Fridays Rock!

It's interesting how once the weather starts to heat up and summer is on its way, many of the blogs I follow slow down on postings. And it's funny how these strangers on the web become almost like someone I know, and I worry about them when they don't post for several days (or weeks even). But I can tell that lots more things are going on, because when they do post, its usually with some wonderful tale of the adventures they've had, accompanied by a bunch of pics. Even if the adventure is only a walk in the park. Fun!

The weather has been beautiful here lately. All week we've had temps in the 70s, and today I think it got up into the 80s. I'm hoping it will warm up to the mid-to-high 80s this weekend so we can go swimming! That was the only bummer about our four-day Memorial Day weekend was that the weather was so crappy! It was cold and cloudy and even rained a bit. We couldn't do many of the things we planned to do. But that's okay; it is still better than the 100 degree temps we had the week before that! Weird, wild stuff!

Speaking of weird, wild stuff, I sure do miss the old Johnny Carson Tonight Show. And now Jay Leno is leaving and Conan O'Brien is taking over?!? Ew! I don't particularly care for Conan O'Brien. Jay Leno has more class in his little finger than Conan does in his whole body. Not my cup of tea. But really? They don't give a flying frog about my opinion, because I never watch the show!! It's on way too late for me, and I don't like it enough to TiVo it. Unless Ross the Intern was on it, then I'd TiVo it. Sadly, when Jay Leno leaves, no more Ross the Intern segments, which were screamingly funny. There was one particular one with Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, that is absolutely hilarious.

Speaking of hilarious, I was sad to read that Harvey Korman passed away today. He was 81! Wowzers I didn't realize he was that old, but it makes sense. He was of my parent's generation and they are 78 and 79. I'm dating myself here, but I remember when Harvey Korman and Tim Conway performed together in skits on the Carol Burnett Show and I would laugh until I cried over some of their comedy. They did sight gags and physical comedy so incredibly well. Corny stuff by today's standards, but I still love watching clips. Especially the ones where Tim Conway was the old man . . . OMG!!

Well, our ED is out next week and I have been named acting-CEO while he is gone. However, he is going to be in SoCal doing trainings, and this time he is carrying a cell phone (if you knew our technology-challenged ED, then you'd know why this is so earth-shakingly monumental!) so we can get in touch with him in case of a dire emergency.

Bill and I are going out to dinner at Chili's tonight. I have a company credit card to use to make incidental purchases for my job, and one of the things it has is points for each dollar spent. I've been saving my points ever since I got this job 14 months ago, and I had enough points to trade redeem them for a $50 gift card. Yay!! I like free!! :-)

And the best thing of all, is that it's Friday evening!! I got off work at 3pm today, because I worked a couple of hours over my usual time this week. That was a great way to start the weekend. The nice thing was, that I actually got out of the office pretty close to 3pm!!! Seems like 90 percent of the time, something happens just as I am getting ready to head out the door early -- usually an injury. Ugh! But this time -- magic!!

No particular plans this week, just the usual. Hopefully it will be warm enough to get in some swimming!

Guilty Pleasure -- ?

So I was typing a profile for a website I was registering for, and some of the questions they asked was for interests. I found myself listing all the different things I enjoy, one of which was TV. And what I've found, is that I feel like I need to be apologetic when listing all the TV programs I like -- like it's some kind of sin to like TV.

Any more, in today's fitness conscious society, it is "frowned upon" if you enjoy TV. All kinds of names abound for it -- couch potato being one of them. And I know that I am the epitome of couch potato -- overweight, hate to exercise, blah blah. But I enjoy TV. There are lots of TV programs that I enjoy; none of which are reality tv or any of those Maury Povich type shows. Okay, I like the occasional Dr. Phil or Oprah, and sometimes they get a little sensationalism in their programming. But generally I like to be entertained. I like game shows (okay yeah I know; mind candy). But I like the game shows that make you think, not stupid ones like Price is Right.

Okay so I'm an intellectual couch potato. LOL

I like CSI NY, CSI, House, Cold Case, Bones, NCIS, Numb3rs, Without A Trace, Law & Order SVU, Shark, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, and so forth. I have TiVo (or Comcast's version of DVR). I like HGTV and TLC. I like watching Designed to Sell, House Hunters, My House is Worth What? A Baby Story, and A Wedding Story.

What?!? Why is that bad???

Now if we enjoyed killing people or something, I could see there being a need for some sort of sanction and societal frowning-upon. It's not like I'm advocating indulging in anything illegal or immoral here, mmm-kay?

But I like TV, dammit. I don't like everything on it, but I do have a long list of shows I enjoy. It brings me pleasure to see a TiVo list of new shows waiting to be watched. Is that so wrong?!?

Anyway, it just struck me today that I seem to feel the need to be half-embarrased and apologetic when listing TV as one of my interests. Maybe if I were slim and fit, I wouldn't feel so embarrassed about it.

My 15 minutes (or maybe two minutes) . . .

Did you see me on the news this morning?!? Did ya?? No? Good! LOL

Good Lord, there's nothing to smack you in the face that you REALLY seriously need to lose weight like being on TV. They say the camera adds 10 lbs. As they said on "Friends" -- how many cameras were on you?!? Geesh. I looked like Jabba the Hutt. As I sit here sipping on my 400+ calorie Dutch Bros Freeze. *Sigh* I LOVE DB.

Well hopefully my appearance on yesterday's noon news and today's morning show will bring us some renewed ticket sales. We're still under 100 tickets sold, and that is really sad. It is going to be a great fundraiser; it's just with gas at $3.70+ per gallon, people just don't have the extra money for things like this.

Plus, there was that other wine tasting event just like ours last weekend. Grrrrr.

Anyway, I have to get back to work. BUT GOOD GOD I hated seeing myself on TV. GAAA!!