Tokens From The Weekend

The weekend started with a 7 hour and 45 minute road trip that only felt like 3 hours. My little-sister-in-law is the best car company on the face of the planet. The more I get to know her, the more I love her. I highly recommend taking her with you if you have any long road trips coming up. Accompanied by the Dixie Chick's Wide Open Spaces album, that we pulled over to buy at "The Walmart", we appropriately drove straight through to West Virginia. Ye-haw! The weekend was packed with all sorts of celebrations, a baby shower for my big-sister-in-law, a wedding for a dear friend of ours, catching up, and making memories. I'll admit, I had too much fun.

You've heard me say before that I'm somewhat socially handicapped. My close friends, usually roll their eyes when I make this claim. But this weekend has confirmed my theory. My social anxiety is only present when I sense that others feel the need to entertain me, or host me. It makes me uncomfortable. (remind me sometime to post on my intolerance for uncomfortableness). My husband, had such a tight group of guy friends from high school. They have all kept in touch over the years, have traveled great distances to be in each other's weddings, and have made each other's girlfriends/wives feel like part of the family. I love these guys! No exaggeration- from day one, when I met these guys, they treated me like they had known me my whole life, like I was their sister, like they knew me and loved me. Every time I see them, I am part of the family. It is the most comfortable socializing I have ever done with people I hardly know. Knowing my husband, I am not surprised he would have such fantastic friends. It is so sweet to see these good ol' boys together. If this weekend had been a movie, country music would have been the soundtrack.

My mother-in-law shared that she was learning about "emotional integrity". What a great phrase! I'm going to have to use it more often. I would say, in relationships, nothing frustrates me more than not having emotional integrity. I do not respond well when I pick up on the feelings another isn't admitting... it drives me nuts. In addition to learning that phrase, this conversation with my MIL brought about the joy of realizing, no matter how old I get, there will always be more to learn. I love learning. I love uncovering things about myself and humankind in general.

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Has anyone else ever wondered why when ice melts in your cup, the water level doesn't rise? Like if you had a full to the brim cup of ice water, it wouldn't over flow when the ice melts? Well, I was on the verge of falling asleep when I realized, this has to be because the ice displaces the same amount of water solid as it will when it melts and adds to the water in the glass. I did not google this to verify it I am correct because it makes sense to me. And that's all I needed. I just needed it to make sense so I could fall asleep. I think of things like this often.

My little-sister-in-law, comfortable socializing, emotional integrity, the lure of learning, and physics- these are the tokens from my weekend. How was yours?