God Bless the USA

AT Monster Jam this afternoon, they opened the show with the song "God Bless The USA" and a bunch of guys brought out this huge American Flag and the announcer guy told all those currently serving/police/firefighters/first responders to stand and we all applauded. Then we all rose and in the brief moments between "God Bless the USA" and the national anthem I look over at Mason and he has tears in his eyes. He's not crying but he's fighting them back hard. The song had a real affect on him, it did me too but I never thought it would get to a seven year old. I gave him a kiss on the forehead and he said "im fine, im fine." I told him it made me choke up a bit too. That was really profound for me to look at my boy swelling with emotion to a song. After that, it was all muscle, horsepower, and huge tires slingin dirt around. They also had some killer dirtbike stunts and quad races. Pretty neat! Lots of fun with Mase and Cam. They made it out of there with foam Grave Digger hats and a massive bag of cotton candy each costing 15 bucks! It was worth every penny. Also thank God for great people. Greta offered to hang out with Lauren today and that was super because she had a little friend to play with all day long.
Im going to watch the Grammys tonight. They are going to be doing a huge tribute to Whitney Houston for sure. She died yesterday in her hotel the night before the grammys. No doubt partying at all the Grammy pre-parties.What a waste. She was truely one of the greatest singers of the past 25 years and she just pissed it all away. Plus all those around her knew she had an addiction problem and they still indulged her anyway. That's how I see it. Who knows what really happened. Guess we'll all find out when the reports come out in a couple weeks.


Still bitter about this whole underway. My snarky attitude is starting to reflect in my emails to him too. I dont care. My perma-expression is left-eyebrow-raised-dont-fuck-with-me-cuz-i-will-rip-your-head-off. I need a huge attitude adjustment.