close to. I have some more thoughts on the subject that I’ll try to gather and put into some semblance of cohesiveness, but that will have to wait for a later date when I can be a little more detached. There’s still too much emotion mixed up in it all for now.