i'm baaaaack

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh - I'm finally home! After a 55 minute flight from Syracuse to Washington Dulles, a quick jaunt down the terminal and a four and a half hour flight from Dulles to Denver I am finally home! It felt so good to walk through the front door of my house!

My amazing girlfriend picked me up from the airport this afternoon & it was such a relief to get to see her face! After sleeping three lonely nights in a hotel room by myself, I want nothing more to crawl into my own warm bed tonight in the comfort of my own home. Hotels are most certainly fun, it's great to sleep in crisp sheets that smell like bleach with big fluffy pillows; but it is lonely - in every sense of the word, travelling for business can be miserable. Most of the time you're so caught up in getting here, getting there, wearing this, buying that but then you get back to your room and you realize that you really miss your real life.

The puppies were so excited when I got home, they were jumping all over me & wagging their tails 90 miles per hour. Haley still is quite aloof so that lasted for 20 seconds or so, but Jersey didn't want me to stop petting her. That's why I love dogs, they are so much like children - they love you no matter what you say or do, they just want you to love on them and they are yours for life, I would be so sad without them in my life.

I am off tomorrow because I took it as a personal day, a nice three day weekend to get my house organized and do a little spring cleaning - I'm really looking forward to that (there is a hint of sarcasm in there, but I'm actually not being entirely fecicious.)

I nearly forgot - the whole deal at the airport this morning .... Apparently a flight on it's way to San Fransisco had to do an emergency landing because smoke was detected on the plane. It was quite the ordeal I tell you what. Syracuse is a smalls airport so everyone could see what was going on. One of the girls who got off the plane sat next to me and told me what was going on, she didn't seem phased by it - hmmm.

Eden and I met Donna last night for dinner at DelMonico's in Syracuse and it was an absolutely wonderful! The two dogs are Donna's - she drove in from Rochester NY to meet us and brought her pups with her. The woman on the left of this picture is Eden, one of the corporate trainers from my work whom I travelled with on this trip & obviously the woman on the right is Donna. Her dogs were wonderful and a great treat for me because I had been missing Haley & Jersey so darn much!!

I just watched this video of a bird named "Einstein" - You have to check this out:

I'm completely exhausted from all of this travel, so I suppose I'm going to get ready for bed - how lame it's only 6:24 my time (but my brain thinks that it's 8:24!)