killing time

PREVIOUSLY POSTED IN JULY 2007.  Adding the italics to update the answers that may have changed.  Change is good.

1. Your entire family has gone away for the weekend.  The house is all yours.  What are the first three things you do?  1.  Get the house perfectly clean, so that I can enjoy the rest of the time.  2.  Make myself a tall glass of ice water.  3.  Pull out some project that I've been "going to get around to".
2. Your bankbook is looking healthy, you have a four-day weekend ahead.  What sounds good?  I'd reserve a room at the Anniversary Inn for Doug and I, head straight to SLC, take in a few movies, see some sights, ride the horse-drawn carriage around Temple Square a few times, have breakfast in bed, reeeeeelax and talk!
3. What do you do while waiting in the doctors office?  People watch, read a magazine or the book you brought along, worry and stress about the examination that's about to take place?  I watch a movie on my DVD player or iPod or read my own book everytime.  Waiting doesn't bother me because I come prepared to be entertained. I don't like magazines in doctor's offices because sick people touch them.  I'm a germaphobe, remember.  HA!  Now I bring my Kindle, my laptop and my iPhone just about everywhere that I think I'll have to wait.  What did we do before electronics?
4. Would you rather spend an afternoon alone in a book store, a mall, napping in the hammock?  Of the three, probably in the bookstore.  But, if it could be just an afternoon alone anywhere, it would be at home, enjoying the solo time. Now, it would be in the hammock with the Kindle because it's my new bookstore!  HAPPINESS!
5. You have an unexpected 48 hour stay in the hospital.  You're coherent and not in pain.  How do you spend the time?  Reading?  Channel Surfing?  Laptop surfing?  Calling your friends to come visit?  Ringing for a nurse every five minutes?  Sleeping?  No question, I'd be calling my friends to come and visit, play cards, gab, whatever.  I would hate being there alone and bored.  If everyone was busy, see the above answers though! 
6. You have a nine hour trans-continental flight.  Get excited about finishing a hot novel? Watch the in-flight movies?  Become best friends with the stranger seated next to you?  Take three valium and sleep the time away?  As chatty as I am, I don't enjoy conversations on airplanes with strangers.  (Too many experiences with people who were wasting my time... like the time I flew next to the man who claimed to be President of Continental Airlines but riding coach to "see how smoothly his airline was running" and by the way, he owned half of Galveston TX and was their mayor but couldn't keep his stories straight from one to the next.)  I'd watch a movie, read some and take a nap.  That doesn't change.  I crank up the iPod, watch a movie until I fall asleep.  I hate flying!
7. You have a seven hour layover in Chicago O'Hare Airport.  Do you wear down your cellphone battery calling friends?  Read a book?  People watch?  Shop every store in the airport?  Take a taxi and see the city?  Oh, I'd be in a taxi so fast!  I'd check out whatever I could fit in during the few hours that I had to safely leave the airport!  I spent twelve hours once in an airport when I was traveling to teach scrapbooking and have kicked myself ever since for not seeing that big city while I had the chance! When stuck at the airport though, I am online on the laptop and peoplewatching.  Man, the laptop has changed my life!
8. What do you do when your bored stiff?  I usually clean, if I get really bored. I don't enjoy just sitting so I usually drum up something to do with the babes, Carol or Denise.  I hate sitting around doing nothing! Add Wendy to the list!
9. Work first, play later?  OR Play while you can, the work will still be there when you get home?  Unfortunately, I like to have the work done so that I can enjoy the playtime.  I do think I'm better at it this time around with the babes.  I set the timer and say, "We're gonna give it 30 minutes then we can go and play."  When I was younger, I'd have wanted everything perfect first and sometimes there wasn't enough time to play.  One of my "lessons learned".
10. List three times that you are easily bored.  1. Watching the Stock Market, bowling, baseball or golf on TV.  2. Hearing explanations about things that are scientific, money-related or technical.  My brain just shuts down and takes me to la-la land.  3.  Sales pitches where someone's trying to sell me something that I don't want to buy.  Some things never change.


If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.