Inspired

For the last few days I have been dragging myself to the park down the street for a nice walk everyday--I mean who could ask for better weather right now in Texas in February!!!  When I say down the street I mean it is a few miles and I drive there, but it is oh so nice and pretty with paths marked out and a playground and basketball area.  Well yesterday and today I was inspired by the amount of people who also visit this park not only to enjoy the outdoors but to also exercise......so I am hoping that it was a turning point for me to not have to drag myself but to look forward to the time outside listening to music and enjoying that fact that maybe just maybe we as a country are not as lazy as we think.

This is all apart of my take care of me time while I am searching for a job so tomorrow my project is get a library card.... while some might find this dorky I read so much and books are so dang expensive and in my time of having no money I must find a way to do the things I loved in a frugal manner.  So I will update you on my quest for the card. I will never deny the fact that I can be a whole lot a dork and a lot boring but thus is my life.

I am hoping to have some news in the job front in the next week or so!!!  It would be so nice to stop saying I am unemployed!  But until then I will continue to walk, and read and waste time on the internet!!!

Something to ponder from johncmayer's twitter: Why is it on the A&E show, Intervention, that the entire family seems high as a kite?

A Stunning Revelation

There are many important decisions we have to make over the course of our time here on earth.  These choices shape the people we are.  This week I have finally comes to terms with a choice I have long denied even with the obvious signs right in front of me.  It is a choice so important that once you you make your decision known you are embraced by those like you and mocked and cursed by those who are not........................

I am just going to say it...I am a shower person!  I have long thought myself to be a girl who preferred  the wonderful sensation of a long hot bath.  Well let me just tell you after having my ability to chose between a shower and a bath (I was only able to takes baths this week due to a leaky pipe)  I found I longed for a nice hot shower.  There have been signs over the years that I ignored:

1. In college when you are first out on your own your dorm room only provides you with the option of  taking a shower.  Well my dorm also offered another alternative on the first floor a community bath an amazing find for the bath lover.  If I had truly been a lover of a bath I would have not gotten the hebby jebbies every time I thought about trucking it down to the community bath and locking myself into the room where who knows what or who had used the tub before me. A true bath lover like an unknown friend of mine (you know who you are) used this room frequently and sometimes more than once a day until sadly (or thankfully) the locked it up.

2. A true bath lover would not think of taking a bath as sitting in your own filth water.  Which I do view it if it is to be my means of getting clean.  The most enjoyable bath is one you take after having taken a shower.  This way you are not sitting in dirty water but nice clean water!

3. When given the choice I will always pick a shower....it is quicker, your are not laying in dirty water and the water doesn't get cold on you (unless you are taking a 30 minute shower)

So that being said I feel much better about putting this discovery out in the open and I hope that those of you who are bath lovers do not look at me any differently.  And hey don't get me wrong a bath is nice every once and a while.  

This is what sitting in your own filth looks like!

Ok two blogs in one day...but I was transferring some pictures from another computer to my mac and I thought I would share them because they are from a really fun trip in September of 2007 where I got to spend some quality time with both of my sisters!!!  

This would be the start of a very interesting journey for me and Jessica (my middle sister) who was moving to Seattle and I decided to join her on the ride from Dallas to Seattle!!!  Oh it was full of lots of time crammed in a tiny car cruising along the highways of places I had never seen (ok I had seen most of it up until we hit CO).  It also included me reading crossword puzzles out loud and letting Jessica answer them....let me just say not the most fun thing in the world!

Our first stop of the trip Colorado Springs, CO.  While we were there we got a chance to see the Garden of the Gods which was a lot of fun

Look at all that strength holding up that boulder.  But don't worry we got out of there without anyone getting squished

Our next stop on the ride was Salt Lake City.  This is what we saw of Salt Lake beside our hotel and the hour we spent at Sonic trying to get some stinking food

We finally made it to Seattle almost 3 days later!!!  This is us enjoying the view!!! Now we just had to wait the arrival of the little one (Jaclyn).  

Stay tuned for her arrival here is a little preview of what is to come

A Movie You Should Make Time For

I haven't really seen to many movies this year but I know for sure that this movie is a must see.  Not only will you come out of the theatre feeling like you have not wasted 2 hours of your life.  It will make you laugh, cry and root for the main characters.  So if you haven't guessed what movie I am referring to then you must be living under a rock.  It is Slumdog Millionaire.  Please go see it I promise you won't be disappointed!!!  

For those of you who have no idea what this movie is about here is a little clip for you:

Unemployment.....Sort of

Where to start....so many things have changed for me in the last few months that I am at a loss of where to even begin for those 2 or 3 of you that read this.  

Well as the title says I am currently unemployed, but unlike so many people out there my joblessness is by choice.  After 4 years of non stop working up in Dallas I decided it was time for a change in life and instead of being normal and deciding to start running or take up a new hobby I decided to quit my job and move back to Houston.  Now this decision was made back in October before the economy pretty much fell apart before our eyes.  Needless to say I have spent the last few months job searching everything from office jobs to places like Hobby Lobby and so on.  So far nothing but thankfully I am still maintaing the Lake Lavon Website so I have just enough money coming in to help cover my necessary bills.  Now all that said I am in the process of trying not to get down on the fact that I have not yet found employment.   I know I the right job will come along and I know I made the right decision back in October I just picked an interesting time to invest myself in a life change.  

With that I have decided here and now tonight I have to figure out ways to use my time wisely as far a exercising, crafting, reading and so forth.  I know I need to use this time to figure out what I really desire in life.  Well all the sappiness aside if you are in the Houston/Conroe area I would love to hear from you!!!  That is all the self reflecting I have in me for the night but beware with nothing to do with myself I hope to post on a more consistent basis.  

I leave you with a question of the day from Tina Fey's Twitter: Are Eggrolls just Chinese Hotpockets?