Along with my normal beauty and style lust, my alter-ego is having John Deere lust:
More info for posterity:
Troy Dale Garrett, 38, of Tulsa, holed himself up in a Bryan townhome for nearly nine hours while police wearing bullet-proof armor and wielding guns waited outside.
Police finally entered the house just before 8 p.m., finding him dead. Authorities would not reveal the cause of death or whether Garrett had any weapons on him.
He was found in a residence next to a relative’s house on the 2400 block of Memorial Drive. Police said they believe he moved to the neighboring home by either entering an unlocked door or crawling through the dog door in the back of the residence sometime after police initially attempted to contact him. [source]
Crimony. This “residence” is the residence of my son’s best friend, and one of my dearest too. She came home from work yesterday with the SWAT team surrounding her house. She is moving out, probably needless to say.
The home where this man was found is my dear friend and my son’s best friends house, AND who is supposed to be keeping him during my trip to Toronto in 2 weeks. Aaack. New. plan. needed. Anyone babysit? 
I swear, the older I get, the faster time goes by. I know my mom always used to say that, but it’s so true. What have I done this week - hmm. Not blogged nearly enough. I spent last Sunday with Aaron and Jeremy and Jim Turner at SXSW (well, really at the bars in Austin), but we had a great time. I think. Jim might not have though. Ouch!
I am sure I bored the kids to death (it was their spring break this week, and it rained all week, and I had sooo much work to do after missing the majority of Monday’s work). We got Sara launched at The Bargain Queen - and got lots of work done toward expanding the Beauty & Style channel (hooray - I do love beauty and fashion *oh so much*). I have passed the Home & Dining channel operations over to my friend William - it makes me a little sad, as I do love all of those folks in the channel so very much, but William will do a MUCH better job than I can right now. And its not like I am going anywhere, right?
I got my MOJO on Wednesday, courtesy of Chad, and my house cleaned on Thursday, courtesy of Mom. Mom left for her usual 2 months in Colorado yesterday, BOY will I miss her. For more reasons than one. 
This weekend we saw Marshall’s cousin Steve and his absolutely gorgeous boys and I made an idiot out of myself not recognizing him when he first came by. Oy. I hate it when I do that. Steve is a Colonel in the Army, and his kids were dressed up in full Desert Storm camo. Noah just thought they were the coolest thing ever - so did Marshall and I, really. Just super charming kids. After everyone watched Texas A&M whip some butt, the boys rode our ATV’s for a couple of hours, and we just hung outside loving up the horses nearly til dark. Buddy is getting humongous (here he is at less than one day old last April), I need to get out there and get some pictures before he is completely grown up. Marshall spent most of the day today with his father, who is still grieving terribly for his wife. Heartbreaking - I can’t imagine how horrible that must be.
So school starts back tomorrow, with any luck at all, things will be getting back to normal around here, but with choir practice in the mornings, tennis practice in the afternoons, it is probably bound to be crazy through the end of the year - which is frighteningly close. I can’t believe it is already almost the end of March. 2 more months of school. Unreal. 
I hope you had a good week - and I hope it was a lot more productive than mine. Blogging wise - anyway.
You know I loves my animals - and thankfully our Meow Mix and Purina Dog Chow are NOT on the recall list, but LOTS of other dog and cat foods are. I think it is just wet types of food on the list (my dogs say, “those lucky bastards”), but check it anyway if you have pets: http://www.menufoods.com/recall or you can call 866-463-6738 for more info.
I probably should not be rewarded for crankiness, but my *oh so wonderful* bossman at b5media did just that. You *might* have noticed a little frustration in me last week - we have so much going on at b5media right now - and so much of it felt like it was landing square on my head last week. So yesterday, there was a knock at the door, and lo and behold, the FTD guy swooped in with the most beautiful basket of flowers, and such a nice note from Mark, thanking me for my hard work. Thanks so much, Mark - funny how flowers do wash away bad feelings. Men have known this for a long time, I guess. Women are great, but they are funny too. Thanks so much Mark, and everyone at b5 - I really do love working for you all!
I hope I am not the only one who celebrates this occasion! That said, if you are waiting for a response from me, please let me know. I hope I didn’t overzealously archive and delete - but its always possible. Its a great day!
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