So Last Sunday Leandro and I got up (not so early) and cleaned the house together from top to bottom.... and to celebrate we had a BBQ. Daddy finally gave me that baby R2D2 looking grill that he never wanted to give up because he supposedly uses it! LOL
We had such a nice evening. This was the first time that we had BBQed at Hidden Oaks this Summer. Here are a few pictures from our not so lazy...then lazy Sunday.
These were my yummy mango/cherry/lemonades with rum! Needless to say it was a pretty darn good day! I miss the day already!
I'm so in-love with her! Her voice reaches down and grabs my soul! She is so amazing! This is one of my favorite songs off this album! I just thought I would share this.
I'm off today. It's been a while since my last post so I thought it was time for an update. I don't think all that much has changed since my last post. I am working at ACS's summer camp program for now. It will be over in four more weeks. I am only working Mon-Thurs right now. I just got a part time job at "Build a Bear" at the mall of LA with John. That's going to be such a blast! I'm really looking forward to it.... and working with John of course! He's so awesome!! Love him!!!
I am being so lazy today! It's so nice. I just made my second pot of coffee and I am still in my pjs and it's noon....lol. I have been reading "The Help" and messing around on the computer all morning. I have been listening to my "Early Jazz" Pandora station all morning and Jazz + Hot Coffee + "The Help" = Erin not doing a damn thing but being lazy all day!! LOL
A couple of other things happened recently that I wanted to talk about..... Shawn Jones was involved in a murder/suicide last Friday night at the TJ Ribs off Acaiden. His funeral services were last night at Seale. I didn't go. I haven't seen Shawn in about three years. We weren't really friends or anything. In fact, the only time we really talked is when I was in tenth grade and we dated (sort of). Basically.... what could have been a good relationship between the two of us went belly up so fast because of his "obsessiveness." He was moving way too fast for me so I ended the relationship pretty much before it ever began. He couldn't let go and basically stalked me! He wrote me notes everyday, followed me all around school, wouldn't stop calling me.... he would say that "he loved me.... and he wanted us to be together" yadda yadda yadda.
Shortly after all that he finally got the message when I started dating Leandro and then he finally backed off. It was like an entire year that he wouldn't leave me alone though... and for all of those reasons and a few more.... I got so angry at him until I reached the point of not being able to stand him and wanted absolutely nothing to do with him. I didn't want to be his friend... I didn't want to know him.
The last time I saw Shawn he was working at Conn's in Baton Rouge off of Airline hwy. I went there with my Dad to look at flat screen lift cabinets, because at the time Conn's were the only carriers of these cabinets in Baton Rouge. I had no idea he was working there. I was surprised to see him and sort of dreading to see him. He came up to me immediately and I gave him a hug and acted polite. I asked how he was and he asked the same. He told me him and his wife had just gotten a divorce and I said "I'm sorry to hear that" and he said "don't be." He said he had heard Leandro and I had gotten married and he asked how that was going. I told him it was going great. He then asked if I was happy..... I said "yes, very!" He said "Well, if your never not happy....give me a call." This pissed me off.
My Dad decided against the lift cabinets that Conn's had and we headed out of there. That was the last time I saw or spoke to Shawn.
I have been thinking about Shawn everyday since I heard the news about his death. It just makes me so sad. The reality of the situation regarding our "friendship" years ago in high school is that Shawn and I actually had a lot in common with one another. We had very similar situations at home regarding our mother's. We both had younger sisters that were about the same age. We could have built on so much as far as a friendship relationship goes. Who knows.... we could have still been friends... but I guess it wasn't in the cards.
Shawn needed help. Years ago when I really knew him I realized he needed help. But years ago I realized I needed help..... I just don't understand how our up bringing was so similar with horribly different outcomes. Even though I was angry with Shawn for years, and didn't want anything to do with him, my heart still hurts at his horrible departure. For underneath all of those aggravating things he did to me... I never believed Shawn to be a bad person. I still don't. He was also very kind.... and funny... and thoughtful... and innocent in so many ways. I believed he did what he did out of love for his sister. I don't think what he did was right be any stretch of the meaning, nor do I agree with what he did what so ever. However, I still believe Shawn Jones was a good person, a kind one and am really sad to see him leave.
