BUSY vs LAZY

Busy versus Lazy

I've been thinking of this subject for a week now, but I'm been too busy to sit down and write about it. Over the past three months, I have not blogged much, photographed much and more importantly I have not contacted family and friends via email or phone. I've been busy!

Yes, I've hosted my parents for two months. But busy, not really! Sure, I went with them to a few nighttime shows in the Valley, but really nothing that prevented me from contacting others. Why have I not done those things that I love and "need" to do? I'm lazy.

About a week ago at work, one of my co-workers made a mistake. I asked her, how did this happen? Her reply was that "Sometimes we're so busy, I don't really look at the order, I just put it in." Well, of course I had to tell her that "looking" at the order was a very important part of her job as the order has to be input correctly. Then I wondered to myself if her mistake was more a result of being lazy? Busy versus Lazy? Hmmm! I wonder where in my life I could identify with that?

It didn't take me long to realize that I use the "busy" term to replace doing a very important part of my life.... communicating with others. Truly, I have plenty of hours each night and weekend and I choose to be lazy, just resting on the couch, watching TV, reading, and doing nothing. At least doing nothing productive.

Oh, I know that we all need time to rest, but I probably abuse that philosophy a little bit too much. :) I guess awareness is half the battle. So, now that I have publicly admitted I am lazy, what am I going to do about it? Maybe, I'll just go and take a mid-morning nap! Sure enough, I just looked out the door of my office and hubby is already taking a nap in the reclining chair. It wouldn't be polite to not join him in the living room, now would it?

Spring Break Texas

Yesterday I went to my Spring Break Texas at South Padre Island. It's my third year of bringing my sister visitor to the annual ritual of college students. I guess the third time is a charm, we actually saw a lot of people and saw some "typical" spring break action.

"Typical" as is.... beer bong in action, girls dancing on the stage, girls flashing their boobs, drinking, students gathered around their school flags, and even a girl getting hand-cuffed and taken away. It was all quite interesting. I went to college up North and during my college time, I don't recall any "spring break" trips or even talk of trips to the southern beaches. I think it may have started with eastern and southern schools or maybe Ivy League or Big Ten schools. Maybe, I'll do a Google search on that later.

Anyway, my main point of this blog is.... the guys were all wearing board shorts. When did speedos go out of style?? :) Hubby and brother-in-law had a good time viewing the skimpy bikinis (are they even called "bikini" any more) on all the girls and sister and I had board shorts to look at. Not much skin showing on the guys, unless you're a "chest" or "back" man. There was one lone guy that had on a speedo-type of brief, but gosh did he look out of place.

Oh well, it was still fun! At the restaurant later, we met cousin, her husband, daughter & friend for dinner. There, the guys were treated to more eye-candy in the form of two other diners with tops that only covered one half of the boobs. My brother-in-law even set up the camera on the table so that he could hopefully get a shot as one of them walked by.

I apologize to sister and her hubby that have visited the previous two years and didn't get one-tenth the sights or action we had this year. Maybe it's because she and her husband are too young? It's we oldest family members that really needed this spring break?!?

Sorry, but even though I have posted pictures before on my blog, I don't have any pictures of this action, I left my camera in the car! Go figure!