Life has been absolutely crazy. I love my job and am traveling a ton in the Northeast Georgia and South Carolina areas. I've been to Augusta, Hiawassee, Greenville... and the list goes on. It's been really fun developing friendships with the other recruiters and getting to see so many places. Travel season will be done for the year before Thanksgiving comes, but until then, it will be even more hectic than it has been the past few months. Fun times, fun times.
School is going really well - I'm 4 classes (including the one I'm enrolled in right now) away from my MBA, so I'm pumped. I'm currently in a finance class and am loving it, surprisingly. It's actually making me consider getting a finance certification to add on to my MBA. We'll see, though. I'm over the whole school thing for now - I think 19 straight years of school is enough for now.
As for my family, they've been pretty busy, too. After 38.5 years, my dad retired from Gwinnett County Fleet Management in September. I think he's enjoying it, but he's ready to get busy doing something else. My mom is doing really well - she's still a substitute teacher at the high school and occassionally at the middle school. Grandmama is doing good, too - she absolutely loves to play with the pup. It's funny because she'll call out our house and say, "I'm coming to see my granddog." haha :) Speaking of Della, she's a mess... in a good way! She's got 14 tricks now, including the Bunny Hop, Skateboarding, and a few other way awesome ones. She's so smart that it amazes me. This is her "whatcha doing" face as she peeked around the corner in the hallway:
My Little and I went to the Sugarland concert and had a blast! They are some of the best performers I've ever seen (they're second to Bon Jovi in my book), and it was cool to know every single word to every single song they sang. I also got to go to the UGA v. LSU game in October with *Anna and her family. I'm pretty sure that was the most intense football game I've ever been to in my life. UGA was so close to winning... so close. Even though they lost (and Joe Cox played horribly), I had a ton of fun hanging out with her and her family, as always.
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At the end of last month, I ran in Race for the Cure in Macon, GA. My dad and I traveled there the morning of the race, and I managed to beat my goal - I wanted to *safely* finish the race and beat my record 5K time of 34 minutes and 5 seconds. Well, I finished without hurting myself in 32 minutes and 39 seconds. I was SO excited! It was awesome to achieve my goal, as well as run for all the special people in my life who have fought cancer at some point in time.
The Atlanta Motor Speedway race was awesome this year. It was the first time they ran the cars "under the lights," and there was some really great, intense racing throughout the entire race. It was very exciting, and there wasn't a single open seat in the place. That hasn't happened since something like 1991, so yaay for AMS management finally making some changes to sell-out the race. I met Kurt Busch and AJ Almendinger, and they were really nice guys. Then, last week, I got to meet Jack Roush at an event at Town and Country Ford, and he signed a ton of stuff for me. I got three of my diecast cars, a couple of posters, and my Mustang's passenger side visor autographed by him. He was so nice and seemed to really enjoy interacting with everyone who came to the session. Kevin got me a really awesome pink Roush hat that Jack signed for me, so it's pretty much one of my favorite hats now. He also took my mom and me for a test drive in a black convertible Roush Stage 1, so I've got the fever for a Roush. It'll happen... it might just take a while.
Well, that's about it for now. School and work are my focus at this point. I work out when I can and specifically try to keep running so I can beat my new 5K best time. I want to run the Peachtree Road Race next year, so that's my new goal. I'm hoping to get back to playing my guitar and piano sometime soon, too. First things come first, though.
Hope everyone is doing well! :)
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