My guilty pleasures

I have a lot of free time lately. I was home for nearly a month over the holidays and have been home for a week from Arizona. I thought they were sending me back, but the hotel pushed their opening again and they had to send another installer because of scheduling conflicts. I spend a lot of time sitting around in front of the TV. It's been really cold here with sub-zero temps the better part of a week and a lot of snow. It's not the kind of weather I enjoy. If I didn't feel such strong ties to my family I would probably move to a warmer climate...maybe I'll be a snowbird. I'll have to ponder this.

Back to the point. My guilty pleasures. I became addicted to 2 shows in the last month. The first is Doctor Who. One night I was watching TV with the guys (this is my new name for Adam and Andrew, not to be confused with the boys who are my nephews William and Xander) and we pulled up the guide to see what was on. The TV had been on the Sci fi channel and an episode of Doctor who was on...as we flipped through the guide Andrew and i kept getting pulled back to this show we had never seen before and wanting to know what was going on. This put us on Netflix and we began watching the series from it's new beginnings. I kept watching in Arizona and since I've been home I am ashamed to say that I have exhausted the netflix watch instantly library and am now searching the internet for season 4 episodes online.

I have also become addicted to a reality show. I was flipping the channels in my hotel room one night and came across the new ABC show True Beauty. This is why I love this show. They don't know the real competition. They think they are simply in a beauty competition but really they are also being judged on how they are as people. I love seeing shallow people talking about each other, being rude and then being told they lost a beauty contest...but it makes me think...does me liking this aspect of the show make me ugly on the inside? Regardless, I can't stop watching.

Another thing that I like about being home? I get to see these guys. I love my nephews and they love Auntie Layli. I get big hugs and smiles whenever I come over. I should go more, but as I said, it's cold and I'm a wimp.



P.S. I joined Twitter today. It's a way to do quick short updates about your life and what you are doing. I added it to the right hand side of my blog so I can give quick updates via web or phone without doing a whole mobile blog post.

Coming home for a bit...

After a week in Arizona I'm heading home early. The hotel I was woking at was a new build and there was no way they were going to open this week. At first they might be able to make it later in the week-but they decided late yesterday afternoon to send me home. I was really looking forward to some free time in the Tucson area. I loved the mountains all around me and as much as they freaked me out sometime, I liked the cactus.

My flight left at 8:10 AM. I did not want to wake up...I had to get up at 4 AM to get ready, drive to the airport and return my rental car. As I sit in the Dallas/Fort worth airport it is all I can do to keep my eyes open.

I finished The Tales of Beetle the Bard on the last leg of the flight. I stopped at Hudson news and picked up the new Gregory MaGuire book for the next flight, but now that lunch is settling in I think I might just sleep.

The reason I started writing this post to begin with was to tell you about the sad thing I saw as I was waiting to board. There were several air force people on my flight. It seems they allow family to go with the military to the gate to say goodbye. There was a man with his wife and two young children saying goodbye, maybe forever...the older girl was around 6 or 7 years old, the younger still in a stroller...the older girl was crying and sobbing and the mother crying despite her efforts to hold it back and be strong. I'm getting tears in my eyes again just thinking about it.
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Bring it on

2008 was a roller coaster of a year. I changed jobs. I traveled to 24 different cities for work in 2 countries and 16 states and provinces. I gave up my apartment and moved back in with mom to save money since I'm hardly home. I met a lot of great new people, some I'll see again, others I won't. Some I might not see again but will be in constant contact with online. I think I can say I have met true friends over the last 11 months, people who I clicked with instantly and who got my whacked out sense of humor.
The year also had some bummers for me...I gained a lot of my weight back, not all of it, but a lot. My cholesterol is high. The doctor says eat better and exercise more. How about exercise...to put the more there makes it sound like I exercised to begin with and I never really did on a regular basis. My love life was also pretty stagnant in 2008. I'm OK with that, but no one else seems to be. In the last week people I hardly know have commented on my single status.
So, my message for 2009-Bring it on. I'm ready for whatever you've got.