It's been awhile

It's been awhile guys... so sorry! Let's see. I had a super FUN Birthday with all my friends in Memphis. My friend Kisha that I work with also came and stayed with me for almost 2 weeks and we had a GREAT Thanksgiving with my family in Columbia, TN :) Then I was off to Cali to work with Stephanie where I came down with Pneumonia and thought I was going to die for 3 days but I didn't... hahaaa Pneumonia I BEAT YOU!!! That was horrible... never had that before and NEVER want it again and I would like to Thank Stephanie for taking care of me :) Soon I was back home and my Step Father started having heart problems so he had to get a Pace Maker. Then I was off to Chattanooga to see my family and had a lot of fun with them! One of my best Friends - Anjuli is coming down from Seattle to visit me for New Years... I'm soooooo excited I cannot wait!! Then I will be going with Anjuli to Las Vegas on Jan. 29th for a Bachelorette Party...never been before & I cannot wait to go! On Feb. 25th I'm going to Miami to visit my friends Paul & Denise and spend Kisha's Birthday with her in Key West. I have lots of FUN TIMES ahead. I have great friends and family and I love my job! I'm currently working in Benicia, CA close to San Fran. and I found a friend from high school that lives here (Jane Uggla) that I'm going to hangout with tomorrow! Ta ta for now :)

Chocolate & Intercourse

Hi Everyone! Once again I have neglected my Blog. However, I've been in Hershey, Penn since the 16th of this month. It's pretty "cool" here in both aspects of the word :\ This has been an easy site...lots of down time for me to do some exploring. I did tour the Hershey Factory which was AMAZING! I took the little ride around the factory and of course got lots of pics! It was very interesting. The whole town smells like Chocolate or Peanut Butter depending on if they are making Reese's that day or not :) Me being a "Hotel" person I visited Hotel Hershey... OMG it's a 5 Star Lux Hotel... Unbelievable they have a spa that will DIP YOU IN HERSHEY'S CHOCOLATE AND GIVE YOU A MASSAGE... If only I was rich I would be there getting that done EVERYDAY! http://www.chocolatespa.com/



3 nights ago a good friend (Amalis) that I went through Micros Training with is opening a hotel an hour and a half from here at State College, PA so we HAD TO SEE EACH OTHER. We decided to meet half way in between our hotels for dinner. Welllll... there aren't exactly any cities in between here and there so we ending up eating at a Truck Stop on the side of the road...ugghh! We ordered the most expensive thing on the menu and still didn't meet our per diem..lol a little scary but we made the best of it :) I miss her sooo much!



My support Carly (Best Support EVER...I love this girl) arrived 2 nights ago and the hotel keeps pushing it's opening date so we aren't working and they won't send us home so we are trying to come up with ways to entertain ourselves. 2 of our guy friends that went though Micros Training with me is also opening a hotel 40 miles from where we are in Lancaster, PA aka Amish Country! So yesterday we took a little trip there and toured an Amish Farm in Intercourse, PA?!?! They actually have shirts that say "I heart Intercourse!" This was astonishing to us... even Amish people know Sex sells, I guess? I may have to get one of those shirts..lol On a serious note... why don't Amish girls wear shoes and the boys do? and why can't I take their picture? Moving on... after hanging out with the Amish we went to meet our friends at the Olive Garden and had the BEST TIME EVER! I've never laughed sooo hard in my life... those are some funny guys! Don't get me started on who is stalking people getting coffee in Java City! LOL As for Carly and I the hotel didn't open again today so now what are we gonna do tonight??

Newberry, SC

Hello Everybody!

It's been sooooo long since I've written a blog. Since Roswell I've been to Los Angeles and Columbus, OH. I haven't been working much. Just been at home in Tenn. hanging out with family and friends. However, now I am currently doing my first real lead in Newberry, SC (near Columbia, SC.) I should be back home around August 25th. I promise to try and keep this thing updated more. XOXO

Greetings Earthlings!

The hotel I am currently working at is decorating the lobby and trying to stay with the whole UFO/Alien theme. So we went to Hobby Lobby today (which seemed empty, like it was going out of business) and we asked the lady working there if they had any UFO or Alien posters.... she hissed at us and said that she was a Christain and it was a Christain store! We didn't budge... standing there, I said "so am I, does that mean you don't have any posters, I'm confused?" She proceeded to snap at me and tell me she didn't know anything thing about Aliens. We just left!

Let's think about this... you're store is in the MIDDLE of downtown Roswell where you can't walk down the street without tripping over neon pink blow up Aliens and allll the street lights are Alien heads and YOU'RE city makes it's money and THRIVES off of tourism over alll this Corney Alien stuff..... mam, news flash, you live in Roswell, New Mexico. If you think I'm going to hell for asking for an Alien poster you need to move out of Roswell to go straight to a Bible Belt State ASAP (without collecting $200.) UNBELIEVABLE! Really? lol and if there really are Aliens out there in the universe I would think God made them also, but I don't know that's just me.

I LOVE IT HERE... I think it is sooooo FUN. I don't know why? It's just so different than anything I've ever seen. You have got to give them credit, they really play up this Alien & UFO stuff... everybody. People here take this stuff very serious. This poor little town would be nothing... but they have people coming from all over the world to see this stuff and spending money including me...lol No recession here! The National UFO Conference Started today and every hotel in town is sold out! I will be attending the Alien Chase on Saturday followed by the "One on One - Meet the Ufologists"

I will be leaving here on Sunday to go home and look at apartments...can't live at home forever. Then after a week at home I'm off to LA. And from the sounds of a phone call I got this morning and a voicemail tonight I really need to go to Miami soon... goodness!

-Peace out Earlings!

Exhale

Goodness... I haven't blogged in forever! I haven't had anymore bubble problems which is a super great thing! I am currently sitting in the Chicago airport on my layover going home to Nashville! This is the first time in 4 months after starting this job that I feel like I can exhale. I just finished my Reverse Lead in Dubuque, Iowa and received a GREAT evaluation for my performance. Time to celebrate... all of my hard work has paid off. No more training, studying, shadowing, or taking really long tests! It's over... I'm now officially an IHG Certified Lead. With that being said, they have scheduled me for my 1st lead on July 10th in Los Angeles so I have promised myself not to throw up in front of anybody when I get there... I'm already getting nervous, I really hope I can do it! Next Tuesday, I leave for my dream place... Roswell, NM. I'm soooo freakin EXCITED. I am going to buy everything so if anybody wants an Alien shirt or UFO something, please put your order in now!!!

Where was my bubble?

Ok... so I have this thing I do every time I'm about to get on a plane and say a prayer and ask God to please put a bubble around my plane to keep me safe! It may sound corny but hey, it has worked for me so far! However, this flying experience I thought my bubble was BUSTED, had a hole in it, somebody popped it or something?!?!
Let's start with my trip to Oklahoma last week: We were flying through storms and about halfway there out of nowhere the plane started hitting huge air pockets or something and doing 10-15 feet drops... this happened about 5 or 6 times to the point where I actually thought I was going to be sick and throw up. But I did make it through and got to Oklahoma safely. So last night, I couldn't really sleep and I actually had a crazy dream that I got on top of an airplane and it took off and it turned upside down and I fell off... what a crazy dream b/c I never really dream and if I do I never remember them.

This brings us to today: So I'm leaving to come back to Nashville, not thinking anything of it. I've never been the one scared of flying or airplanes. I have my pillow, magazine... all comfortable ready to get home. It's about a 1.5 hour flight from Chicago. Great flight the whole way...nothing happened at all, I was sleeping so well. 15 minutes before we were about to land in Nashville the Pilot gets on the intercom: " We are about to touch down in 15 minutes and we sorta have a problem folks, the Hydraulics System has gone out on the plane and we are not sure if we are going to able to land safely so I contacted the ground crew and they have all the emergency vehicles and units on the ground standing by waiting on us to land in case something goes wrong, so please be prepared but everything should be fine!" WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!! My first thought was... is this a joke? For some reason I didn't freak out, I think I was too scared to. I looked around and everybody was like... OH MY GOD! Usually, I don't even pay attention when the plane is landing. THIS TIME, I put all my stuff up neatly, tighten my seat belt as tight as I could, got out my cell phone and was looking at it and thinking should I call or text my family and tell them I love them? Then I just thought that would freak them out plus, I didn't wanna cause anymore damn plane problems by turning on my cell then we already had! So as we got closer to land I looked out the window and sure enough there were alllll the fire trucks, ambulances, police SUV's... they were everywhere. Like they had been preparing for us to come in for hours and for some reason, I had only known for 10 minutes? I wish he wouldn't have told us at alllll. Now I felt like I was preparing to die or something?!?!?! But God loves me and my bubble was still there b/c we landed just fine and all the emergency vehicles followed us down the runway until we stopped and was safe! I was never so happy to turn my cell phone on and tell my mom I landed and would be out in a minute... something I have done a million times before and never thought anything about it (tears). And I thought hitting the air pockets were bad on the way to Oklahoma, I would rather take those any day...lol Long day, going to bed. Gotta fly back out to Oklahoma Friday! Goodnight America! Love you all =)

On the move...

I have been soooo busy! I am currently in Stillwater, OK near the OSU Campus opening a really nice hotel. To my surprise on Tuesday I leave for my Phase 2 Shadow in Pryor, OK BUT it's only a 2 hour drive from where I am now. So I should be going home to Nashville around the 24th. I hope I have a few days off to go down to Chattanooga and visit with my brothers before I leave for Maryland on the 30th for my IHG Certification. I cannot wait to get back to Maryland and see everybody one last time but it's not going to be the same without Stephanie and Amalis there... I miss them so much! This will be the last time I will be going back to the home office (yippie!) I hope to fly to Miami on June 5th to move my stuff back to Tenn. but now, Lauren got accepted to Grad School in Miami and is getting an apt there and wants me to keep my stuff there and just stay with her when I'm off but I don't know what I'm going to do yet?!?!?! But either way Paul is coming to Tenn to hangout with me... I AM SO EXCITED!!! Then my schedule has me going back to Ok. to open up a hotel in Oklahoma City... WHAT IS THIS? I'm going to open every hotel in the state of Oklahoma?!?! Then I'm suppose to be going to Ontario, Canada... yayyyy I have never been there before... I hope it stays on my schedule! As far as relationships with guys go in my life... what a waste of time! I'm so bad at letting go of bad relationships and people that really do not care about me. I just want to concentrate on myself and work and the HOT cowboys here in Oklahoma lol... Just kidding (sorta!). I need to just learn how to let go and not worry about it... it makes me sad sometimes but what can I do, at the end of the day... I'm just a girl =) As far as I'm concerned now... all guys have cooties! LOL