swingchickie | more things and more stuff

it seems like more and more i'm posting a mish-mosh of random stuff to LJ... no posts with one main focus. i guess that's a reflection of my life right now -- busy, a bit scattered. eh.

jack had a tragedy close to home yesterday. he lives 3 doors down from a local pizza joint, and knows the owner and all the staff. everyone in the neighborhood knows everyone, and jack and i go there every few weeks for takeout. less than a year ago they opened a slightly nicer, date-y kind of italian restaurant about a block away. yesterday one of the employees opened up the pizza place at 10am, and found the owner dead inside. we don't have any info except that the police are calling it "suspicious". neighborhood buzz is that he was shot, but we don't know if that's true. all i know is that when i drove to jack's yesterday, it was heartbreaking to see both restaurants dark and the pizza place cordoned off with yellow police tape. that poor family.

my heart is also breaking for the victims of the plane crash the other day. especially being afraid of flying, i think about what they went through in that final minute and it makes me sick to my stomach. doesn't make me look forward to flying this spring. it's reminding me that, no matter how you live your life... no matter how good you are to people, or how safely you live... there's always an accident or a bad person or whatever to take it all away in a violent heartbeat. there are times that the realization and fear of that literally takes my breath away.