This week flew by, I thought it was going to be a long one since I was going to be gone all week for work, but it was a pretty good week. Lot's of great food, though.
It all started on Monday, I started my day with Jazzercise then to work for half the day. Heather and I left about 1:00 for Burr Ridge, IL. Trust me, there is not much there, but we managed to do just fine. Heather brought her truck to my house to park it so we could just come right here once we got home and she could head home herself, she has about a 45 minute drive from DBQ. We got to our hotel about 5:00 and checked into our rooms. We got rooms next to each other on the 6th floor. So I got into my room and got situated, about 10 minutes later the phone in my room rang, I answered it and whoever it was hung up, I just figured it was Heather for some reason and about 4 minutes later their was a knock on my door, again I just figured it was Heather, I didn't even look through the peep whole, I know I should have before opening the door but I just, well opened the door and here was the front desk lady with a box of flowers! I just shook my head and said "that husband of mine" the lady delivering my flowers had the biggest smile on my face, how exciting to deliver flowers to a hotel guest. So I brought them into my room and opened the box, there was even a small box of chocolates. So I unwrapped them and started to put them in the vase that was included and thought I better do it right and cut the stems like the instructions say, so I headed down to the front desk to ask for a scissors, then back up to my room to get my flowers all situated. I even had a little desk in my room so they really brightened up my room. My husband is the best, I never imagined he would have flowers delivered to my hotel room. I love you sweetie..
So after I got all situated Heather and I went down to the hotel restaurant for dinner. I had a tenderloin and it was very good, that was one of the few delicious meals. It was an early night, I had a few beers during dinner and headed back up to the room.
Training started at 9:00 Tuesday morning, so I got to sleep in, it was awesome. The only thing that sucked about that night sleeping was when I talked to mom, she asked if I checked for bed bugs! Come on, mom don't talk about that and NO I didn't. So in the middle of the night, actually around midnight I woke up to what I thought was a bite right on the my right side thigh, I jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom and looked for anything resembling a bug bite and of course, there wasn't and I immediately blamed my mom! I was like "duh Rachael, just go back to bed" but sure enough, I had to turn on the lights and check the bed, again nothing. So I went back to bed and slept the rest of the night. I called Mom the next day and told her about it. LOL
So Tuesday morning we ate breakfast at the hotel, we had a big breakfast and regret eating that much because all morning in training we were yawning. A lot of this training did not pertain to us because we only have 11 associates and the other call centers had over 200 and this "blue pumpkin" program is used more for bigger call centers, so there was somethings we took away from this training but 3 days was a lot! Lunch we went to Subway and for dinner we went to an Italian restaurant - Capri. It was so good, lots of food. We were back to the hotel around 7:00, the restaurant was just a couple of blocks away from our hotel. I didn't know what to do, so I decided to rent a movie. Wow, were they expensive! I could have rented something that still in theaters but they were about $16 and I couldn't see spending that much, even though I was expensing it, I couldn't see spending that much, so I went for a lesser movie, which was still $12 but it was well worth it. I know once I tell you what movie I seen you're all going to probably laugh, but it was Eclipse - The Twilight Saga. I know I've seen it before but I think it was the only thing that would have kept me awake so I caved in and watched it. It was just as good as the last time I've seen it.
Wednesday started out with breakfast at the hotel again, however, we didn't pig out like the morning before we took it easy and training was about the same, thank God I had my laptop so I could keep up with emails and all that. The group went out to lunch at The Patio, about 10 minutes from The McGraw-Hill Companies, this building was right across the street from our hotel, which worked out wonderful, we just walked over. Lunch was great and it was nice to meet everyone, there was a group from Ohio and another from Texas. The rest of the afternoon was good and after training we met with our boss, Jessica, for dinner. She works out of the Burr Ridge building and she took us to Cooper's Hawk, it's a winery and restaurant and again it was delicious. I had a fillet Mignon and of course a glass of wine. They make their own wine there, so they say. So after supper we got back to the hotel, it was so beautiful out, so Heather and I walked around the parking lot, she's a smoker, so she was outside often and since it was so nice I decided to go out with her. Once I got back to the room I called Tom and said I want to do something but there really wasn't anything to do, there was a strip mall a couple blocks away so I decided to go over there, this was about 7:45 and I decided to call Heather and ask if she wanted to come with, she was in the same boat as I was so off we went. I really wanted to go to New York and Company so that was the first place we went, well when we walked in, I asked what time they closed and guess what, they closed at 8:00, go figured so we walked through but didn't buy anything. We ended our night at Starbucks, she got a coffee and I got a Caramel Apple Spice, yummy!
This morning, we decided to eat breakfast at Starbucks then headed back to work, we were only there until noon. We decided to take off early because the information they were going over had nothing to do with us so we decided to take off. We stopped to say goodbye to Jessica and headed out. We stopped at the Belvediere oasis, Heather has never been to one. We grabbed McDonald's and sat and watched the traffic. We got home about 4:00 and wow was it ever gorgeous out when we got home, we left Chicago and it was super windy but I think it's going to change Sunday, we're expecting snow again, great!
So all week while I was in Burr Ridge, I had to take ovulation tests, my doctor wants me to do this since I did not take Clomid this cycle, but unfortunately, I didn't have a positive test :( but I guess that's the reason I'm on Clomid, to help me ovulate. So tomorrow I have to call the doc and tell him. Now we'll just have to wait until next month and I found out the other day that I have to do that ultrasound down in the quad cities so we'll have to figure out when that will be. Oh and the semen analysis will have to be done there too. This is going to be a long process especially with all the driving, but it will be all worth it in the long run.
So now I'm getting caught up on General Hospital and wow, did I miss a lot!
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