Isn’t that crazy?!
I landed in Boston tonight and as we were waiting for the jet way to reach the plane, the snow started to build on the window.
I thought it looked like a slow globe! Please don’t shake the plane to make it blizzard! Ha ha
{February 10, 2017}
I’m in a living snow globe
{February 9, 2017}
My night
Well, tonight, after a whirlwind of dates with friends and my team, it was a me party.
After work, I headed to my hotel, participed in the conference call then it was search for food. I also got a new suitcase delivered, wahoo! I love my eBags backpack and needed a new bag for work that’s durable, especially the way baggage handlers handle bags. I thought it was too big, but after packing tonight…
So, I went out trying to decide what to b have for dinner and as I put my hand in my pocket, I found a coupon…Old Navy cash…and I thought…I haven’t talked to Old Navy in a while, so…
Coupon used, new fun stuff acquired, a few dresses to twirl and keep me entertained, we said goodbye for a while and I went to one of my favorite places, Vapiano’s, never actually been without LJ or DLP…I ended up deciding on take out. A cheese-less pizza and a salad. If you think about it, a cheese-less pizza is really just a flatbread, which works for me.
Back to the room, eat, have a fashion show for myself, glad I bought the bigger bag! Chilled out, watched Gigi on TV, then talked to CWB for a while, so very glad we reconnected! Then it was eventually time for lights out, after talking to you, of course. Fingers crossed sleep actually comes.
Travel day tomorrow!
{February 9, 2017}
Another team dinner…another new restaurant.
A great time was had by all.
Tonight we went to Carnival, a Brazilian inspired restaurant with an explosion of colors, sounds, tastes, smells and sites.
Apparently, there are times they have people swinging from the curtains and the seats, acrobatic type stuff.
We had a great time, as always. Talking, catching up, laughing, giving people grief for talking about work, just a good time. The nicest part…this team Dinner was scheduled for this week because I’m in town, isn’t that great!
We even started talking about where to go next, looking forward to it!
{February 7, 2017}
Two new restaurants, great food and a new friend!
I realized I haven’t talked about places I’ve eaten lately, shame on me!
So, today, I am at a new site for training and support and I found the Eleven City Diner. Oh my! It was awesome! A gps Jewish Deli with good, fresh ingredients and piled high on the plate! I had an egg salad sandwich on challah, yum! It came with a pickle Spear and coleslaw, really good. I pigged out and ate it all! If you know me, you know I usually have leftovers, not today! This place reminded me a little of Zaftigs in Boston.
For dinner, I met up with someone I met on this project in a class and then again recently and we had hit it off the first time and decided to go to dinner. She came up with a few suggestions and Isla, a Filipino restaurant had more options than the other, it’s family owned and delicious! She had given me some vegan options the first time we meet and I haven’t been disappointed yet!
We had a great time getting to know each other, we have a lot in common, like our love of movies and travel. It was a lot of fun and we’re looking forward to the next time! I made another friend in Chicago!
{February 7, 2017}
Life on the road can be fun!
Tonight was a fun evening.
Traveling for work is what you make of it. There are times there is nothing to make of it. Travel-meeting-travel or travel-meeting-dinner-hotel- travel. I’ve done those, fun, not so much all the time…or as it is now, when I’m in a place for a few months or more, you get to know the place and some people.
On this project, when I’m in Chicago, I go out to dinners, shows, movies. I’ve made friends on the project. Tonight was one of those nights. It was like any other job anywhere, you have friends and decide to go out. DLP and I wanted to do something, so, away we went. We went to the movies, settled in and saw Sing. Loved it a second time! She loved it a first time!
There is fun to be had on the road, it’s all what you make of it and sometimes what you have time for. I’m having fun!
{February 6, 2017}
Superbowl…won and lost
You have to have a winner. You have to have a not-winner [that sounds so much better than loser]
I am writing this objectively, yes, I’m disappointed that the Falcons lost, they played their hearts out, tomorrow, I’ll be glad football season is over. I’m not going to say they were beaten by a better team, they played a helluva game until the end of the last quarter.
What fans, no matter who they rooted for, have to remember and respect…the Falcons made it to the Superbowl for the first time in fifty-one years! They made it!
Think about the Cubs…weren’t you pulling for them no matter who you support, they made it to the show!
Yes, you have to have a winner, that’s just the way it goes, but the fact that they made it at all is what’s important and played hard and held the Patriots back for almost the entire game. They made the Pats work for it, a team that has been to the Superbowl how many times? They forced an overtime…the first one in Superbowl history! These are records not to be discounted.
I actually watched most of the game and I was right there with you, well, with the Falcons fans hoping, screaming, cheering, mouth open in disbelief. I didn’t know how the game would turn out, but I had hope. I knew that it was likely if the Pats didn’t win, they would make it again in the future, but I was pulling for the Pats.
To my friends and family who cheer for the Pats congrats on another championship. To my friends and family so cheered for the Falcons, congrats to making it and there’s no stopping you getting there again!
{February 4, 2017}
A house divided
Falcons vs Patriots. The showdown is coming.
I’m from NYC originally and a NY Giants fan. I’m in a relationship with a man from New England who is a die hard NE Patriots fan. It’s a “mixed marriage” for sure. [NY Yankees/Boston Red Sox]. Living in Colorado I grew an affection for the Denver Broncos, still on opposite sides. And here we are at the Superbowl! Remember where I lived for 20 years?
Now…I don’t know if you remember, I’m not a football fan, but I enjoy when someone takes me to a game in person. The sites, smells, food, excitement, the energy, it’s so much more. I still don’t always know what’s going on, but I don’t care, I love the current in the air.
Here we come to Superbowl Sunday, which is tomorrow. And it’s a good thing I’m not at home this weekend, it might have been tough…PSM is rooting for The Pats and I’m rooting for the Falcons. I’ll be honest, I lived in Georgia for twenty years and didn’t get that into the Falcons, but I’m a feeling the need to ‘Rise Up’ with Atlanta. It’s been 51 years since they’ve been to the Superbowl and I’m feeling a very red and black swell off emotion. [Do you remember when I became a Cubs fan the week of the World Series?]
If the Falcons win, wahoo! I know I’ll hear the uproar from Georgia where I am and I’ll whoop and holler. If the Pats win, I’ll call PSM and congratulate him and show my “Patriot-ism” [I said that to him a few months ago and couldn’t stop laughing! Isn’t that fabulous!]
Good luck to both teams, I know what is going to be like in PSM’s house, my house and all our friends in New England and I love all of them and I hope that they will understand when I say “Rise Up Atlanta! Go Falcons!]”
{February 3, 2017}
Did I actually day that?
Sometimes you think about it after you say it and think “huh…did I really just say that!?”
I’ve done that a few times in my life, I know we all have and I’ve probably told you one or two of them. This wasn’t that bad, just not sure it was completely appropriate.
I was teaching a class yesterday and we needed a name, we make them up for one of the lessons and someone decided to select Willie Nelson. That led to a few comments about weed. Uh oh…here I am teaching a class and they are talking about weed. But…it helped to put things into perspective and it made the class laugh and understand what we were trying to do, so that worked out.
You never know where inspiration is going to come from our what will make the light bulb go off over someone’s head…do what you can!
{February 2, 2017}
Well, ain’t that fancy!
Quote-unquote.
This is what I heard one of the women say when they got in the elevator with me at my hotel.
This hotel has the elevator that you punch the number on the pad and it tells you which elevator car to use, no numbers inside. There is a display in the elevator indicating the floors requested.
When the women got in the car they thought the display was for the floors that car serviced. I told them it was for the floors we were going to and one of them said “We’ll ain’t that fancy!”
Well ladies, I guess it is!
Made me giggle.
{February 2, 2017}
A good few days
Here’s what’s happened since I got back to the mainland.
I got to the client’s site on Tuesday and settled in. When the manager saw me she said “I’m so glad it’s you!” How great did that make me feel! I found a good restaurant for lunch, middle eastern yum! Two for two. To make it three for three I couldn’t get an Uber yesterday morning so I took a taxi. The driver was very nice and offered to pick me up today and gave me his number. I called him this morning and there he was. Cool.
Over the last two days there are so many people I remember and who remember me from training classes they attended, they have been very happy to see me, isn’t that awesome?
I had a decent veggie burger for lunch at an Irish pub. Last night’s dinner was the leftover vegan pizza from Monday night and tonight I went to a decent Chinese restaurant, all but four of the patrons, including me, we’re Chinese, a good sign in my opinion. It was cool that everyone who came in the bartender spoke to in Chinese. Made me miss JCT and her mom.
All in all, two good days, looking forward to the next two.
Peaches Prattlings 