Rise and shine...............Our first trip to Round Top was a new experience all together! We were suppose to meet at, Tara and her Lover boy's house at 8 in the morn. Well without exception my Cuz, Brandi is right on time! But me and Kelly are late as usual! Are Tara and Brandi mad......... well they seemed fine when I got there...... Anywhooooo! We are ready to go!! Throw the suitcases in the back, grab your cowgirl hat, don't forget about our buggies, lock up the fabulously blinged out cooler in Tumble Weed Sally! Well San Anton, we forgot the locks.......... to Wally World we go. So by this time, it's about 930 or 10 in the morning. All we are concerned about is alcoholic beverages and locks for Tumble Weed Sally, so no one steals our appealing to any ones eyes, stuff! So we are running around the store, giggling at ourselves, like a bunch of teenage silly immature girls, getting our much needed supplies. Grab some McDonald's and head out the door. We got three locks for three doors on Sally! Good to go......now we are starting roll!
Destination set........ GPS won't do us wrong, PSSSSSSSH! We miss our turns, do circles, and U-turns all with Tumble Weed Sally on our tail. Then........ Kelly says, "Crap, I forgot to FILL up!" Is there a gas station in sight?????................ NoOOooO, no where!(we drive 30miles, no gas station) So what do we all do?? PRAY! I mean we are so below E we are riding on Fumes! Chug a Chug, we barely roll into a gas station.....and wipe the sweat from our brows. That was close, a little to close!
Hotel Crapola....... Fancy Nancy is not in this Hotel/Motel vocabulary! But it will do, it doesn't matter to us! If you sleep on one side of the room it's hot as Hell........ but if you sleep on the uncomfortable fold out coach, ( which is where I slept) then you FROZE!! I mean it was freaking cold, in the middle of the night I went around the room looking for any jackets, clothing, clean or dirty, it didn't matter to put over me to stay warm! FaaaRREZZING! It was a LOVELY establishment.........but what can I say we still had a great time! ( No Husbands and no kids, that just sounds relaxing! We love our babies, but we need our reboot time)
Unload and Mov'em on out........... Driving towards Round Top to see what the fuss is all about! We see lots of places to shop, choices.... choices...... We get to Warrenton and that's where our wheels find rest. We jump out of the truck grab our wine, blinged out wine glasses, and our understated buggies! As soon as we get started we find out that Mattew McConaughey was strolling through getting his junk fix on, yesterday!! Well that is exciting, although we are all devastated we didn't get here and see that EyE CaNdY, yesterday. We decided to mess with Christian cause, she didn't get butt in gear and come with us!(Well..... she couldn't find a Babysitter) Ring, Ring......... "Hello?"............"Oh My Gosh, Christian! We just saw Mattew McConaughey and got our pictures taken with him!!!"......................... "WHAT? SHUT UP!!! I'm headed down there right now!"....................... "Ha Ha, we are just messing with ya!!"
Who do I spy with my eye??....... Shop, Shop, until we Drop, Drop! Wanting to lacing it up with Cowboy boots and Pearls Pearls and more Pearls tonight for PROM! We head on over to the Junk Gypsy Booth and buy a little Sum'en, Sum'en! Then as we turn, we spy Miranda Lambert!! Yes this is real....... we see her! She's just Chillin, like a normal, nothing special girl! Oh....... we want to go up to her, but we don't want to bother her.....I mean what if she doesn't want to be noticed and she just wants to be normal for the day??? I mean I don't want to take that away from her. So as we are contemplating getting our pictures made with her, get this! These women ask US...... if they can get our picture. We think they are joking at first....... But no... they are not! They want a picture of us and our buggies and then one with us and them! That just opened a door for other people to take pictures of us! We just died laughing.......... cause here we are wanting a picture with Miranda Lambert and here is all these people wanting a picture with us! It was just so CrAzY! We decided not to bother Miranda, , (after our photo shoot, lol) but we did see her and that was really cool! Of course......we had to mess with Christian again............Ring, Ring............ "Hello?".............."Christian, you will never believe this but............" "WHAT????? SHUT UP!!!!"
Shopping we did............ I remember thinking, I'm not gonna buy anything........., I don't need anything......, but happen? Tumble Weed Sally gained weight after Round Top! She ate herself some chairs, tables, and trunks, a little of this and little of that! What can I say, she was HuuUUuggGrrrRy and we all needed to feed her...... I still love all the things I bought in Round Top that week! We had a FaBuLoUs time, just hanging out, being girls, dressing up for prom, drinking Pink Panties(Recipe will follow-just a little mixture we drank on prom night that are yummie!!!), shopping, laughing, being silly, and feeding our souls! Love you LadiEs!!!!!!
Keep on Road Trippin,
Christie
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
What are we ThInKiNg........
Take a deep breath.......... So here we GoOOoooO.........We are slammed packed full of ideas, creativity, and feel the need to find a path, even if it jigs and jags! We decided, get a bunch of girls together, drinks some wine, hit the road, go to prom, give our self a name, and buy a bus!! And let me tell you, if we decide something, then consider it done or about to happen. All our husbands can do is roll their eyes, gripe a lot, and then stand back and give us room.....(Yes they think we are CrAzY! But don't all men think women are crazy?)
So whats our name? You might ask........ We are the Southern Jitneys!! Yes that's right, we are Southern, from East Texas and proud of it!! We love our rolling hills, green beautiful oak and pine trees, our land that stretches out with bob wire fences, and No Trespassing or you'll be shot signs. Don't mess with us, cause we are sweet as pie country girls, that are also packing in more ways than one, so watch out!! Jitneys??? Yeah it took us a while to come up with that..... We needed something to go with our outgoing, live life to the fullest, Artsy, gaudy decor, clothing and might I add, pearls, pearls, and more pearls attitude. On top of that throw in a BUS! What word could capture all of this? Well that's how you get Jitney! In the 20's Jitney was a bus or van, so that explains the bus. Now, Jitney refers to ragged, tacky, gaudy, or overdecorated, and that's how we roll, baby!
Who is we? I thought you would never ask........ We are Christian, Christie, Kelly, and Tara, a group of girls that like to have girls night, go junkin, and create something amazing out of nothin, with the over flow of imagination running between our souls. So basically, we LoVe to drive our husbands out of their minds. (Well we don't love to do that, but it just happens) We are all in different stages in our marriages, so we lean on each other when things are good, bad, and indifferent. Kelly has been married 20 years. (Well San Anton..... That's a long time! So Kelly is our go to when we need advice!) I (Christie) have been married 10 years and we were together 5 years before that. (So we pretty much make each other InSaNe! Sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad) Christian has been married to my brother in law for 3 years (just a little more info: Christian robed the cradle, her Love is 3 years younger) Tara has been married to my hard headed little brother 1 year. (I feel so sorry for Tara sometimes, for having to put with his moody butt, but I still love him) Our husbands love us deeply, and we love them deeply too.....most of the time.
How did this all begin? Well let me tell ya........ We were having a CLASSY Garage sale, and Kelly said, "She had always wanted to go to Round Top!" It's this Big Antique Show spread between several towns. They have Bed and Breakfast's, you can walk around and drink margaritas, dress crazy, and go to prom!! Oh my GoOdNeSs, whats not to like? So right then and there we looked up places to stay and booked a hotel! Had we asked our husband yet? No. Was that going to stop us? No. I mean Kelly had always wanted to go and now we wanted to go, so why wait, why not go! So we informed our husbands, found babysitters, packed our bags, hooked Tumble Weed Sally, (Kelly's turquoise horse trailer) and hit the road jack, but we're coming back! Oh yeah, but we had to prepare. We couldn't go without our shopping buggies,(which is a little collapsible buggy, that people use in Canton on First Monday) so we put crazy material on them, blinged them out, and hung a humongous brightly colored flower on it.Was that the end? Well heck no, we had to have a cooler to hold our Beverley's, as Christian would say..... So the Gaudiness begins. We blinged it, put glittery flowers all over it, and it couldn't be without a Boa!! Then packed our Blinged out Redneck Wine Glasses, that sweet Tara had made us. Now, Ready, Set, GOOooOO! We get there, thinking everyone is going to be just like us. (Crazy Looking) Well we were WrOnG!! No one even had buggies....... WHAT the HECK??? I mean, what were they going to do with the stuff they bought, Carry it around?? I don't think sOOOooO! Needless to say, our buggies were the bomb! People wanted to take pictures of us and with us, I'm not joking, I'm serious. We had our pictures taken like a thousand times........ Craziness, I know. Then we pull out our Blinged out Redneck Wine Glasses and Jitney Cooler and everyone was asking were we got it and if they could buy it.... It was so fun and funny! Then we decided that we wanted to have a booth at Round Top next season. What can I say, if we think it, then we do it...... no questions ask, except where to stay.
So next seasons is a month away........ Kelly gets asked to set up a booth in ZAPP HALL a month before. She says, YeS of course and Tara and I tag along. We decide to stay in a travel trailer this time, problem is that none of us have ever pulled a travel trailer. This does not detour us from our mission. We could do it, we know we could, we can do anything we want to do. But.......... Our husbands do not have faith in our driving skills, so Kelly's husband, Big Daddy (yeah thats right I said Big Daddy), is gonna pull it down there for us and my Honey is going to drag it back. Do they do this without gripping, UMMM NO! Do they do it none the less, Ummmm yes. SooOOOoo here we GoOOoOo!! Big Daddy is in the lead pulling the fabulous travel trailer, (as we are about to leave telling us, "It's not to late to get a hotel") Kelly following pulling the cow trailer, (packed with all her Unique, brightly colored, cowgirl furniture, signs, T-shirts and Gaudy jewelry) Tara behind her, pulling Tumble Weed Sally, (Stuffed to the rim with bright, glistening Christmas Wreaths pokin out the cracks) then there is me in my Nitro.(Packed to the max, with whatever else we might need) We make it with out any problems............ yeah right! But we are there, we are set up, we said we would, and we did. There we are in ZAPP HALL, having Sangria Popsicles, and Breaking EVEN......
Explain the BUS? Alrighty......... Well, there is this bus that's rotten away in my father in laws pasture.(That in it's self is another story) Christian's Love owns it. We decided, we need this bus.......Weeeee NEED it! We know...... we can make it FaBuLoUs! So do we get the bus? Well yeah...... Who do you think you are talking to? As you can already tell, I'm sure, if we can dream it up, then we can make it happen. So why dream small? Why dream like everyone else? Why not BELIEVE in yourself? Because of fear? Because you might fail? Because other people might judge you? Because you might seem silly? YOu MiGhT....... be scared, fail, be judged, be silly.......but who cares!!! If it makes you laugh, have a good time, create new friends, live life, try new things, over come obstacles, love your family..... then its worth it, I think..... But what do I know, I'm just one of the Southern Jitneys..........
Keep on Road Trippin,
Christie
So whats our name? You might ask........ We are the Southern Jitneys!! Yes that's right, we are Southern, from East Texas and proud of it!! We love our rolling hills, green beautiful oak and pine trees, our land that stretches out with bob wire fences, and No Trespassing or you'll be shot signs. Don't mess with us, cause we are sweet as pie country girls, that are also packing in more ways than one, so watch out!! Jitneys??? Yeah it took us a while to come up with that..... We needed something to go with our outgoing, live life to the fullest, Artsy, gaudy decor, clothing and might I add, pearls, pearls, and more pearls attitude. On top of that throw in a BUS! What word could capture all of this? Well that's how you get Jitney! In the 20's Jitney was a bus or van, so that explains the bus. Now, Jitney refers to ragged, tacky, gaudy, or overdecorated, and that's how we roll, baby!
Who is we? I thought you would never ask........ We are Christian, Christie, Kelly, and Tara, a group of girls that like to have girls night, go junkin, and create something amazing out of nothin, with the over flow of imagination running between our souls. So basically, we LoVe to drive our husbands out of their minds. (Well we don't love to do that, but it just happens) We are all in different stages in our marriages, so we lean on each other when things are good, bad, and indifferent. Kelly has been married 20 years. (Well San Anton..... That's a long time! So Kelly is our go to when we need advice!) I (Christie) have been married 10 years and we were together 5 years before that. (So we pretty much make each other InSaNe! Sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad) Christian has been married to my brother in law for 3 years (just a little more info: Christian robed the cradle, her Love is 3 years younger) Tara has been married to my hard headed little brother 1 year. (I feel so sorry for Tara sometimes, for having to put with his moody butt, but I still love him) Our husbands love us deeply, and we love them deeply too.....most of the time.
How did this all begin? Well let me tell ya........ We were having a CLASSY Garage sale, and Kelly said, "She had always wanted to go to Round Top!" It's this Big Antique Show spread between several towns. They have Bed and Breakfast's, you can walk around and drink margaritas, dress crazy, and go to prom!! Oh my GoOdNeSs, whats not to like? So right then and there we looked up places to stay and booked a hotel! Had we asked our husband yet? No. Was that going to stop us? No. I mean Kelly had always wanted to go and now we wanted to go, so why wait, why not go! So we informed our husbands, found babysitters, packed our bags, hooked Tumble Weed Sally, (Kelly's turquoise horse trailer) and hit the road jack, but we're coming back! Oh yeah, but we had to prepare. We couldn't go without our shopping buggies,(which is a little collapsible buggy, that people use in Canton on First Monday) so we put crazy material on them, blinged them out, and hung a humongous brightly colored flower on it.Was that the end? Well heck no, we had to have a cooler to hold our Beverley's, as Christian would say..... So the Gaudiness begins. We blinged it, put glittery flowers all over it, and it couldn't be without a Boa!! Then packed our Blinged out Redneck Wine Glasses, that sweet Tara had made us. Now, Ready, Set, GOOooOO! We get there, thinking everyone is going to be just like us. (Crazy Looking) Well we were WrOnG!! No one even had buggies....... WHAT the HECK??? I mean, what were they going to do with the stuff they bought, Carry it around?? I don't think sOOOooO! Needless to say, our buggies were the bomb! People wanted to take pictures of us and with us, I'm not joking, I'm serious. We had our pictures taken like a thousand times........ Craziness, I know. Then we pull out our Blinged out Redneck Wine Glasses and Jitney Cooler and everyone was asking were we got it and if they could buy it.... It was so fun and funny! Then we decided that we wanted to have a booth at Round Top next season. What can I say, if we think it, then we do it...... no questions ask, except where to stay.
So next seasons is a month away........ Kelly gets asked to set up a booth in ZAPP HALL a month before. She says, YeS of course and Tara and I tag along. We decide to stay in a travel trailer this time, problem is that none of us have ever pulled a travel trailer. This does not detour us from our mission. We could do it, we know we could, we can do anything we want to do. But.......... Our husbands do not have faith in our driving skills, so Kelly's husband, Big Daddy (yeah thats right I said Big Daddy), is gonna pull it down there for us and my Honey is going to drag it back. Do they do this without gripping, UMMM NO! Do they do it none the less, Ummmm yes. SooOOOoo here we GoOOoOo!! Big Daddy is in the lead pulling the fabulous travel trailer, (as we are about to leave telling us, "It's not to late to get a hotel") Kelly following pulling the cow trailer, (packed with all her Unique, brightly colored, cowgirl furniture, signs, T-shirts and Gaudy jewelry) Tara behind her, pulling Tumble Weed Sally, (Stuffed to the rim with bright, glistening Christmas Wreaths pokin out the cracks) then there is me in my Nitro.(Packed to the max, with whatever else we might need) We make it with out any problems............ yeah right! But we are there, we are set up, we said we would, and we did. There we are in ZAPP HALL, having Sangria Popsicles, and Breaking EVEN......
Explain the BUS? Alrighty......... Well, there is this bus that's rotten away in my father in laws pasture.(That in it's self is another story) Christian's Love owns it. We decided, we need this bus.......Weeeee NEED it! We know...... we can make it FaBuLoUs! So do we get the bus? Well yeah...... Who do you think you are talking to? As you can already tell, I'm sure, if we can dream it up, then we can make it happen. So why dream small? Why dream like everyone else? Why not BELIEVE in yourself? Because of fear? Because you might fail? Because other people might judge you? Because you might seem silly? YOu MiGhT....... be scared, fail, be judged, be silly.......but who cares!!! If it makes you laugh, have a good time, create new friends, live life, try new things, over come obstacles, love your family..... then its worth it, I think..... But what do I know, I'm just one of the Southern Jitneys..........
Keep on Road Trippin,
Christie
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