Fun Times

There are signs in the air that my winter hibernation is nearing an end.  We're having more days of 70 degree weather, the first day of Spring has arrived, and Daylight Savings Time has begun (or ended?  I never can remember).  I'm hoping that I can get "home" to Minnesota by Easter this year, which falls on April 20th.  10 days hauling water wouldn't be so bad, right???

Also, social events seem to be popping up all over.  Tonight we're having a reunion of the folks I started my Sabre career with.  Some have retired, some have moved away, found other jobs, but it will be good to spend time with people that taught me a lot of what I know today.

And tomorrow night I'm going to a dinner party - a colleague is in town from Malta, and one of my coworkers is hosting the event.  This is the same guy that served crab legs at the last party I went to, so it's bound to be good!

Monday night I'm going to the Dallas Stars Hockey game with a customer - happy hour prior, and we're in a suite with food and beverages galore, so that'll be fun even though I don't follow hockey.

Next Saturday is the Women Rock 5K race.  I haven't trained, so I'll walk most of it.  I also volunteered to work at the Athlete's Village afterwards.

I'm obsessed with the search for MH370.  Even though there is no new updates for days at a time, I'm learning all sorts of things about satellites, radar, sonar, and how a 777 airplane operates.  My personal view is that there was a fire onboard, all passengers and crew died, and the plane flew on auto pilot until it ran out of fuel.

Crazy Texas Weather

Those of us that live in Texas know that the weather can change on a dime.  Last Saturday it was over 80 degrees for the 2nd day in a row.  I went to the park and walked for almost 6 miles (and still didn't work off that darn bacon cheeseburger I ate in celebration of National Pig Day).  It was a warm, muggy day, and Friday night I tossed and turned with my windows open because, damn it, I was hot!  But I didn't turn on the air conditioning, because, well, it's March.

And Sunday?  23 degrees, going down to 17 as the sun set.  My water pipes froze up for the 3rd time this winter, even though I left them dripping.  Frozen sleet tapped at my windows most of the afternoon, and school was cancelled most places on Monday.

How do Texans react?  Well, when I did some grocery shopping on Saturday, the eggs were sold out, and although I didn't look, I almost guarantee that the milk and bread was too.  Apparently Texans get a hankering for eggs and toast with their milk only during cold spells.

And in other news, this morning my scale said that I was .2 pounds from being a "normal" weight.  Since I haven't been normal since I was a child, that was pretty exciting to me.  Another 11 pounds and I'll be "ideal".  So there.  Those size 6 pants I bought last weekend will fit even better now (yes, that is a gratuitous mention of my clothing size for no other reason than I've never been able to say it before, unless you count 6T, but I don't think I cared back then, being I was six).

I am more than ready for summer to begin - I look forward to the first day I say "it's too hot", without it being a hot flash!