Holly crap! I did what?!

My friend Jen Green told me this weekend that she had stopped watching all TV for a month. She felt like she watched way too much and wanted to cut back. She had been watching 9 different shows and has now cut it down to four. In my mind I thought, "holly crap I know I watch more than nine TV shows." In fact I have been think about this a lot lately and knew I needed to cut back.

Last year I moved into my new house and have never gotten cable. I watch all my TV on the internet. At first I thought this would be great because there would only be a few of my favorite shows I could watch. How wrong I was! You can find and watch everything online. It use to be when I had cable that I would turn on the TV while I was eating and just watch what ever random show was on the Discovery Chanel or something. Now I started finding myself starting to find new TV series to start watching when I had already seen my normal ones. For example one night I sat down to eat dinner and decided to watch an episode of NCIS because I was all caught up the other show I watch. This kind of thing happened a lot in the summer time. Back when I just had cable that my have been a one time deal, but with internet it's a whole new game. Basically for free I ended up watching all 6 seasons of NCIS.

This lead me to write down every TV series that I followed this last year. This included over the summer and the television season that is now finishing up. I knew it would be a lot more than Jen's nine shows but I was shock when the list ended up at 54!(really it's only 53.5, I didn't watch all of American Idol) I'm glad I did it though because it shows me just how bad it's gotten. I think I need to follow my friends example and just stop all TV for the summer. That shouldn't really be the hard part, it's trying to figure what shows I will keep watching next season that will be difficult. I'm sure Lost and the Office will make the cut but I will have to do some major cutting.

Spring Cleanning in January

It's been awhile since I took any debris from my house to the dump. I want to clear up a little space so I thought I take a load on Saturday morning. I just couldn't stop with one. It ended up being four full truck loads by the end of the day.

It felt great putting the old bathroom flooring, tub, toilet, etc... in their new home.

For my Bachelor friends

Ok, this is for my friends that spend their family home evenings watching the Bachelor. You know who you are. For those of you that don't know, no I don't watch every week. Just like to make these for my friends that do.

More Day Job

For the past year I've been working on designing the new VA outpatient clinic in Hillsboro. Here is an article in the Oregonian. Notice how it talks up the design but never credits our team for it. So annoying! They give credit to the VA's in-house designer. All she was select the furniture. Beyond that she only approved our paint and fabric selections.
Oregonian article

Happy Pee Day!

Tonight was the first time I have had a working toilet in my house for at least two months. I no longer have to use the back yard or run down to Albertsons. Urinating is fun again.

My day job

Ticket office. Figuring out the details of all the conections was crazy.

The builder messed it up a little but I'm still proud of it.

This is part of a team effort. My main contribution is the ceiling.

Survivor Score Card

I'm in an office pool for Survivor. This is the sheet I put together for this weeks tribal mix up.