I just had to post my feelings here because they need to be out there. I live in Aurora, CO and Century 16 was a movie theater I had visited a few times. My younger siblings visited it a lot more as it was a big movie theater with cheap tickets. I woke up Friday morning at about 5 AM to my step mom walking in, talking on the phone. I just thought she was checking on me and my sisters, so I went back to sleep. It was only when she came back in about 20 minutes later, that I woke up and walked out to the living room as she told me that someone had opened fire on a packed movie theater and that the theater was one only a few minutes drive away. I sat in shock as I listened to the news, everything slowly unfolding. It wasn’t real to me, and I didn’t really have any strong emotion towards the situation. It was only as the weekend went on that I really started to feel hurt and shocked and scared. This was hitting close to home, as I found out some of the people I knew from church as well as through a mutual friend happened to be at the theater that night. People I had sat and had talks with were there, in theater 8 as they were lucky enough to get tickets even after they had been told it was sold out. It hit home even harder for me as I watched the news and heard the names of streets I had traveled on with no second thought. This was my first major catastrophe of my adult life. Yes, I lived through 9/11 but that was across the country. Even as I write this, the news is on in the background and another bad event is taking place. I heard a radio personality said something that has struck true to me in the last few days. You get to an age where you’re just passing time between tragedies. I think this is so true as I grow older and no longer am an innocent child, only seeing what my parents want to see. I have to be strong and get out there the strength my community is starting to build as we work to come back together.
I just have to say that I am very thankful that no one in my family or any of my friends were hurt. I live about 2 miles away from the theater where this mass shooting occurred and it was a common hang out for a lot of my siblings. I even contemplated going to the midnight showing last night but decided I was too tired and would be too tired in the morning to go.
My prayers are with the families of those affected by the events that occurred in Aurora, Co last night.
I'm experiencing my first ever blizzard. I went to sleep with a light dusting of snow on the ground and woke up with 8 inches of snow. We're supposed to get another 10 inches today and it's still supposed to snow all day tomorrow.
I feel like sometimes guys can just be so pigheaded. I try explaining something through text and his immediate reaction is that something is wrong and it just escalates. How can in one night we go from talking about marriage to breaking up? It just doesn't make sense to me. Men say that we are confusing but really I think it's the other way around.
The greatest feeling ever is to see my little ones so excited for Christmas because they can actually recognize what Christmas is now. Counting down until I can start my work. :)
I'm experiencing my first ever blizzard. I went to sleep with a light dusting of snow on the ground and woke up with 8 inches of snow. We're supposed to get another 10 inches today and it's still supposed to snow all day tomorrow.