about a little bit country

I am incapable of loving something half-way.

When I love something, I love it to a really dramatic and extreme degree.  I love the crap out of it.
Take manatees for example.  In the fifth grade I went to Florida to visit my grandma and she told me about manatees and took me to see some and pretty soon I was reading books about manatees, writing school reports on them, doodling them all over my homework, etc. etc.  I thought it made me super hip to like manatees more than dolphins like all the other girls, but really I was just an awkward upper-elementary schooler walking around with sea cows on her shirts.

Point is - I have very little in between room when it comes to what I like.  Which I guess can be used to explain how I went from loathing country music with every fiber of my being to having five different country stations preset on my car radio.

I'm in full head-over-heels mode, people.

I'm also getting really into anything having to do with the country lifestyle in general.  Especially Texas, due in no small way to the fact that I just finished watching the entire "Friday Night Lights" television series.  Whenever someone brings up Texas I automatically squeal and get excited.  And then they ask "oh, do you have family in Texas??" and then I'm forced to lie and say yes because otherwise I'd have to say "well, no - but I did watch a TV show that took place there once. Oh, and I'm a freak."

And because when you love something you want to shout it from the rooftops, here are three of my latest country music obsessions.

Happy Tuesday and enjoy, y'all.
oh, and - Texas Forever.