I love Frasier

Since becoming a stay at home mom, I have a few guilty pleasures that I have succumbed to. One is the Sonic happy hour with my $0.92 large coke. The other is my current Netflix craving, Frasier. Tim and I are firm believers that life should not be wasted sitting in front of the TV, but we do appreciate a little mindless entertainment after a long day of yard/office/baby work.

Two years ago, Tim gave me a 6 month subscription to Netflix. Let's just say that I never turned in my discs on time and somehow to this day we justify this $10/month expense, even though it is never spoken of in our budgeting meetings. We do not get cable, so this is our means of staying current with the world. Well, that and internet. And talking to people.

Our television selection is very limited due to the length of our rabbit ears. We get the major network channels, half a dozen religious channels, and half a dozen Spanish speaking channels. One of our channels is 51, which carries some off the air sitcoms, one of which is Frasier. While this show is mostly ridiculous, I became hopelessly addicted. The subject matter is pretentious and above my head, but the humor is extremely clever. From Niles's painfully obvious infatuation with Daphne to the inability to capture Merris on camera to Frasier's ineptness at keeping a girlfriend... it's like a train wreck and I can't stop watching. Such good character development!

I have all ten seasons on my Netflix queue.. and I am nearing the end of season 8. Yes, hopelessly addicted. I have found it very hard to find a good comedy on TV these days, and I like the instant gratification of having my favorite show on DVD. I do have to say that I absolutely LOVE 30Rock. This humor is extremely clever (yes, even beats Frasier, I'm afraid). I hold 30Rock in as high esteem as Arrested Development.. maybe even higher. OK, so enough blogging about mindless matters, but I had to share one of my latest guilty pleasures. More to come!

Update on Life

It has been forever since I have blogged as you can see from above. I am not still 32 weeks pregnant, in fact, my baby is now 43 weeks out of the womb. These 43 weeks have kept me pretty busy and I'd like to say life is a little more under control. OK, it is more under control, but still very busy. I miss the days of writing a blog.. "the days" I'm talking about, being our road trip to Texas two years ago. I know, I am a bad blogger, but I will chalk that up to pregnancy and early motherhood to forgive myself. OK, excuses aside, here is the update and current status of our lives.

Tim and I are coming up on our second year back in the Lone Star state. We moved here in November of 2008 for Tim to take a job with my dad's company and for us to relocate closer to family. We were in the family-absent state of New York for awhile (10 years for Tim, 2 for me). While we loved the beauty of upstate New York, we felt the call to be near family as we were looking to start a family of our own. As we searched and prayed, we felt led to Texas where Tim came to work for my dad's company. He has been serving as a Six Sigma Black Belt (no, not working security) where he seeks to improve processes in the company, saving them time and money.

As for myself, I came home and worked a variety of jobs (dental mergers and acquisitions, waitress, personal assistant) until finding my ultimate full-time job as Mom. Tim and I got pregnant (ok, mostly me there) in February of 2009, welcoming our sweet baby boy on November 2. We have loved just about every minute of being parents (exception: anything in the 3-5am time range). Parenthood has be a huge change in life. It has shown me how to love like I didn't know I could. I would do anything for him. I can see it will be a challenge for me as he gets older to do what is best for him when it would be so easy to spoil him rotten. Not having extra cash is helping me to not spoil him right now :).

The Clymer family currently lives in a house in

Waller, TX, about 40 miles north of Houston. We live in a small subdivision of about 25 lots that are 3-7 acres each. We call 3 acres our little piece of heaven. Well, it is becoming heaven. Our subdivision used to be a watermelon patch, so it is pretty bare. We have planted about 40 trees, half of them being fruit trees. We hydroseeded our own lawn, put in our own beds, and maintain everything ourselves. So you can imagine we don't have a lot of free time, but we love making this place our home. It will be interesting seeing what it looks like in 10 years when our trees are bigger. I have included an aerial picture of our house so you can see how open things are with our tiny trees.

Well, I believe you're up to date and can now follow my posts a little more easily. I'm looking forward to talking with you about life.