My "Right Arm"

Chelsie Allen. The other day she was talking to her mom and they were talking about plans for Sean’s (her brother) birthday today. Her mom asked if Chelsie had invited me to come with her and she replied as if her mom was crazy for asking that question. Her mom then responded with a comment saying that she was basically "my right arm". I’ve had some time to think about that statement and there couldn’t be a more true statement, she IS my right arm. A blog "in the life of Jeff " wouldn’t be complete without including "my right arm". She is absolutely wonderful. We have been dating on and off for about 3 years now and our 3 year "anniversary" from our first date was on Feb. 12th (2 days before VDay) but since we have been on and off for so long we couldn’t remember the day exactly. It took me about an hour to actually figure out on what day we had our first date and I remembered that I went to a jazz game 2 days prior so I went back and looked at their 2005 schedule and figured it out. I was leaving to go home on the 14th so I told her that I wanted to do something on Tuesday (the 12th) and she didnt really know why that date was significant just yet. She asked me what we were doing and I told her that we were going to eat and that was all. I decided that it would be kinda neat if we went on the same exact date as our first date since it had been 3 years to the day. Our first date was at Outback Steakhouse and then we went and watched the movie Hitch. The night went like this.....I told her I would pick her up at 7 and call her when I was there. I had Jojo pick her up while I was waiting at Outback so I called her and told her to come down. Waiting on the front seat of my car was a letter, the movie Hitch and a teddy bear holding a gift which was a heart necklace with our initials engraved in it. Jojo had her read the letter while he was driving her to dinner and the letter explained how 3 years ago to the day was our first date and that I was waiting for her at Outback to repeat that night. She got to Outback (which for me seemed to take forever) and the smile on her face gave me chills inside. After dinner we went back and watched Hitch to finish off a memorable night. I couldnt ask for a better "right arm" and I feel very blessed to have such an amazing girl in my life.

Nashville

For some reason people on the east coast like to call Nashville "Nashvegas" and while I was there I didn’t see any resemblance, in fact when we went downtown to the Wild Horse Saloon we went by the Tennessee titans stadium and got to a road that had nothing but bars on it so in a visual sense it was nothing like Las Vegas. Maybe the saying "what happens vegas stays in vegas" is a little motto they have down there but who knows. In case you were wondering why I was in Nashville we has a national work meeting at the Gaylord resort which was basically a city indoors. It had rivers, waterfalls, restaurants, shops, pools, and anything you could imagine indoors while it was a cool 40 degrees outside. A large part of the time we were in meetings but we were able to enjoy the amenities during the night. It was fun to get to know people in my office on a more personal level and very entertaining to see them drink. Our last night in Nashville was a very memorable one……we were in meetings all day and once we were done with the meetings we got on a bus that took us to the Wild Horse Saloon which is a huge place where some country bands like Lonestar got noticed and then made it big. We got to the Wild Horse and had the top level reserved for all of the Aerotek employees with free drinks and food. Ill leave it up to your imagination on how crazy it got when the average Aerotek employee is in his/her mid twenties! The poor girl at the bar looked like she was gonna go crazy. I stayed up there for a bit and played some darts and then it was on to the dance floor with some people from my office. Its amazing how people in Nashville live and breath country music. Ive never seen so many good country dancers in my life so I pretended to act as if I knew what I was doing but on the other hand my buddy Nate dawg had no shame! He is a skinny guy with glasses who looks like he is still 16 but has no shame whatsoever. You cant not love Nate dawg. We were all supposed to leave at 11pm so we could get up in time for our 6am flight back to Salt Lake but we ended up leaving there at 1am so some people decided to stay up all night and keep drinking and then go straight to the airport. The ride back to the hotel was hilarious but the experience in the airport was even funnier. One guy got to the check-in desk and asked the lady if she thought he was cute. Another guy was walking down the security check-in line singing at the top of his lungs. We sat down by our gate and Scott sat down by Wendy while she was asleep and kept trying to fee her a bagel and saying "Eat! Eat! Wendy you need to eat!" Chris saw that Scott was bugging so he smacked the bagel out of his hand, took a piece of bagel, dipped it in cream cheese and smeared it all over Scotts face! Scott was too drunk and tired to even care so for about 30 min. he had cream cheese all over his face. I think the funniest story of the trip home was when we got on the plane everyone sat in their seat and passed out. Well, we were sitting at the gate for about a half hour and they came over the loud speaker and said that there was a leak in the engine and we had to get off the plane so they could fix it. We started to get off and people started waking up and Corey woke up and asked if we were already there so if you know me that is a prime spot to start messing with someone. I told him that we had landed and asked him if he remembers any of the flight, obviously he said no so I continued to play it off until we walked out of the ramp and he said that this looks like Nashville…..he then had a puzzled look on his face and realized that we hadn’t left yet. So the trip to Nashville was all in all a good trip and I wouldn’t mind visiting "Nashvegas" again.