I decided yesterday, after reading some in Vanessa's journal (and her writing a million times), to take better care of my health and to better manage my eating habits. With all the emotions in me, I decided to just sweat them out with a barrage of weight lifting and time on the elliptical. Yesterday and last night was great... today may be a different story?
On a side note, after the workout I came outside to a beautiful sunny day in the 70's. I climbed in the 'Mintyvan' and rolled the windows down and decided to jam :) Miranda Lambert's new song, "We should be friends", came on. Now for those of you who knew Vanessa 10 years ago, you may disagree about this song being her. But, I can tell you, she embraced 'the County' and found her inner-country girl. This song is 99.99% Vanessa... especially the part about "what daddy says." Take a listen and smile... it's Friday too (and almost 5... well, it's getting closer! Hell, who wants a mimosa for breakfast?!?!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fOxxRf_3XI
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| Vanessa was beautiful, well educated and elegant... BUT, she also could drink your butt under the table and kick your butt if need be. She was the perfect balance of grace and crazy. Well, unless 'Veronica' came out... then it was all mean crazy! |
In other notes, I found the following on her Timehop yesterday and wanted to share...
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| Vanessa wasn't the greatest cook at times, although she mastered the crockpot later on in our marriage. Thank God for her friendship with Rachel... cause that girl can cook and gave Vanessa all kinds of good recipes! :) |
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| After her Houston trip in 2015, the advocating train took off! So proud of Vanessa stepping out of her comfort zone! |
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| I have to type out of the caption on this one... |
Anyways, toward the end of practice, I let a few girls 'attempt' pitching... and Madison did really well. I can hear Vanessa now, "I can't handle her being up there... it's going to drive me crazy!" We had worked on pitching a little in the off-season and everything seemed to stick. Vanessa was so nervous watching her throw... hopefully, Vanessa can be an "Angel in the Infield" if Madison does pitch, cause we still have some work to do on controlling them 'octopus arms' and 'stork legs' in running and fielding. The really cool thing was, after practice she was begging me to work with her some today on pitching and hitting... Vanessa would be so proud!
Enjoy the weekend!
Sometimes I feel like we are on the go all the time and forever busy, then I look at your schedule and feel lazy. :) I know Madison will do great and we'd love to get her schedule for games once they start and try to come see a couple.
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ReplyDeleteI never told Vanessa, but when we were down at Gulf Shores 2 years ago - I met "Veronica". Whew! Talk about a pistol! That trip was a lot of fun, but I really learned from that trip how much she loved her family and missed you all while we were away. There was one bar we went to called the Flora-Bama and she said she wished you were there because it was the type of place you guys would go out to. The longer I knew Vanessa the more I loved her. I can only imagine what she was saying in heaven while Madison was pitching. She was so proud of Madison getting involved in sports.
Love you and your girls so much!! Vanessa was and always will be an amazing woman!! Mandy is going to be an amazing young lady just like her mom!! I see so much of Vanessa in Massey!! God Bless and much love
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