This Should Work

Yesterday was my official last day as an employee of The University of Kentucky. While I’ll be going back next week as a consultant, I am technically unemployed this week.

And Thank God! I worked so hard over the past few months trying to get everything under the sun done for my department that I forgot to take care of myself. So this week I’ll be doing the following:

• Sitting on the couch and watch television
• Sitting on the couch and playing video games
• Taking a nap on the couch
• Going out to lunch with my wife
• Going to a matinee movie

Basically, I’ll be doing what I want to do without feeling guilty for neglecting work.

Such a good feeling.

While Lily may have scratched my iPod Touch screen, my wife was able to do one better. Last night as we were going to bed, my wife tried to save me a trip downstairs and bring my iPod Touch upstairs to place at my bedside (I use it as a backup alarm, and it keeps me occupied if I’m walking Lily around the house at night).

Unfortunately, as my wife was heading up the stairs, my iPod decided to slip out of its case and head down the stairs. It went smack and crack the touch screen pretty badly. My wife says “…and I want you to know I’m getting you a new iPod Touch,” then showed me the damage. A large crack down the center of the screen.

Strangely enough it still works!

My wife is leaning toward buying another iPod Touch instead of an iPhone (the AT&T network is not great, and it’s really bad where we’ll be living in Ohio). but one can dream…

I’m usually keeping my wife abreast of where I am while I’m traveling through the airport via text message. This time around I thought I would also send those messages to my Twitter (since Twitter will accept text messages).

So if you want to know what’s going on while I’m on the road there are two ways to do it:

1. Talk to my wife
2. Follow me on Twitter

Now you’ll probably get better info if you talk to my wife since I’ll talk to her every night as well. But if you Twitter is the next best way to find out what’s going on during my trip.

This weekend I was supposed to rest (doctor’s orders). But I find that I’m not very good at sitting around and doing nothing. At least not at this moment in my life.

For half a day on Friday I sat on the couch, played video games, and took a nap. And while this may sound restful, let me state the my doctor told be to rest the entire weekend, not half a day. The rest of the weekend was spent cleaning the house for a couple of showings, hanging with friends, working, and preparing for a trip to Orlando for a conference.

Not exactly a restful weekend. Maybe I’ll sleep on the plane.

Maybe.

If you haven’t heard, my wife and I are moving from Kentucky back to Ohio. She got a once-in-a-lifetime job offer that she couldn’t pass up, so we are heading back to Central Ohio this summer.

While this was a tough decision for our family, telling our friends was evening harder. We’ve made some great friends in this state and it really devastated some of them. One in particular was my friend Tracy; we’d see movies together that our significant others had little or no interest in seeing. Some of these include Grindhouse and No Country for Old Men.

But now he’s lost in movieland without me and has setup a blog called Movies Without Carter. It’s pretty funny stuff.

One of the movies he saw with his significant other: Then She Found Me. Never heard of it, don’t plan on seeing it.

Sorry, Tracy.

I’ve had a lot of stuff going on and kinda threw blogging to the curb for a what I thought was a little bit. But I’m going to try and pick it back up again soon.

However, I’ve added a new item to the sidebar: Twitter Updates.

Yes, I too have given in to the Twitter. Check out the sidebar, or follow me on directly on Twitter.

I had some time this weekend (finally) to fool around with my blog and update a couple of things on the back end. While I was at it I decided to update the front page with a few photos of Lily

Around this time of year I reactivate a christmas mix for my iPod that is filled with songs that remind me of chrstmas from many different places in my life. Some from TV shows (like the muppet Christmas special with John Denver), others that I heard on my favorite radio station from my youth, and some I played while working at a radio station in North Carolina.

There are only three rules for Christmas music in the TSW household

1. No Trans-Siberian Orchestra
2. No Manhiem Steamroller
3. No Clay Aiken

Everything else is fair game. Elvis- you’re in. Marian Carey- hey, it’s Christmas. Brittney Spears- see Mariah. I’m pretty much game for any Christmas songs, but these are probably my top 5 favorite (non tradtional) Christmas songs:

5. Little Saint Nick-The Beach Boys (Lily likes this one too)

4. Little drummer boy- Bing Crosby/David Bowie ( a classic)

3. Christmas Wrapping- The Waitresses (reminds me of the 80’s and my wife loves it)

2. Last Christmas-Wham! (yes, it is one of my favorite Christmas songs, and if you were honest with yourself, it would be near the top of your list as well)

1. It’s Christmas (Baby, please come home)-U2 (possibly my favorite U2 song, no joke)

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas

For Halloween, Lily was a pea in a pod. This costume was originally made by my grandmother for my other cousin’s first halloween.