Well, it has been a great week for training; everyday this week has been rainy and overcast. I don't feel like I am missing much by being stuck inside. Although, I would like to see what Dallas looks like in the sun. Maybe when I come back in January it will be sunny. I hope. I was thinking about traveling this morning and I decided to make you a list of some of the things I like and dislike about traveling. Enjoy.
Things I like about traveling:
* trying new foods
* seeing new places (I wish I could see them during the day)
* having time to work out in the gym every morning (being the only one in the gym is even better)
* having my room cleaned for me each day and my bathroom straightened
* driving a small rental car (it is like an adult go-cart - ha ha)
* sleeping (I get to go to bed early and get up early because there is no housework to keep me up)
* reading books (I brought five on this trip, I will finish two)
* airport security (I love you TSA people)
Things I could care less about:
* giant flat screen tv in my room (haven't used it)
* newspaper under my door each morning (haven't read it)
* unlimited coffee (haven't had any)
* four pillows on my bed (really?)
* hair dryer (haven't touched it)
* pool (it fogs up the windows to the workout room)
* desk in my room (I lie on the bed when I use the computer or read a book)
Things I don't like about traveling:
* not being with Jared (the telephone doesn't really help)
* hotel food (bleh. unless it was the hyatt in Chicago, they had incredible hotel food and completely spoiled me)
* NO TEA AT BREAKFAST
* noisy people on the hall
* a shower that doesn't want to turn on (the lever to turn from bath to shower falls off and gets stuck... I have to fix it each morning and wiggle it around until it finally changes over)
* that the cleaning lady took my notes that I had left on my nightstand -sigh
* airports
* flying
* airplanes (crammed in a little space for multiple hours is NO FUN even before you add in the fact that I HATE flying. I don't like the feeling of taking off or the feeling or the plane shaking all around. I don't like seeing the wing move up and down. I don't like being in a cloud and not seeing anything. I don't like that I am trapped in a row by two other people and I have to climb over them if I want to use the bathroom (which I try to avoid at all cost. I don't like the drinks they give you because you have to hold this cup of ice until they finally come back and take it away from you. I don't like the larger people that I usually sit next to that like to STEAL my armrest. boo hiss. I don't like the air blowing on my face the whole time and drying out my eyes, but I don't like the sick feeling I get when I start to feel too warm (thus, the air stays one). I don't like wearing earplanes because I have tiny ears and they hurt (but it is better than getting a pressure headache that feels like millions of tiny needles all poking into your forehead). I don't like that they DON'T give you peanuts anymore. I don't like that the pilot doesn't give me details about where I am and how fast we are going (I am curious about all these things and it might make the flight a whole lot more interesting to me, at least it would give me something to think about). NOT TO MENTION, I work with people that design the wiring harnesses for these airplanes and I don't trust them. ha. And those are a few of the reasons I HATE flying, yes, I hate it.)
Funny story of the day:
This morning at breakfast I sat near a table of high school football coaches. They are staying at the hotel today for their high school's championship football game with 90 kids from the school. They told the waitress that they from the smallest division and from a small school, but you never would have known that from the ways these guys talked. I have never seen Friday night lights, but I am guessing that these guys would have fit right in. It was highly amusing to me to listen to them talk about the team, the play strategies for the game, and how important this was to win because they had to have dinner with the in-laws this year and they would never live down a loss. They were so serious about football. It just made me laugh because it was so southern; it is what Jared is always telling me about football down south.
Have you ever run into any stereotypes that turned out to be completely true?
i too travel a few times a year for my job, and agree but also disagree with some of your list
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the big TV, and enjoy watching morning shows/news while I get ready in the morning.
I also like to watch TV IN BED, while eating my take out food IN THE BED. Ah, it is nice.
But I really dislike everything else!!! Especially the NO BEN part. I've somehow managed to NOT travel since Ivy was born, but I am afraid a trip might be coming up. ahhhh, makes me heartbroken just thinking about it.
I don't know if I could leave a child. I think that would be even harder, especially when they are younger. I hope you don't have to go. And I am impressed by almost every TSA agent that I deal with. I got to walk through the new scanner today. The women in front of me had to be scanned about six times because she kept moving or holding her arms the wrong way. Then the guy in front of me had his belt on and then he had his cell phone and change in his pocket... Seriously? Even after all that, they saw that he still had paper in his pocket and had to ask him to remove it so they could look at it afterwards. It doesn't seem that hard. I would get so frustrated with most passengers. I am thankful it is not my job, but that there are nice people that are willing to do it. :) I am very thankful.
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