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The new H-E-B in Frisco, Texas was built by EMJ Construction and designed by RSP Architects. The 118,000-square-foot store is filled with state-of-the-art amenities and innovations and has distinctive features such as a True Texas BBQ, full-service pharmacy with a drive-thru, car wash, fuel station, and Home by H-E-B décor department.

The opening of the first H-E-B in North Texas brought quite a bit of fanfare with over 1,500 people in line before the doors even opened and over 1,000 pounds of brisket sold by the end of the first day.

EMJ is serving as the general contractor on two additional H-E-B stores in Plano and McKinney, which are currently under construction.

i have always refused to be afraid of change, and that won’t end now. i will not be afraid of the summer, or of moving across the country in august. i will take every single thing the world gives to me in the coming years, and i will ask for more.

but some part of me will stay seventeen. some part of me will stay sitting on the floor of someone else’s bedroom, sharing thai food out of a takeout container and playing guitar, one friend painting beside me, using an old magazine as a palette. some part of me will stay in that overheated, overcrowded box, as we looked at each other and realized that we had less than a year left of this, that in ten months we’d all be drifting away on the wind, to different schools, different countries, different lives. some part of me will dig his fingers into the carpet and live forever in the halcyon auburn, live forever in that bedroom, in the spaces between fingers, in the silence between chords.

Question 10: How do I set goals, and what goals should I set? First, I’d like to point out that I loathe ‘setting goals’ because of all the negative feelings that come along with not meeting them. So, right off the bat, I’m not loving this question because the ‘g’ word makes me ill to my stomach. For the rest of the post I’ll be referring to that word as ‘beezlebob’ instead. Setting beezlebobs is an…