Road warrior

The last week of March through the month of April will be filled with both personal and work travel, and when I am home on the weekends I will have house guests! Believe me, though, I am not complaining. I just spent a really nice weekend back home in Rochester honoring my grandparents together with family. I flew from there to San Francisco, where I feel very lucky to be asked to attend the big Intel launch event. I'll spend the month of April in Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, and Minneapolis introducing our new products to clients. I'm happy to do this because I've never been to any of these cities and I love the chance to spend time with our sales team. I think that I have such an easygoing attitude about all of this travel because I know that it will slow way down once we get past all of these launch activities.
I do miss my home, husband and doggies. I try to look on the positive side and think that the quieter house is helping Erich through the final stretch of grad school.
Right now I'm sitting in O'Hare, eating a salad and drinking a beer. This is my own kind of quiet time, and I like it. Of course I should be checking my work email, but instead I am taking some time for myself. "Me time" is so important, but a rare thing in my office. Many of my colleagues let work life permeate their ever-shrinking home life, with nothing but negative mental and physical results. You have probably heard of "work-life balance", well we have "work-life integration." I'm really fighting back against it as hard as I can. Already I feel like I have lost so much of my creativity. Case in point: I've been wanting to blog regularly, but I can't find any inspiration or motivation to write anything that anyone would enjoy reading. So, I've been spending time on planes reading novels rather than email, trying to do anything I can to regain control of my right brain. Any ideas? Hopefully I will be back soon with a sassy, funny, non-work related blog.