A Week of Thanksgiving

This week's blog posts are going to have a theme: A Week of Thanksgiving! Each day I am going to blog about something that I am thankful for! I invite all of my blog friends to follow this theme as well if you are interested!

So, here it goes... Day 1 of A Week of Thanksgiving:

This year I am thankful for many things... including, Southwest Airlines! I am thankful for Southwest Airlines because they make travel just a little more enjoyable!

I am thankful that:

1. They do not charge a fee for checked baggage


2. They fly to almost every destination that I have to travel to for work


3. You can quickly earn Rapid Reward Flight Vouchers... this is my favorite perk!


4. They have friendly service and are almost always on time! :)

Workation

Happy Friday, everyone! I am so glad that the weekend is here, however I am spending my weekend on a workation. What is a workation? I am so glad you asked! A workation is a work function at a fabulous resort, with few meetings however lots of socializing!

I am so accustomed to staying at business travel hotels like Hampton Inn's and Marriott Courtyards while I am on the road, and it is typically only when I am attending a conference that I get to stay at a full service hotel. Not that there is anything wrong with a Courtyard or Hampton Inn, however everything is just a tad nicer at a full service hotel. My hotel room is nice and comfy, the food is delicious, there is a full blown Starbucks just down the hall, and I am trying to relax every opportunity I have while not working!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Looking forward to Thanksgiving week coming up!

It's about time!

Welcome to the 30 club, Homee Sister Friend!

Happy 30th birthday, Kelly! Love you VERY much!!!

Happy Birthday, Suzanne!!!

Love you, oodles!

Man-gagement rings?

How about all of these blog posts lately? Can you believe it? Clearly, I have had a little more free time on my hands the past few weeks. I am on the road for work, however I am still in training mode, so I don't have many action items after our meetings. I know that this slow period is only temporary, so I am trying to enjoy it while I can! :)

Tonight I have had a full night of watching TV in my hotel room. I have been anxiously awaiting the Country Music Awards all week and the show was awesome! I LOVE me some country music! And, seriously, can I hire Carrie Underwood's trainer and stylist???

Are you wondering about the title of my blog post? Well, now I am watching Dateline and tonight's "Sign of the time" feature is titled "Put a Ring On It" and it is about a growing trend... man-gagement rings! For a woman, the engagement ring is an outward sign of a committed relationship. Men, historically, have not had any piece of jewelry that signifies that they are off the market prior to their wedding day. I always get a kick out of watching my newly married friends glance at their husbands ring finger on their wedding day... a weird observation, I know! (I likely never would have noticed the wedding band on my friends husbands if it hadn't been for Jolyn at her after-wedding brunch the day after she got married. I can still remember her coming over to say hi at the brunch and her watching David from afar and she commented how she loved to see his hand with his wedding band. - Jolyn, do you remember this at all? I am sure it was just one of many significant moments that weekend for you, however it stuck with me how proud you were that he was your husband!) I digress....

The man-gagement ring is supposed to be worn on the ring finger during the engagement, and then is replaced by the wedding band during the ceremony. The man-gagement ring then moves over to the right hand. I am not opposed to the idea of a man-gagement ring and letting folks know your man is off the market, however the idea of the guy wearing multiple rings after the wedding day kind of weirds me out! What are your thoughts?

Office Space!

It is a gorgeous day at the office today. By office, I mean, at the Hampton Inn and on the highways of Texas! :)

I was trying to describe my pink cubicle to someone today, and they just weren't understanding why I would make it pink. I pulled up this picture to show them... I mean, wasn't my cube awesome?

Hey Chickadee

When traveling down the back roads of Texas, you never know what you might encounter! Yep, that picture up there... it's an 18 wheeler FULL of chickens! Unbelievable! I have never seen so many chickens thrown into cages! There were feathers and chicken poop hitting the window for about a 20 mile stretch! I had no idea that Tyson and Pilgrims Pride had chicken processing plants out in East Texas! Of course, seeing chickens made me think of Clayton and his pet chickens... crazy birds!

Doesn't take much to make me smile!

I have been loving all of the Sesame Street Google banners this past week. Something about Big Bird and the gang just makes me smile! Can't believe that Sesame Street is celebrating their 40th anniversary - 40 years on television is pretty amazing!

Hoot Hoot

Since I was a little kid, I have always been a night owl. I have a hard time falling asleep and tend to be most productive late at night. Take this evening as an example... I need to leave town bright and EARLY in the morning, however here I am blogging and cleaning my house - well after midnight! I am waiting for the last load of laundry to be done before I call it a night.

I wish that I was more disciplined at going to bed and getting a decent amount of sleep each night. My friends often question where all of my energy comes from, and the truth of the matter is that I take advantage of my weekends and can be pretty lazy when I feel like it! Perhaps my new years resolution will be to get more sleep... speaking of which, can you believe that it is almost a new year? Time is flying by SOOOO fast!

What a wonderful and fun weekend! I really enjoyed seeing so many of my pledge sisters - many of them I had not seen since graduation! I can't believe that we are all grown up... everyone is so successful and doing very well! It is amazing to me to think that I am old enough to have friends that are pediatricians, Ear/Nose/Throat specialists, dentists, lawyers, etc! Many of my pledge sisters have married and have BEAUTIFUL families - it was so fun to see pictures of everyone's families! Everyone is just as beautiful and wonderful as they were when we met on Bid Day in 1997!