Blessed to be Texan (Happy Texas Independence Day) - Part 2

Due to the unexpected popularity of "I'm from Texas, What Country are you From?", the post I wrote last year for Texas Independence Day, I am publishing a sequel featuring more things all Texans should love. Enjoy!

You might be a [true] Texan if...

• You actually knew before reading this blog post that March 2nd is Texas Independence Day.

• If you know what that even means.

• If you actually celebrate it. 

• If you know important Texas History tidbits by heart.

• If you consume any of the following at least once a month, if not once a week:

- Chicken Fried Steak
- BBQ
- Steak
- Mexican Food
-Tacos
- Pecan Pie
- Blue Bell
-Dr. Pepper

• If you have connections in any of these towns. 

• If no summer is complete until you've tubed the Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, and San Marcos rivers. 

• Or if your favorite place to swim isn't your local pool, because you have access to Barton Springs, Blue Hole, Hamilton Pool, Jacob's Well, and Krause Springs!

• If you actually know how to pronounce Krause Springs. 

• If you've driven on highways (big and small) and the speed limit is 85.

• If you can get any object you want in the shape of your state and not think its too prideful.

• If you believe in state pride, and that belief is obvious to everyone around you.

• If someone offers you assistance in a store and they don't even work there. 

• If you've worn shorts and a heavy-weight jacket at the same time.

• If your a girl and you wear cowboy boots with your sundresses and/or shorts and its perfectly in style.

• If "there might be sleet" is an excuse for your school district to call a "snow day". 

• If you or someone you know has security lights installed on their house but doesn't bother locking the door.

• If you're a female who carries jumper cables in your truck and knows how to use them. 

• If you call all cars trucks, regardless of whether they actually are or not!

• If "vacation" means going anywhere other than your own town for the weekend. 

• If you find 70 degrees a "little chilly". 

• If you or someone you know have hit a deer, more than once, on the highway. 

• If you consider camo to be your unofficial state color. 

• If you or someone you know has worn a camo formal gown or tux to prom. 

• If the following restaurant scenarios get on your nerves:

-  they do not serve sweet tea

- they charge extra for chips and salsa 

- they only carry off-brand 'Dr. Pepper'

- they serve melted cheese instead of queso

• If you've gotten caught up in a "Whataburger vs. In-N-Out" argument.

• If you secretly hate people who constantly complain about hating living here.

• If you know George Strait really is our state king. 

• If you know how to correctly pronounce the following Texas places and things:

- Corsicana, Tx

- Decatur, Tx

-Gruene, Tx

- Burnet, Tx

- Refugio, Tx 

- Mexia, Tx

- Humble, Tx

- New Braunfels, Tx

-Waxahachie, Tx

-Nacogdoches, Tx

- Palestine, Tx

-Pflugervile, Tx

 -Bexar County

-Kuykendahl Road (in Houston) 

-Balmorhea 

- Pedernales

• If you have manners that include saying "please", "thank you", " excuse me" "yes ma'am", and "yes sir" and get mad when other people don't use them or give you funny looks when you do. 

• If you know that the true value of a parking space is determined by level of shade, not distance. 

• If you've been in a traffic jam that involves two cars at a 4-way stop trying to be polite to each other by letting the other-one have the right of way even if its technically their own turn.

• If a Meredes Benz is not a status symbol, but a lifted Ford F-350 is. 

• If you've ever had this conversation: "You wanna coke?" "Yeah." "What Kind?" "Dr. Pepper."

• If you follow multiple Texas themed social media accounts. 

• If you or someone you know believes that Texas should secede. 

• If you prefer to listen to local artists that make up the genre "Texas Country" music rather than mainstream stuff.

• If you own and regularly wear a rather large collection of state themed t-shirts. 

• If people think your accent is "cute";

• If you either support the Dallas Cowboys or Houston Texans, not both, and you don't switch between who's doing better. 

• If you still love the Cowboys even when they're doing less than great.

• If  you've seen a Jaguarundi or a black panther or  a mountain lion in the wild. 

• If you or someone you know gets paid to hunt wild hogs. 

• If you or someone you know participates in  Rattlesnake Roundups. 

• If your town goes all out for Homecoming.

• If when you go to a high school dance the only thing anybody can do is the Texas two-step.

• If you don't have a problem staying in-state for college because you have so many amazing in-state choices. 

• If you would never consider moving out-of-state. 

• If you consider hunting/shooting to be your sport. 

• Christmas shopping involves a trip to Calela's, Cavenders, Bass Pro Shop or a local general store. 

• If you've received gifts such as: 

- cowboy boots

- belt buckles

- Schlitterbahn tickets/season passes

- boxes of Pangburn's Millionaires

-  Texas themed Ugly Sweater

- a Collin Street Bakery fruit cake

- a gift card to a steak house

-something made from horse shoes

- college football jerseys/t-shirts or game tickets (either UT or A&M)

If you understand all of these jokes and the ones listed in my first post of this series, congratulations - whether you like it or not, you are a true Texan! 

For more Texas stuff, follow my Deep In the Heart of Texas Pinterest Board!

Happy Texas Independance day, Texans! 

xoxoxo,

Christina