I heart sore muscles

Thanks in huge part to J, I am now a proud member of PTC's World Gym. I am also the proud owner of very sore muscles. It feels so good. I went yesterday and today. Ran/walked some, worked out, and did enough crunches so I can feel every muscle in my stomach. It feels fantastic. I can't wait to see results.

Had a great day with my family. Celebrated my birthday with wonderful food and lovely gifts.

I have to work at 719 in the am so I'm out. Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.

caffeine is the devil

I knew getting the Diet Coke with my Zaxby's was a bad idea... And here it is, one hour and 35 minutes into my most fabulous day and I'm still awake, messing around online. But the Zaxby's was sooo good. Well worth the pain.

Many of you are aware of the somewhat obsessive, never satisfying relationship I have with Flica, our online scheduling, swapping program. I would like to point out here that my relationship with Flica is not completely one sided. When I signed in a while ago to see if they posted my new schedule it said happy birthday. How nice, huh? Who says scheduling doesn't love me? ha

Lately has been tired. That's mainly why I haven't written. I went to Maine this weekend which was really nice but other than that (and partially including that) all I do these days is go to and from the airport, either by plane or by car. It's all good though. Today was a nice day at work. I had really friendly passengers who made me smile. The weather is still bumpy and I'm getting a little tired of being thrown around for hours on end, but what can you do?

I'm learning that pride goeth before a super suckiness at crossword puzzles. All my life I've fancied myself a word girl. I like to read. I read a lot. I remember a lot of what I read. I like to write. I like good spelling and proper grammar. But I can not, for the life of me, do crossword puzzles. And it makes me feel like I'm stupid or something. I think it's God's way of keeping me in my place :-P. Tanya says I need to start out with easy ones, but I guess the easy ones aren't easy enough. Now I feel like I have to be able to do them just because it's a challenge.

My China trip is sneaking up on me and I just realized I have a lot to do. It looks as though my mother dearest and I will be making the journey together, which will be nice. That's a long way to go on your own.

Another thing that will make long trip much more pleasant is that I have the best friends in the whole world and a bunch of them went in together and got me an ipod for my birthday. I consider myself most blessed. Not just to have an ipod but to have friends of the quantity AND quality that I have. And that's just my friends. Nevermind my amazing family. God has been and continues to be so good to me. A very wise person told me recently that it's really important not to focus so much on one thing you want that you miss the other things around you. I'm afraid I do that sometimes when it comes to my friends and family. I want that one special person. I want to find that someone I will spend my life with, but obviously it isn't God's time and I would hate to think that I neglect the wonderful friendships that I have because I'm looking for something else. Oh yeah... I love love love my ipod. It rocks my face off.

Just some thoughts from a very blessed, but crossword-ly (yes I just made that up) challenged girl.

5000

Sometime recently I had the 5000th view on my blog. Woo hoo!

This was a long week of work. Now I'm home for one night and off to PWM tomorrow to see the fabulous Amy for her birthday, as well as my lovely Matt, Adri, and Shane. Should be good times.

I like the ad where they're like "lock the cashbox... or is it stop the catbox?" It makes me smile.

It's Friday night at 9:14pm and I'm ready to go to sleep. I feel lame. But too tired to do anything about it.

Hasta la pasta.

when you feel so tired but you can't sleep...

Evidently sleep hates me. I spent most of the afternoon trying to stay awake and now I've been lying in bed for almost 2 hours and can't go to sleep. My mind won't ever stop going. So frustrating.

I'm realizing how much I have to do tomorrow. I start a 4 day on Tuesday morning so I have to get ready for that. And my room is disgusting. It seems like all I do is try to keep it clean. Lately I haven't even been trying though. I think I've been in denial about it, like if I ignore it it will clean itself, which is probably how it got to this point. It's awful. So I need to clean it up, do laundry, put my clean clothes away, pack for this week, etc... Basically good times.

The last two days off have been lovely. Last night Amie, Jay, and I had supper with my family, which was fabulous as always since my mother is the best cook ever. Then after supper Peter and I went shopping for dress shirts. Too bad noone else knew that's what we were doing and it just looked like I was wearing 6 ties for the fun of it (we were trying to match shirts with ties he already had).

This morning I went to church then back to the family's for lunch. Also got my hair styled, then restyled, then restyled, then finally when I threatened Peter's life he put it back in a way that I could wear in public. I don't really care what he does to my hair really, it just feels nice to have my hair messed with.

Tonight Amie and I used what was left on a giftcard she had and all the change in the bottom of her purse to buy stuff to make quesadillas. It was so disappointing though because the avos we bought were harder than rocks. The lesson for the evening was microwaving avocados does not make them soft. It just makes them really hot. (I swear it was Amie's idea.. haha). The quesadillas were pretty good considering it was my first attempt and I had to use a frying pan to cook them.

Oh yeah, this is something I overheard on a flight the other day. A man and a college age girl were talking and I'm almost positive he asked her if she was bilingual. Her answer was (in English) I'm not bilingual, I just speak Spanish. I really hope I misunderstood her, otherwise I should probably feel sorry for her for being so stupid. It did make me laugh to myself though.

I'm thinking about joining the gym. It's not like I need something else to spend money on every month, but I really, really need to exercise. I would feel better, look better, probably sleep better. I'd save money in the long run cause at this point I'm having to replace all my clothes because none of them fit me anymore :-P. Right now there is a $1 sign up fee so I pretty much have to decide tomorrow if I'm going to do it... My foot is finally getting better and I can get back to running. It's frustrating cause J started back running the same time I did in Nov. but didn't stop and he's lost about 10lb. I, on the other hand, have gained several more, bringing myself to an all time high. Woo hoo. I'm not saying I'm fat or anything, I just know I could be healthier and it would be good for me to be active... We shall see.

This is getting long and I'm still not ready to sleep so I think I'll have to try something else. Hasta la pasta.

Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain/plane

I'm so glad that I only have one flight tomorrow morning, then I go home. The part that isn't fun is that the flight is at 6am. We were supposed to go back to ATL and do a round trip to the grand city of Erie, PA but our FO lost her voice so she had to be replaced and the replacing took so long that our rest got super reduced tonight. wheww... That was a long sentence and now I'm all out of breath. The problem is, I slept really late this morning and can't seem to be tired yet. All day today I've felt slightly out of it. I drank coffee thinking that might pull things together more in my head, but nothing has seemed to work. I feel like I'm forgetting something. I just had a panic moment and went to check and make sure that my manual was in my bag.

I've noticed that they made myspace somewhat Australian or something.. It's kind of odd cause they put the date day first, month second, opposite what we do here. I wonder how many people that will confuse. My heigh is also listed in centimeters. So for all of you who have been wondering how many centimeters tall I am, now you know. I know it's been keeping you awake at night.

I continue to be addicted to Flica. Swapping is just too much fun. I swapped my 4 day next week for one of J's which should be fun. Work isn't that much fun anyway so it's always nice to be able to work with someone fun. Still working on some swaps though. I need to get some more hours but would rather work longer on the days I'm already working than give up more of my off days.. We'll see.

As much fun as Tulsa is 410 is going to come too early.

And if I had a million dollars we'd take a limousine cause it costs more

I've had that song stuck in my head ever since I heard it this morning. It makes me smile a little :).

I just realized that I didn't speak to a single person I know today. Only my pilots and I just met them last week. At least they're nice. I was in Montreal last night and my phone is roaming there so I can't call. I did get some text messages and a voicemail upon my arrival back into the good ol' US of A. I'm not complaining. It was a quiet day which is fine, just a little odd to realize that.

I also didn't have any internet access while up in Canadia, which is quite frustrating. I'm addicted to Flica (our scheduling site) and keep checking to see if they've approved any of my swaps. Today was nice though, despite the lack of communication. I got up late this morning (we landed in Montreal at 1215 last night and didn't get to the hotel until 130. That airport is enormous), then walked a few blocks out of the ghetto to eat lunch. In spite of the cold it was nice to get out, walk around, and see the city a little. I don't understand how people live in climates like that. I saw something really interesting - we were walking back from lunch and passed a little park where there were a lot of pigeons parking off with their feathers all fluffed up. All of the sudden they started flying around, but kind of in an orderly way. I thought the wind was doing something weird. They flew to one side, then back, and I saw this lady trying to walk through them and was thinking every time she walks a different way they keep flying in her face and all around her. I finally realized after she had made a half circle walk around the park, that all the pigeons were following her. I guess they had seen her coming up, flown over to her and kept going until she stopped. It was the weirdest thing. And sure enough, she stopped and started throwing bird seed to them. I didn't know that pigeons could recognize a person but that is definitely what happened. And even before she started throwing the bird seed more birds kept flying up. Definitely something a little out of the ordinary.

This morning when I woke up I washed my face I was looking in the mirror and noticed a weird mark on my cheek. Some of you know that whenever we take off I write the time on the back of my left hand, kind of between my thumb and index finger. Evidently I spent a great deal of the night sleep on my hand. No amount of soap and water would get it off so I had to go to lunch with three little numbers on my cheek. How cool am I?

This hotel we're staying in is really nice. I'm in the grand town of Monroe, LA. Not a bad place though, it seems. They have earplugs, popcorn, full kitchen, nice soap and shampoo, pleasant color schemes, and will even go grocery shopping for only the cost of the groceries. There is a mall across the street and breakfast. Only drawback seems to be that I can't pick up wireless. Arg.

Ah, I have just discovered why they give you earplugs. Here comes the train! I don't think I have anything else to blather on about. Tomorrow night I'll be in Tulsa, then Thursday I'm home. Four day trips are way too long!

I've tried posting this 3 times with the proper time, not Pacific time, and it won't let me. Arg!!

I can't think of a subject

I don't have much to say. I don't seem to very often lately. Probably makes some people happy :-P. Things are good which helps, I guess. I just had a day of driving around in the rain, talking to my other little sister Roya, seeing the family, eating my mom's great food, and general pleasantness along those lines. The weather here is disgusting. Friday it was awful. There were tornadoes south of here and it rained and rained the entire day. Yesterday, when I had to go to work, it was beautiful. And today when I'm home again it's gross. It may seem like a complaint that the weather is only beautiful when I hvae to work, but I'm actually really glad I'm not having to work in this weather. Flights get delayed. People get grouchy. I have to be in the rain cause we don't have jetways in Atlanta. All good times.

Yesterday I flew to Melbourne, FL and back and then to New Orleans and back. It was a pretty easy, normal day except that I was really tired. Then I came home and watched The Devil Wears Prada with J. It was cute. Glad I've seen it now. Maybe because I had already read the book, it was one of the few movies I've actually really wanted to see. We did watch Invincible Friday night which was good. I'm all about the feel good movies. There's enough crap in life that I don't need to pay someone to bring more of it into my head.

There isn't much else to report on. I was reading back on some of my old blogs and they seem more interesting to me for some reason. Who knows... I need to go put my clean clothes away and do something productive. I'm reading Case for Faith and would like to finish it soon. I guess sitting on myspace isn't going to make that happen, huh? :-P

Oh yeah, Amie's gonna be home soon too. Woo hoo!!

polar opposites

I'm in a really good mood today but need to vent about a few things that really bugged me today and recently.

I can't stand people that let their children drink lots and lots of Coke on airplanes. Or people that let their children stand up and move around while the airplane is taxiing. Do they let their kids stand up in moving cars? (FYI to parents - the juices on airplanes have nearly as much sugar as sodas.) I can't stand people that turn around before I've gotten to them and are already telling me what they want when I'm obviously busy with someone else. Or the people that think they're cute telling you they want the filet mignon. Yeah, we all want filet mignon honey.

Now for the good stuff.

This morning as I was driving into work I saw the love of my life landing. I nearly wrecked, I was so distracted. I wish I could've just stopped and stared as it flew over me and landed... I even got goosebumps watching it. As you can see, I worked today. It was my 7th day being at work. Normally I would hate it but these last few days of work haven't really been typical. I got to spend an entire day in San Francisco. Did a lot of riding around on planes and not working but still getting paid. I did a two day on Tuesday with a great crew which made that trip really nice. Got home last night and was able to swap a trip later this month for a trip today. The moral of the story is, work is going well. I did a round trip to Springfield, MO, made money, and am now home and not tired. I did accidentally wear two different trouser socks. It was noticeable if you looked at my feet, but I don't think anyone did. One was opaque and the other like hose.. Haha..

I can't remember what else I had to say. There are my gripes and my smiles. Polar opposites. Life is good (even though the weather here is disgusting). Hope everyone else is happy as well.