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I’m in recreation mode and I’m bringing back my blog. Look for design and content changes in the next few weeks!
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In the past five years I have explored Europe, the West Coast of the States and have become locally-oriented to Manhattan and other great cities while traveling for MindComet. Last week I set a work travel record by reaching Delta Sky Club Silver Medallion status (25,000+ miles on Delta Airlines) BEFORE May of the calendar year. At this rate, I’ll reach Gold status again by the end of August. Where-oh-where will I go with all of those frequent flyer miles?!
I’m thinking I might need to go someplace far…like Australia. If I do that I’m definitely going to need more luggage. For Christmas I treated myself to two pieces of new luggage since most of my Tumi luggage was lost in a hotel fire in the Netherlands a few years ago. So far my Jessica Simpson luggage has held up strong, though the boys here at the office do like to make fun of me for using her brand. I’d admit that I almost didn’t buy the bags because they were made by Ms. Simpson, but they have proven to be both stylish AND well built. My next purchase will be the 24” upright of the Southern Belle Navy Collection. I have become a Jessica Simpson evangelist. Who would have thought?
Now on to researching my next BIG trip!
P.S. This is NOT a sponsored post. I just really like Delta and my luggage.
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This morning I stepped outside to water my vegetable garden and let the dog come with me. On the way back inside, Obi got so excited that he rammed into the sliding screen door so hard that he bent the metal! So I stood outside at 6:50am unable to get back into my house because the door was bent to a degree that it could no longer slide. I pulled, I pushed, I wiggled and nothing worked. Finally, I gave it a hard kick and the door finally came off the track. I now have a bent screen door in my living room. Awesome!
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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of 20th Century Fox. All opinions are 100% mine.
I am a huge Fan of Tina Fey, and Steve Carell from “The Office” is hysterical, so there is no doubt that I’ll be going to see Date Night Movie after it’s release on April 9th, 2010. I almost never get to go to the movies because my hectic travel schedule, but every time I see the trailers for this movie I laugh so it definitely has my attention.
The plot centers around a couple out for a weekly date night who wind up getting into a ton of trouble. I love the scene in the extended promo with Tina and Steve dancing in the strip club and Steve licks the stripper pole—I literally gagged the first time I saw it in the trailer. LOL And, Mark Wahlburg? Are you kidding me? He looks amazing and the character he is playing is such a nice departure from his other, more serious roles.
I’m usually the first one in the group to veto these types of movies, but I will honestly admit that I think it has potential and I’m looking forward to seeing it. Check out the trailer and let me know if you want to go see the movie on opening weekend with me.Here’s the trailer:
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To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.Benjamin Franklin
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It has been a few months since my last post, but I’m excited to get back to active blogging! Over the past few weeks the boys and I have been having a great time managing our virtual cafe…take a look! We have expanded, re-decorated three times, and have added several friends and family members to be our employees. Could you be one of them? :-)
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.Author Unknown
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Over the weekend the kids and I spent some fun time playing the “Café World” game on Facebook. Here’s how it works: the game provides a small cafe to customize and decorate, the chef (the kids and I) picks a waiter from their Facebook friends, and then we pick entrees and desserts from our recipe book to sell to our patrons. The game involves keeping the restaurant clean, making sure there is plenty of food, time management of the kitchen, budgeting, and getting good customer reviews—just like a real restaurant!
Doug loves the game so much that the first words out his mouth this morning were, “We need to check our pumpkin pies in our kitchen!”
