Hello World.

Hello Everyone.

This is MK - I make up half of the duo affectionately known as 'the magpies'

One of our favorite past time, since we live in the middle of nowhere with jobs that do not pay. Yes, we are full time volunteer interns. We don't like to talk about it. Actually, we do. A lot. We met down here - in Texas - and therefore it is our favorite place in the world. Or something like that.

Anyways one of our favorite past times is to go driving, listen to music, and dance incredibly obnoxiously as if no one is watching. The part that we forget is that people can see in the windows. I think somewhere in the back of our minds we think that we are invisible, or we do not care. I believe our logic, well at least mine, is that we are never going to see these people again. 

We often get smiles, thumbs up, applause, and the like from the surrounding cars at almost every stop light we stop at. This does not phase us, in fact I think it encourages us.  You see, we find ourselves hysterical. We laugh at ourselves nonstop, we do things all the time that keep us in stitches. Ask anyone who knows both of us, we are ridiculous. I, personally, would not have it any other way.
[can I just stop and say that the coffee shop where I am is incredibly cold, I am shivering]

All of that to say is that today, we were driving to get Becca's truck from the car-fixing-place and we were of course dancing along with the radio. We were particularly on our game today. I believe it was due to the fact that we had been apart for over a week. Anyways, there we dancing along when my personal fear came true, we saw someone we knew.

It is one thing if you are aware that someone you know is watching you, however it is incredibly different if they catch you off guard. Our dear friend Laura was turning out of the Walmart parking as we pulled up to the light. Which made it even worse because in this tiny little intersection of a town we live in we happened to be in rush hour traffic. So there we were, trapped, dancing. Now I believe in situations like this there are really only two options - pretend you don't see them [the coward approach] or two, embrace it, dance harder. Give them something to laugh at.

Being the people that we are, we kept going. We could not let the song go to waste. However - it was slightly embarrassing.

So here is my advice - dance like no one is watching - make someone's day.