Thanksgiving this year felt hectic, even if we didn't technically do anything but show up and eat. This whole week, I have been off, but yet, every day seems loaded with something important to take care of. Monday was Mijo's birthday celebration with his friends. Tuesday, he repeated the celebration, but this time with his GF. We just kind of sit and wait to take him here and there, it didn't help that most of the week, the weather was absolute shit, with grey skies and rain. Today, now that it is Saturday, the skies seem to be clear, sunny, and nothing but blue skies. Wednesday, just as I told Wife at Target, while waiting for our boy to finish watching his movie at the theater, I say "we are going to relax and take it easy on Wednesday, once we drop off the gf, we can stay up late and just hang out?" Wife assured me that yes, we could relax. Ten minutes later, my family went into Defcon 5, my aunt got taken to the hospital in SA, my mom was going to drive out Wednesday and it looked pretty bleak. I called my mom to tell her we would join her Wednesday, then she said she was going to show up at 10am, which meant we were going to have to get up at the crack of dawn, but what could I say other than "we'll be there." Between that conversation and a couple hours later, mom must have looked at the weather forecast and then she changed her mind. It was supposed to be raining all day Wednesday, and the doctors did some testing and determined my aunt had not had a stroke or anything else, so there was no need to put ourselves in danger. This at least allowed us to stay home and enjoy the one day with no responsibilities.
Thursday had us on the road to San Antonio, and we couldn't just slide in when it felt right for us, it had to be early. Wife had also told Boy and his GF and DD with his wife and baby. The three of us arrived within about 15 minutes of each other, we pulled in first, DD pulled in as we were getting off the car, then Boy made it in time as we were about to do a prayer before eating. We all ate, everything was good, and we were on the road back home by 6:00pm. We got home early, Mijo worked the concession stand again for the UT game which meant that we had to have him there by 5:00am. He recruited about half of the wrestling team that showed up, so he couldn't back out, and we gave a ride to most of them down to UT. All we could do Friday was wait for the game to end as the weather got shittier, with drizzle and cool temps, I didn't want our kids out there longer than necessary. We left about the right time, by the time he called that they were walking to the pick-up area, we were already about to get off I-35 and getting there. We picked up Mijo and three other kids, the others got rides with other parents, and we got out of the area. The hole area by UT is a mess for a couple hours after the game ends, 100,000+ people leave an impression.
It is now Saturday morning, and although Mijo went to bed at 9:00pm, it is 12:30pm and he is still not down. It is rough every time they work a concession stand, he was up at 4:00am and worked until we picked him up at roughly 4:00pm. It was about 14 wrestlers that showed up, so UT will give the wrestling team at least $1400 plus 90% of the tips for the one game, so that is pretty good. With the other game worked, the team has already gotten new uniforms which the varsity players got. I am just hoping Saturday and Sunday are at least relaxing days before going back to work.
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