Gracias por the Luck of the Irish!

Today is a happy day for the following reasons:

The washing machine was fixed this morning at 7:38am! :-) Gracious thanks to my friend Marla who runs UrbanReferrals.com which matches local contractors/home repair pros with people who need the help! She's a small biz owner and has made quite a fantastic business - hell she's been in the Post, Washingtonian Magazine, ReModeling Magazine, NBC4 and the list goes on. If you own a home in our metro area you should be getting contractor referrals from one website only! Oh yeah - it is a FREE service to the homeowner :-) Of course now I am on wash load #6!

Bienvenidos a Puerto Rico!
The Boo and I will be going to PR in early April - finally a couple days to get away in the sun to relax! It was a trial and tribulation to find any decently priced airfares, let alone seats! Well somehow (and I still don't know how we managed it) we got tickets on USAirways to San Juan from Orbitz PHEW. Now the cool part - the trip down will be in FIRST CLASS!!! Yup, not an upgrade, we have actual first class tickets and seats already assigned!!! WOOOO HOOO. And the PHL-SJU leg is on a 767 with those delightful Envoy class seats - ahhhhh. Do yourself a favor - check Orbitz for your next trip - it really is a great site.

And where will we stay??? Ah yes, years of saving and scrimping have yielded me quite a little booty (snicker) of Starwood Preferred Guest points (SPG.com) - which is the BEST loyalty program in the industry (especially when combined with the SPG Amex - best card in the industry). You want to know more - ask me why, it's a long explanation - just too many benefits to list here except that we will be staying at one of Puerto Rico's finest resorts - in an oceanfront room for FREE! Yup only have to pay the local taxes in a room that would normally cost $314 bucks a night! Amazing - I love SPG.

Ok it is back to laundry and chores for me. I have a lot of schoolwork to do since we will be in Chicago next weekend and for the 1st part of the following for me (trade show - didn't I get out of being a Director of Marketing???!!! :-p)

Happy St. Patrick's Day - be careful and be safe. And remember St. Patrick was ITALIAN!