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14.5 hours
That's how long I was at the office today. I had breakfast, lunch and dinner in the office. Discuss.
January 31 at 9:48 PM | Comments (2)
I have a confession
I'm tired of hiding. I am a morning person. Mostly. Once I get up and have a cup of coffee I am wide awake and ready to go! Let's turn up the music and dance in the shower.
I tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen and pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life...aw hell, you know it...
(I would like to have this song piped into my bathroom when I turn on the shower. Someone make that happen.)
January 31 at 7:13 AM | Comments (2)
Austin is out of control
$10,000 a month for a three bedroom downtown.
January 30 at 7:19 PM | Comments (0)
This is exactly why I didn't want to be on TV
I was greeted this morning by a vaguely threatening and definitely creepy email in ALL CAPS. Ugh. Here's my standard reply in times like this: "This wouldn't happen if I had a husband."
January 30 at 7:35 AM | Comments (1)
Brrr.
So it dropped 40 degrees from noon today. I'm becoming my mother as I become fascinated with the weather. But, seriously, that's noteworthy y'all!
January 29 at 10:26 PM | Comments (0)
Word of the day: Coyote
Up until about a week ago the only definition of the word coyote I knew was the definition that referred to the wild animal that howls in the night. In Texas, coyote means something different. It is a term used to refer to someone that illegally brings immigrants across the border. As in a Mexican might pay a coyote to get them into the country.
The word is so well known that newspapers use it in their headlines without explaining what it means. You can imagine this had made me very confused about how a wild animal was charged with smuggling immigrants!
January 29 at 10:17 PM | Comments (0)
Evening
I finally saw this movie. When I told W. about it, I got it wrong about the plot. It's a story of missed opportunities, failed loves and regret. Terribly sad in a cautionary tale kind of way. A reminder that "There's no such thing as a mistake. You get nervous, but you sing anyways." Somebody put that on a t-shirt for me. I'd wear it every day.
January 29 at 9:47 PM | Comments (2)
Cedar Fever!
Austin is one of the top cities or allergies and man, do they knock you down. There's something I'd never even heard of until I moved here. Cedar Fever. There are a bajillion cedar trees here and their pollen is potent. It 'explodes' out of the trees and the wind carries it right to your misery. Someone took this photo that shows what a cedar tree looks like when it explodes with pollen.
Seriously.
January 29 at 7:09 PM | Comments (1)
Cat Finds Child Porn
A girl moving into a new apartment was wondering what her cat was doing and turns out the cat had found a stash of child porn left behind by the former tenant.
It was a toss up about what was the grossest part of this story...the child porn or the fact that this girl's cat was walking on her kitchen countertops and her cutting board! GROSS.
January 28 at 7:57 AM | Comments (4)
I almost gave a man my number
Seriously. He was so handsome. But I backed out when it was apparent he was solely focused on young hispanic men with shaved heads. Such a specific focus knocks me out of the running.
But, I am out there! I wrote down my name and phone number on a napkin....ready to thrust it into someone's hand with the slightest provocation.
Then napkin and I both made it home safely.
January 27 at 2:39 AM | Comments (1)
I did more before noon than you do all day
I met my friend E for breakfast at a cute little French place around the corner from my house and we read the papers, discussed the business of news and then walked over to have mani/pedis and get my eyebrows waxed. When I got home I dug in the yard because the area in front of the garage seems to collect a lot of dirt. Quite the workout! I filled up a huge garbage can with quality dirt.
That will great for flower beds this Spring. Although, I nearly ruined my manicure! Who digs in the yard as soon as they get back from a manicure anyway? 'Tards, that's who.
January 26 at 12:41 PM | Comments (0)
Finally! A cure for my fear of the ocean
Except I have to go to Chile. That's where the world's largest swimming pool is located. It covers 20 acres. Love and want to live by it so I could enjoy spending time in the water without always wondering what was about to swim up from underneath and bite my legs off.
January 25 at 11:45 PM | Comments (2)
I was nervous, y'all!
Well, I been on TV. I stumbled when I was trying to ad lib my segment and the anchors started gesturing wildly with their hands at me. So, out of the corner of my nervous eye I was trying to figure out what the hell they were trying to tell me. I still don't know.
So, it's a good thing I have a day job because YIPES I am so not on-air talent. And, I had counted on this being taped and not live my very first time on air. Let's hope I get better. I got training this afternoon (Day late, dollar short).
January 25 at 6:27 PM | Comments (1)
Here husband, come on boy..come on.
I went to dinner with some friends last night and told them about my husband hunt. K asked, "What kind of guy are you looking for?" and J just said, "Oh Lord..that's a long list of qualifications!" before I even opened my mouth.
Ok, so maybe I've been too picky. I guess after some unbelievably horrible relationships I've gone overboard on pre-qualifying events. That's probably normal after you date a guy that turned out to be a hooker and abusive, a pathological liar, a married man, and someone with a fake terminal disease.
So, I'm going to relax a few of my pre-qualifiers and just relax in general a little bit. But, seriously...(to paraphrase Charlotte) I've been dating since I was 15! I'm tired! Where is he?!
January 25 at 8:50 AM | Comments (2)
And you were there, and you were there...
Dreams are boring. Yours are, mine are...I know that. So, with that being said, I had an awesome dream last night.
I dreamt that a huge group of friends were staying at an enormous manor estate in England and our host was a crazy old koot. He had a long running battle with the government about the railroad tracks that went through his estate and while we were there it all came to a head and he had barricaded the tracks and then as military and government tried to get to the house, he barricaded all of us in the house against the growing crowds outside.
Somehow, I became a negotiator and then the old man died so it was me and my friend JM trying to figure out how to open the barricades on the tracks and get the government to stop surrounding the estate with weapons.
We came to a financial arrangement with the government for them to pay for use of the tracks and released the barricades. (JM and I are both businessmen that aren't letting any opportunity to generate revenue pass us by). No hilarity ensued, but the first engineer that tore through the tracks at full speed after we opened them derailed and we went out to point and laugh because he had been our most vocal critic to the press. Asshole.
January 25 at 7:54 AM | Comments (0)
A blog is born...again
Well, work has finally figured out I'm a blogger. Does that mean I'm getting "Dooced"? No, it means I will have to start a blog for work now. This blog will be about cool things on the Internet, technology, ways to navigate and find interesting things, et cetera. I will also be on the television directing people how to find these things on my blog.
This is where you come in. What blogs, sites, etc should I be looking at to find content? Also, what kind of makeup does a dude have to wear to be on camera? (Thankfully not in HD yet).
HELP.
I'll pimp out the link soon. Once I settle on a theme. And, I'm sure my segment will make it to YouTube.
January 23 at 9:09 PM | Comments (5)
Heath Ledger 1979-2008
Just like Marilyn Monroe...they'll say he was found in the nude.
I guess I'm still in shock.
January 22 at 11:56 PM | Comments (2)
It's just Tuesday?
I'm kicking myself. I made the mistake of laying down on the sofa since it had been a really tough day. At 11 o'clock I finally woke up. While I appreciate a good three and a half hours of sleepy time, I wonder what time I'll finally get back to sleep so I can be fresh for a day full of meetings tomorrow?
Genius.
