How I Waste Time

I have literally jumped out of my chair the past two days when visiting the Fox News website. Why? They've done an article on pythons and there is always a picture of a snake right there in front of me. I always have this weird fear that the snake is going to come alive and jump out at me...and then I almost have a heart attack. So I have officially diagnosed myself as a ophidiophobic (aka snakephobic). Really guys? How original.

I found some other fun phobias.

• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. This was one of if not the longest one I found. Ha!
• Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned. Accidentally poisoned? Hmmm.
  
• Phobophobia- Fear of phobias. No one is going to admit to this phobia if they are against the idea altogether.

Anyways, just wasted a good ten minutes on that. Go me!

Seinfeld Sunday

Seinfeld Sunday. Enjoy!

Seeing as how this is over an hour long segment on YouTube, and it has stayed up for about 7 months, I'm pretty impressed.

Davis Cup Fun

I'm sitting on the screen porch at my aunt's house in Birmingham right now. It is so freaking nice outside right now, and I love it. I came in to town this weekend for the Davis Cup. When I found out it was coming to Birmingham AND we were playing Switzerland (aka Roger Federer), I think I almost shat my pants. But turns out Roger backed out just a couple weeks ago which was a total bummer. I actually was thinking of this when I was asked to go work in Mexico because I knew both of these opportunities probably wouldn't come up again. I think you know which one I leaned towards now.

So I drove in Thursday. Took a day off of work Friday although I did respond to one email (whoops). Such a workaholic.

Thursday evening I had a mini Camp Mac reunion with some of the counselors I worked with a few summers back, and we had a blast. After driving aimlessly around Bham yesterday for a good 30 minutes, I met up with my parentals at my aunt's house. I haven' t seen my mom since Christmas which for a mom that will call you in two hour spans if you don't answer the phone to make sure you are not dead...that is a long time.

Yesterday I went with the mom to watch the first two singles matches. Lets just say that she was over it after the first set of the first match. It was pretty funny. She was trying to play solitaire and other games on my phone. They gave us noise makers and signs, and I'm pretty sure that everyone in our section hated us. We are basically two little kids when we get together.

So that's that. I'm off for day 2 of tennis. I'll let you know if a fight breaks out. Please.

Hey Girl, Heeey

Quick blog before the work day begins.

Last week when I was in Johnson City some super great things happened...

1. I coughed so hard a threw up a little in my mouth and had to swallow it. G.r.o.s.s.ness
   
2. "I wouldn't have taken you for a handcuffs kind of girl." Why do I always get the awkward moments? And yes. The guy that told me this did have a ring on it and was probably old enough to be my dad. Again, grossness.
   
3. Hung out all day with two guys that spoke Spanish half of the time. One was from Mexico originally and one was half Italian, half Brazilian but could speak Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and English (durh). I confirmed later that he couldn't speak Southern since he couldn't understand some of the folks we came in contact with.
4. While eating at a hole in the wall restaurant and by hole in the wall I mean biker joint in the middle of nowhere that carded us just to get through the doors (at 1 in the afternoon I should probably add), we were graced near the end of our meal with the presence of a lady that was drunk (and we think on something else as well). She walked up to our table, said I looked familiar, and introduced herself to me. Sat down with us. Asked one of the guys with us if he worked at El Chico's (which we passed when leaving...hilarious). Proceeded to tell us all of her troubles. Something about losing men, cars, and her job all in one day. Turning to church where she sings or takes rap/rock songs and turns them into church songs. One of the guys asked if she was a recovering alcoholic but she said she didn't drink really (umm...wasted with a drink in hand). Anyways, I would tell you more but I don't feel like I can do the story justice via typing.

So I just layed around all weekend. Played Susie Homemaker a little. I'm about to conquer this crud I've had, but it's kind of hard to do that when it's freezing cold outside.

I just got an email from Amazon about mp3 album downloads that are cheap. They even have some of Carole's so I love it. Check it out HERE. The albums get better after the first page unless you are a U2 fan...then you'll be in heaven. Enjoy and have a spectacular day.