The best thing about Washington State...

Coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, I think they keep all the good stuff themselves and send the crap out to other states. The coffee in Washington is amazing. And I mean ALL the coffee. In Starbucks, hotel lobbies, in restaurants, in the airport, ON AIRPLANES TRAVELING WITHIN THE STATE, ALL the coffee is amazing. You are reading this and thinking, ya right, it cannot be that different. But it is. Oh, it is.

This makes me even more excited to go to ETH to pick up Sam, because if Washington State coffee is THIS good, then I cannot imagine how amazing ETH coffee will be in ETH. Cannot wait!

Green Meg, if you ever want to send Sam a care package -- make it coffee. In fact, if we do a registry for the Washington chapter of the "I Heart Sam" fan club, I think only coffee will be on said registry.
Erin, is the coffee in Portland just as good?

travelin' mama

I'm in Spokane Washington now. Nice town. I'm staying in a GORGEOUS historic hotel. Built in 1914 and they have a lot of photographs from the teens and 20s. Very "The Shining" -- that was in Washington State, right? Well, no blood on the mirror this morning so I think I'm safe.
I'm here on business, for a deposition. The deposition is actually over now, and I'm killing the next 3 hours before I have to be at the airport for my flight to Portland and then my flight back home. No direct flights from Chicago to Spokane. Don't know why. Like I said, it's a nice enough town.

I generally don't mind business travel. Sure, its exhausting and its hard to eat healthy in airports and on planes, and your body and mind are one 2 different time zones. I do miss Gregg, because I'm a mush-head and miss him when I'm not with him. I actually miss him sometimes while I'm at work. DO not tell him that. I will deny it. you have no proof!

Travel is GREAT for billables, the harsh reality of law practice. I have to account for my time as a lawyer, and that time is billed to a client. Although I work at a great firm who has never fired someone for not billing enough, there is a billing "suggestion" and I try to bill over that. My billing is good this year, but more never hurt. When you travel, you bill door-to-door. This means you bill for sitting in an airport, on a plane, in a taxi. You bill for the time you lose by traveling.

But I'm thinking about Sam, and how all this will change so soon. I just cannot imagine taking a business trip when Sam is here. That means a lot more meetings and depositions via conference call, or sending someone else in my stead. I'm sure at some point in time a quite night out of the house will sound inviting, but not now. I don't want to miss a single second of Sam time, and definitely don't want to miss an entire day/night.

Its funny. We can see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel now, and everything seems to be seen through parental eyes. How will things change, how will they stay the same. Part of me doesn't even want to think about the reality of working after Sam is home, because I just want to stay home with Sam. But who knows, I may be a better mommy working. And we certainly will require my income for little necessities like G diaper liners, those adorable socks that looks like shoes, and tricycles. Gregg still has his eye on an Alfa Romeo peddle car from England. Should I mention that it's $400??? And that we are most definitely NOT purchasing it?!!!

Okay, this posting isn't really making any sense except inside my head at this point so I'll sign out. See you on the other side of the Rockies.