After a nice 10 day vacation from Telluride I am now back at work. My trip was great! It all started with a overnight stay with Amy Porter, I thought it might be awkward since I haven't seen her in close to 6 years. No worries, while watching Biggest Loser we caught up and reminisced about the old days of working at Friendsview Manor. Turns out Amy loves Starbucks just as much as me, how could we not be friends!
My flight was fine, I flew Jetblue. It would have been perfect had the guy across the aisle not been the grossest man EVER! Seriously, this man had a mini fro and fingernails that were at least an eighth of an inch long! Please brake out the ruler folks....it's gross! No grown man or any man for that matter should have fingernails that long! He then proceeded to take off his shoes (thank God he was wearing socks!) and eat this nasty taco while licking his fingers. He threw his garbage on the floor and all his magazines! I wanted to say but didn't "this is an airplane! not your living room!" The highlight was I got to watch TV the whole flight! I suggest next time you fly, try flying Jetblue without the gross man...it's great! You get as many snacks as you want!
Once I got to New York, I was picked up by Andy and Geno and taken back to their house in Poughkeepsie. They were so nice to let me stay at their house for the next week and a half. Although, staying at their house was what I imagine living in a frat house would be like. I love these two boys but their house and car were nasty! Geno let me use his car when he wasn't using it and frankly it smelled like beer and red bull. I know, your wishing there was a little tree that smelled just like that to put in your car!
My old boss from Starbucks Jan and my opening buddy from Starbucks Joe came out to hang for the weekend. On Friday we all got together at Julia's house (assistant Manager of Starbucks) to have pizza and grapefruit martini's. Another Starbucks partner Mel was there along with two of my most favorite regulars Liz and Frank. Frank made the best pizza I have ever had! We had so much fun hanging out and chatting.
After I left there Andy and Geno had a big party at their house in my honor. I knew roughly 5 people and there were close to 70 people there! At these big parties they charge every person $5 for a cup. I was in charge of cups at one point in the evening and had this nice kid come up to me and ask me a question regarding the cups. When I answered he responded with "thanks Ma'am"! Boy did that make me feel old, being that I was a good 5 years older then the majority of the people there! The next morning I went upstairs and found a nice pile of throw up in the corner on the wall and bookcase! No worries, they cleaned it up 3 DAYS LATER!!!
I hung out with Jan, Joe, Julia most of the weekend, until Jan and Joe had to leave Sunday afternoon.
Sunday I hung out with my dear friend Kevin and after that I started getting sick! By Tuesday I couldn't really talk and sounded like a man. My sister didn't even recognize me on the phone. She thought I had lost my phone and some man was calling the recent calls to find out who owned the phone. I ended up going to the doctor because we thought I had pneumonia. Turns out it was just an upper respiratory infection. I still have a pretty wicked cough!
The rest of the week was pretty slow, I didn't do much because most everyone was in class or working. It was a nice break from my 7 day work week that I have been doing since December! Here are some pictures from my week!
