The post that should have been posted on Monday.

The time in Dallas has come to an end and this evening marks my last night in Texas until the 30th. I spent the day looking at houses in Sherman which was so fun. I never realized how much a house literally “speaks” to you when you first walk in the door. I saw cute houses, not so cute houses; one that made me want to run screaming for the hills and another that was a complete throwback to the 60’s-70’s. It was a fun day and following my house-viewing time in Sherman I had lunch with John and Mary which quickly became a two hour lunch as we sat and chit-chatted and enjoyed the afternoon.

Saturday eve a friend and I went to my favorite sushi restaurant in Dallas where I satisfied my seemingly insatiable craving for sushi which had been haunting me for weeks. I then dragged my poor friend to the chick-flick of the season “The Holiday” with Jude Law, Jack Black, Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet. It was cute, funny, had a happy ending and yet only marginally entered into the land of smaltzy sappiness.

Following the movie I faced the dreaded task of packing for Miami, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. What to wear, what to leave behind, how much can I fit into these poor suitcases and how can I pack enough clothing for a month of very varied social settings. By 12:30am I was packed, the hotel room was cleaned and I was beat and the shuttle was going to arrive at 8:30am to pick me up for the airport run. As I was trying to fall asleep I kept thinking about a great line from the movie that I had gone to that stated “If nothing else a girl should be the leading lady in her own life.” I kept thinking how that statement was so true. We only have one life and each person is the leading lady of their own life if they chose to be.

That line has been with me for the past two days now and it keeps running through my head each time I think I’m bored, as I was waiting at the airport for ages and ages in the vain hope my plane would bored sometime this century, as I waited in line for lunch (at the airport) and waited in line for dinner (at another airport), and as I did some serious thinking last night. While I haven’t reached any concrete conclusions about what I am going to change in my life I know that something will be changing. I should be the leading lady in my own life. Not wondering what others think of me, of my work, of how I look. Not worried about money, my car or a zillion other inconsequential things that take time away from the important things.

So now I’m here in beautiful Miami, where the palm trees have Christmas lights and it is green like spring. Unfortunately, I’m bored outta my ever-loving mind but that is how it goes. I’m shadowing someone for Monday and Tuesday and it is consisting of hours spent working on our own respective laptops. He gave me the rundown of what he is doing and now he is doing it. So I’m sitting here working on some work stuff, checking email, and writing my blog entry in a Word document cause I can’t blog while I’m in the office. And I’m bored……so what can I do to turn this around and take charge of the situation? Not much at this point….but I’ll keep thinking about it.