Inside the Head of a TV Junkie

Where else will your weather program say the following??

Always the comedian, Mike stated “who’s dust?” after mentioning this output to him.

What is 12 of 12?

Okay everyone, here is my 12 of 12 for June 2009.  Follow the link above if you’re not sure what 12 of 12 is and please enjoy this month’s entry.

Look at that temperature! Beautiful!

What I do when I’m bored at work.  I love my iGoogle page.  Amazingly enough, I can read my Gmail from this page and it’s not blocked.

We had some milage issues with a customer and I had to write down what the actual miles were.  Exciting.

The green items are houses I’m going to look at tomorrow.  I think it’s time for an upgrade.

Big Boy watches over my Dilbert calendar at work.

No one sits around me at work.  I get to look at screens like the one pictured all day.

After work, the temperature is still pretty nice.  I can’t complain when we’re normally in the low 100s.

I had to stop on my way home to get some essentials for this weekend’s baking experiment.

How can there possibly be so many different types of flour?

My attached neighbor is having their house auctioned off.  I feel bad but at the same time, I’m happy.  Does that make me evil? (Read some of my posts tagged with “neighbor(s)” to find out more)

I’m trying to catch up with “The Fashion Show” on Bravo.

I had to help my mom with her PC through Remote Assistance tonight.  Thank goodness I have two monitors so I can multitask.

Well, that was my June 12, 2009.  Hope you enjoyed the photos!

Lily Allen tweeted a link to this YouTube music video.  I kind of like it, especially the way they worked in Madness’ “Our House”, which is a classic!

Here’s the video for “Our House” by Madness

I recieved this interesting piece of spam in my inbox today.  I love the use of the English language.

The countdown has begun towards my trip to Vancouver for the Olympics in February 2010. I’ve been working really hard to find lodging that isn’t going to break the bank and isn’t located out in the boonies of Western Canada. I think I have a few good options, but I’m waiting to see what my sister’s husband can find. His family is from the Seattle area and they have family friends that live up near and in Vancouver. Fingers crossed.

Anyway, Vancouver released photos of the relay torch and I think it looks pretty good. It’ll be interesting to see how large the flame really is. The past few torches have had very small flames. Did you know that if you’re in the torch relay you get the option to buy the torch? I think I would if I ever had the chance. I’m such an Olympics nerd.

Oh, and if anyone is interested, I have a pair of tickets available for the games.  Why are people so flaky sometimes?  Anyway, they’re available so send me a note if you want more details.

Okay, for those of you that have been reading my blog, you know already that I’ve always seemed to have issues with my AC unit in my house.  Well, this past weekend, it finally decided to give up to ghost, or rather, I decided to stop throwing money at it and just get a new unit.  For the past 4 days, I’ve been living with no AC and the outside temp has been 104 or above (that means it was a cool 92 degrees in my house).  It’s been real plesent!  Anyway, I purchased a new unit on Sunday from The Home Depot and it was installed today!  Cool air has never felt so good!!  Sadly, the large chunk ($7000+) that is now missing from my wallet is not much fun… but it’s totally worth it!

Anyway, I have a cool house once again.  Hopefully the AC gods will look down kindly upon me and keep this unit from having any issues in the forseeable future!

What is 12 of 12?

Well, I am in Flagstaff, AZ this entire week getting my house ready for the new renters (yes! we got it rented!!).  My 12th of May was spent running around town getting items and working in the back yard before my sister and her husband showed up later in the afternoon to help out.  Here’s how my day went.

My sleeping arrangements for the week - full size at least!

The house was painted yesterday!  It’s so clean and fresh looking!

Today was going to be another day of busting my hump in the small back yard.

I had to run to the bank to close an account and transfer money.

Home Depot to pay for the carpet that is going to be installed this week.

This rose bush was the bane of my existence today.  It really didn’t want to come out.

My sister arrived and we went to the nursery to buy plants!  This is a lemon smelling creeping thyme plant.

This vinca is growing in the front, we’re moving a huge chunk of it to the back.

An up close look at the purple flowers this vine produces.

I was starving so we had dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings.  It. Was. Good.

My sister chilling after a hard day of work!  You can vaguely see her husband chilling outside on the back steps.  It was a busy day for all.

My new sleeping arrangements.  My sister brought a twin mattress to sleep on with her husband… Oops!  So I gave up my full for the night.

Even though I was not at work, I still found it difficult to get 12 pictures.  I think it was mostly because I was concerned with getting to where I needed to be at whatever time I needed to be there.  I had a list and I needed to stick to it.  I was able to get everything done that I wanted to on Tuesday and my luck has followed me into Wednesday.  This house has been weighing on me lately and getting it ready to rent (finally) will really put me at ease.  I’ll post pictures of the back yard after the full day we put into it on Wednesday soon.  You won’t believe your eyes!

I used to watch Maude on TV Land during the summers. Not sure if they still play it these days or not but it was hilarious.

Then, of course, is The Golden Girls. I’m sure we’ll be seeing marathons of this show popping up over the next few days. A little known fact about Mike - he’s seen every episode of this series.

I was at The Turf in downtown Phoenix this past Friday night and this song came on over the speakers. My friend Erin said that it was one of her favorite songs. After listening to it that night and again on YouTube, I have to agree. It’s a great song. Take a listen.

WTF!? It’s still April!!