Archive for April, 2009
Apr
30
Protected: I can't compete with that New Mommy Smell
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30
Days of Grace: 59/365
Posted by: | Comments- No big fires to put out upon my return to work today after a week away (despite 144 emails since Tuesday)
- Yet another sunny Colorado spring day
- No one I know has the swine flu
- Ambien
- If nothing else, Steve is now known as a rock star at work
Apr
29
Protected: To meddle or not to meddle in my ex's love life
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28
Days of Grace: 57/365
Posted by: | Comments- Crap dinner alone in my room last night: bottled water, Twix and 7-11 Nachos. Sometimes eating bad feels soooooo good (until the next morning)
- The aisle seat on both flights.
- A great lunch recommendation. Who knew that Philly would have the best Mexican restaurant I’ve eaten at in years. I had kick ass Mahi tacos and the best guacamole I’ve ever had.
- I have a job to go back to.
- I have a man, and a house, and a kid, and some crazy weasels, and a lot of stuff, and love to come home to.
Apr
28
Random Tuesday Thoughts
Posted by: | Comments- Both US Airways flights I took for my trip were oversold. I was tempted to take them up on their offer both times for taking the next flight in exchange for a free roundtrip ticket, but I didn’t. On Friday, I was excited to get to Philadelphia, and the next flight would have gotten me there around 10 pm. Tonight, the next flight would have gotten me back to Denver around 1 am and home around 2:30. Which to my newly adjusted body clock (which actually woke me up at 7:15 am Eastern this morning) would be 4:30 am. I’m a baby.
- For years of watching What Not to Wear and experiencing H&M, a clothing store, vicariously as the makeover-ees shopped there, I’ve wanted to see that store. Today I did, and I wound up blowing my May clothing budget – all $50 of it – on two blouses and a skirt. It reminds me of a grown-up Forever 21, but of slightly better quality.
- The Philadelphia airport has a full-fledged mall inside, and I found this little shop called Radio Road. And blew my next two months of clothing budget on two necklaces and two pair of earrings. Cute necklaces and earrings.
- I am going to jump Steve’s bones when I get home tonight. I can’t wait to see him and to sleep curled up next to him. The multiple pillows on my hotel bed just didn’t cut it as a sleep partner. Even though I hardly see him now because his job is so time-intensive, at least I get to enjoy sleeping with him every night. He confessed that he’s been sleeping on the couch because our bed feels too big without me. (Insert big, corny smiley face here)
- Tomorrow’s a vacation/comp time day. I’ll go to the gym (I didn’t work out at all at the hotel gym, although I did a lot of walking, most of it in heels which I think counts double). I’ll go to the grocery store, because the cupboards were pretty bare when I left. I’ll do my laundry. I’ll go get my eyebrows waxed. And somehow I’ll convince Steve to come home early so I can make a lovely dinner for the two of us—something that isn’t in the crock pot.
- Before I left, I picked up the new Prince double-album at Target. I really love it. It’s very groovy, old-school Prince. I believe he is one of the most talented musicians alive today.
Apr
27
Days of Grace:53-56/365
Posted by: | CommentsShould these catch up gratitude lists count? I’ve had trouble finding time to post during my trip, so I’m saying … YES!
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Me and Nathaniel Gorham, click pic for more
My organization paid for my trip to Philadelphia
- I have a per diem so I can occasionally skip the rubber chicken
- Cheese plates at receptions
- Free wine
- Having conversations with Betsy Ross and Benjamin Franklin
- Seeing what my ancestor Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts, one of the signers of the US Constitution, may have looked like
- And getting my picture taken with him
- Cherry vanilla ice cream
- The PAN team, which has put together an interesting conference
- I have a job to go back to
- No one in Philly has the swine flu
- I’m feeling healthy, if a bit tired because Philly’s 8:30 am is my 6:30 am and I am so not a morning person
- My colleague Camy, who is a good listener
- Confirmation that I’m good at what I do, and I can play with the big kids
- Netflix watch it live, which has come in handy while traveling
- My music in iTunes, which I forgot about and have happily rediscovered
- Tonight’s trip to the Cezanne exhibit
- Jill @ work for putting together the finishing touches of Director’s Newsletter when I’m away
- My last night sleeping in a bed that’s not my own
- A wonderful trip to a beautiful city
