back in louisville

i am soooo thankful to be home.

seriously. so thankful.

i had the longest flight ever where the guy sitting next to me kept licking his arm.  and staring at me.

 

i couldn't get off the plane quick enough!

it's always nice to see a different part of the country and meet the people who work at the various plants.

even if they believe these are only available in scranton:

 

it's nice to be back and not have to go grocery shopping for dinner because you're too tired and dirty to go to an actual restaurant

i have no idea what institutional foods are.  i don't think i bought any.  is this a northeast thing?

i did try these

they are local ;)

and they were gross.

since arriving on wednesday, we researched dinner options and came across "nana's"

we made it our goal to treat ourselves after inventory was done.

and oh my dog, was it worth it!

 

this place is the real deal.

all the pasta is homemade!  i don't think i've ever had homemade pasta.

i ordered the gnocchi.

i've never had gnocchi like this.  it was soft, pillow like, and looked like tiny marshmallows.

and the SAUCE.  it was wonderful.  it tasted like nana had been cooking it all day.

and our internal auditor treated us to a liter of wine

clearly we refused.

after the flight back to louisville, i came home and crashed hard.

working late nights (10 pm) and not going to bed until midnight, and then back up at 5 to run around the plant floor all day again and also spending two days traveling took a lot out of me.

woodford's toy explosion on the floor too a lot out of him too

i'm trying to decide if i'm going to take a half day today to do some chores at the house.

i also need to prepare for my best friend's wedding this weekend - i'll be driving all by myself since bill has to work.

the good news is that we are 24 days out from an uninterrupted week of vacation and our wedding :)

early morning wake up call

i'm so tired...

i left the office at 10 pm last night and was back up at 5:30 am this morning to come back in for inventory.

yesterday looked like this

i was inside staring at this :

and this

i was able to get out briefly to eat a bit of this:

veggie panini from a cute cafe in town

if i had known it would be my lunch and my dinner and have to hold me over until about 11 pm, i might have gotten some soup or a salad too.

today is the big day - inventory is being counted as i type, and i will be running variance reports in a few hours.

at least i got to start the morning off with

hotel breakfast.  luckily i have fruit in our snack bag.

2 more mornings here before i get to see this lovely face again

oh hi woodford and bill's knee

and this one too...

i hope i don't fall asleep in the conference room today!

on the road!

i'm holed up in a conference room waiting to get this inventory under way.

yesterday was spent pretty much airport hopping.

we flew into charlotte and then hopped a plane to wilkes-barre/scranton.

we got in around 6 and wouldn't you know it

they were all out of mid size car rentals.

so

we are stuck with this bute

big whitey is helping us roll around in style.

i cracked up laughing when the guy at the rental counter said all they had left was a van.

for one, my boss is a hot rod loving, classic car owning, piston head.

and has sworn vengeance if her husband ever bought a van.

and for two, i don't know the area- never been here - so naturally my boss would be driving.

she's like maybe 5' tall

we were pretty sure we needed to stop and get some phone books so she could see over the steering wheel

we've made it around safely so far, though

and i guess we're a few weeks early for the leaves to be changing, but the mountains/hills are really beautiful

so one day down

just 3 more mornings of hotel breakfast

 

i cannot wait to be back home!

Dunder mifflin here I come

It's a travel day :(

I'm zig zagging across the east coast today

I'll blog some tonight since I'll be all by my lonesome :(

This work trip will be the longest (4 days) that bill and I have been apart since we met.

Co-dependent much? :) I love him and wouldn't have it any other way.

And today is actually the anniversary of our first date 2 years ago

Do you celebrate anniversaries of certain firsts?

See ya in Scranton everybody!