Busy Bee

Geez....where do I start? Since the last time I posted, alot has gone on. Let me start from the beginning.

A couple weekends ago, I went out of town for a girls weekend! My fabulous neighbor, Michelle, and I went with three other girls down to North Carolina for the weekend. Our one friend arranged to get her in-law's condo for the weekend so we decided to head down a little early and make it a long weekend. There were 5 of us in total, and between the 5 of us, we have 14 kids! Needless to say, we all needed a weekend to get away. I took off Thursday and Friday of that week and we headed down Thursday afternoon. We took a picture of the back of my truck once we were all packed up and ready to go and it was ridiculous!! We all brought so much stuff and ended up not using/eating/drinking half of it. We got down there Thursday night, had dinner, and grocery/liquor store shopped. Then Friday, we walked around one of the little towns near by and had a fabulous lunch. Then, on Saturday, we weren't planning on doing anything, and thank goodness because we got 6 inches of snow! Yes, snow at the beach! It was crazy! We headed back on Sunday and a good time was had by all.

Well, when we were there, two of the ladies were checking in at home and a couple of their kids were sick. One of our friends, Erin, ended up not feeling that great, but she was a trooper and hung in there. On Monday, I woke up for work and didn't feel that great. My throat was scratchy and I was coughing. Since I had been out, I really couldn't afford to take more days off so I thought I could head the sickness off at the path and go to the doctor. I was also worried about pneumonia since my grandmother, mom, Brody, and Molly had it recently. They did a chest x-ray, tested for the flu and strep and that all came back negative. The doc said I had an upper respiratory infection/bronchitis and prescribed antibiotics. I went back to work after that and when I got home that night, I felt awful. I ended up not sleeping much/if at all Monday night and felt horrible Tuesday morning. I could not even get out of bed I felt so bad! I ended up being home Tuesday and Wednesday sick. I have to say that this was probably the worst upper respiratory infection I have ever had! I have been sick with it before, but this one really whopped my butt! I ended up getting back to work on Thursday and thank goodness I was feeling better because I had no idea what was in store for me when I got back.

So, on Thursday, I was assigned to work on a presentation for a $100 million dollar deal we are going after in New York. Typically, our department has only been responsible for responding to proposals, but since we now have a new CEO, we are taking on more responsibility. So, I get pulled into a meeting on Thursday afternoon, and Friday morning to discuss our strategy. One of the big issues is that the presentation was scheduled for today, so we had a week to pull it all together. On Friday, they decided that we needed to get all of our Chiefs together on Tuesday (this past Tuesday) in my office for an all day face-to-face meeting to work on this thing. On Friday when I left work, that was the plan. Well, on Friday night, I was checking my work e-mail and saw that they changed the meeting to New York. At this point, I assumed I was going to be going, but wasn't 100% sure. My boss' boss called me on my cell on Sunday and said we had a conference call Sunday night (yes, Sunday night) at 8:00 to discuss all the details. I attended that call, which ended up lasting 2 hours, and the decision was for all of us to meet in New York on Tuesday morning because they were expecting snow there and everyone was worried about travel. So I headed to work Monday morning and attended our scheduled call at 11:00 am. Well, during this call, the weather situation was brought up again and our CEO decided we needed to head to NYC that night! So, there I was, scrambling around, heading home to pack, and then heading back to work to fly to New York that night!

Needless to say, the past 3 days have been pretty hectic. I have worked until 12:00 each night, but the upside was that I was able to enjoy New York (a little bit) and our hotel was freaking fabulous! The coolest part is that the bar/club downstairs was hosting Brooke Shields for 2 weeks. Apparently, she does a cabaret show! Unfortunately, I didn't get to see her (which is okay because I have never been a huge fan) but it was pretty cool. Then, this morning, when I was at the aiport, stripping down to go through security, freaking Philicia Rashad was in front of us. Funny story about that.....

So, my colleague and I are standing in line, organizing all of our stuff to go through security. There were 2 younger guys behind us and as we are getting our stuff together, he jumps in front of us and the lady in front of us. She turns to him and asks him if he is from New York. He says yes, and she says "I figured that!" After she says that, she turns around and looks at us. At that moment, I thought she looked familiar, but I wasn't 100% sure. Well, I ended up sneaking a peek at her boarding pass and sure enough, it said Philicia Rashad! One of the guys ended up staying behind us and after we made it through security, I turned to him and said "Hey, your buddy just cut in front of Claire Huxtable!" He didn't believe me, but once he looked at her, he started laughing! It was pretty hilarious!

Anyway, I am now home, safe and sound, and was sooooo happy to see my kiddies! They were pretty excited too, which of course, made my week! Ted left today to go to Florida for the weekend, so we basically just did a switch-a-roo. While I was in NYC, he took care of the kids, and now he left, and I am here. I haven't seen him since Monday morning and won't see him until late Sunday night! Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? I do miss seeing his face. But he will be home before I know it.

I am off to read Brody a story and tuck him in for bed!