Dressing Room Dilemmas

I swear since I've been home I've felt so many times like I was twelve. Honestly I haven't spent so much time at home since I was 18 which was..yikes 10 years ago. So now at 28 I find myself hanging out at my mom's for a couple months before starting work and BAM! twelve again. On Saturday I went shopping with my grandma and my mom and they kept picking out clothes for me to go and try on, I've learned that I can gong only a certain amount of outfits and then it's futile to resist. So that's how I end up in the dressing room with several outfits..only a couple picked out by me that I have to put on and then walk out to show my mom and grandma..uhh. It made me think of the time when I was a teenager I can't remember how old I was but I went to buy a bikini and I had to go with my mom since I had no money of my own and after I put every one on I had to come out of the dressing room so she could see...so embarass!! Then flash forward to adulthood and I had to come parading out in some "work outfits" that had been picked out for me..it just never ever ends.

Oh Dr. Phil

Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend a taping of Dr. Phil with my grandma and about 40 other seniors. Let me tell you it was quite an adventure. The Dr. Phil show sent a bus to pick up the ladies club and take us all to the studios. First of all let me say that the oldies love to push and shove to get onto the bus, and of course are in a panic that they won't be first into the studio, etc. Even though we were told they'd be letting us in by numbers. My grandma kept going further and further up to the front and then would yell for me, where are you?? Keep Up!! It was exhausting really.
The actual taping was alright the topic of the show was Is it normal? There was a lady on who was basically a hypocondriac and then someone who refuses to celebrate holidays. The general consensus among the ladies was that we should have at least gotten free Dr. Phil mugs and they felt rushed around all day. I'd say the rushing they felt was themselves getting in a tizzy about getting on/off the bus first or making sure they got into the studio ASAP. Also they got super impatient when Dr. Phil and some Marines were filming PSA's for Toys for Tots, it was taking forever and it was cold in the studio..purses were gathered and they were ready to bolt the second it was over. Anyways the taping airs on Nov. 1st, I'm sure you can see me since the lady in front of me kept clapping at inappropriate times and so the camera would pan over to her. Oh the other best bit was that they showed Dr. Phil being drawn for an episode of the Simpsons and in the clip he says something to Homer about losing weight. This one got all the ladies started, something about a Dr. Phil diet bar scandal that all the seniors seemed to know about in great detail. At this point I also got another lecture about broccoli. My grandma said something about how you need to read labels very carefully and that one time she almost ate somethign with too much Vitamin D, and that you can OD on Vitamin D if you're not careful..then she says, you can OD on anything really if you have too much, even broccoli. Then she launched into the broccoli speech again, by the end of this she's gonna have me brainwashed to never eat broccoli again!

Limbo Land

So currently I'm in limbo, not going but not staying either. I should be leaving in the next couple of weeks to start my new job but in the meantime I'm just killin' time. My typical day goes something like this:
8:30am- Wake Up, Check E-mail
9:30-11am- Go to gym (note this is my only outing of the day)
11am-1pm- Come home from gym and shower, eat some lunch
1-3pm-play on the internet, attempt to learn spanish or read
3pm-4pm-Watch Oprah
4-5:30pm-Am usually very bored, waiting for my brother to come home at 5:30pm

The highlight of this week is on Thursday I'm going with my grandma to sit in the audience of Dr. Phil, should be interesting, and if nothing else kills a whole day!

I'm still here!!

So yes I'm still home, and last week I was lucky enough to get the flu--so that kept me out of commisson for a bit. I'm all better now and getting back into my daily routine of tv, gym and spanish lessons. I'm now going for training in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia which is gonna be exciting. Meanwhile I've still got lots of stuff to read and lots to learn, not to mention lots of lying around to do before the real work begins.
Also the whole flu thing has exhausted me because now that I'm well my mom has it and so she's been home and needing some TLC which is fine except that because of this grandma feels the need to stick around half the day and constantly give advice on how to get better or why my mom still feels sick. The best was yesterday when we took my mom to the doctor. On the way there my mom was getting sick into a bag (this flu thing is horrible with all the vomiting!). Anyways so grandma says to me, "What did she eat that she's throwing up?" and I tell her that all my mom's eaten all day is some chicken broth, at which point my grandma says--Broccoli!! Who the hell gave her broccoli, sick people aren't supposed to have broccoli..and you know too much of that can poison you, if you have more than half a cup you are poisoned, that's why I don't like to eat broccoli!!! Of course at this point there is no stopping or correcting her so I just sit there for the 20 min. car ride listening to grandma rant about the evils of broccoli and my mom throwing up in the backseat..and yep that's pretty much what life is like back home!