okay
okay
what kind of hobbies do you have
well if uh i like to do i like to make stuffed animals i i sort of have not been doing as much as i did you know before i had to work for real but i like to do things like that and uh
uh-huh yeah
you know bottle covers and
uh-huh
that sort of stuff and dancing
oh
the dancing i've i've kept up with because you know you don't have to
well you don't have to get a lot of stuff out you know
uh-huh
what do you do
well i sew
oh
clothes you know
yeah
that's like a hobby because i don't ever make anybody nothing but me
or maybe little kids i've i've done weddings but not not not big weddings like you know
oh wow
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big big weddings just bride's maid's dresses and stuff like that for people that i know
yeah yeah
you know so
i don't want to be paid to do it because then it becomes a job and then it's not a hobby you know
wow
yeah and then it then it puts a lot of responsibility on you
and a lot of stress too
yeah yeah
you know especially i don't want to do this and i don't want to do that so it's then it's not a hobby it's more of a job but i like to sew you know it calms me down
oh well that yeah
yeah i like to sew too but you know if i'm not in the mood to sew i can screw things up like you wouldn't believe
oh yes and then i go ballooning
yeah and then it lies in a drawer for about five or six years at least
hot air
no hot i go hot air ballooning
oh do you really
yeah in a hot a hot air balloon
oh wow how exciting
in a hot air balloon
yes now that's fun
oh i'll bet
and uh well i don't i don't own a balloon but i crew for a guy he owns two balloons
uh-huh
and he'll call us up and say let's go and so we'll meet you know real early in the morning people think we're crazy because we get up so early in the morning but i love it
yeah
oh that's neat
and i always tell people if you ever go up in one you just that's it you be hooked
yeah
and they're so pretty and you know
is it is it hard to make it come down where you want to
well you don't have a choice
oh it just comes down when it wants to
well you don't have a choice of where you're going
so when you get ready to come down you have to you know you it's more or less like letting the air out he can land more or less where he wants to it's just that there's no like if he wanted to go one place he would have to know which way the wind is blowing
yeah
uh-huh
right yeah
but other than that that's the only fall back you know because the winds change he goes the other direction and and we we have to follow him around you know
yeah well have you flown in one of those where they have a whole bunch that go you know like up at one time
yeah that's just Plano they have Plano festival
yeah how long have they been doing that
uh
let's see now i think we're on number eight or tenth we're almost to number ten i think because i've been here ten years
oh well that's neat
so yeah and then Mesquite is five they do one in Mesquite
what about that one they do in Albuquerque
now that's old that is that is the largest
yeah that's the oldest one isn't it
yeah that's the largest one in the world they they have over six hundred balloons
wow
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how many do they have like at the Plano one usually
about sixty it's it's getting larger last year i think we had eighty
yeah
yeah probably every year it'll
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yep
yeah
but you have sponsored balloons you know like companies like Coors
yeah because those things are pretty expensive aren't they
uh
yeah Oldsmobile they all have balloons you know
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the IBM had one last year now TI don't have one and Rockwell i mean yeah Rockwell they don't have one Rockwell whatever it is
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none of the major electronic companies have them but uh like Southwestern Bell 7-Up they have balloons
yeah i had a friend at TI Detroit a long time ago that had one that a bank
yeah
you know had sponsored
yeah now banks they sponsor different banks out here like Bank One sponsored one one year
and i can't think of the rest of them but they they you know they have sponsors for certain balloons and all they do is just put the name of the bank or whoever's sponsoring that balloon that balloon yeah it's pretty good
yeah
and it looks so pretty when they're all you know when there's a bunch of them that way
uh
oh yeah and it's so peaceful we went out to Texas Stadium one time for a Boy Scout jamboree
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and we we was inside of the stadium like like i was thinking it the Astrodome
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and they filled it up the football field
yeah
and inflated all the balloons
oh
and it's it was so pretty that if you got way up at the top it looked like you could just dive off and and and bounce on a bunch of pillows you know it was good it was fun i had fun
yeah
wow
sounds fun
but that that's my that's probably my main hobby that sewing and reading books that's about it
oh i like to read too what kind of books do you like
do you really
romance
yeah i like those i like mysteries i like murder mysteries too
uh um
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have you ever read any Dean Koontz
huh-uh
he's he's sort of it's he he's writes real good but usually it's the kind though that you don't want to start if you have to put it down very soon
go anywhere yeah
yeah
yeah the he does well they're sort of scary
you know but they're they're just really really good
uh uh
The Watchers you know they made a movie of The Watchers here not too long ago
uh-huh
and that was a book that he wrote that that was my favorite one it's about this dog named Einstein
and this it was he was an experimental government thing you know
huh
uh-huh
and they were trying to do like like robotic stuff and everything
oh i seen that movie
yeah yeah well the the book was just ever so much better
yeah
really
yeah it was great
i don't like i don't like scary books i can't i can't read those i get paranoid
you like uh uh who is it uh Victoria
Victoria Holt is that right
yeah she's one
yeah those are good i like those
but i like i i'm a Danielle Steele fan
oh really
yes
well that's i
i have every book the woman's ever wrote
really
and two of her books have been on three of them's been on TV
yeah
and i got all three of them on tape and i'm fixing to tape this other one that's coming on Monday
Changes yeah
oh what what what one is that
Changes
hum
and i had the book and i hadn't read it in so long so i read it the other day to see if i could so i can watch the movie
yeah yeah usually the the movies are not as good
the book is always the book is always better
yeah
you know but you know but because i know some of the stuff like that one Judith Krantz made that one they did that one really they did okay but i liked the book better
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it was good
yeah that's usually the way it is
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sometimes they just change them completely
yeah
and you think it's the same but it's really not
yeah
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like Jaws do you remember Jaws did you
yeah the book was different from the
yeah the book was a lot better i thought
oh yeah
but they just they just
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so what else do you like to do besides reading
well my dancing is i i like to belly dance
oh belly dance
yeah
you mean like those little thin in the little roll the bellies
yeah
i can't do that i've always tried to do that i've always wanted to though i didn't how people can get they stomach
well you know it's it's real funny because when i first started it was like i saw someone at a Halloween party this lady was from Turkey and she'd been belly dancing since she was four years old you know so i thought well jeez you know that looks like fun i'll learn that in a couple of weeks ha
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yeah
yeah you know i mean you could just you could just take lessons forever forever i think
yeah right
um
course i'm tend to be a slow learner i guess anyway but it's a lot of fun and it's it's a good way to get exercise you know fooling yourself because you don't realize you're getting exercise
you know it's so much fun you don't really think about it
um
and exercising i mean let's face it exercising stinks
um
oh i go to aerobics classes and stuff but
i like that
do you
aerobics yeah i like aerobics
are you do do you are you at TI in Dallas so so you go to the fitness center
in Dallas
no i go to jazzercise
no
oh yeah yeah i well the only time i can go in too and all these classes that are available are like Saturday
oh really
yeah Saturday morning which is you know i i go to those when i can
oh they have them at night over here
yeah well they have uh the they have them like at six
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you know here but i
no we have six and seven no six and then one is at seven ten or something like that
yeah
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yeah
but i like jazzercise i like it better than aerobics
yeah that's a lot of fun
well yeah that's the same kind of thing like belly dancing you know you don't really realize that you're working as hard as you are
because you're having fun
yeah and it's sort of cute too
and
yeah i like jazzercise i'll tell anybody i'd go to jazzercise before i'd go to aerobics
yeah
yeah well see i belong to the fitness center so i feel like i have to go to the aerobics class to get my money's worth you know
yeah i used to belong i i but i stopped that because i never used it
yeah
you know the the fitness centers so oh well that's a waste of money
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yeah well it's so neat because it's right there and i can go just right after work and you know before i get home because once i get home that that tends to be it so
yeah i'm thinking about it my husband wants he wants to go to and sign up for the weights
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so but
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yeah so
yeah
and i i did the family thing so my sweetie could go too
i don't know
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do the weights
yep
he'll he'll he would never do an aerobics he'd die before he in aerobics class
oh yeah
but he likes the weights and the you know stationary bicycle and all that
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yep
my husband likes the weights period that's it he wants to be up like he wants to he says i'm going to pump up i said uh-huh
body build huh
yeah because i'm always looking at those guys i love them
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but i always ask him how come they don't ever have no hair because i've never
i think they shave it
yeah they do and i told him i said well if you do it you can't shave your hair
yeah and put
i'm sorry i can't handle it
and then then oil up i think
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