Vacay Recap

The last few days have been a blur of events. So interesting… I left on Monday to drive to San Antonio – Christmas is almost here, and I think spending it with my family while you have family is important. I was however very reluctant to come down. Here is the thing, San Antonio means work, period. It means you go to the store and you work. If I want to see my mom, I work. It is a sucky reality, and the thought of working during Christmas when I just finished a tedious semester at college just did not appeal to me this year. Then I heard my parents voice over the phone, and the thought of seeing them even at work – brought a smile to my face. Man I miss them… and suddenly I can’t wait to be in San Antonio!

So Monday was a WAY interesting day. First, I made like two trips to the DMV to make my car all legal! Then, I saw two people and got a lot of closure ALL BEFORE 11AM! Felt like a load off my shoulders. By 1pm my sister and I had the car packed up and ready to leave for Texas. The trip was so nice. I forget how much I love having my sister all to myself! Yeah, it totally sounds selfish – but if I had to choose a sister all over again, hands down she would be it! We had fun on the trip – My dog was soooo good this time too! We hit snow in Northern Oklahoma, rain in Central Oklahoma, and ice in Southern Oklahoma…. CRAZY! We got to McKinney about 7:30 that evening, and ran off to the mall in Frisco to find our favorite face wash… on the way back to McKinney we went off roadin a little in my Honda… he he! We stayed in McKinney Monday evening, and it was a little strange for me. The room I use to live in, well that is a student office setting, and the office I use to work in… well remains an office – guess it is just me who felt a little strange for a moment about it. I quickly got over that, and spent time with my favorite aunt and coca cola cousin. That night was rough though, I didn’t get much sleep – and my heart was troubled about a lot of things…

Tuesday, we left for San Antonio! Actually – I ran super dupah late and we didn’t get out of McKinney until like 11:45, my sister wasn’t happy because we had to still stop in Southern Dallas to see my Godmother. Lunch traffic wasn’t bad – and I totally celebrated in the fact that for the FIRST time I turned onto I35SE without a problem! YAY!!!! We stopped by to see my Godmother, and surprise we also got to see our cousin who has been in Korea for like five months. My Godmother looked so tired *sigh* so much I could say about that, but I won’t. We spent about an hour and a half visiting before we hit the road again. On the road I listened to a lecture entitled “Character Matrix” I will get into the significance of that later… I decided 20 miles outside of San Antonio, that since I had the dog we would not stop by the store- but go directly to the house and ride together with my father back to the store. So instead of taking 410, I took 1604…. CAN WE JUST SAY FRUSTRATING??? I needed to be on 1604 for approximately 18 miles, traffic was back to back and grrrrr it took almost 45 minutes to go 18 miles!!!!!!! When I finally exited 1604 to get on I10, I went West instead of East and ended up in Boerne. I was a little frustrated, my poor dog was all anxious, and my sister wasn’t excited about the detour. We finally got home and I was so tired, I just laid on the floor. My dad talked to my sister and I about going to the store, but I started getting loopy – so he called and asked if it was necessary to come in. My mom agreed that it would be best if we stayed at the house, SCORE! I went to bed early about 11pm… nice.

Wednesday, I slept in – Traveling wears me out, I shouldn’t be such a wimp… can’t seem to help it though. My mom did wake me up at 3am though to talk a bit about my Godmother (her sister), I tried to stay awake – resistance was futile ;)! I spent part of the morning on the phone with my best friend Sai, and then the rest of it was spent trying to repair my lap top. We finally left the house about 2pm to go to the store to help my mom. EVERYTHING in the store is different! It makes me smile to know my mom is finally putting things together the way she wants – makes me proud that she invest so much work into her passion. Hannah and I spent a little time catching up with the employees and then we both got down to business. I went to the office to make some calls to our contractors and advertisers, and Hannah did her thing on the sales floor. When mom and her friend got back from lunch she put me behind a register. I will tell you now – it is strange to be the trainee after you have been the trainer so very long. He he he, I felt so lost… it made me just work harder! Five minutes and it all came back. On top of that my mother’s friend had a 13 year old girl at the store bored out of her mind. She ended up spending the next 3 hours playing with my ipod, pda, and my phone! When she got tired of that, she followed me around the store and helped me price new jewelry. We close early on Wednesday’s so at 6pm we started turning off the lights to get customers to go home -because at 7:30 there was a Christmas Party for the employees of Serendipity at the Macaroni Grill! The Christmas party was a blast. 18 people at one long table, just laughing it up. It was so fantastic to see everyone and catch up. I splurged and had a little caffeine tonight… so I was definitely part of the entertainment. Pictures of the Christmas Party can be seen on my flickr site. We got home finished up some last minute business. I spent the rest of the night trying to rid my computer of it’s ickyness and now it is like 1am I wanna go to bed, but there is a 13 yr old in my bed… so off to the couch I go…

So this is a brief recap of the last few days… I didn’t get to see my mom much which pretty much sucks, but I will always have Christmas day!

All the pictures I am taking of the Christmas Vacation are on my flickr site… all taken with either my camera phone or my PDA…. Here is the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/95145968@N00/?deleted=31170334