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

LIARS!!

LIARS... I hate them! All of them... and the thing that sucks about being a Christain is that I HAVE TO FORGIVE THEM... GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH! You know, it is crazy when you sit back and think about how many people LIE to you everyday... family, co workers, friends, guys, even the taxi cab driver! I mean I cannot take it anymore seriously! People will tell you and say anything to you to get what they want no matter what! Some people are so selfish! Some people believe their own lies and sometimes I even know a person is lying to me and I will still believe them because it's just easier and I hate confrontation. I always try to find the best in people. Lying is soooo hard because you have to keep lying to cover the first one up and so on... it's such hard work and some people are really good at it and some are really bad and still do it! I don't get it? I let people lie to me over and over and over! You know they say fool me once, but fool me twice I'm the fool... I AM! I forgive everybody for everything and I'm not going to do it anymore...end of story! As far as guys go... I am soooooo sick of them, alllll of them. I just want to grow old by myself and live on a beach in the middle of nowhere (not Miami) ALONE, eat Chiquita bananas and go swimming everyday with my Rhodesian Ridgeback. Maybe I'll adopt a child or 2 and teach them how to be HONEST! However I am not the most perfect, honest person in the world either! I do lie... but if I lie it's because I don't want to hurt your feelings. I know this is not right and I shouldn't but I've tired to change and I can't do it so chances are if you ask me if I like your new hair I will say YES and I'm really good at exaggerating but ALL of my friends already know this about me.. LOL so if I tell you there was 500 people at the party you should already know there was only like 50 people really there LOL. HOWEVER I will never tell my child that I'm going to take them to England their whole life and keep coming up with excuses why I can't every year. I would never tell someone I love them and not mean it with all of my heart. I would never pretend to like someone just to get something I want. I would never tell someone I was going to meet them to hangout on 5 different occasions and NEVER show up but tell them it's because I like me so much that I was scared?!?! I would never cheat on or disrespect a boyfriend or anybody for that matter. I would never tell a co worker if they need help or have a question to call me and then I never answer the phone or email back. I feel like when you take the risk of lying to someone you love you take the chance of them finding out and never trusting you again! There is a handful of people in my life that I can say have NEVER lied to me that I love and I am soooo thankful for! Most people are just out for themselves and I'm sick of dealing with it so if you think "you're my friend" and you don't hear from me anymore.. chances are you're a liar and you should probably change before you lose all of your friends!

Praise Jesus, Pass the BACON!

Wow, I guess I am not very good at keeping my blog up to date. So much has happened since the "Wrong turn" LOL I got to go home to Nashville for awhile for Easter and went to Memphis to visit friends then I was back in Maryland for Phase 2 Training! Maryland was A LOT of FUN this time around. I thought it was going to be really hard with lots of studying but not so much. We all went to Annapolis and toured the Naval Academy... it was soooo BEAUTIFUL. OMG, why didn't I go to school there? WOW, there were so many HOT guys EVERYWHERE in their white uniforms. My kids are going to school there for sure so I can go visit all the time! However the fun didn't last long, with a few days left in Maryland I became sick sick sick and it sucked really BAD! But all my friends that I am soooo lucky to have took very good care of me and when the time came for me to leave for Miami I was feeling much better. Then I was off to Miami for the weekend to see some friends! Ohhhh Miami... I miss that crazy place! I really loved my job that I had there with all of my "Sherry" family and the crazy Pilots and Flight Attedants, it was never boring. When I went to hangout with everybody Saturday night I was so happy Kisha came and brought her friend TJ. They brought me a rose with a pink monkey...lol it was soooo cute! I don't feel like a got to spend enough time with Paul & Denise :( They will always be like my dad & sister to me! You can tell I do not live in Miami anymore b/c Sunday I went to the beach for a few hours... OMG I've NEVER been so SUNBURNED... and it still hurts so BAD! Sunday night I ended up going to Nikki Beach with a friend and it was alotta fun but I couldn't stay long b/c I had to get up really early and go to the airport. But He got us in for free and we didn't have to wait in line or anything... SOOOO AWESOME! Wish I would've known him when I actually lived there, I would've gone out more!

Now I'm in Santa Cruz, CA. It took allllllll day to get here yesterday but when I got here it was only 4pm LOL. It feels really weird with the time change an all. It's really pretty here but I have not had a chance to get out and explore. I'm not staying at the hotel I will be opening b/c it's not ready yet but hopefully it is ready very soon or I do not go to work today which only means I will have to stay here longer :( I'm suppose to leave here Saturday and go home to Nashville... yayyy! I met my led for dinner lastnight and he is very nice and he is from Atlanta.

You know it is soooo funny! Every time I walk into a store whether it is Target, Walgreen's or wherever... MY FAVORITE FAVORITE aisle in every store is the Travel Section. I LOVE IT. SERIOUSLY! I have so many cute little stuff! I love finding NEW cute little stuff that makes my life easier b/c my BIGGEST obstacle is keeping my Suitcase UNDER 50lbs... it is sooooooo hard for me. However the lady in MIA let me by with my suitcase being 55lbs and that has never happened before... she is my new FAV person! I also got to see some of my American Airline friends in the Dallas airport yesterday on my layover... that was fun!

I'm also glad I was sick last week and NOT this week so people would not think I have the swine flu! and I just found out on CNN you cannot get the Swine flu from pork! Praise Jesus pass the BACON!

Hopefully I'll be home May 2nd and then I think I'm Leaving for Novi, MI on May 8th.

Wrong Turn

Day 8 in Antigo, Wisc.
you know... I thought I had seen it all living in small towns in both Tennessee & Georgia. Boy, was I wrong! SERIOUSLY, this place is unbelievable! I should have known something was up when we got off the plane and into the car to drive to Antigo and my GPS would not even pick it up to give me directions?!?!?! To read a PERFECT example of the type of place & people we are talking about here, please click on this link (this happened & was in the Newspaper here 4 days ago)http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090402/ap_on_fe_st/odd_gps_wrong_turn

I believe it was on Day 6 that my lead and I noticed that there is only 1 race of people here (Caucasian.) There are no Spanish, no African American... nothing other than white. White snow, white people, nothing else that I have seen! And with there only being 3 restaurants in town, a Wal Mart & a BP.. you would think I would've seen atleast 1 person that is a different race, NOPE! So every time I go to one of the places listed above, I see the SAME people at each one. The cashier at Wal-mart knows us, and all the waitresses and owners at the restaurants know us, and the cashier at BP knows just how I like my coffee and thinks it's cool that I have an AMEX card! Now you know how us girls that are raised in the South dress, with our jeans & high heels, make up and hair done! So the women here... for some reason NEVER look nice EVER! They all wear over sized sweat shirts or men's button up collared shirts that they tuck in their Levi's?!?!?! They do however fix their hair like they did in the 70's or 80's sorta big and teased with no make up on! So needless to say, whenever we go out to get something to eat, we get a lot of " you guys goin dancin? or are those your dancin shoes?" No no, we just don't like to wear men's sweatshirts to go out to eat and prefer wearing makeup. Also, if you want strange looks... ask for lobster! Don't get me started about the music here... OMG!

Sometimes, it does get uncomfortable being here, I really do not get a warm vibe from the people in this place when we go out to eat and I walk in the front door, everybody sorta stares, with a look of "who are they and why are they here?" With that being said I have met some really nice and genuine people here, don't get me wrong!. People here are very hard working and family oriented. But I have encountered some very redneck & ignorant people. And if you truly know me, you know how I feel about racism & ignorance. To me, it's really sad, because this is it, this is all they know and if I was raised and grew up here... would I be like that? Being here makes me want to kidnap a few people and take them to New York City or just buy them a Cosmo Magazine or something!!! Now, as most of you know, that the SWAT Team has been practicing here in the hotel where I'm staying. We were told that this is because Antigo has a very very bad Drug problem... WHATTTTTT WTF!?!?! Are they serious, really? In which, they refer to Marijuana as "Wacky Tobaccy!" You know, most of these people here have never been outside Wisc. Drug problem? Maybe a drinking problem because there is really nothing else to do here BUT DRINK! If you wanna see a REAL drug problem go to Miami, Memphis, or Atlanta! This man in the bar the other night told me this is where they send a lot of people in Wittiness protection and you know what, I BELIEVE HIM! I also believe that there are unabombers and other crazy people living here and if there were other races here, Osama Bin Laden would be hiding out here also! I also feel like I'm in a movie here sometimes... has anyone seen the movie "Nothing but Trouble" with Chevy Chase? I get the feeling if I went 5 miles over the speed limit (which is 25 mph here) we would be locked up and not let out!And honestly, I was sorta looking forward to coming here. I like small towns and family like atmospheres. I thought I was coming to a cute small town surrounded by beautiful outdoor scenery & nice people. Not so much the case, Ellijay, GA is Bigtime compared to this!

I know a lot of you was wanting to know how I am liking my new job... I LOVE IT!

I'm glad to have had this experience but as my lead would say... We are clicking our heels 3 times... there is no place like home, there is no place like home, there is no place like home!

North Country

What can I say? It is 22 degrees & snowing & I am am staying in an empty hotel in the middle of no where. However, I do have a really cool lead... who also from Memphis which makes her extra cool! lol. She is staying down the hall from me... but that's it, just us. There is a really nice indoor pool and hot tub downstairs, I would love to go but do you think I am going to? HELL NO! It's dark down there and this is not the girl who gets killed in the horror movie... GOODNESS! Other than that my shadow is going really well, she is very helpful and I have already learned how to drop 2 shells lastnight =) People talk really funny here, like in the movie Fargo or something? (It's only cute when Stephanie does it..lol) About 8,000 people live in this town and there are only like 2 restaurants and NO chain restaurants at all. So we have eaten at the Deer Refugee for every meal. Today I built the hotel floor plan in the system and that is when it hit me that I should've been paying more attention in class instead of playing around building an under water hotel... ugghh! We already know almost everybody in town... the ppl at Wal-Mart know us and at the restaurant and I've already made friends and ran into them at Wal-Mart b/c really that is all there is to do here on a Saturday night. However, there is a bowling alley and I plan on checking that out 1 night! And Kisha... you will not be coming here soon that is FOR SURE... this is one of the only hotels for miiles and miles...LOL. That's all for now, I have to be up at 7am so goodnight everybody. xoxo.

Leaving Home

I am sad to leave home so soon. I have been packing today getting ready to leave for Antigo, Wisconsin at 7am tomorrow morning. I have had soooo much fun while I've been at home with my family and I got to drive over to see my friends in Memphis =) But I will be back in 10 days to have more fun! I have sooo much to do... I need to plan a trip back down to Miami soon so I can bring my stuff back up to Tenn. I am excited about my new job but very nervous at the same time. When I hear so many sad stories about ppl being laid off during this time it makes me more thankful. I hope I get to Wisconsin and love it =) even tho it's not Hawaii, I'm going to make the most of it... lol. I do look forward to going back to Phase II training and seeing everybody together again probably for the last time. I have a lot of "personal life" decisions I need to make and I am trying to follow my heart and make the right one... time will tell all. As for now, I am going to meet Haley for dinner and get ready to watch the Tigers Game tonight!

I'M HOME!!

It is 7am and I am AWAKE!! Right now I should be eating my bagel with cream cheese at the StayBridge Suites in Maryland with Double R, Broadway & Hawaii 5.0. LOL

But the thing I'm most proud of is that I PASSED MY PHASE 1 "Opera" Test!!! Yayyyyy!!! That was A LOT harder than I thought it would be.. GOODNESS! My presentation was not that good and Kisha's stupid question for me did NOT help matters at all. She missed the part where the instructor said " DO NOT ask your peers questions UNLESS you know for sure they know the answer to it!" LOL (but i still love her) and I think I did know the answer but I just freaked out a little bit and my mind went blank or something! I am a little nervous for Phase 2... eekkkk!!! But at least all of us will be back together at the same time =)

I am glad to be back in Nashville now but I HAVE SOOOOO MUCH TO DO, I gotta unpack, go to the bank, find a dry cleaners, buy new luggage, not to mention I STILL have the Key to the MICROS Classroom in my purse that I have to FedEx back today! I really should be doing my Expenses today but I really don't wanna think about all that right now. And separating all the alcohol purchases from the food, marking it out, subtracting the tax & adding 15% to the subtotal is really to much work and I think I have done it all wrong ANYWAY!!! I wonder if I can pay someone to do my expenses for me??? Where's Rohit? LOL

With that being said I swear my mom has "Dial up" Internet and doing anything on it is a LONG, SLOW, STRUGGLE! I'm going to have to install wireless and pay the bill b/c this IS NOT GOING TO WORK OUT!!!! You know it's amazing b/c I guess she really doesn't know that is could be better, when I complain she just tells me "I'm impatient and there is no rush!"WOWWWW that is NOT the point but whatever!

I leave for Wisconsin next Friday, I'm really EXCITED to see the Great Lakes and go over and look around Green Bay! oh yeah, and eat lots of cheese =)

The Tigers play Maryland today & I have been hearing people talk crap alll week and I'm glad the time is FINALLY here! Maryland is GOING DOWN... GO TIGERS!!!!!

I am going to drive over and visit all of my friends in Memphis Sunday evening.. I have not seen some of them in 2 years =(

Phase 1 - The end is near!

The last 2 weeks has been an adventure filled with many ups & downs! The unknown is soooo scary and that is exactly what we are all experiencing right now with this new job. No matter how many questions we ask there is still so much that is still "unknown" and I hate that! But I guess time will tell all. I feel like I am doing much better than I was in the beginning... I guess at some point you stop being scared and just roll with it... I really don't have much of a choice.

Phase 1 has been very easy for the most part... I little boring if anything. What can I say, I already know everything... LOL I'm SURE Phase 2 will be a different story but until then "I know everything." We have a big test to pass Friday & a Presentation to do in front of our Managers & Project Specialist. But after that I have a flight going to Nashville where I will be off for 7 days hoping that I will get a chance to drive over to Memphis and visit my friends!!!

My stuff has been moved out of my apt in Miami and stored in my hotel. So the next time I get some time off I'm going to fly to Miami and my General Manager is going to help me drive my stuff back to Tenn. in a U-haul and hangout with me for a few days... he needs a good ol Tennessee Vacation, so I'm really excited about that! Chris is actually driving back to Tenn. right now as I type this. We are both moving on from Miami and it is sorta sad for both of us. We did a lot of growing there and he will always be one of my best friends. I have so many great memories. I miss my hotel dearly, that was my life and family for 3 years. Since I will be flying a lot I can still see all of my Pilot & FA friends!!

I'm sad that I will be in class tomorrow morning when Memphis plays their first game... I'm going to miss it =( But they are going to win so I'm NOT worried... GO TIGERS!!!!!!!

Do not take my kindness for weakness!

WHAT A FUN WEEKEND! Despite walking around DC in the cold rain all day, it was for the MOST part... GREAT! I am so glad I met so many cool people here!

Columbia, MD is sooo Blahhh. It was good to get out and go to Baltimore & DC for a change. I am EXCITED that I get 7 days off when I go home on the 20th :) My 1st job will be in Antigo, Wisconsin on Mar 27th... and I thought it was cold here! ugghhh!

I AM SOOOO FREAKIN EXCITED ABOUT MY MEMPHIS TIGERS! I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!!!! GO TIGERS!

Day 5 of Training - No sleep!

TGIF =) WHY DID I CHANGE MY JEANS... ugghhhh =(

Last night everyone in my training class went to eat at Red Robins. It was fun, I'm glad we have such a cool class and all get along well. After dinner, I went back made some phone calls, checked my email and went to sleep around 11pm. My cell phone rang around 12:30am and my friend asked me a question that could change my life and I have A LOT to think about. Needless to say, I could not go back to sleep... I just laid there thinking all night!


Today was good! Our instructor was explaining to us about the "temptations" when we are traveling! LOL He said we will get hit on a lot by the managers in the hotels b/c they will look at us as smart & intelligent people b/c we will be there training them on a computer system. That will for sure be a first for me b/c I don't think I have ever been hit on my a guy because he thought I was smart... LOL!

We went clubbing in Baltimore tonight. Wow, I wish I had taken pics of what the girls were wearing. Are belly shirts back in style? Not cute girls, not cute! But it was a fun time! I think I may have knocked this girl off a pole? But it was still fun! LOL

We are leaving for Washington DC at 9am... Goodnight!

My New Life!!

I have never written blogs before but since I will be traveling everywhere now, I want to write about all of my fun adventures so I can look back and read them years from now! Plus, I will probably be sitting in a hotel room by myself every night with nothing better to do!

I moved to Miami about 3 years ago after graduating college looking for a good job and FUN times at the beach. Little did I know... I learned more in those 3 years of my life than I did in 5 years of college. I have recently taken a job with MICROS Inc. as an Implementations Specialist. It is my dream job. To travel around everywhere and see the world. I liked living in Miami and I loved my friends there but I knew it was NOT somewhere that I wanted to live forever! I have not had a real boyfriend in 3 years since leaving Memphis. Guys in Miami... lets just say... you NEVER know! Yeah, I dated guys here and there but nobody that I REALLY clicked with, I'll go out and have FUN with almost anybody. Between me & Denise... we probably dated 500 pilots all together from around the world... LOL! Ready to go and start my new job... Haley comes to Miami for to visit me a week before I leave! I was planning on keeping my Apt. in Miami until our lease was up in June but at the last Minute Chris decided to get a Uhaul & move back to Memphis the same day I was leaving for Maryland. OK cool, well take my stuff too! We can just get someone to take over the lease and go on back to Tenn. early. So I begin to pack ALLL of my stuff with 4 days left before I leave for Maryland. In the mean time the CUTEST guy EVER moves into my Apt Building! I'm not going to go into the details but let's just say my last 4 days in Miami were the BEST 4 days I ever had in Miami! I wake up on my last day there to only find Chris saying "I changed my mind... I'm staying, I cannot leave Miami!" There are no words for how I felt b/c now it's tooo late for me to stay and my mom is almost there to drive my car with my stuff back to Tenn and I leave on a plane for Maryland in 12 hours!!! 4 days earlier, I could not wait to leave Miami... now I'm upset! So me & my guy friend finish packing my stuff! My mom arrives to get my car & I'm off to Maryland! Still upset that I could've kept my place in Miami until June if it wasn't for my indecisive roommate. Things might not have worked out with this guy but atleast I would've had until June to find out. But NOPE, I left, gone... pretty much forever! I would never quit or not follow my dreams for a guy especially one that I've known for 4 days but it just SUCKS! So now I'm in Maryland, hoping to have some days off to see friends and family and maybe go back and visit my friend in Miami... NOPE! I will be home 2-3 days a month at the most. But you know, when I moved to Memphis I was sad at first, when I moved to Miami I was sad at first. Now I'm sad b/c I know in a few months I will adapt to my environment here and not feel any of these feelings nor be sad about any of this. THAT MAKES ME SAD. When people tell me I cannot do something or that I will not make it in this job for 6 months, it sets my insides on FIRE & I will work extra hard to be successful. Because at the end of the day... I'm DRIVEN! I am soooo blessed to get such an awesome job in this day and time with the economy how it is! I am not taking anything for granted... I count my blessings everynight and I keep telling myself everything happens for a reason. But does it really? I believe now everything does NOT happen for a reason, sometimes bad things just happen and God is here with me to help me through.