Office Move

Hi All,

Not too much going on here in Jacksonville. Just wanted to write and touch base. Work is crazy. We are moving to a new office (YAY). It is brand new and being fitted just for us. Problem is our Office Manager just resigned and yours truly has been given the task of taking over the move.

So for the new few weeks my head will be in square footage and file cabinet placement. I am pretty stressed about the task, but keep trying to remind myself that when it is over it is over, no matter what happens.

I am headed down to St. Pete for Labor Day weekend. I am looking foward to some R&R. I was hoping to drive up to Nashville to meet my new nephew, and spend some quality time with the family, but the drive is too long for just a few days.

I hope you all are well! Much love.

Vacation

My father reminded me today to update my blog. Some of these things are out of date, but here goes. My vacation started on Saturday July 21st. Trish, Shane and the kids came to town. Unfortunately, it was not for happy reasons since Trish's Grandmother had just passed away. None the less it was good to see them all. We had a fun weekend and when they left I was exhausted. I forgot about all of the energy required to keep up with a 7, 4, and 2 1/2 year old.

On Monday 7/23 I did laundry and ran errands to prepare for my road trip. Tuesday morning I woke up with plans of packing up the car and hitting the road (I was headed to Asheville to visit Pam and Mike). The only errand I needed to run was to get some blood drawn. I was very frustrated when the whole thing took much longer than usual, but has my good friend Renee reminded me, the timing was perfect. As it turns out, my late departure for North Carolina put me in Colubmia, SC just in time to catch Kenny getting off of work. We were able to meet and have dinner together. It was a good break from the 7 hours that I would end up in the car driving that day.

I got to Asheville around 9pm. Pam and I stayed up talking until way too late since she had to be into work the next day. Pam worked all day on Wednesday, so I just lounged around the house and rested. I did take a drive into Asheville where I got lost and drove way north out of the way in an effort to get back to Pam and Mike's place. Oh well, that was my adventure for the day.
On Thursday and Friday Pam had 1/2 days at work.

On Thursday, we drove into Asheville and had lunch at a Bagel shop chain which happened to be a place that I frequented while living in Chicago. We also stopped at the Biltmore to see what the prices were. Pam and Mike are thinking about getting season passes so that they can go with any future guests.

Friday Pam and I went to see a movie, "No Reservations." We really liked it. On Friday night Pam and I met Mike out in Hendersonville which is the town were Mike's school is. After dinner at a local pizza shop Mike drove us up into the mountains for some fly fishing. It was fun driving through the mountains with Mike, he goes much faster than Pam does on the winding roads:). Of course, Pam and I did not fish but sat on a blanket and watched Mike. By the end of the evening we were throwing rocks into the river to see how far out we could throw them. Mike was not to thrilled about this since we were scaring his fish away, and he proved his strength to us when he stopped fishing and threw a rock to the other shore of the river, which was much further than Pam and I could throw.

On Saturday morning I packed up and with tears said good-bye to Pam. I was headed down to Columbia to spend the rest of the weekend with Kenny. Kenny gave me a tour of downtown Columbia and showed me the hospital where he is working. We spent the rest of the afternoon checking out the competition and visiting model homes centers of KB Home and D.R. Horton. At one point we were in a community that Kenny had visited with his Mom. He pointed out a model home he had seen and I headed in that direction. I walked right up to the front door and tried to turn the knob, but it was locked. A few seconds later a man appeared at the door looking not too happy about the disruption. What I had done was tried to open the door of what was now a private residence. I apologized to the man and Kenny and I walked away laughing our heads off.

As I recall we did not accomplish too much on Sunday and then I had to leave to head back home from my vacation. I wished that I had been able to spend more time with everyone, but I was glad to have a chance to go in the first place.