Last Night on the Beach

Tonight is the last night of unassigned life. I start tomorrow on a retail project in Dallas. I'll be based out of Dallas through the end of January at the earliest. It's a really cool project and a great opportunity...but bittersweet. Wouldn't you figure I'd get staffed locally for ski season...AGAIN! Booooooooo. Oh well. Like I said, good project and opportunity! We're having our internal kick off tomorrow, and like the good little BA I am I organized the team kick off dinner, and will be providing area maps with directions between the key places this week. And I just found out that I'll be in charge of printing everything in the morning for our kick off. To celebrate my last day of freedom, I got up and went for a long run, then did pilates and cooked myself a delicious brunch - breakfast burrito and peppermint mocha! yum! I had plenty of pre-work to do so that kept me busy most of the day. But I did manage to tidy up a bit and get all of my laundry done, so that I don't have that stuff on my mind once I start working. It's hard to do the local thing. You can work til 2 in the morning when you're in a different city, staying in a hotel, and never think twice about it. But if I have to work much past 7 when I'm local, I start stressing about dinner, and getting my place in order, and doing the laundry and grocery shopping, and getting up in the morning to work out and get ready and out the door without leaving my place like a tornado came through it.

Weekend was good. Went out for 2 happy hours on Thursday with different friends than I usually get to see. Friday afternoon we had our Women's Consulting Network event - massages and pedicures followed by drinks and appetizers. So great. I am such a good planner :) Stayed in for a chill night after that so that I could get up at 6:45am on Saturday for the Walk for Wishes. It was a great time! Thanks to all of the walkers on Team Mitchdogg, and to all of you who pitched in for a great cause! :) Saturday night was Chuck's b-day, and we rented out the uptown trolley for a couple of hours to celebrate...her birthday and her engagement! That was really fun! We were able to bring on our own booze, music, and guests, and we just cruised around dancing and talking. Good times.

Well, off to bed to be rested for the first day on the big bad retail project! Bon soir!