happy mother's day!

hey mama. you're the best mom in the whole wide world (i think so at least). plus you're my best friend. and i am soooooo thankful for you.







i love you!!!

happy star wars day!

so yesterday was my first day officially flying as a flight attendant without someone supervising. and though i actually am currently the most junior FA at the base, i was assigned to fly lead all day (meaning of all the FA's, you're in charge). it was a lot of fun. i like telling people what to do. :)

it was also interesting because we definitely did not have a mellow, everything goes great first flight. we had blind passengers (dogs accompanied). disabled passengers. lap children everywhere. people who were air sick. people walking around in masks to avoid the swine flu. a claustrophobic women who i thought might not make it. people angry because there was no alcohol (no license to serve yet)... the list goes on.

however, i have learned the cure all. gambling. we do a lottery on a lot of our flights, and people absolutely LOVE it. it makes up for a list of evils, including the slowest boarding process i have ever witnessed, let alone been in charge of (oh dear).

but all in all. my job is really a lot of fun! it's definitely tiring, which explains all the mandatory rest periods, but it's fun as far as jobs go... if only i could move the airport closer to where i live.



may the 4th be with you!!!

i'm back!

back in my blogging world. AND more importantly, back home in pasadena!!!

being home is sort of strange. a good strange, but strange. everything feels like slow motion after vegas, where everything was on fast-forward. i was gone five weeks which feels more like 5 years.

but i am officially a flight attendant!



i'm on reserve this month so my schedule is a little up in the air. but i am for sure flying sunday. so that will be fun!

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on other notes... my parents surprised me with a new kitchen table and chairs in the apartment, which i am sooo excited about! i love it. i really just love my apartment all around. it's charming. 2 days ago a friend came over and he said upon seeing the apartment, "it's different... it looks like movie set." i don't really know what that means but i thought it was funny.

and i found this cute thing.



i love you!

He is risen!

happy easter everyone!



i'm stuck in vegas this weekend. i miss my family a lot...

but the good news is, Jesus rose from the dead!

poker face.

things have been crazy busy here in the vegas. this is probably the most intense thing i have ever done. the hours are ridiculously long and i never get enough sleep.

basically my day is such: every morning i wake up before 6 feeling really sick, like i'm dizzy and nauseous and going to pass out at any moment (i have decided this must be a combination of lack of sleep and extreme anxiety). then i get ready and go downstairs and try to make myself eat something. at 7 a ride comes to take us to the corporate office. classes start at 8 and go till 5. (typically around 10 am i stop feeling sick.) we get back to the hotel around 6 usually. at which point i'm so exhausted the act of finding something to eat for dinner usually takes a couple hours. then i attempt to study. go to bed. and do it again the next day.

we started with i think around 27 people. there are 18 of us now. two left willingly due to family emergencies, everyone else has been asked to leave. so as you can imagine, things are tense around here. which consequently means the drama levels are getting higher. i mean we're 18 veryyyy different people being forced to live and work together 24 hours a day. it's craziness. and to make matters more interesting we're living in sin city, a block from the strip. drama.

but lets see, what are some cool things that have happened so this isn't all downer debbie:
- i have learned a great deal more about gambling than i ever cared or needed to know. but it's fun!
- i asked my roommate if she wanted to pray with me before our last test and 12 people ended up coming outside who i prayed for. so cool!
- i am being challenged in ways i never have before with regards to my faith and people different than me, which is exhausting but cool.
- i really do think this is a great job, it's just the means to it is pretty crazy.



i love and miss you all.