Our First Thanksgiving

Well, Grayson's first Thanksgiving has come and gone! He ate a little bit of turkey, and some stuffing & some corn. He seemed to enjoy house hopping to meet his great-grandmother (my mom's mom) for the first time ever. I will be calling her "GG" to try to make it simple for Grayson as he is learning who people are.

He also met his Aunt Alley for the first time! I now think he has met all of his immediate family. There are many more cousins of mine and aunts and uncles of mine but that is extended family that it could take years for him to meet. Some that he might not ever meet.

Now we are going to move head first into the Christmas season! We don't do a real tree - I have never had one and I have never been into the idea of having one. But the current tree that we have is 7 feet tall & I have to string the lights on it! I'm very much over that - so we are going to go out today and get a nice small (5 to 6 feet) pre-lit tree.

And then, tonight, my husband and I are going out to celebrate the fact that we have been married for 2 years today. My how the time flies on by.

I hope everyone had an amazing holiday!

US Airway Complaint

So, as I wrote about yesterday, I am going to Atlanta at the end of January! This will be my first time there, I'm going to be meeting some amazing women for the first time - and it will be my last time flying with US Airway.

Why you ask? Well, here is a little story about terrible pricing issues & even worse customer service.

On Tuesday morning around 9am I finally got around to booking my flights for my trip. The ticket price, each way and before taxes, was $137. So I paid $300 totally for the trip. Fine.

At 1:30pm-ish a co-worker went to the site to check the prices, she too is traveling to GA (for work). Now, the tickets that I just paid $137/per ticket for are only $74/each. WHAT?!?! How is that possible, only 5 hours later that they are charging LESS for the tickets?

Obviously if I canceled and re-booked they would charge me more than the $126 I would have been saving (can you believe it?!?!) So, I decided to contact Customer Service and the CEO of US Airway to complain. See if I could get something out of it, even if they wouldn't give me back the $126 they stole.

Today I get a response from a CS representative, Rose Kass, and she explains to me that ticket prices go up as the seats book and become less avaliable to the public.

What?!?!

So - since I booked my flight at 9am that morning, a seat was taken up, and now they are going to charge $63 less a ticket because of that? No -wait - according to Rose they should be going up, not down.

I emailed her back, and in slightly nicer words told her that she is an idiot who didn't even bother to read my email in the first place because her reply didn't even pretain to my complaint.

I know they don't care, I know I'm only one traveler, but you know what? I think what I have to say is important, and I think they are screwing people daily and don't give a shit. I'm sure I won't get another reply, I'm sure I will be black listed now, but whatever, I needed a place to vent, and sadly, the terrible Customer Service at US Airway is the only place I had to go.

Let the Craziness Begin!

So, this weekend is going to kick off an endless amount of craziness in my life! I don't remember my life being this busy before my son came into the picture.

This weekend I'm doing a spa day with some friends - The Hershey Spa. An amazing experience if you can ever get there. Then Sunday I have a Baptism for my cousin's 3rd baby.

Fast forward to Thursday - Thanksgiving! Then Friday is shopping & hanging with family & then a concert in Atlantic City that night. Saturday is a baby shower for a dear friend, then Sunday is my 2 year wedding anniversary. I took off Monday because of all this craziness.

Then December. We have plans with friends and my mom's birthday right in the first weekend. The weekend after that is currently open. But with all the shopping and living that happens in Decemeber, I don't imagine a moment to myself. My birthday is the 17th & the 18th is my work holiday party. I'm also getting my hair cut that day!

And then Christmas. I don't even want to think about all the running around. Then some quiet time.

The end of January is going to be so amazing. I'm going to Georgia to meet up with some awesome GPMs! Even though I'm flying - alone - with my then to be 11 month old baby, it's still going to be a great time for us all. Be jealous, it's okay.

Holiday Cards!

So, I am blogging today about holiday cards. I'm so excited to do our first family holiday card this year. I'm going to use Shutterfly (as I do for all things photo related!).

I have used Shutterfly for years, but now that I have had Grayson I have made a photo album every single month. Not to mention the "best of months 1-6" album I put together for those friends or family that doesn't want to flip through all the albums, though who wouldn't wan to do that? Then there are numerous pictures I printed out to plaster all over my office. I can't look around without seeing my son's smiling face.

I also make a calendar a year, ever since Colleen made me one years ago, I just knew a run-of-the-mile calendar with cats or sayings just wouldn't cut it. It's a Christmas gift from me to me every year.

Now it's time for the next generation of things I can use Shutterfly for - making a photo holiday card to mail to family and friends with my son's cute cute face on them!!! I'm torn between a couple of the options there though. There is the "Season of Joy" or the "Snowflake Reflections Cocoa" cards that I like. I think it's fun to have a few different pictures to show off in either of these 2 cards. But, then again, if we do one family shot of the 3 of us something like "Snowy Starry Pines" or "Christmas 2010" would really do a better job of showing us off. If you take a look at them, do you have a thought about it?

So, plan to see a card from my little family this year in your mailbox, and you will just have to be surprised on whether I'm just showing off my kid in cute clothes, or if you will see all 3 of our happy smiling faces!!!

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