Best Laid Plans

Despite some good planning on both our parts, the ski trip to Lake Tahoe did not go smoothly. Weather everywhere made my outgoing flight delayed, which stranded Danny at the Reno airport for about two hours. By the time we arrived at the Casino, I had been awake for nearly 24 hours and was extremely cranky.

The skiing was good, but Heavenly was not a great resort. I was still fighting with my boots, which added to my irritability. It was windy, cold, and dumping snow, which aren't the happiest skiing conditions.

Back at the Casino hotel I had a booger bath and a roach dinner. Yummy.

Sunday, despite our best efforts to get to the airport early, we both messed up and missed the flight. That meant finding a place to stay and other flights, which didn't work out for Danny since there was no direct to LAX the next morning. Then, finally, the next morning, the shuttle from the hotel decided to try to make me miss the first flight out as well. Bitchy skywest agents and delays for Danny just added a cherry on top.

Perhaps we're trying too hard.

Spring Break

I just bought plane tickets out to Denver for the week of Spring Break. I'll be visiting an old friend in Breckenridge and doing some skiing on real mountains.

It won't be a traditional spring break type trip, cause we had a hard time finding people who wanted and/or could afford to go. I'm sure we could've gotten a group for a cruise, which is much cheaper, but my thoughts were been there done that.

I'm excited, it's my first time out west!

Leaving... Again

Tomorrow marks the beginning of some more traveling for me. This weekend I'm headed to Sugar Mountain in North Carolina to do some skiing. It was a last minute thing, but I'm really excited and really glad I found some people who were willing to take a little trip!

Tuesday evening I leave for Washington D.C. I will be in Triangle, VA Wednesday and Thursday helping at a workshop for ONR Logistics. The rest of the team is set to return Thursday evening. I booked my return trip for Saturday afternoon, so as of Thursday evening I will be enjoying all D.C. has to offer with my soulmate Melissa and my good friend Cameron (who happens to be throwing a large party that Friday night!)

I won't return to work until Tuesday, Feb 20 because I've been invited to participate in Lockheed's Engineers Week Girl Scout workshop by the woman that I did some contract work for last fall. I'm excited, it's slightly reminiscent of the recruiting I used to do at Tech for girls.

Hopefully this little "break," even though it includes hard work, will help deal with the severe burnout I'm feeling at work lately.

Oh, yeah. And Valentine's Day is somewhere in the middle. :-)