So today I went to a squadron wives' function. We all know how I am about making friends and meeting people by now, I'm sure, if you've read the other posts on this blog. Anyways, I was told about it maybe three days ago from another wife and she forwarded the e-mail of all of the information for the get-together. We were to bring a dish with us and we were encouraged to bring other wives from the squadron, children, and DOGS! I got to take my doggie! We all met at the CO's wife's house (CO's house, too, I guess... but we were there for the wives lol) and she has two dogs! One was named Roscoe (a Shar Pei and Hound mix) and the other Dragon (a Catahoula Leopard Dog) and my little Shar Pei/Catahoula Leopard Dog mix had so much fun with them! They were much older and didn't play as much, but he was allowed to run around the house like a mad dog. They wore him out! It broke my heart to see children afraid of him, though... I know he's a big puppy and rambunctious, but just the sight of him had them running away and screaming (which didn't help, he just chased them down and scared them more...). And he's such a sweetie! Just really really REALLY hyper. Anyways, I made my mom's Mississippi caviar and brought chips
-- INTERJECTION: I'm SO excited for the Star Trek movie coming out. Every time I see a commercial for it or an advertisement, I just want to pre-order tickets and see it with all of the crazy-dress-up-Trekkies --
but there were so many awesome things there! (I love food haha). I liked most of the girls there, too. A couple of them weren't really my type of girls BUT I'm not about to not say hello to them when I see them at other functions. I feel weird, though, because I don't know how to get super involved with everything, I feel like I need to get more comfortable before I'd be able to do a lot. I was kind of asked to be chair of the work out club, but I have no idea how I would do that... I think that would be fun to organize some active get-togethers and she said she'd help me out... but I really don't want to feel like I'm not doing the work that she expects because I don't know what I'm doing... maybe I'll ask her about it... we'll see.
I plan on getting involved with YFU out here as an area rep perhaps, since I've hosted god knows how many exchange students, I think I'd be good at it.
In other random news, Riverside lost another former student late last night. To a car accident. It's such a shame that my poor high school and small town community has to deal with TWO teenage deaths in one year. The first one was one of my good friends back in August. Thankfully (in a selfish way), this young man and I were never really close and we never even talked, but I knew him. That's just how small towns are. And it really hits you hard every time another fatal car accident happens, no matter the circumstances, and someone you know is involved. It makes me worry about my parents driving around... and my baby brother driving late at night to get his McDonald's fix (yes, even the smallest of town's have a McDonald's... kids have to have somewhere to go eat when they're partying or after a dance). Like, what if while I'm out here living the life I'm so happy to have and I get a phone call telling me that my little brother died in a car accident? How would I live with that? I can't even imagine how his parents and family are feeling right now (back in reality now)... just like I couldn't imagine how my friend's sister and parents felt when he passed away. That funeral was SO unbearably HARD. And the students that were close with both boys that have now passed... it's just so awful to lose a friend. But two? And within less than a year of the last? And all while you're only in high school or the early years of college?
#RiversideStrong
So It Goes...
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