You know... I love Friday's for so many reasons. The obvious reason: anticipation of the weekend!

My other reason: It's bagel day at work! How I love my Everything Bagel and cream cheese (although, the person purchasing today bought strawberry and honey walnut cream cheese -- not too yummy on an everything bagel!). Anyone else just LOVE bagels? And to think -- I'm trying to cut out carbs.

And my other reason 2 weeks of every month: Interoffice Olympics, aka Cross Functional Games. Today it's basketball! I'm so ridiculously out of shape that it will be slightly amusing (or perhaps that should say embarrassing). And our team is slightly height challenged. So it could be interesting. But it will be fun! It's awesome to be part of an office, and especially part of a team, who values hanging out together in this way.

But the mixed bag for today is that I have to fly out this evening to work all weekend in Florida. I know... you're saying "Florida - how is that a bad thing?" The fact that it falls on Saturday and Sunday (getting home at 10:30pm) and my family stays home is what makes it horrible. I live for weekends and the time we get to spend together just relaxing and having fun. And it's been taken away from me. I'm so thankful that it doesn't happen often, and I'm a team player; willing to go when necessary. But it's been a long month of sick kids, and the house, meals, etc, are all kind of paying the price. Jon's beat -- so it would have been nice to be home to help him with all the stuff that weekends at home entail.

Oh well... next weekend.