A sad day in Sanger

Our Mayor died yesterday. He was such a great man. Kind, gentle, caring, he cared a lot about his community but he really cared about people as individuals too. He was involved with the City in some capacity for the last 20 years or more, but he had been mayor since 1998. He became the mayor shortly after I started working for the City. I used to type the minutes for the Council meetings, I remember listening to the first tape, my boss had advised the City Council that she had hired a new assistant and had given them my name. The Mayor told them what a great family I had come from and how pleased he was at her choice. He has always been close to my family. Everyday he would come in the office walk by my desk, and say "Oh no, there's trouble" he would always flip stuff over on my desk, turn my little armadillo backwards, turn my papers upside down, he was always being silly. I can honesly say I loved him. I'll miss you Tommy.

Hey Dude...Wher's My Car?

Did you see that movie? Pretty stupid but, I still found it funny...

Anyway, my story now - picture it, UTA campus parking lot, it was dark outside and I was a little nervous walking to my car alone - IT's a long walk when I have to park in the far away parking spaces. I knew exactly where I parked. My mom always said walk confidently, key in hand, and be aware of what's around you. There was this dude driving slowly beside me in a large beat up hooptie, I wanted to break out in a run, but I didn't. I walked fast paced, he followed me through the parkig lot, I'n sure he was just searching for a space, but I was still a little nervous. I walked up to my car, and at the same moment the car that was parked next to me pulled out of it's space. The hooptie pulled in beside me. Quickly, I inserted the key inot muy door (I lost my remote btw) and It felt weird, a little scratchy, but it went in. I turned the key to the right, it wouldn't turn. I took the key out, and turned it over and reinserted it, still it wouldn't budge. Humph - weird, what was I gonna do? A light shown from now another slowly passing vehicle, I did a double take, this Envoy is black. Ooops, not mine, the guy in the hooptie stepped out of his vehicle. He was tall and scary in the dark...I looked the opposite direction, I saw my car two spaces down, and quickly walked towards it. As I approached I saw the silver label on the side - trailblazer?? Darn! That's not my car either. Feelin just plain dumb at this point, I said a silent prayer, turned around and started walking back the other direction, I had no clue where I had parked, and I wasn't going to walk this parking lot alone in the dark feeling all paranoid like I was. Then, to my surprise, in the not so far distance, I see it - the beautiful green Envoy that I love, I noticed the parking tag hanging crookedly on my rear view mirror, and I let out the breath I was unaware that I had been holding, I race to my car, inserted the key, it turned, I jumped in, shut the door and locked it! Whew - Car sweet car.....I love my Envoy.

He named his dog Eddie....

I went for a ride with a co-worker today to check out some infrastructure projects we have going at the City - his name is Eddie. We live in a small town so not only is Eddie the Water/Wastewater Superintendent he is also the Assistant Fire Chief for our volunteer fire department. He told me about going out on a fire call last week - said he got there, they put the fire out and he carried a dog out in his arms, barely breathing, then it stopped. He looked at the 7 year old owner of the dog - and the seven year old said "you gonna save my dog sir?" and had tears runnin down his face. One fire fighter yelled out "we don't do animals" and the boy started crying'. Eddie has a big heart though - he said "I'm sure gonna try" and told me that he had to wipe away a few tears himself. Eddie is a big manly man- rides motorcycles, works on sewer lines, and puts out fires - not a tearing up kinda guy, so to hear this from him, made me almost tear up as well. He said he started doing doggie CPR and thought he was gonna be able to save the dog, he got someone to drive the EMS truck, took the dog to the vet and worked on the dog all the way there - they delivered the dog to the vet,and Eddie made periodic calls to the vet to see what was happening, the dog didn't make it. He went this week out to see the kid and saw the kid walkin down the road, with a little blue heeler...He said "How ya doin' boy?" The boy said "Just fine sir" and Eddie said "That's a good lookin dog you got there". The boy grinned from to ear to ear and said "Thank you sir." He started walkin off and then turned around and called his dog, he said "Come on Eddie, let's go". Eddie almost teared up again telling me the story, it was so sweet, then he looked at me and said "It made it all worth it, he named his dog Eddie."

Isn't that the sweetest thing ever?

My French Name is:

Audrey Mathieu

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I bought a motorcycle! I've had it a couple of weeks now -it's pretty cool! This picture is not it, but looks just like it, except mine has saddle bags and a windshield. It's the same color though!! I love it! Let's go riding!!!

Kinda fun

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