Who says that EVERY show on TV has to be one hour long? Seriously. At least when everything was 30 minutes you could have some choices. Now if you are tired of watching American Idol, Apprentice, and Survivor Season 1,000 you have to wait a whole hour. Not to mention if you miss the first five minutes of Law and Order the whole rest of the hour of the show doesn't make a bit of sense.
Good Lord...I guess I will have to turn off the TV and read a book..what a lot of work!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Mountains and Bluegrass
We headed to Asheville this last weekend for a belated Valentine's Day trip. It was an awesome time. It is total clash in culture between absolute hippieville and huge houses chewing up all of the mountain views. Very bizarro. The restored downtown area is a great place to stay and hang out. The restaurants and bars are very eclectic and chic or totally divey and delicious. That is most of the charm. There is tons of live music, and did I mention the hippies. I don't know if there is a hippie website that tells you were to go "chill and fight the man", but seriously. Nikki would have had a stroke, and the people from "What Not To Wear" would have been there for days. All sorts of greasy random hairdo, weird combos of skirts/pants/Chuck Taylor's, and all sorts of hanging around. The scary part was that all of them did it on purpose. It wasn't like what happens when I don't pay attention to what I am wearing, this was all well thought out and executed intentionally. Furthermore, I have never seen loitering taken to such an impressive level everywhere. Street corners, restaurants, middle of the street...wow.
On Friday we went to an awesome oyster bar (in season right now down here) for some absolutely delicious business, and then went to a tapas joint that was very local and fantastic. We then went and hung out at a great bar with live bluegrass for a few drinks. Again, people were dressed like they didn't have overhead lights or mirrors in their home. I didn't hate the bluegrass as much as I thought I would. I seriously thought I would want to gouge out my eyes, but the group ended up being amazing and highly talented and no eye gouging was necessary.
Saturday took us hiking up Chimney Rock Mountain where they have filmed several movies due to the fantastic scenery. It was beautiful. There were a few tight squeezes up inside the rock and moments of me having embarrassing sudden onsets of scared-y catness, but it was all super in the end. We ate lunch in the shadow of a mountain, by a lake, and we were hiking in long sleeve shirts without coats. Pretty fun.
On Friday we went to an awesome oyster bar (in season right now down here) for some absolutely delicious business, and then went to a tapas joint that was very local and fantastic. We then went and hung out at a great bar with live bluegrass for a few drinks. Again, people were dressed like they didn't have overhead lights or mirrors in their home. I didn't hate the bluegrass as much as I thought I would. I seriously thought I would want to gouge out my eyes, but the group ended up being amazing and highly talented and no eye gouging was necessary.
Saturday took us hiking up Chimney Rock Mountain where they have filmed several movies due to the fantastic scenery. It was beautiful. There were a few tight squeezes up inside the rock and moments of me having embarrassing sudden onsets of scared-y catness, but it was all super in the end. We ate lunch in the shadow of a mountain, by a lake, and we were hiking in long sleeve shirts without coats. Pretty fun.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
You Poor People
It seems like the weather in the sunflower state has been a complete disaster this winter. It is by no means tropical and perfect here, but I am truly feeling sorry for you guys. No sarcasm at all in that statement. Every time I turn around the weather channel is talking about how you all are getting whalloped by another winter storm, and it seems like my mom is having about 1 day off weekly from school due to bad weather. Hope you have fun making up snow days in June...ewww.
Just hope you all have someone to hold on V-Day tomorrow...as it is going to be 13 degrees and you are going to need the body heat to prevent frostbite.
Just hope you all have someone to hold on V-Day tomorrow...as it is going to be 13 degrees and you are going to need the body heat to prevent frostbite.
Completely Out of Hand
So all the people that did not want to come to therapy in November through January (apparently they celebrate holidays like the Swedes down here) decided to start coming...all at once. My work life is a zoo. Luckily I am still enjoying cleaning up after the elephants. Homage to my mom there.
No time for the blog the past few weeks for sure. The extra time I have had has been spent staring at Jake running up and down a basketball court (sometimes carpeted) in a striped shirt being screamed at by people I don't know. I honestly am a little relieved that it is over for the season. I have seen good basketball and I have seen bad basketball...lots of bad basketball...bad basketball. And the occasional chick fight. No boys fighting, only girls. Weird. They are vicious and unpredictable. You know it is coming when boys decide to get after one another, there are obvious signs. Not so much with girls. They silently smolder then snap like a rubber band and go totally bananas. I am now terrified of all teenage girls. I think Jake secretly is too...FACT.
No time for the blog the past few weeks for sure. The extra time I have had has been spent staring at Jake running up and down a basketball court (sometimes carpeted) in a striped shirt being screamed at by people I don't know. I honestly am a little relieved that it is over for the season. I have seen good basketball and I have seen bad basketball...lots of bad basketball...bad basketball. And the occasional chick fight. No boys fighting, only girls. Weird. They are vicious and unpredictable. You know it is coming when boys decide to get after one another, there are obvious signs. Not so much with girls. They silently smolder then snap like a rubber band and go totally bananas. I am now terrified of all teenage girls. I think Jake secretly is too...FACT.
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