Thank God

so today we set out for albuquerque, nm today. but i guess i should catch you all up on the red neck christmas. i think it went over well. the stockings made out of tube sox were a real his. dust and i got a salad spinner and a fry daddy (what we asked for). we stayed with my aunt and uncle on christmas eve, and my parents stayed with my grandpa. it was fun. we got the aunt and uncle hooked up on skype (you should do it too, if you haven't already). we got my dad's grill put on the back porch so christmas morning he had no clue. that was fun. my new uncle's big gift was a .40 caliber gun. i thought it was some sort of pellet gun, but boy was i wrong. i never saw a gun that close before, but it wasn't loaded, so i was ok. (i did understand sebastian's philosophy on guns, though). we left after a late lunch on christmas day only to get home to fayetteville in the dark. we unwrapped our haul there. it was amazing. dust got a guitar, a pack of 20 beers, a lot of cd's. i got some shoes i had been wanting, a new wallet, band of brothers, and a lot of clothes. needless to say, most of our stuff will have to picked up at a later date or mailed out to us. but it was really nice to get to spend 10 days with my family. jamie came up the day after christmas. we took her to see walk hard (i recomend). then we just went out on the town. it is always nice when friends visit you. i like knowing that just because i am far away, people will still come see me. (meant to be emotional blackmail to get some of ya'll out to california to visit us). we went out to eat a lot and tried to get my parents hooked on the band of brothers. we played a little rock band. we partook in consumerism a lot and kicked it with the fam.


then today we left at 10 am. we were hoping to get to albuquerque, new mexico. evidently, there is a NEW mexico. everything was fine until we got to texas, of course. just a few miles into the god forsaken state (texas is arkansas's new hampshire), there has been a random snow storm. snow was packed on the road, and it was really slippery. we saw several cars in the median and a few flipped on the sides of the road. one even still had the people inside. people were running to help the people out of the car, and several cars that had passed us at high speeds were later seen in medians. luckily, dust was driving. i don't know if i would have made it. thank goodness we only had one car. if we both had to go through that, it would have been even more of a nightmare. anyway, the second the ice was done (really, an hour or two later) we saw this:

i think it was a sign. :)