Riddle Me This

As I am wandering around my apartment on my day off the words of my father echo in my head, "You need a hobby." It all started with their visit. They came down and we had a lovely time, traveling to Napa and around the home front. My mom at one point was like you don't have to entertain us, you can just do whatever you normally do. And at this point we were just sitting in the living room reading magazines and watching TV. And I thought uhhhh this is what I normally do. Yikes. When the parental unit left, McSweets also had to leave for work and I said, "Hey! What I am I suppose to do?" And my dad looked me square in the eye and said, "You really need a hobby."

Side note: What does the phrase square in the eye really mean? My eyes are round. I digress.

So this sentence has been rolling around in my head for a while and I am trying to think of my hobbies. I use to have hobbies, but since I moved to CA they have really gone away. Most of the time I just work and when I am not working I think about work and I check my work email. (I just read this email and it makes me sound really pathetic, no wonder my dad said what he did)

Next I Google, popular hobbies. This is what I found:

1. Golf
Okay, I just told McSweets while we were watching a golf commercial on TV, golf is boring. I don't understand how people enjoy it and say it's relaxing. I say boring.

2. Playing a Musical Instrument
Use to play the piano. Now I don't have a piano. Moving on.

3. Skiing
Never done it. I don't like being cold either.

4. Gardening
I live in an apartment. Next!

5. Swimming
Can't. My brother got the swim lessons in the family.

6. Snow Boarding
Done it. Suck at it. And again I don't like being cold.

7. Mountain Climbing
Really!?

So as of now, I am still trying to figure out my "hobbies." Wish me luck!

This is the picture I found when I typed in popular hobbies, 

I really hope it doesn't come to stamp collecting. 

Oh Susannah!

While McSweets is out traveling learning to speak and eat Cajun, I am home taking care of home type duties. You know, the dishes, bills, laundry and of course lil sweets aka Charlie dog.

As I am taking care of such duties I realize that McSweets is totally the alpha male and I have no chance with this dog. Take this morning for example, I am simply getting ready to go work and I open the curtains to let the sun, stream light into the dark apartment and Charlie dog disagrees with me opening the curtains. Therefore he starts to growl, bark and bite the top of my foot. Now don’t be alarmed, Charlie has bitten the top of my foot before has even broke the skin and left a nice bruise. So I get down to his level and say, “Charlie, please stop growling and barking at me. And will you please let me walk out the door without biting my foot? Now I am going to work so please be good.” I felt very good about our conversation went to work, did the work thing and came home in the evening.

This evening I made myself dinner. Nachos. Not cereal, McSweets would be so proud of my cooking skills. As I am enjoying my nachos with cheese and a dash of garlic salt (again my sweets so proud) Charlie decides, hey this would be a great time to start barking and growling again. Yay. Then it hit me like a huge light bulb beaming ever so brightly above my head…Susannah! Susannah will help me! She will entertain Charlie and keep him company! Susannah is a talker and tends to get on my nerves at times, but it’s much better than hearing Charlie bark at me.