I am the girl who never ever is ready to come home from a trip. Sure, in past positions, on a business trip, I’d get tired and need the kind of rest you can only get in your own bed in your own home. But normally, I love to travel…
Month: July 2010
Bubblicious
This is my third night on the road and all I can think about is getting back home tomorrow. It is inconceivable that it’s only Wednesday night; it feels like I’ve been gone for 2 weeks! The hotels I stayed in the last two nights had no tub, just a…
Is This Gonna Show On My Hotel Bill?
There is something so inappropriate about sitting in a hotel room that the company is paying for, on a business trip, using the company laptop and the company wireless card, to search for a new job. And yet it gives me great pleasure. Is that wrong?
The Pearly Gates . . . Of Border’s???
When I was helping my friend organize her house, we went to the Container Store. I told her, and I was as serious as a heart attack, that this was my idea of Heaven. Rows and rows of hard bins, the smell of plastic in the air, BLISS! I’m going…
No Propofol, Just Friday
DISCLAIMER: TO ANY POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS WHO MIGHT BE READING THIS. I “EXAGGERATE” FOR MY ART, FOR MY BLOG. SHOULD YOU HIRE ME, I WOULD BE AN EXEMPLARY EMPLOYEE. NO MATTER WHAT THE DAY OF THE WEEK. EXCEPT THOSE ENDING IN “Y”. ——————————————————————————– I have decided that Friday’s are like a…
Good Morning Sunshine
This morning at the event I was working I asked a gentleman for his name and phone number at registration and he responded by saying: “Are you trying to sell me something already?” And this was the BEST part of my day . . .
Don’t Job Search After You Eat Or You Will Get Cramps
I have been coming to the New Jersey shore long before Snooki or the Situation. Truth be told, I am old enough to be Snooki’s mother and at my Jersey shore a “situation” means your monthly visitor came early and you have to go to the drugstore for supplies. (Sorry…
Happy Birthday America!
As I’ve mentioned in previous blog entries, I love this country and I love that its birthplace is right down the road from my home. My new company is headquartered in Florida. I was given a laptop for work, and for security and bookkeeping purposes, every laptop issued has a…