The last twenty four hours have been totally enjoyable. Yesterday I got home from work around 5:30pm just in time to meet one of my favorite people, Mr. Cavin, for coffee. Bronwen, Cavin and I left the house for the Green Bean but ended up in a new little café right around the corner from Natty Greene’s, across the street from the entrance to the Green Burro. This place is great. I think it is called the Brew House, but I am not sure. It has a few seats outside on the sidewalk and bright colored paintings done by one of the owners. Inside there are three round tables with a few chairs each and three large flat screen TVs. I think it would be a fabulous place to play the all important beauty pageant drinking game.
Around 7pm Dan and Piper showed up and we hung out for awhile. Cavin left to have dinner with a friend and Dan, Bronwen, Piper and I scooted home for dinner. After the girls went to bed, Cavin came back to the house. We played some serious Guitar Hero, drank amazing Haitian rum and black and tans and talked and talked and talked until 2am!
I was dreading the 6am wake-up call but was delighted when Dan bolted out of the bed to feed the little BB while I got to sleep for a few more minutes. I was even more delighted when he crawled back into bed to cuddle for a few minutes before we had to get up.
This morning was a sign of things to come. We had to get both girls up, fed, dressed and off to school, as well as get ourselves roused, washed, and caffeinated before 7:30am. I never get to see Dan in the morning because he doesn’t have to be at work until 8:30am so today was a nice treat.
Things are going to continue to be great. Dan’s birthday is Friday so that will be fun, and we are flying off the Philadelphia tomorrow to see the family. Keep an eye out for pictures.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Boredom is Death
I have always espoused the idea that boredom is death. I believe this only because when I am bored, I’d rather be dead. When I am bored, with work for example, my creativity oozes out of my ears and dries up, my inspiration drains out through my toes, and my brain shrivels into a dried up fig, only not as tasty. The good side of this problem is that I am rarely (excluding work) ever bored. I have always had the ability to entertain myself, and I have so little time to do the things I want to do that when I am sitting around I always have a project, idea, cleaning, or something I want to do.
I discovered this article today in Scientific American (my new favorite magazine besides The Week) called Bored to Death: Chronically Bored People Exhibit Higher Risk-Taking Behavior. It is a fascinating study which purports a number of interesting conclusions about what boredom does to people. A quick summary:
1) Highly bored people tend to lack the ability to entertain themselves thus making them tend to engage more in high risk behavior such as drug use and extreme sports.
This may explain the restlessness that occurs when I am bored. Instead of sitting around complaining I tend to move aimlessly around the house until I figure out what to do. If the opportunity to do something extreme were to present itself, in those moments I am pretty sure I would do it.
2) Chronically bored people tend to score low on measures of self awareness.
I think about the people that I have know in my life who tend to complain of being bored frequently and they are the same people who have a hard time figuring out what they want and what they desire. Does it work in reverse though? If I deconstruct myself and discover mt true desires does my boredom go away?
3) The ability to focus or engage plays a role in boredom.
This completely explains my performance and behaviors at work. Because I am not interested in my work it is very difficult for me to stay focused over long periods of time (anything over about 5 minutes to be exact). Therefore, I am not able to get much work done during the day because my inability to focus causes me to be bored, which increases my restlessness which forces me to lose focus and become more bored. It is a brutal cycle that can only be broken by finding something that engages me at work. (Or to quit my job and become a pirate and sail around the world burying my treasure on various desert islands.)
Anyway, enough self analysis for the day. Check out the article.
I discovered this article today in Scientific American (my new favorite magazine besides The Week) called Bored to Death: Chronically Bored People Exhibit Higher Risk-Taking Behavior. It is a fascinating study which purports a number of interesting conclusions about what boredom does to people. A quick summary:
1) Highly bored people tend to lack the ability to entertain themselves thus making them tend to engage more in high risk behavior such as drug use and extreme sports.
This may explain the restlessness that occurs when I am bored. Instead of sitting around complaining I tend to move aimlessly around the house until I figure out what to do. If the opportunity to do something extreme were to present itself, in those moments I am pretty sure I would do it.
2) Chronically bored people tend to score low on measures of self awareness.
I think about the people that I have know in my life who tend to complain of being bored frequently and they are the same people who have a hard time figuring out what they want and what they desire. Does it work in reverse though? If I deconstruct myself and discover mt true desires does my boredom go away?
3) The ability to focus or engage plays a role in boredom.
This completely explains my performance and behaviors at work. Because I am not interested in my work it is very difficult for me to stay focused over long periods of time (anything over about 5 minutes to be exact). Therefore, I am not able to get much work done during the day because my inability to focus causes me to be bored, which increases my restlessness which forces me to lose focus and become more bored. It is a brutal cycle that can only be broken by finding something that engages me at work. (Or to quit my job and become a pirate and sail around the world burying my treasure on various desert islands.)
Anyway, enough self analysis for the day. Check out the article.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Saturday
Everyday that I am home and not traveling for work is a good day. It seems like it has been forever since I have not had to leave my family to fly off to run a new hire orientation on a Sunday so I lose my weekend. When I get back the next Sunday after losing a second weekend I am so desperate to see Bronwen and Dan that I try to smoosh fun into 8 hours and then get to bed to start another week in the office. I am really going to stop traveling (for work) and then I can have a normal life, whatever that is.
Wedding planning is happening, slowly. We are going to have the cake made at the Spring Garden Bakery (I really like that place). I am having a hard time deciding between white almond cake and chocolate. Anyone want to fight for one option or another? I think I might just have to go for a tasting!
I have an idea of what I want the invitations to look like. Now we have to design it ourselves, or get it made for $500. I am starting to lean to the $500 option. I think they would just look so much better. Or I could save that money to help pay for the open bar because god knows with our friends and family, the bill is going to be hefty.
Now I just need to get a dress, make the favors (just you wait, they are going to be great), get a photographer, get a DJ or figure out something else, pick the menu, get an officiant, design the ceremony, and pick out or make my bouquet. That’s just scratching the surface.
By the way, for those of you who don’t know, the wedding and party are going to be at the O’Henry Hotel on Green Valley road. And the Green Valley Grill is catering so you know it is going to be good.
On a totally different note, Jeanie and Josh and Sam came over last night. A copious amount of wine was shared and our little babies played together. Like a fool, I forgot the camera; next time. I had the most fun playing the Buffy karaoke on the special features of season six. Singing along with Anya’s bunny solo was amazing!
Wedding planning is happening, slowly. We are going to have the cake made at the Spring Garden Bakery (I really like that place). I am having a hard time deciding between white almond cake and chocolate. Anyone want to fight for one option or another? I think I might just have to go for a tasting!
I have an idea of what I want the invitations to look like. Now we have to design it ourselves, or get it made for $500. I am starting to lean to the $500 option. I think they would just look so much better. Or I could save that money to help pay for the open bar because god knows with our friends and family, the bill is going to be hefty.
Now I just need to get a dress, make the favors (just you wait, they are going to be great), get a photographer, get a DJ or figure out something else, pick the menu, get an officiant, design the ceremony, and pick out or make my bouquet. That’s just scratching the surface.
By the way, for those of you who don’t know, the wedding and party are going to be at the O’Henry Hotel on Green Valley road. And the Green Valley Grill is catering so you know it is going to be good.
On a totally different note, Jeanie and Josh and Sam came over last night. A copious amount of wine was shared and our little babies played together. Like a fool, I forgot the camera; next time. I had the most fun playing the Buffy karaoke on the special features of season six. Singing along with Anya’s bunny solo was amazing!
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