1) I miss my son and husband more than I thought possible. These past three weeks of chaos and travel are starting to take their toll and I can't wait to be home this weekend and for the next two weeks at least!
2) Watching TV in real time is for the birds (miss my DVR!).
3) "True Grit" is a pretty good movie (the new one - never have seen the old one) and I'm thankful to have a movie on this flight since it's so long and I was by myself!
4) Traveling is much more fun when you have someone with you.
5) I am so thankful I live in the south - it's cold up here still - it's mid-May people!!!
6) My intuition about people is usually spot on
7) When you get a feeling something is wrong with one of your friends, you should definitely try to contact them to make sure everything is okay - there's usually a reason you feel this way.
8) I work WAY too hard and sacrifice WAY too much for the treatment I receive my immediate boss and the $$ I make.
9) Some things will never change - no matter how much I try to be positive at times about things at work, they continue to let me down over and over.
10) If nothing else this week, I'm benefiting from meeting more people, gaining a new perspective on other's experiences, getting out of the office and away from my boss for the week, and increasing my marketability by learning better presentation skills, more team dynamics, and how to build a major technological application for a global firm. :)
Hope you all are having a good week - trying to be positive and keep a running list of the "positives" by putting into the perspective of learning!
5.08.2011
5.03.2011
Travel is my new middle name
I enjoy traveling for pleasure. I don't particularly enjoy traveling for work (moreso because I miss my hubby and son, than because of the actual travel), but it is okay and I enjoy the miles and points. :) However, these next couple of weeks are a bit crazy on the travel front!
Last Thursday morning bright and early, my hubby and I jumped on a plane to Philly for my grandmother's funeral on Friday. We stayed the weekend with my aunt and uncle and it was nice to have some family time. Then we came back late Sunday night (cheapest flights are always first thing in the morning and late at night - grr!). I was at work yesterday and today. Then I will work from home tomorrow until around lunchtime and then head back to the airport, this time with my son in tow. He and I will fly to Florida tomorrow for the "celebration of life" on Thursday for my grandmother (it just made sense to do something there since she knew so many people there even though she wanted to be buried in PA, and 5/5 would have been her 104th birthday) and then fly back home on Friday afternoon so we can enjoy one weekend at home together all 3 of us. Then Monday afternoon I have to fly to Boston for work until Thursday night (don't get in until 8:45 pm!) and my parents fly in that day (already planned before all of this other family stuff obviously) for my son's PreK graduation on Friday evening. They are in town next weekend from Thursday evening to early Tuesday morning and then we have about 2 weeks to ourselves. Then on Memorial Day Monday (still bitter about this!), I have to fly BACK to Boston for work from Monday evening to Friday evening, come home and spend Saturday with my hubby and son, and then come back to work on Sunday to get ready for my intern group who starts Monday, including attending a welcome dinner that Sunday evening. Then I have one weekend to ourselves in between, and then my mom flies out to watch our son and my hubby and his parents and brother are going to Vegas from Friday morning to Sunday evening for my father-in-law's 60th birthday. Then after that, I am hopeful not to travel again until the fall for work (except we do plan to go to the beach the first week of August but we will drive). Just thinking about it makes me tired!!!!
So that's my life in a nutshell right now. I've been swamped at work and at home in between trying to get everything done and figure out what goes where and everything else. And my mother has been incapable of making any decisions about anything so I've had to make all the decisions about the arrangements from picking the casket and clothes she would wear to be buried in (ugh!) to ordering butterflies for a butterfly memorial release we will do in Florida on Thursday evening. It's been a whirlwind! Let's hope I survive...and somewhere amongst all of this, I would love to find my next new opportunity so that I can challenge myself at work and get out from under my evil boss...not sure when that time will come but I'm ready for whenever it is! :)
Hope you all are having a less hectic few weeks than I am!!! Hope to talk to you soon and will try to at least send picture posts occasionally since I finally got my new iPh*ne - hurray!
Last Thursday morning bright and early, my hubby and I jumped on a plane to Philly for my grandmother's funeral on Friday. We stayed the weekend with my aunt and uncle and it was nice to have some family time. Then we came back late Sunday night (cheapest flights are always first thing in the morning and late at night - grr!). I was at work yesterday and today. Then I will work from home tomorrow until around lunchtime and then head back to the airport, this time with my son in tow. He and I will fly to Florida tomorrow for the "celebration of life" on Thursday for my grandmother (it just made sense to do something there since she knew so many people there even though she wanted to be buried in PA, and 5/5 would have been her 104th birthday) and then fly back home on Friday afternoon so we can enjoy one weekend at home together all 3 of us. Then Monday afternoon I have to fly to Boston for work until Thursday night (don't get in until 8:45 pm!) and my parents fly in that day (already planned before all of this other family stuff obviously) for my son's PreK graduation on Friday evening. They are in town next weekend from Thursday evening to early Tuesday morning and then we have about 2 weeks to ourselves. Then on Memorial Day Monday (still bitter about this!), I have to fly BACK to Boston for work from Monday evening to Friday evening, come home and spend Saturday with my hubby and son, and then come back to work on Sunday to get ready for my intern group who starts Monday, including attending a welcome dinner that Sunday evening. Then I have one weekend to ourselves in between, and then my mom flies out to watch our son and my hubby and his parents and brother are going to Vegas from Friday morning to Sunday evening for my father-in-law's 60th birthday. Then after that, I am hopeful not to travel again until the fall for work (except we do plan to go to the beach the first week of August but we will drive). Just thinking about it makes me tired!!!!
So that's my life in a nutshell right now. I've been swamped at work and at home in between trying to get everything done and figure out what goes where and everything else. And my mother has been incapable of making any decisions about anything so I've had to make all the decisions about the arrangements from picking the casket and clothes she would wear to be buried in (ugh!) to ordering butterflies for a butterfly memorial release we will do in Florida on Thursday evening. It's been a whirlwind! Let's hope I survive...and somewhere amongst all of this, I would love to find my next new opportunity so that I can challenge myself at work and get out from under my evil boss...not sure when that time will come but I'm ready for whenever it is! :)
Hope you all are having a less hectic few weeks than I am!!! Hope to talk to you soon and will try to at least send picture posts occasionally since I finally got my new iPh*ne - hurray!
4.25.2011
Piloxing
With all of my upcoming travel and the craziness we have had the past few weeks, working out has been hard. I have basically given up on my couch to 5K. Mainly because I came back to the fact that I HATE running - always have, always will. It doesn't feel good to me in any way - walking I can do any time, but running just isn't my thing. So...I needed to find a way to burn a ton of calories without having to run. I have used the elliptical in the past and really liked it, but unfortunately we own a treadmill and not an elliptical and don't have it in our budget to buy one. Plus I don't currently have a gym membership (although am thinking of at least joining the local city one just because I can get reimbursed for the full amount of that) so elliptical is out.
Yesterday, I went on the On Demand on our uverse and found Piloxing, and I'm now in love. It is a combination of boxing and pilates with a few dance moves put in as well. The On Demand version was only 23 minutes long but afterwards, I was soaked with sweat and felt amazing! I have since ordered the DVD from Amazon and some small weighted gloves to add some extra burn. I'm excited because everything I've read says the hour version burns anywhere from 500-1000 calories! That's my kind of workout - quick and efficient! :) Tonight we are doing Bob Harper's Yoga for the Warrior so I get that in at least, but then after that, I will be on my own for the most part for a few weeks.
Check out Piloxing if you have a minute - I think you will like it! :)
Yesterday, I went on the On Demand on our uverse and found Piloxing, and I'm now in love. It is a combination of boxing and pilates with a few dance moves put in as well. The On Demand version was only 23 minutes long but afterwards, I was soaked with sweat and felt amazing! I have since ordered the DVD from Amazon and some small weighted gloves to add some extra burn. I'm excited because everything I've read says the hour version burns anywhere from 500-1000 calories! That's my kind of workout - quick and efficient! :) Tonight we are doing Bob Harper's Yoga for the Warrior so I get that in at least, but then after that, I will be on my own for the most part for a few weeks.
Check out Piloxing if you have a minute - I think you will like it! :)
4.24.2011
4.21.2011
Crazy weeks!
I don't really have time to post right now but want to at least say something. I started off the week more positive than last week at least. I've come to the realization that even though it's not fair or right, the things my boss says and does are things that are out of my control, and apparently I have no recourse other than to move forward and hope one of these days she gets the karma she deserves. If I complain too much or make an issue out of it, it makes me look immature and unprofessional - even though I'm right!!! - so I just have to move on. I can't fix it right now, but it will get fixed one way or another eventually.
On Monday afternoon, I received a call from my mom that my grandmother had been taken to the hospital that morning and wasn't doing well. I knew then that it was her time, and by Tuesday evening, she had passed away. It was peaceful and she was almost 104 (her 104th birthday would have been 5/5/11) so it was time. When I saw her last (March 2010), she seemed like she was stuck in her body. Her mind was still there, but she wasn't as happy and she felt like she was burdening everyone around her. It was her time and I'm sad and I will miss her, but I am at peace knowing she is now at peace and with my grandfather and happy once again. I was blessed to have much longer time with her than I really should have. (And if you are wondering how my grandmother was almost 104, she had my mom went she was 35 and my mom had me when she was 37).
Since she died in Florida (where my parents live and I grew up), they are embalming her there and then shipping her by plane back up to Pennsylvania. We leave a week from today to go up there, pick out the final details (ugh!), and then hopefully have the service next Friday (4/29) and then we will fly back on Sunday after spending the weekend with family up there.
January & February of 2011 were pretty rough - March renewed my faith that 2011 could be okay, and now April has been rough again. I'm hoping that May will bring good things again! :) I will probably be in and out until after the funeral because I have a lot of work to get done both at work and at home, but I'll try to at least check in. Hope you all are doing well and hope to talk to you again soon!
P.S. One other good piece of news - I just got my iPhone today (my other phone just couldn't last any longer and I figured I might as well get it before they take away the policy where I could get reimbursed for it!) so hopefully I can more often add photos and posts by phone!
On Monday afternoon, I received a call from my mom that my grandmother had been taken to the hospital that morning and wasn't doing well. I knew then that it was her time, and by Tuesday evening, she had passed away. It was peaceful and she was almost 104 (her 104th birthday would have been 5/5/11) so it was time. When I saw her last (March 2010), she seemed like she was stuck in her body. Her mind was still there, but she wasn't as happy and she felt like she was burdening everyone around her. It was her time and I'm sad and I will miss her, but I am at peace knowing she is now at peace and with my grandfather and happy once again. I was blessed to have much longer time with her than I really should have. (And if you are wondering how my grandmother was almost 104, she had my mom went she was 35 and my mom had me when she was 37).
Since she died in Florida (where my parents live and I grew up), they are embalming her there and then shipping her by plane back up to Pennsylvania. We leave a week from today to go up there, pick out the final details (ugh!), and then hopefully have the service next Friday (4/29) and then we will fly back on Sunday after spending the weekend with family up there.
January & February of 2011 were pretty rough - March renewed my faith that 2011 could be okay, and now April has been rough again. I'm hoping that May will bring good things again! :) I will probably be in and out until after the funeral because I have a lot of work to get done both at work and at home, but I'll try to at least check in. Hope you all are doing well and hope to talk to you again soon!
P.S. One other good piece of news - I just got my iPhone today (my other phone just couldn't last any longer and I figured I might as well get it before they take away the policy where I could get reimbursed for it!) so hopefully I can more often add photos and posts by phone!
4.15.2011
I Give Up
I haven't written for a few days mainly because I am just not sure what to say. I am frustrated, angry, and sad all at the same time. My review on Wednesday was one of the hardest days of my life, and it has taken every ounce of strength in my body to show up to work all day long every day since then because the stress is just overly burdening my body. But it's Friday and in about 4 hours, I plan to leave this place for the weekend, go see my friend who had a baby yesterday (yay for babies!), and enjoy a relaxing weekend with my friends and family. I couldn't be more ready for this!
I have been praying a lot lately for things to get better, and yesterday I received a fortune cookie that said "Happier days are definitely ahead for you." So I have put it in my wallet right in the front with my driver's license so I can open it and stare at it whenever I start feeling down. I'm ready for those happier days...let's hope they get here sooner than later!
I have been praying a lot lately for things to get better, and yesterday I received a fortune cookie that said "Happier days are definitely ahead for you." So I have put it in my wallet right in the front with my driver's license so I can open it and stare at it whenever I start feeling down. I'm ready for those happier days...let's hope they get here sooner than later!
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