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Happy Monday Morning, Twinkie!


What better way (other than sex) to start out a Monday morning, than a blog from your Bethie! And what is the topic of this blog, oh how about a weekend update?

This weekend was fantastic; it was one of those weekend where you have low expectations and they are blown out of the water. Let's start with Friday. On Friday, we had our all day sales meeting which was about as boring as you would expect. However, it was during that meeting that I realized how accepted I am as part of the group. Linda, one of the other outside sales reps, and I sat together and lamented on the obnoxious little girls (er, middle aged white men, easily confused with all the whining they were doing). Dave, my fabulous trainer (lol), started texting me during the meeting (he was also running the meeting) with joking texts. It was so cool, because I don't feel like an outsider with this group. The feeling continued as the meeting wrapped up and Stephen and I headed to Heidi's house for the "pre-Christmas party" party.

The party was comprised of many of my favorite BLI peeps as well as several of the vendors who come for the tradeshow, which took place on Saturday. This phenomenon of vendors coming to the party was a total surprise to me, but I soon realized why they were invited. These people come year after year and are like part of the family. There are two brothers who look and act like twins, even though they are not. They always have the biggest smiles and are laughing and having fun. It gave me visions of Garrity twins selling lighting far and wide as a tag team, lol. :D Ah, the novelty factor, hehehehe. Another notable person - Kelli. She is the HR person for budget and is about to turn 30. I had made small talk with her at the office, but at the party we totally hit it off. I have high hopes about her being a "girl" friend.

So we got home around 10pm on Friday, loved on the doggies and hit the hay in anticipation of a long Saturday. Saturday comprised of a tradeshow from 11 to 3:15 followed by the awards ceremony/dinner at 6pm. Okay, the cool part is that they pay for your room if you go to the tradeshow. Stephen and I were looking forward to getting spiffed up and hanging out with everyone, but the tradeshow? Yawn. Awards ceremony? Yawn. Wrong!

The tradeshow, while a little dry, was very helpful. I learned a lot about the products I can offer to customers, which is helpful. We wrapped up at 3:15, checked into our room and then headed to, where else? the bar. :P There we hung with several vendors and BLI peeps (the vendors stay for the party, too.) and watched the Bengals play. Fast forward to the party, we had a total blast. Lots of dancing to 90s hits, i.e. "Shoop", alcohol flowing, and nothing but good times. I hit the hay at midnight and Stephen has no clue when he came to bed, lol.

Yesterday, we took it easy. Watched football and ate Chinese food. :D This was a pretty boring blog, but a a boring blog beats no blog any day of the week! I love you soooo much and can not wait to Skype tonight!