TIM RIGGINS...Here I Come!

HOLY AUSTIN TEXAS!
Austin will be one of those places that is hard to leave.
I'm staying with friends that are HILARIOUS and have been so hospitable but even just the city itself is so fun; it has a little bit of everything!
My mom and I got to spend 2 days in Austin before she flew home. We wanted to end our time with a bang so we figured we'd go out on the town and as we asked around it seemed the place to be (hands down) was 6th street. WELL, everyone we asked failed to mention that it was like the Bourbon Street of Austin. It didn't help that it was Halloween weekend, it was absolutely nuts. I saw more nipples than I'd care to and my mom kept gettin hit on, pulled this way or that which was a little unnerving. But we did find a great little rooftop patio to have dinner and drinks which was so fun! (seriously, if you want an amazing margarita, go to the iron cactus!)
The next day we got to visit old friends that now live in Waco at a bomb-diggity BBQ joint (the Salt Lick). It was fun to hear my mom and them swap old stories and have them encourage me in my journey. (They also brought their 2 little boys who stole my heart instantly and we played at least 25 rounds of thumb wrestling...my thumb is still recovering!)
That night my mom and i tried to get to bed early because i had to (got to) take to her to the airport at 4:45AM (barf!). It's not like either of us were excited for her to leave, but I think you just get anxious before you travel, you don't want to miss your flight and your mind runs and runs about things you want to do or bring or not forget...I'm not sure exactly what it is, but whatever it is it made it real difficult to get a good night sleep. From midnight to 2 I got a few solid REMS in but after that I'm not sure if drifted back to sleep or not. Part of the problem was that my mom, who i had ZERO trouble sleeping with EVER, started snoring. (p.s. What do you do with snorers!?! waking up and telling them their snoring doesn't really help because you feel bad waking them up and then they fall right back to sleep and do the same thing! So after analyzing all my options...waking her, kicking her, plugging her nose...i decided to simply move to the couch.)
I went to lay down but couldn't get comfortable and finally after 45 mins or so of tossing and turning I thought it might help to shut the blinds that were letting the moonlight in. So I walked over to the sliding door and as I pulled the stick thingy to drag the curtain over it hit a plant and the plant crashed to the floor.
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!
It was our first night with my friends and we had already kicked one out of their bed and now I'm breakin things and causin a ruckus at 3 in the morning. I wanted to vacuum it up but didn't want to wake them. So I sat down and picked up little clumps of dirt with my fingers for about 25 mins. When you're eyes have to wake up enough to have hand eye coordination you're kinda past going back to sleep so I sat on the couch...looking through the blinds I had failed to shut, thinking about this trip, about life, about thinking.
I came to the conclusion that I think too much! (surprise! haha) and while that will probably NEVER change i decided that this week in Austin will be my vacation from my vacation. I will do my best to not think as much, not make tons of deep, meaningful revelations (although lets be real, I will and I''ll write them down but I'll just blog about em later!) but if you readers get on and wonder why I'm not blogging, its because well...I'm busy livin the dream in Austin and trying to find Tim Riggins! (yes, he lives here, well not Tim, he's fictional, but Taylor...the actor...I'll be stalking him!) So bare with me...I'll be back at it in a few days!