Visitors

So this past weekend, we had Damion's family in town from Lafayette. I enjoyed having his dad, step-mother, and brother here. We always look forward to spending time with family since his is all down there and majority of mine, aside from my mother and brother, is in San Diego and Denver. We see his side maybe one every two months and mine maybe once or twice a year. Does anyone every realize how exhausting it is to have visitors in town though? I find myself mentally and physically drained from this past week. We spent all week cleaning, decorating and getting ready for this. We have lived in our house since February but we have been making some changes to our house that have kept us from hanging art on the walls and curtains over the windows, etc. So we got the house ready and was doing last minute details maybe an hour before they got here Friday. Saturday morning comes around, and since we have guest, we are to be up early to make sure everyone is fed and taken care of. We decided to make a gumbo and have friends over to meet his family. So we ended up entertaining for about 20 people. I find myself the first ones awake and the last ones to be asleep when we have guest. So needless to say, I am ready for bed! I love having guest, but once they have to depart (which is always sad) I love relaxing too!

Seven Pounds

I love the movie Seven Pounds with Will Smith. Everytime I watch it, I find myself saying "this is such a good movie." Thew plot is about a man who gets in a car wreck with his fiance and kills her and the 6 passengers in the other vehicle. He spends his remaining time planning ways to save 7 peoples lives. He does this by organ transplants and donations. The final donation is to a woman he falls for who only has a month to live. She is in desperate need of a heart transplant. He commits suicide to save these peoples lives. This is how I find most (but not all) people in real life. Takes a loss to realize what's gone or to make changes. Something bad has to happen before people do things that can change another persons life. What ever happened to helping people for the good of mankind? Not saying everyone has to commit suicide to donate their organs, but there are people out there that need blood, or bone marrow, or a liver, kidney or whatnot, and those of us with all of that, don't help. I am not judging because I am part of the population with working organs and blood and do nothing about it. I think it is time I make a change and start helping in a small, but meaningful way. I will at least donate blood. How about ya'll?