Favorite Memories

1. staying up late with my sister Brennie to watch re-runs of Wild Wild West 2. playing in the cow pasture with my best friend Stevie when we lived in Indianna 3. riding roller coasters with my niece Mary 4. creating whirl pools in my sister and brother in law's pool 5. The first Thanksgiving at the Mountain House 6. making tunnels in the snow drifts of Indianna 7. Christmas Eve at the Livingston's 8. watching my nephew Blam play soccer 9. watching The Llamas and Lukie do "Digger Dawg"...one of the funniest things I've ever seen 10.getting up early with my Mom to make Thanksgiving dinner 11. Discovery Cove in Orlando...swimming with the dolphins, the Lazy River, swimming with the Rays...it was awesome

one of my fav quotes

from Apollo 13: "We're all out of whack. We try to pitch down but we yaw to the left. Why can't I null this out?"

My Favorite Things

For some reason I can't get the song "A Few of my Favorite Things" out of my head so I thought I would do a list of my own: Violets and Mums are my fav flowers; Love to hear my nieces and nephews laughing; Love my crazy gato, especialy when he flops at my feet; Love my family very much; Music, music and more music (La Boheme-Musetta's Waltz...it's timeless...a woman complaining about her shoes??!!); every Stephen King book ever written (The Stand and the Dark Tower books are at the top of the list); Jane Austen; my friend Aileen's enchilladas; Lord of the Rings and of course The Hobbit; cheese; watermelon; cucumber sandwiches made by my aunt; My Man Godfrey (not the one with June Allison and David Niven-Allison is just shrill in it); Pan's Labryinth (like all of del Torro's work- his DP does wonderful things with color); The Watchmen both the graphic novel and the movie; Downey fabric softener-when I was a kid we didn't have $$$ for toys and we used to play with the plastic bottles; Shelbyville, Indiana...loved playing in the pastures, running in the fields and making houses out of snow drifts it was the coolest place to grow up sorry that we had to leave; Battlestar Galactica...Eddie Olmos has a wonderful voice; Turkey Hill Sugar Free Dutch Chocolate ice cream; making bread and cooking in general (would've liked to try beef wellington but I don't eat beef anymore); washing dishes...it's theraputic; people watching at airports...fascinating what people do; my grandmother's shoefly pie...sadly the recipe died with her; favorite memory, swimming with the dolphins with my niece and nephew; riding roller coasters with Mary; playing in the pool and paddling the boat around the pond in the mountains

Random Thursday Thoughts

I've been away for a while and need to do some "Bea-ing Myself". I've been unemployed since Feb 2012...lovely little lay off at an institution that shall remain nameles because I don't want to give them any kind of publicity (be it negative or positive). I left my crazy Spanish folk in 2010 and strangely I miss them, they were a good group of men. So we're back to the lovely dilemma of unemployment. I've been interviewing however, once someone sees "supported CEO" on one's resume I become "Over Qualified"...it's discouraging and quite frankly I feel for people with famiies who have been out of work longer than I have. Things at Chez Bea are pretty dark indeed. My severance package ran out at the beginning of April and now I'm in a hole that I'm not sure I can dig my way out of, it's kinda deep. For the first time in my life I cannot pay bills and it's killing me. I've always been able to take care of myself and now I can't do it. I'm not sure I can take much more of this.