It’s 2006! We had plans with our friends from WV for New Years but we ended up having to cancel because we were having, what I am going to call, an “inter-family issue”. I am not really going to go into depth about it because frankly it pisses me off. So, Boo-Boo and I played therapists and after that we brought in the new year in front of the TV with Dick Clark. Did anyone else notice that he sounded like crap? I think I recall something about him having a stroke but I am not really sure. They didn’t really keep the camera on him for too long so I don’t know if he looked like crap too. I don’t make New Years resolutions because I don’t ever keep them so I just try and set goals for myself in the hopes that I can meet some of them. I have a few goals that I have set for 2006 and they include: losing ten more pounds to get to my third goal weight since I started my weight loss about a year ago, supporting my husband in pursing his new career, buying a house and paying off my truck.
I watched the entire first season of ER in the last week. I am a huge ER supporter but I didn’t get into ER until, well I don’t know really what season. I didn’t see the first or second season (which I am about to start once I finish this blog) because I watched Chicago Hope which was on against ER and was also canceled because it went head-to-head against ER. There are a lot of differences in the old ER and the new ER and I also got a look into their concept of making the show which is very interesting. The screenplay for the show was written in the early to mid-80’s but got put on hold because when Michael Crichton presented the idea to Stephen Spielberg, Spielberg asked what else he was working on. Crichton said Jurassic Park and of course that is what they concentrated on making. ER got put on the back burner for ten years and then Spielberg though about making it a TV show rather than a movie. They really want to present the show like a documentary so that people got the feeling that they were really involved in what was happening. Hence the moving cameras in and out of rooms instead of just stationary shots. When they presented the pilot to NBC they did not get good reviews because the network was concerned that it was too fast paced, that people wouldn’t be able to follow the action and “form relationships” with the characters. NBC gave them a shot and put them against Chicago Hope to see if they would be able to make it. The pilot aired and of course the rest is history. Anyways, enough about that.
It’s back to work tomorrow. I have a Phase I (that’s the Roman numeral one) that I have to get out this week in order to impress a bank so that they continue to give us business. On top of that I have to get a lot of other things scheduled for upcoming jobs so the homeowners stay happy. I guess this is where I have to let go of the control and delegate some tasks, I think I can do that. Well, I am off to begin watching Season 2 of ER before I watch a new episode of Medium.
