Bachelor Time – Sort Of…
July 17, 2009
It’s that time of the year again – Bachelorhood! The time when Suzanne and the kids make the Summer trek back to Dallas to visit with her family. Well, sort of anyways. Yes, she left this morning for her trek, but unfortunately, I am so buried in work, I am not sure how much of my time alone I will get to enjoy.
I was assigned a major project a couple of weeks ago and need to bring it in by the end of August. This means many long nights and weekend. Already, I can’t remember the last day I had off from work or when I last got home before 8:00 at night. Luckily, these times don’t happen too often.
The other day, Suzanne commented that at least it was good timing and that my heavy workload was happening while she and the kids would be away. Without thinking, I promptly replied that it was horrible timing. I was going to miss my alone time because of work. 
That didn’t sit too well with her.
Now, I wouldn’t want it often or all the time, but a week or two a year with no one to answer to but myself? That’s pretty nice! Alas, it will be mostly spent at work this year.
In fact, next weekend, I am supposed to join her and the kids for a week on the beach in Alabama. Right now, I am not sure I can get away from work to get down them and meet them. I have a major review with the VPs the following Monday. Its a family reunion for her family with something like 40 relatives coming together in a huge 12 or 14 bedroom house. It should be fun if I can figure out a way to get away from work. I have a frequent flier ticket from Delta so I am going to research options for perhaps changing my ticket and returning on Tuesday or Wednesday if possible so I can at least get there for a bit. Whether I can do the whole week, part of the week or none of it will be determined by how much the my team and I can get done this weekend and early next week.
Anyways, back to my bachelor time! At least until I head off to work tomorrow…
Fourth of July
July 4, 2009
Happy Fourth of July to all! What a great holiday and even nicer when it falls near a weekend enabling a long weekend!
Its been a whirlwind time lately as I was on business travel last Thur and Fri and then again Mon, Tue and Wed of this week. So, its been a while since I have been in the office. Sometimes, it does one good to get out for a while. Now, I just need to get out on a vacation!
Tonight was the Cinderalla’s Talent Show in Sierra Vista. I am not really sure what that is all about, but Savannah’s dance instructor is pretty active in the town civics and asked Savannah and few other girls from the dance studio to enter the talent competition. So off we went into the humidity. Yes, its getting humid here. I think monsoon has arrived as its been raining too! Savannah did her belly dance routine and did well finishing in a tie for fourth place. 1st and 2nd place went to singers and 3rd place went to another dancer from the studio.
Tomorrow, I will be cooking up a big ole pot of Jambalaya in the backyard. For Fathers Day, I got a big gas burner (runs off propane) for outdoor cooking, boiling, frying, etc. I also got a 20″ paella pan and a 10 gallon cast iron pot. Last weekend we did the paella with some neighbors that was out of this World. We took some photos to upload, but I can’t find where Suzanne put them, so perhaps she can upload them later. Tomorrow its time for the Jambalaya. Its a whole lot of fun as we just form a circle of chairs around the cooker in the backyard and enjoy the time together. Last week was kind of cool and I can only hope that holds true for tomorrow. Hopefully, some more neighbors will stop on by too!
We are getting closer to nailing down a place to stay in Rome. It looks like it will be an apartment just like in Barcelona last year. We just have to find the right one. We spent a couple hours last night reviewing apartments of for cost, location and amenities. It helps having a laptop that we can hook into our 62″ HDTV to display the info so we can all see it. Of course, we don’t all agree on the best place to stay. I think we have it narrowed down to a final three locations. Perhaps this weekend we can finalize it.
I hope you enjoy the 4th of July with your loved ones. God Bless the USA!!!
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