Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
Are you growing from seed or cuttings? I saw some beautiful ones at a rest stop once. I did find seeds there, and tried them, but they didn't grow for me.
These are grown from seeds. They are very easy to sprout but they do need to be stratified for 2 months before they germinate. The Crepe Myrtles Database