Observations I made while at DFW airport on New Year's day.

I went to Wendy's to get a bite to eat. Nothing look appetizing except a burger and a soda. There were four University of Tennessee football players there, with bags that were embroidered with the logo "SBC Cotton Bowl". They were huge and all wearing black velour Addidas track suits. Guess they were hungry for Wendy's burgers too. Some guy saw them all sitting there and said "great game guys!" and they waved. So I'm sitting there thinking who won the Cotton Bowl? I know it was Texas A&M and some team. The Tennessee players didn't look unhappy. On the news monitor later, I saw a report which said Tennessee won.

Speaking of football. There a town of people walking around with Purdue clothing on. There some guy sitting in back of me as I was waiting for my gate. He had a Purdue jacket and on and was telling someone on the phone that he was in El Paso. Then he talked about the Sun Bowl in El Paso. I don't think Purdue did well because the guy didn't sound very happy on the phone.

Want to recharge you cellphone? Go to the women's restroom next to gate C36 and DFW airport. Plug your cellphone charger into the socket on the left side of the sinks. Block the sink and stare at yourself in the mirror and pretend like you're doing something totally normally by charging your cellphone in a public bathroom.

American Airlines is doing their patriotic duty for the war on Iraq. There's a huge sign at the Admirals Club, which says if you're in the military and you can show ID and I guess that you were in Iraq, you can hang out in the club.

Dell had a kiosk there. The only people that were using it were American Airlines pilots. It must be the place for airline pilots to check on their email and surf the Net.

So a friend of mine warned me and I didn't listen, but staying this long at a relatives is proving way too long. I am so bored and I think we're kind of getting on each other's nerves. I'm counting down the days till I have to go home.

The holidays are stressful enough without having a relative like me overstay her welcome. Maybe family visits should be like a cold, very short. Oh well, I'll know better next time.

So my blog isn't broken after all, but on my cousin's browser it just doesn't show up right and I don't know how to fix it. I'm blogging from my work laptop which I brought with me to do some work, and my blog looks fine with my work browser.

So Happy Belated Christmas from Fort Worth Texas. I deleted my last post in an attempt to fix it.

The weather here is mild and in the 60's. Fort Worth is definitely not Dallas, and I am definitely not in a big city anymore.

My cousin has been taking me shopping, and it's not fun only because I can't find clothes I want to buy. I'm starting to realize why people freak out when they shop in Union Square in San Francisco. There is just so much clothing to choose from there than there is here. I love shopping in NYC only because I think NYC has way more clothes than I can ever find in San Francisco, but not so in Fort Worth.

I felt bad because my cousin took me to a mall and I went into a couple of department stores, Foley and Dillards, and I'm like okay where are all the brands of clothes I'm used to buying. I saw brands I'd never heard of and in styles I've never seen or want to see ever again. I finally had to go into Nordstrom to buy a lighter sweater. I didn't want to buy anything in Nordstrom, but they were the only store who had anything I wanted to buy. So scary too because the Nordstrom in Fort Worth pulled me up in their database and they knew I was from San Francisco.

I bought another lighter jacket at another mall at Tommy Hilfiger. Again, I didn't want to buy something from there but it was the only store that clothes I would want to buy.

All the teenagers here wear clothes from this store called "Hollister", so I went in there to check it out. It's like so funny because the store markets the southern california surfer lifestyle and clothes to teenagers in Texas. The line in the store was so long. And the clothes aren't that great either. It's like thrift shop surfer dude threads with sweatshirt hoodies that say "Hollister" or "Laguna Beach".

I was in the store and it was so packed and the line was so long. I wanted to buy a long sleeve t-shirt just to have a shirt that would remind me of the Texas teenybops I was seeing, but I couldn't handle the line.

I did get to check out a Dell Inspiron 700m, and it's a great laptop. I've been wanting to see one for a long time and I'm pretty sure it's the computer I want to buy for myself. It is so small, like a Sony but not so expensive, and it looks like it could easily fit into my purse.

I'm have a relaxing vacation, but I think my decision to stay here through New Years was a mistake. There's really not much to do here except shop, and my cousin hates to drive into Dallas. Oh well. At least I'm relaxing and doing some writing.

My blog is broken and I don't know why, and I'm not at home to fix it. If you can tell me how to fix it, please email me. It's so annoying!