I don’t know what’s going on!
If you know me, you know I love my Samsung Gear, my phone, my watch, who knows what’s next.
All of a sudden, today, I start getting a message on my phone screen “Unfortunately, Gear Plugin has stopped”.
Ok, so, I update and I update and I update. There is an update available. I update and update and update.
No dice…food message keeps popping up, almost every 15 seconds…GRRRR
Tomorrow, Samsung gets a call!
So, over the past few years Memorial Day weekend has been interesting, to say the least.
Well, years ago, when I still lived in Georgia, Memorial Day weekend was for the Blue Ridge Arts Festival in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sometimes it involved a weekend stay, sometimes just a day. 2003, it involved a bringing a brand new six week old kitten home! That would be Jymy.
Sometimes it would also involve a trip with the kids for tubing in Helen, GA.
Four years ago, this weekend, I got Annie 2!! I had been looking for her for a long time and I found her! The dealer even let me take her home for the weekend while I decided if I definitely wanted the car [ha ha] and worked on financing. I said yes on the Monday of the weekend. Ahhh…Happy.
Three years ago I packed up my house, and a moving truck with A Lot of help and headed for them thar hills and ended up at the foot of the Flat Iron Mountains. Unloaded the truck, with a lot less help and started a new life in Colorado.
Two years ago I got home on a Friday from my week at work in Michigan and spent the weekend packing my things, to be loaded into a storage unit and ended my new life in Colorado. Well, not ended, that sounds so harsh! Just started a new chapter, visiting instead of living there full time and it’s been good, I visit my storage units when I go skiing or to visit Colorado.
Last year was good experience, I spent it with PSM and my family. I went to “Lobstahfest” at my sister’s house and enjoyed the Spring in Boston. This year I’m with family again, although no PSM, he’s off in paradise somewhere…boo hoo. I’ll be there next year, no complaining!
I think low key holiday weekends are the way to go! I hope you enjoyed yours!
I’m not sure what to do.
I have been having the same dream almost every night. It’s not a good dream and I see the same images when I’m awake, every once in a while.
It’s disconcerting when you dream about troubling things, especially when there’s nothing you can do about it.
The dream and images are about friends of friends, people I’m not that close with, but I know. It’s really odd.
I’ve had this happen before, the bad or troubling dream for a few weeks at a time, but they’re usually about me. I’d rather be troubled by me then anyone I know!
Here’s hoping tonight is dreamless.
Or for rainbows and unicorns…
Night night.
This is fabulous!
Headline on Yahoo: A Company Makes Ice Cream Black As Your Soul To Battle The Rainbow Food Trend
I remember asking PSM once why he liked the coffee at Dunkin Donuts, sometimes Starbucks, he told me he likes the taste, it’s bitter. Without missing a beat, I said, “oh, like your soul” and it’s been a thing between us ever since!
Me: “PSM, how’s your coffee?”
PSM: “Great, it’s bitter”
Me: “Like your soul”
PSM: “Yup, ha ha” [genuine giggle, I promise!]
End scene.
So…PSM, we gonna try this?
I heart you, PSM.
The life of a “Road Warrior”…Some tips and tricks.
I’ve learned a thing or two in my time as a road warrior, as it were. Road Warrior, for those of you not ‘in the know’, is someone who spends their lives traveling or ‘on the road’ for work. They travel generally each week, maybe a few days a week or, like me, Monday through Friday.
I can tell you it’s not for the faint of heart and not everyone can handle it, but me…if you know me, you know I la la la love it! Some people love it and then grow out of love with it, they get tired or want to just be in one place. You have to do what makes you happy. JCT and I talk about this from time to time, ok, probably more than that, but…there were times when she was on the road and couldn’t wait to be off and at home with her family and then after a few weeks, she was ready to get back on the road, it’s a catch 22 if you ask me!
Once I caught the bug, it grew and grew, I can’t see myself stopping, but it could happen, you never know! When PSM and I were dating while I was on my project in Massachusetts, we went places on the weekends, but rarely got on a plane and I was jonesing to fly! And not just fly, but fly each week, Monday through Friday! Can you believe it!
I spend a lot of times in airports, sometimes I’m not sure which one I’m in. You might be laughing and think, how is that possible? Well, when you travel as much as we do, you forget where you are sometimes until you get there. For me, I do a lot of connections and I don’t always remember where I am flying through, sometimes I think I’m going one place and it’s really another. I sometimes don’t know the airport but recognize the food court in Cincinnati or the bookstore and kids play area in Minneapolis. It’s crazy, but it’s what we do. Would we change it? I wouldn’t.
Tonight I was talking with someone on my training team, SS, about traveling and I’ve been giving her some advice on how to maximize her time, get the best bang for the buck, keep the packing simple and ‘it’s all about the points!’. She kept exclaiming, “girl, I love you! You teach me so much!!” she cracks me up!
So, a few things I have learned I will share with you, I’m sure there are more I’m not thinking of and maybe you have your own to add.
I know there are more tricks and tips I know, maybe you have already thought about them, these are just a few to get you started. See you on the road!
Up In The Air was on tv tonight, I took another look.
I remember when I saw it the first time, I was just getting into the “road warrior” lifestyle, so I got it, but didn’t totally get it.
Now…I get it..I really get it.
I was just a wee grasshopper in the scheme of things. Now…
Let’s see, I’m working on my Platinum status on Delta, maybe even Diamond. I’m Gold with Hilton, working back to Diamond.
You have to know how to work things and the system so it works for you. There are ways to work it so you get the most bang for your buck without going over the line and staying within the guidelines.
One of the nice things about my job is that I get to keep the points for my travel. Isn’t that the point, especially for when you travel for pleasure. Ahhh…
PSM got a taste when we went to Europe…now he gets it. I’m all for backpacking, just do it in style!
And there’s nothing on. Well, that’s what Bruce Springsteen said.
There are a few more channels today, but the statement till holds true, wouldn’t you agree?
I miss my Amazon Firestick, I was taking it to hotels because you could get past the firewall with it. Last week, someone unplugged it from the TV and it stopped working. I don’t know if it’s because they touched it or because it’s hit is limit because I used it a lot. I’ll just have to get another one, or maybe a roku.
The thing I liked about it was that I could use it wherever and not have to flip channels to find something to watch and there’s nothing on. Even my guilty pleasure TV shows aren’t on.
Sigh…
I still cannot believe I said that!
Does this ever happen to you, a slip of the tongue? Today I had a doozy!
Get ready to laugh! I was talking about scheduling and instead of saying time slots, what did I say? Time sluts!!! What?
Think the class was derailed for a few minutes for laughter? You bet your sweet bippie!
Time sluts! OMG!
You think you just collect? Really?
So…I know I’ve talked about the show Hoarders before. Do you remember me telling you about watching it with CKM, we would be in different places and on the phone! “Oh my goodness, did you see that!” “Did that really just happen?!” I miss that, we had so much fun!
The reason I am talking about Hoarders is that when I teach class I tell the class that I look at these software applications like hoarders, then I ask “Who knows what a hoarder is?” Then…”Who watched Hoarders and felt better about themselves?!”
I tell them I look at the application like a hoarder because it tracks all information, key strokes, everything.
That inspired me to find episodes on Hulu and now I’m watching Hoarders. CKM, where are you!
Loved it!
This movie was just as horribly fabulous as the first movie! Or was it fabulously horrible? I don’t care, I loved it!
I’ve probably told you I wasn’t always a fan of Ben Stiller, I found him or the characters he played annoying. Then he was in The Royal Tannenbaums, I liked it and then there was Night at the Museum, I really liked it. I really liked him in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
When I saw Zoolander, I loved it! It was like a spoof of itself. A bevy of superstars acting goofy and or stupid and by stupid, I don’t mean acting like fools, but actually stupid.
I was excited they were making another and they did not disappoint, this was just as bad. I still don’t like Will Farrell and this did not change my opinion. I’ve only liked him in one movie, Stranger Than Fiction. He was goofy, silly, obnoxious and evil, just what a good villain should be, well, in this type of movie.
The one character I really didn’t like was Kristen Wiig. Her character was like the off female characters in the first movie. She played it quite well.
Owen Wilson was back in his role as sex crazed Hansel. His “Orgy” [relationship] was a mush mosh of characters, headed by Keifer Sutherland, great, along with some great cameos throughout the movie.
The premise is pop stars are being killed off and the only one who can help…Derek Zoolander…go figure.
Want to laugh out loud here and there? I did, on my flight today, first class, laughing my arse off!
If you’re looking for Oscar worthy material, go somewhere else!
