First Impressions

• People drive fast ! really fast
  
• The city is huge, I drove and drove and drove
  
• The hills are amazing, as is the vegetation
  
• Restaurants close really early, I had to have MikeyD’s for dinner the first night
  
• Have I mentioned how fast people drive ?
  
• The hotel in Camarillo is nice, but not as nice as the newer hotel in Thousand Oaks.
  
• Dulles Airport is a zoo
  
• LAX is an even bigger zoo, after Charlotte, I was not sure what was I thinking, but I felt like an ant.
  
• Weather is amazing, just a little chilly.
  
• Does everyone have an iPhone ? I never got the memo, but I am feeling I should have.
  
• Yes I am the lone gay person in the team, I think I will be alright.
  
• Need to get with the swimming program, or the gym program or something, and please take the cinnamon rolls away before I eat another one.
  
• I am tired though, very tired, I think I slept like 2 hours naps every day last weekend, and think I could sleep all day today and still not be rested.
  

California here I come ...

Darling readers, I have been gone, I know. The last project kinda sorta swallowed me whole, I had no breathing time, I stopped swimming, blogging, knitting (partially, there is some progress to talk about) and except for eating, working and struggling, I feel like little else has been going on in my life. Of course that is all hyperbole, I manage to go home for the holidays, to have a great New Years with the husband, and to be content mostly surviving from weekend to weekend. The project came to an end and here I am getting ready to go on the road again, without even one week at home, and this time its not even the East Coast, no, this time I am going to California.

Yes you read that correctly, I will be going back and forth between the coasts, every week. Yay for airline miles and hotel points, not so much for quality of life. I am lucky, the Argentine, is very supportive and he promises to come visit and be patient with me. I adore him for that, so I am trying not to complain too much, and chin up, and keep going. So today - Sunday, I am leaving DC at 5:30 and flying cross country (always wanted to say that) and will arrive in LA at 8:15 or so, should be interesting. I will be in Ventura County, 1 hr north of the city.

From a professional stand point it is a great opportunity, and I think it will even be fun, and the people I am working with will be great and all that, but at the same time i am terrorized and nervous. I am not sure how good/bad the flight will be, and I am not sure how my team over there will be, and how traffic will be and all those things that always have kept me awake will be, but in other hand it is a great opportunity and I get to not skip a beat and will be billable (the magic word in consulting) from one week to another.

All these lamentations need to be toned down, because a) its not the end of world and b) its California - fabulous weather, a high of low 70's and low of mid 50's. Really who am I to complain when there is snow in the card for DC this week. Still that means, fit, good looking people, which means, I need to go on a diet and start exercising pronto! I already found a swim team, lets hope I can make morning practices.

Wish me luck, and I will try to keep y'all posted