[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] okay what kind of hobbies do you have
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] you know bottle covers and
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] that sort of stuff and dancing
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] what do you do
[speaker002:] well I sew
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] clothes you know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh wow um-hum
[speaker002:] big big weddings just bride's maid's dresses and stuff like that for people that I know
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] wow yeah and then it then it puts a lot of responsibility on you
[speaker002:] and a lot of stress too
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh yes and then I go ballooning
[speaker001:] yeah and then it lies in a drawer for about five or six years at least
[speaker002:] hot air no hot I go hot air ballooning
[speaker001:] oh do you really
[speaker002:] yeah in a hot a hot air balloon
[speaker001:] oh wow how exciting
[speaker002:] in a hot air balloon yes now that's fun
[speaker001:] oh I'll bet
[speaker002:] and uh well I don't I don't own a balloon but I crew for a guy he owns two balloons
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah oh that's neat
[speaker002:] and I always tell people if you ever go up in one you just that's it you be hooked
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and they're so pretty and you know
[speaker001:] is it is it hard to make it come down where you want to
[speaker002:] well you don't have a choice
[speaker001:] oh it just comes down when it wants to
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh right yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah well have you flown in one of those where they have a whole bunch that go you know like up at one time
[speaker002:] yeah that's just Plano they have Plano festival
[speaker001:] yeah how long have they been doing that
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh well that's neat
[speaker002:] so yeah and then Mesquite is five they do one in Mesquite
[speaker001:] what about that one they do in Albuquerque
[speaker002:] now that's old that is that is the largest
[speaker001:] yeah that's the oldest one isn't it
[speaker002:] yeah that's the largest one in the world they they have over six hundred balloons
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] how many do they have like at the Plano one usually
[speaker002:] about sixty it's it's getting larger last year I think we had eighty
[speaker001:] yeah yeah probably every year it'll
[speaker002:] um-hum more people get involved and stuff like that
[speaker001:] yep yeah
[speaker002:] but you have sponsored balloons you know like companies like Coors
[speaker001:] yeah because those things are pretty expensive aren't they
[speaker002:] uh yeah Oldsmobile they all have balloons you know
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] none of the major electronic companies have them but uh like Southwestern Bell 7-Up they have balloons
[speaker001:] yeah I had a friend at TI Detroit a long time ago that had one that a bank
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know had sponsored
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah and it looks so pretty when they're all you know when there's a bunch of them that way
[speaker002:] uh oh yeah and it's so peaceful we went out to Texas Stadium one time for a Boy Scout jamboree
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and we we was inside of the stadium like like I was thinking it the Astrodome
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and they filled it up the football field
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and inflated all the balloons
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah  wow sounds fun
[speaker002:] but that that's my that's probably my main hobby that sewing and reading books that's about it
[speaker001:] oh I like to read too what kind of books do you like
[speaker002:] do you really romance
[speaker001:] yeah I like those I like mysteries I like murder mysteries too
[speaker002:] uh um um-hum
[speaker001:] have you ever read any Dean Koontz
[speaker002:] huh-uh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] go anywhere yeah
[speaker001:] yeah yeah the he does well they're sort of scary you know but they're they're just really really good
[speaker002:] uh uh
[speaker001:] The Watchers you know they made a movie of The Watchers here not too long ago
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and they were trying to do like like robotic stuff and everything
[speaker002:] oh I seen that movie
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well the the book was just ever so much better
[speaker002:] yeah really
[speaker001:] yeah it was great
[speaker002:] I don't like I don't like scary books I can't I can't read those I get paranoid
[speaker001:] you like uh uh who is it uh Victoria Victoria Holt is that right
[speaker002:] yeah she's one
[speaker001:] yeah those are good I like those
[speaker002:] but I like I I'm a Danielle Steele fan
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] well that's I
[speaker002:] I have every book the woman's ever wrote
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] and two of her books have been on three of them's been on TV
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh what what what one is that
[speaker002:] Changes
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah yeah usually the the movies are not as good
[speaker002:] the book is always the book is always better
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it was good
[speaker001:] yeah that's usually the way it is
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] sometimes they just change them completely
[speaker002:] yeah and you think it's the same but it's really not
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] like Jaws do you remember Jaws did you
[speaker002:] yeah the book was different from the
[speaker001:] yeah the book was a lot better I thought
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] but they just they just
[speaker002:] um-hum so what else do you like to do besides reading
[speaker001:] well my dancing is I I like to belly dance
[speaker002:] oh belly dance
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you mean like those little thin in the little roll the bellies
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] yeah you know I mean you could just you could just take lessons forever forever I think
[speaker002:] yeah right um
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] and exercising I mean let's face it exercising stinks
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] oh I go to aerobics classes and stuff but
[speaker002:] I like that
[speaker001:] do you
[speaker002:] aerobics yeah I like aerobics
[speaker001:] are you do do you are you at TI in Dallas so so you go to the fitness center
[speaker002:] in Dallas no I go to jazzercise
[speaker001:] no oh yeah yeah I well the only time I can go in too and all these classes that are available are like Saturday
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] yeah Saturday morning which is you know I I go to those when I can
[speaker002:] oh they have them at night over here
[speaker001:] yeah well they have uh the they have them like at six
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know here but I
[speaker002:] no we have six and seven no six and then one is at seven ten or something like that
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but I like jazzercise I like it better than aerobics
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] because you're having fun
[speaker001:] yeah and it's sort of cute too
[speaker002:] and yeah I like jazzercise I'll tell anybody I'd go to jazzercise before I'd go to aerobics
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah I used to belong I I but I stopped that because I never used it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know the the fitness centers so oh well that's a waste of money
[speaker001:] um-hum 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
[speaker002:] yeah I'm thinking about it my husband wants he wants to go to and sign up for the weights
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah and yeah that's handy and they're just there you know when you want to use them
[speaker002:] so but um-hum and they're open till I think ten
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] yeah so
[speaker001:] yeah and I I did the family thing so my sweetie could go too
[speaker002:] I don't know um-hum
[speaker001:] do the weights
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] he'll he'll he would never do an aerobics he'd die before he in aerobics class
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] but he likes the weights and the you know stationary bicycle and all that
[speaker002:] um-hum 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
[speaker001:] body build huh
[speaker002:] yeah because I'm always looking at those guys I love them
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but I always ask him how come they don't ever have no hair because I've never
[speaker001:] I think they shave it
[speaker002:] yeah they do and I told him I said well if you do it you can't shave your hair
[speaker001:] yeah and put
[speaker002:] I'm sorry I can't handle it
[speaker001:] and then then oil up I think
[speaker002:] um-hum they do and then I don't know how they get because normally they're not that pumped up and I