Trying out something new: Optimism

With about 12 days left before we embark on our trip to DisneyWorld, I have begun to try and be optimistic about flying and the whole DisneyWorld experience. I realize that my husband might have more fun leading up to the trip if he didn't have to see my sour expression whenever he mentions leaving for the trip.

I realize that I may never be comfortable with flying, but I should at least focus on the things that I am looking forward to about this trip. Those items happen to be; seeing DisneyWorld decked out for Christmas and seeing the shows that they offer there that aren't offered at Disneyland, like the Beauty and the Beast show.

Goodness knows I am not the most optimistic soul to walk to planet, and I know the reasons behind my pessimism, but I am really starting to feel some guilt over not joining my husband in his jubilation over our upcoming trip.

I also assume that once I am comfortable with this trip it will ultimately ensure that I will be able to help plan the next trip we want to take, which will be most likely to Greece. I have been doing some research already and it looks like it might cost just slightly more then DisneyWorld cost.

I had a friend make an interesting point to me just recently though, she said that her and her husband are waiting to travel until they have some teenagers so that their kids can share in the travel experience, I think this is a reasonable point, but I know that my husband will disagree, and I kind of like the idea of travelling just the two of us.

Well I think that is all I have to say for now.

Earthquakes and coincidence

My husband tells me that I shouldn't worry other people with this information, but I feel that things like this are worth sharing.

My husband is fond of telling the tail that during all the big Bay Area earthquakes that have happened in his 26 years of life have happened while he has been in another state.

We are leaving for Florida in 15 days and I feel slightly anxious that rather then those events being a coincidence there could be some weird fact to them.. I'd like to warn all the people I know about it, but I just have a feeling that they will think I am strange (more strange then they already consider me) and laugh it off and ignore my warning...

So my prediciment remains; do I warn people that an earthquake may strike in the 9 days we are in Florida or do I just keep mum and if it happens, it happens?

Employee Appreciation and Productive Days

On Monday and Tuesday of this week I was off work due to some pulled muscle in my neck/shoulder. I didn't feel safe driving to work because I couldn't look over my right shoulder to check my blind spot.

Tuesday is my husband's day off from work, so since we were both off work I decided that it would be an excellent opportunity to put him to work! We have a lot of little things around the house that need to get done before we host Christmas for our families this year.

Among my top concerns were securing our big bookcases to the wall of our computer room and hanging up the two big pictures that we had sitting around on the floor.

We also had to make room in our kitchen for all the new cookware that we had purchased on account of the Employee Appreciation time at my husband's work. My husband inquired as to weather we could become the proud new owners of an Infinite Circulon Cookware set. I told him that I would be more then happy to have those items in our home so long as he helped me figure out where we would be putting them all. We also purchased a Dutch Oven and a Slow Cooker.

So Tuesday afternoon was a hustle and bustle of activity around our house, first we ran some errands and picked up some of the things we would need to accomplish our tasks for the day. Home Depot, Pet Food Express and Lucky's.

We got home and watched an episode of Maury (I miss watching Maury while I am work). Then we got busy, we started with cleaning out the lizard tank and feeding the lizards. Then we secured our bookcases to the wall so that in the event of an Earthquake only the books would tumble to the ground, not the big heavy bookcase itself. I let DH rest for a bit because the securing of the bookcases was tough business because the drill we had borrowed wasn't really heavy duty. Then we put up our pictures, one in the living room to compliment our Disney collage and one in the kitchen, because we have no pictures in there. Our final stop was the kitchen to pull out and go through all the items we will never use again in our kitchen (we have so much kitchen stuff) We got rid of a lot of items and made room for all our new pots and cooking items. It was a very productive day and I felt good about all the stuff we got done even though I had not gone to work.

Here are some pictures of the items we have added to our kitchen collection.

New Cookware

New Dutch Oven

New Slow Cooker:

Hair-be-gone

After 11 years of growing out my hair, I have finally chopped it off.

Before

After

There are probably many things about my long hair that I will miss, but since I cut it off today, I haven't really been thinking of any of those reasons, I have been having more fun thinking about all the things about my long hair that I won't miss.

I am donating my hair to locks of love. I hope that it comes in handy for some little kid, for whatever reason they might need it, goodness knows there is enough of it to go around.

Just not that kind of friend

This is something that I feel like I have dealt with my whole life, sometimes I feel that I am just not the kind of friend people are looking for. I try not to think that it is something wrong with me, but maybe I just don't fulfill the standards that some people set for their friends. Even the person I consider my best friend, I know that in the long run, while I feel that I would rather spend time hanging out with her, she would rather spend time hanging out with someone else. Sometimes my insecurities get the better of me and I find myself wondering, "What can I do to be more like the person people want to hang out with, the person that people would call to chat or hang out with?" I think that maybe if I had more interesting hobbies or if I was more adventurous, or maybe even more willing to go out on a Thursday night for drinks, then maybe, just maybe these people that I long to hang out with, would in turn want to hang out with me.
Ultimately I always talk myself back down and realize that whatever these people are looking for in a friend, I just can't fulfill and they will have to either be happy with me, how I am or just not be my friend. It seems more often then not, the latter happens. I sincerely hope that I don't ever contribute to someone feeling this way about me, and that I am a friend to all those that wish to have me as a friend.

Something to pass the afternoon

Wednesday afternoon seems to take a long time to pass, not longer then Friday afternoon takes to pass, but longer then Monday afternoon.. I am waiting on the copy machine guy to come by so that he can work on my copy machine and maybe set it up as a printer for my computer and work on my boss' second printer. I hope he shows up sometime in the next hour, because I am tired of waiting for him.
Tonight my husband and I are going out to dinner in San Francisco, at Bubba Gump's, I am so excited, because I love their hush pups. They are the best appetizer on the face of the planet.
Hopefully after dinner we will go for a walk, maybe we can walk around Pier 39. That would be fun. We need to start walking every night because we are going to DisneyWorld in December and will be walking for at least 12 hours everyday for 6 days. Several months ago we went to Disneyland for a long weekend and because we hadn't been walking as often as we were used to I sprained my foot trying to walk fast and as much as we were around Disneyland, we had to leave about 6 hours early and we were both really bummed.
I am also excited about purchasing a Dutch Oven and a Slow Cooker, because we are very into trying new recipes and we haven't been able to try several recipes due to not having a Dutch Oven or Slow Cooker.
I occasionally contemplate using my blog to share the interesting recipes that we try out or maybe reviewing the books I read or the movies I see, but I don't feel that my heart is really into and I don't know if I am up to the challenge..
Well, I am out of steam for now. Hopefully I can find something to occupy my time.

Unreliable

There are lots of people in my life that I consider particularly unreliable. As I sit here typing this at almost 2 am, I am reminded of why I consider there people unreliable.
I find that even when I try my hardest to be reliable for these unreliable people, that I get my good deeds and nice gestures thrown back in my face. I understand that in some situations things happen and not everyone can be available, but I think that it is perfectly reasonable to expect someone to be there for you when you arrange things months in advanced. I am sure that this person will have excuses and apologize profusely, just in time to ask for the next favor from me and I am quite finished being available.