Hello Gorgeous! I've started a new adventure along with flying. I'm hoping that with this I can stop flying so much for income and can really start to enjoy it again. So what's my plan?

MARY KAY

Yup, Ladies. I've rejoined the wonderful world of Mary Kay. I did this about 11 years ago. I was fresh out of high school and didn't take it too seriously. Imagine if I had though?! what a different place I would be in! Although, this has been a journey that has taught me more that I can appreciate.

I'm excited about this new adventure and am deeply DETERMINED to be successful. I know I have the support that I need and am happy to have a new opportunity.

Soon I'll be able to stop flying so much, be home in Austin more, more quality time with family and work on my new own business!

If  you would like to check out the website click on the ling below!

Courtney's Mary Kay Link

I look forward to seeing all the new customer orders!!! Remember the holidays are around the corner!!!

Japan Meets Dallas TX

The hardest part of flying sometimes is something as simple as language. Being in the travel industry means coming across those that do not speak any English at all....period. There are a few routes that this is to be expected on. Dallas/Forth Worth is not one of them, unfortunately. We were going from Los Angeles to Dallas/Forth Worth and had a small load of passengers. Not even first class was full. It was was a long flight where we arrived at nearly midnight. The other flight attendant had family in the Dallas area and wasn't staying at the hotel with the rest of the crew. When we got off the aircraft there was a little Japanese man running around yelling at us in JAPANESE, which neither of us speak. We figured out that he was looking for baggage claim and since we walk through there to get to our hotel shuttle I escorted him there. He didn't understand the concept still of where his bag was going to come from. The pilots were still tip-toeing their way out of the airport behind me leaving me to manage on my own (they're always just a TON of help, HA!). I finally had found an airport employee to help assist him and wait with him for his bag. I felt good that I had helped him out or at least found someone that could assist him further so I could meet back up with my crew. Oh boy, I wasn't out the woods. He got his bag rather quickly and if only that hotel shuttle had been just 2 minutes earlier. He spotted me and made a bee-line for me and me only. I was the face he was associating help with. Me and me ALONE. He was looking for his ride. I still do not know if it was a hotel or someone personally. Everything in his bag was in Japanese. There was one single phone number and I tried calling it, until I realized that he was a digit short. I was falling short, too. I couldn't help him. There was my crew with additional passengers in the hotel shuttle waiting on me. Everyone was starring at us, just waiting to see how I was going to assist this man. I did the only thing I knew to do at the time. This was the last shuttle to the from the airport to the hotel and I didn't have a lot of options. I sent him back upstairs with the guy that assisted him before. I still feel guilty that I couldn't help him myself. I guess that comes with the territory. You're not ALWAYS going to be able to help. It's still frustrating for us though to not be able to manage small tasks like these on our own. I'm hoping he made his way to where he was going.

Show Me Kansas City

I just had an amzing overnight in Kansas City! It was 27.22 hours long! When we got there and started driving to the hotel I was ssooo excited. Driving towards downtown just gave me this wierd feeling. All of these memories came flooding back. The good and the bad. I thought we stayed at the Crowne Plaza hotel on the Plaza but I was wrong. We were literally 3 blocks from my old apartment and my old office building. That was even more wierd! I could see my apartment from my hotel room!

Once I got settled in my room I had to wait for my microfridge to be brought up. I found that there was an AMC theather only one block away that was playing The Help so that was certainly on my to-do list. I walked around the Power & Light district. It's new to the downtown area and I've never been down there since. There are soo many new restuarants! i was soo jealous that none of that was there when I lived there. However, I have to think that if it had all been there I may not have ever moved to SLC. Because, my goodness there is a Chipotle and we know how much I LLLLOOOVVEEE Chipotle!

After walking around I headed to the AMC theather. This theather has the Cinema Suites! OMG! It's awesome. It's like sitting in a restuarant while watching your movie in a nice compfy recliner. I could have fallen asleep! Just needed a blanket and a pillow! The armrest even moves up to cuddle with your companion. But I was alone :-( I need to find one of these in Austin for us to go to!

SWEET SUITE HUH?!

The next morning I went walking again and found my old apartment building and my old office building. Great memories! Looking forward to coming back to see some old coworkers next time!!!

Lost in Flight

Well, this last flying adventure was CRAZY!

My renuin was on Saturday August 13th. So I had planned for us to fly to Salt Lake City on Thursday when Josh got off of work. This was going to give us the opportunity to hang out with Sara and Rachel and have a light dinner with a few drinks. That part worked out well and although we didn't get first class we still managed to have a few cocktails and play a little scrabble. We wanted to have sushi at our favorite sushi restuarant but that didn't work out so well with the time we were left with once landing and getting to the car. So we hit up the Bayou for the night.

Originally the flights looked great. I even thought we would be able to get first class. Somehow in the middle of the night things went bad. We got to the airport Friday morning to find out that all flights for the day to Kansas City (MCI) were oversold. I looked at all other airlines and we had no hope. Frustrating!! I looked at flights for Saturday morning and it was a completely different story. Everything looked great all day long! SERIOUSLY??? I wanted us to get there Friday because we were going to go to the Missouri State Fair since Josh had never been to a state fair. I was excited for us to be going especially since I hadn't been in soo long. Needless to say we didn't make it on the flights. We went back to Rachel's and took long naps before heading out for our sushi. YUP at least we got that!!! Oh I can still taste it! We then decided to go to a triple A baseball game there in SLC. It turned out to be a decent night for being stuck in SLC an additional night.

Saturday we made it on the first flight into MCI and in first class. It was all about sleeping for us. Mom and Hannah picked us up and we stopped at On the Border for a late lunch before heading into Sedalia. We did make a short stop in Warrensburg to see Brittany and Ethan too. Once we got into Sedalia we started getting ready for the reunion. For certain reasons I'm deciding to not speak of this event. We ended up leaving earlier than planned and picked up Hannah and went to the fair. An old time photo, a ferris wheel ride and a lot of people watching made for an interesting but fun night. We got back to the house around 1 AM. Sad thing: we were leaving Sedalia at 3:30 in the morning! We weren't even there for 36 hours :-(

We headed up to Kansas City to the airport and were way ahead of schedule for our 6:20 AM flight to SLC.  Ha, doesn't end there though. Every single access to I-435 North was closed!!! I knew 435 went in a circle from living there for 4-5 years and we ended up going the long way. Troy didn't think that we would make it there in time. I checked us in online but was still going to have to check us in on the kiosk inside the airport to get Josh a boarding ticket to get through security.  Well that options shuts down 30 minutes prior to the flight. Lucky for me there were some extremely nice Delta agents willing to asisst me ahead of the long line of customers waiting to get us through. We had already been assigned seats in first class too. We were running which we have never had to do and made it to security when Josh then declined the new scanners and got a pat down. We still made it but whew it was close!

It was a long short trip if that makes any sense. All of that traveling for a mere 36 hours in Missouri. Hopefully we'll make it back soon!

Long Time No Write

Been a while since I've written on here. I guess I just needed some space! Things have been going well. There is no way I can even attempt to go back and try to catch up on all that has happened! But a few big things: In May Josh and I flew to Missouri and he met my family for the first time, then in July they were all able to come to Austin for the 4th of July (which was nice for them to see how things were going in TX for me), Josh's job is still going well and I'm still looking for something in Austin in hopes that I can stop flying and be home. I really want that.


We have a lot planned in the next few months. My 10 year high school reunion is this weekend. I'm not sure that we will get to go. It's still up in the air. We have a few days planned for Vegas before we go to San Diego to meet up with Josh's family for his cousin's graduation from the Marines. I'm definitely looking forward to that! It's going to be a lot of non reving but I know Josh can handle it now!


Work is well. There have been a few trips that I have had to stack on top of one another and those aren't fun. Then I end up being gone for 10 days and that's hard on both of us. So I'm hoping that I won't have to do anymore of that. I'm also trying to be home more weekends so we can do more on the weekends together rather than just errands and chores! ICK!


Well, it's time to put on the polyester and pantyhose!