Ellen & me - painting Plainview RED

I've been told that I'm a crazy spontaneous person - and I love it! One of my BFFs is Ms. Ellen - who currently resideds in Amarillo - and I were chatting on the phone on Saturday morning & we were both trying to convince the other one to come to Amarillo/Lubbock that evening for dinner. I threw out the idea ". . .or I could meet you half-way in Plainview." So - we did.

Let's lookover the fact that I actually didn't know where the resturant was that I was meeting her at - but Plainview is so small that I knew that it was either on the side of the interstate or on the one main road - the latter was correct. The clientel at the Cotton Patch consisted of Ellen & I, one young couple with their two kids, then TONS of older people - it was great! We hit up the Hastings after dinner in search of a CD for Ellen for her drive back. We decided that Ellen should just buy a blank CD, then put together her own CD from my vast collection of songs from my computer (which - btw - are 97.8% legal!)

Our next stop was the local Starbucks where I had to have a 10 minute conversation with the lady behind the counter for the two of us to figure out what kind of a drink I wanted. (I have complicated coffee ordering issues since I only like coffee if it is disguised & I'm not supposed to have any sugar.) I took out my computer & books (yes - I ALWAYS have books with me) & studied as Ellen put together her special order CD. We tried our hand at "man-hunting" (which, if you know Ellen & I - this is hilarious because we're really not like that) - but the closest "prospect" we could find in Plainview was a kid who was probably not a day older than 20 & had a girlfriend who we doubt had graduated high school yet. Oh well.

Thanks Ellen for being spontaneous with me!