It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind

So I found myself last night watching that very special episode of "House". I couldn't wait. I wanted to see "House" and "Cuddy" getting together. Maybe it would have been more exciting had I watched ALL of the episodes leading to that moment but you know what? I don't care. In fact, I'm not even going to watch any more episodes. I'm just not loving it. I've got better things to do with my time (or do I?) than watch a show that isn't doing it for me. I just haven't fallen in love with it like I did with "Bones". (May 11, 2009 ...re: "House" hook-up -you've got to be kidding me! I hate when they play with us like that! Now if they do that with "Bones" I'm gonna be p.o'd big time!)

Nothing wrong with that right? Right!

Though speaking of "Bones"...I was reading various comments in response to last weeks episode and talk about a woman's prerogative to change her mind! It felt like it was out of the blue but at the same time, makes sense that her character would decide something contrary to what she had said before because she could come up with valid, logical reasons for it. I'm actually probably going to watch the episode again...or at least the good parts, especially near the end. I can't wait to see next weeks season finale. This is supposed to be the one where they finally get together.

So another "Monday" and work today/tonight was OK. Mother's Day tomorrow and hopefully that means the phones will be quiet and we can all goof off or at least get some reading done! Isn't that a terrible attitude to have? Yeah. It's just been weird having this job that is so ...I don't even know that word I'm looking for. I've had other jobs where between calls there was always other work to be done, but not here. We just sit around. So I guess I really shouldn't complain about getting paid to just sit around should I? I can't say I'm bored though because you never know what the next phone call is going to be about.

Today I was accused of yelling when I wasn't. I was just speaking firmly, clearly and strongly. This lady wanted to confirm some relative of hers actually got on a flight. Now in order to give out that information we need a confirmation number or an e-ticket number and she had neither. She just expected me/us to pull up the list of passengers for the flight and see if whomever was on it. Wrong! Post 9/11 it doesn't work that way. She just wasn't taking no, sorry, we need more info. for an answer so I finally just said I'm sorry I can't help you, I'm releasing this call and then released the call! I've never actually done that before (what I did do once in frustration was just hang up on a call...and felt so bad about it I told my manager) ...now if she had had a better attitude there might have been some other ways I could have found out something for her but nope! Ugh!

It felt wrong to hang up on her. Normally I bend so far backwards I can see up my own a#& to help these people that my calls per hour suck and I go home drained from giving, giving, giving but today I just wasn't gonna do that. I've got to get better at that. I just have to keep the recording in my head that says "you can't please all the people all the time", "you are not responsible for other people's thoughts, reactions and feelings", "it is what is is" and "you can't win 'em all" playing on continuous loop until I'm convinced enough to be working smarter not harder at this job.

So it's about 1am and my desire to head to bed before 4am last night failed miserably. I ended up finishing up a new Nora Roberts book "Vision in White". I have to say that this is the first of her books I've been unimpressed with. It was just a typical, ordinary story of boy meets girl. She usually does much better than that with her boy meets girl stories. Her stories are usually much more complex, deeper, richer and more interesting and this one was blah. It was actually the first in new quartet of stories about these 4 friends who as little girls loved playing "wedding" and how as adults they own and operate a wedding planning business, each contributing a talent to an aspect of the business. This one was about the photographer and then we're gonna get 3 more stories for the remaining women. Now I will probably read the rest because I'll be curious to see if she makes their stories more interesting than this first one.

Am I falling out of love (pun intended) with reading romances (TV romance is a whole 'nother topic!) For the past few years I've been reading more stories that are about something other than boy meets girl yet still have that element of romance to them. What's the difference? Well, usual standard romances are boy meets girl and then there is some conflict before the heroine realizes how wrong she is and after admitting her feelings to the hero, they live happily ever after. Now the reason I read romances isn't so much for that aspect but for the story of reading about a man who falls so deeply in love with the woman that he can't even imagine loving anyone else. (I know, I know!)

These days, I'm just digging more the supernatural/paranormal-with-romance-throw-in stories because they are in worlds beyond the mundane. I like the minds that come up with these fantastical worlds (plus the sex they write about is better! ;) )

I still need to expand my reading list though because as I've stated before, I've got favorite sci-fi/fantasy authors writing serials but the waiting between books is torture.

I guess this is just one of the many changes a person goes through as they grow up. Their tastes change and expand. Maybe someday I'll love reading about history or...some other topic that currently I have no interest in. And maybe someday I'll weigh 100 pounds. :)