Day 19-Silver Wings

   Howdy!

          So I survived my first ever Rocky Horror Picture Show! It was quite the doozy...but still it was pretty fun! Here's my Valentine and I being RHPS virgins....We're pretty cute.

           Valentine's Day is always fun I suppose, especially since one of my most beautiful friends is a Valentine's Day baby (which I should've mentioned yesterday but....I do what I want here...) So happy birthday again, Bailey Rae! I'm still slightly recovering from last nights crazy antics so I apologize for the scatterness of my thinking/writing (I'll probably edit this one later...maybe...probably not, this is real life)

           Something totally random just popped into my head and I'm going to write about it now...The other day while I was passing out Valentines my roomie (as pictured above) and I bumped into an old friend from our first semester at A&M. The last time I had bumped into her she had told me that her mom had been diagnosed with cancer so naturally I asked her how her mom was doing. It broke my heart as she told me her mom had passed away and that Valentine's day was her birthday. I can't tell if people take comfort in knowing that they aren't alone in the circumstances they've faced. For me it is. I love being around people who get it. The people that will understand immediately why your mom's birthday can be a really sucky day or that even after 2 or 50 years later it still hurts. My heart hurts for her and I guess the only thing I can really do is be there for her through prayers and thoughts. Just a random side note, now I'll get on with my memory for the day!

Memory #19

           One fine and lovely Saturday morning at my house, my brother and dad were away on some masculine endeavor. Which meant we had full reign of the house to do whatever we wanted, which also meant that we were just going to hang out in my mom's bed, watch movies and eat...duh. This particular Saturday we ended up watching the movie Country Strong (if you aren't sure what this is google it real quick, it wasn't a really popular movie but we loved it). We really enjoyed it mainly because of this hunk...

Don't judge us. He was a cutie pie throughout the whole movie and we adored him. Anyways there is a lot of country singin' in this movie because...its about country singers...shocker I know. We immediately fell in love with the soundtrack. As I might have said before when my mom got excited about something she went all out immediately and then kind of got bored with it. For this instance my mom bought the entire soundtrack and made a playlist on her iPhone with these songs. 

       It was probably a couple of weekends later when we were driving in her car and all of a sudden this song came on from the movie.

     

           And almost naturally we split off into different parts. I sang the main part and my mom matched it with a high harmony that was really pretty together. It kind of became the one song we would put on if we were feeling like dueting. I don't know how to explain how I felt when we sang together but it's something that I miss and will always hold close to my heart. The lyrics definitely have more of a meaning to me.

"Don't leave me," I cry

Don't take that airplane ride

But you locked me out of your mind

Left me standing here behind

Silver wings shining in the sunlight

Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight

They're taking you away, leaving me lonely

Silver wings slowly fading out of sight"

Love Always,

Erin