A little info on my Starbucks cup

Yesterday morning, I decided to treat myself with a Starbucks. I was sort of shocked when I read "The Way I See It #51" on my cup which stated:

"Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television - which means in a typical life span we devote 13 uninterrupted YEARS to our TV sets! The biggest problem with mass media isn't low quality - it's high quantity. Cutting down just an hour a day would provide extra years of life - for music and family, exercise and reading, conversation and coffee."

That's over FOUR hours PER DAY!! Do people actually watch TV that much-on average?
And if they actually do, how ON EARTH do they find the time??

After work, errands, dinner, kid homework, kid activities, kid night time rituals, and housework, how the hhhheeeeeeeeeckkkkk would anyone have time to watch more than an hour of TV per day? Maybe they stay up all night? I don't know, I just don't get it.

Now, I wouldn't call myself a TV hater, I do enjoy TV and good TV shows, but I can't imagine spending THIRTEEN years of my life watching TV programs. In fact, I am so far behind with my favorite show Grey's Anatomy that I am at risk of not catching up at all! And I got so LOST by not being able to watch Lost on a consistent basis that I had to throw in the towel (I do hope to rent the show season by season and have an all weekend Lost marathon in the future, however.) :)

I do realize that I am a bit of an exception because I am a single mom and there is a whole heck of a lot of work to do all the time, so I guess I can see how a single person with no kids could spend all their free time watching TV (how not fun), but this 4 hours a day thing is ON AVERAGE, and most households I know of have children in them which means TOO BUSY for TV. Or maybe it's just the kiddos who watch TV all the time so our average is way up. Or maybe I'm just not an effective manager of my time.

In any case, I think we are wasting our lives away people. Just turn it off! ...Unless it's something interesting like Jon and Kate Plus 8 or Ghost Adventures! hehe - Just kidding!

Nothin'

Oh my loyal 2 to 3 followers - how disappointed you must be in me! (ha)

I can't believe how long it has been since I have posted a blog! And yet, I have nothing! How boring I must be! I feel like driving somewhere cool so that I can take lots of pictures and post them here (hehe that was for you and Ry, Brookie)!

Current Events:

- Love a house - Want it - reining my hopes in....or trying to.

- I believe my car was tampered with - or at least fixed wrong - which led to a $2,600 bill that I had to pay and now I have to sue their stinky butts. Sucks. A lot. Like a TON.

- Still reading Twilight. It's taking me forever. I guess I'm just not as interested in it as some people. hmm.

- Trying really hard not to go in the kitchen and make cookies, and then eat them all, right now.

I guess that is about it. WOW, I AM boring!!

I am "The Rule."

Saw "He's Just Not That Into You" last night. Ooowee that was a cute, fun, eye-opening movie. I mean, I'm not a young girl, and I've been around the block, but even with my abundance of experience with men (haha), I think I still somehow thought I was the exception! I have really used the words "I guess he must have died!" when someone didn't call me like they said they would. C'mon, you know, I'm so great, right?! I'm smart, pretty, fun, yada yada yada, how could I be lumped in with all the other women as THE RULE?

Easy! I am the rule! Not an exception at all! It was a hard pill to swallow, but ladies and gentleman, I think I did it! Aren't you proud? :)

Dumbass

So we were on our way home from the late service at church tonight and I was confiding in my sister, someone who I consider a best friend and sister all rolled up into one. Her response was simple. She summed it up as follows:

Kel: You are SUCH a DUMBASS!

Me: Thanks.

Kel: But you know, it's ok...(lovingly rubs my back in a circular motion)...it's just who you are.

We proceeded to laugh for the next few minutes.

Thanks Kel!!

I think I might be crazy...

I heard on the radio this morning that the weather in Riverside should be around 80 and beautiful for the next 4 days. For the next 4 days, I won't be enjoying the beauty, however. Instead, I will be freezing my ass off in Indiana! The following is what I just read on Weather.com. Please take special note of what is written in yellow.

... WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST FRIDAY... ... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS CANCELLED THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. A WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST FRIDAY.
VERY COLD AIR TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WILL PRODUCE WIND CHILLS BETWEEN 15 AND 30 BELOW ZERO AT TIMES TODAY.
WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE TO BETWEEN 5 AND 10 MPH TONIGHT HOWEVER AIR TEMPERATURES WILL BECOME VERY COLD AND WIND CHILL VALUES SHOULD REMAIN IN THE 20 TO 30 BELOW ZERO RANGE AT TIMES OVERNIGHT AND INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. SOME IMPROVEMENT IS EXPECTED ON FRIDAY AS AIR TEMPERATURES FINALLY BEGIN TO WARM UP.
A WIND CHILL WARNING MEANS THE COMBINATION OF VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL VALUES. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA OR DEATH IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.

You guys, I'm seriously nervous about this! I MUST BE CRAZY to leave such beautiful beach weather in January to take the chance of frost bite and hypothermia.

Good thing I am also CRAZY about my wonderful friends. And I miss them like CRAZY!!!!

Grandma Evelyn

My sweet little Grandma Evelyn passed away yesterday.

I went to see her a couple of days before she passed. She told me that I looked beautiful and that my eyes were the same. The look in her eyes and the smile on her face made my heart fill with joy...

Thinking of her in this time has brought back so many memories.

She watched my sister and I quite a bit when we were kids. She carted us around. I remember visiting her mom in the old age home. Her mom had dementia and often didn't know who any of us were; I remember Grandma's apartment in Covina and all her cats, the food she made us and how it was so healthy and I didn't like it very much then; banana pancakes, shaped like animals - those were good; borrowing her Reader's Digest in the bathroom when I was about 8; watching Days of Our Lives and The Price is Right; a little tiny stuffed dog she took everywhere with us - Le Mutt; the way she always corrected our grammar; watching plays at the Fontana Players...and the memories just keep coming.

She wasn't my biological Grandma, but she was my Grandma nonetheless. I loved her and I will always think of her fondly. I thank God that she passed at an old age, in her sleep, surrounded by her loved ones who were given the wonderful chance to say goodbye.

A New Year

I resolve to be a better person...
...to be more patient
...to worry less
...to love more
...to give of myself