EXCITING!!

My day today started out pretty rough.... I was woken up at 1:45 and couldn't fall back asleep until 3am and had to be at work at 7am. Death.

I got to work and started going through my normal routine, then left to go to our annual company kickoff meeting at the Magnolia Hotel. Despite the tumultuous economy, I am proud to say that I love the company I work for and feel secure in my job. Our kickoff meeting was done via webcast so that all 4 of our offices could watch the speech given by our Chairman & CEO at the same time. He is an amazing speaker/motivator/person and its always exciting to hear him talk.

After the webcast was finished the heads of our office said we had one last matter of business to take care of and that they were going to call some people to the front of the room. The recent buzz around the office has been about a "5-Star" trip to mexico - basically a year long competition put in place to motivate people to sell their little hearts out. I figured they must have been announcing the names of the 5-Stars winners and really hadn't thought I had a chance in hell at winning. They began calling the names.... Matt Butler...Ed Wood.... Dane Hinnen...Lisa Cotter -- wait what! Did they just say my name?? "Ok this must be for something else" was the thought that was going through my head, "there is no way this is for 5 Stars" the rest of the names were called and when everyone had made it to the front Laurie said "do you all know who these people are, and do you know where they will be in 96 days? These are your 5 Stars and they are going to mexico!"

I'm basically still in shock and my main reason for blogging about it is I had to just get it out. I am so excited, I was shaking and basically in tears because I really didn't think there was any chance I'd make the cut. Anyway, enough typing, I don't think I've typed anything this long since college (thats embarassing) but incase you are interested in a preview of where we are going here is the website: http://www.secretsresorts.com/capri/index.html and here are some pictures:

The gym is calling my name.... only 96 days to get bikini ready!