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My Week in Pictures

Posted on August 4, 2013 by keepingupwithkate91

I ha a very busy week. Thought I’d share some photos of my adventures.

My week started with a flight to my company’s corporate headquarters in Overland Park, KS. One of the highlights of our meeting was a tour of our Executive Briefing Center. Thought I’d brag on a couple of our awards – 🙂

Emmy Award

JD Power & Associate’s Awards

Wednesday morning I headed into NYC for a meeting at The Empire State Building. I have a friend who I haven’t seen in ages who works in The Empire State Building – had a chance to catch up with her. Before we went out, I had a chance to take a look at her view – AWESOME!!! (and this picture just doesn’t do it justice)

View of Lower Manhattan from the 65th floor of The Empire State Building.

We headed off to CASK Bar and Kitchen to catch-up. It was a great place – very cool on the inside and great food offerings – small plates – great place to share. Oh and pretty darn good adult beverages!!

View of the Menu

Yummy Adult Beverages!

Love the inside of Cask!

No pictures on Thursday – it was a rainy day in NJ.

Friday brought a vacation day with beautiful weather! I was off to Sea Bright, NJ with some friends to celebrate a birthday. We had a great time on the beach, a fabulous lunch at Woody’s and some adult beverages at The Mad Hatter – where I took the picture of Sea Bright Rising!

Yummy Fish Tacos from Woody’s in Sea Bright!

Sea Bright Rising – this says it all!

Yesterday, I was off to see a dear college friend and her family in Sea Girt. The weather wasn’t great but we had a nice visit. Today we had a beautiful day at the beach!

Sea Girt, NJ – Beautiful!!

Have a great week!

An Old App becomes a FAV

Posted on July 22, 2013 by keepingupwithkate91

I rediscovered an app I’ve had on my phone for quite awhile on vacation due to my Mom and Aunt having the app on their i-Phones. Can you guess what app it was???

It was PANDORA!! I have a great waterproof, wireless speaker that I wanted to use and my Aunt wanted to listen to her tunes from her iPhone. Although we think one of her granddaughter’s added some other favs onto her stations – so then we used my Mom’s phone for her stations. It was great listening to some oldies but goodies while on vacation. We had fun trying to figure out who was singing some of the songs. And I’m happy to report that I did pretty good with some of the oldies!

They didn’t completely show me up either – I was able to add new stations for them quickly and had to turn off the blue tooth so they could answer the phone – phew – thought I was going to have to retire as the family techno guru!

The only station I had on my Pandora was U2. Now I have a great mixture of music (some nice influences from my Mom and Aunt)- great for vacation and in the car. Here are the stations I have now:

Summer Hits of the 90s Radio
Summer Oldies Radio
Abba
O.A.R.
Justin Timberlake Radio (I really like the newly invented JT)
Michael Buble
Maroon 5
Madonna
Mumford and Sons
Bruce Springsteen
Bon Jovi
Tony Bennett
Frank Sinatra
U2

I’m sure I’ll add more when I get a chance. Are there any apps that you’ve re-discovered or new ones that you just love? Please share!

I’m Back…

Posted on July 17, 2013 by keepingupwithkate91

I’m back from my 2 week summer vacation. One of the perks of being with a company for 20 years – I have lots of vacation. I’m a big fan of the 2 week vacation. I highly recommend it!

A one week vacation you are just getting into the groove of everything and it is time to go home. My Mom and I both mentioned that on our Anna Maria Island over Spring Break – we were just figuring out where to go and what to do and it was time to go home.

I’ve done the two weeks in a row and the two weeks in the same month – both are good. But I’m partial to the 2 weeks in a row. For the past 3 summers my Mom and I have been renting a house in Ocean City, NJ (OCNJ) on the odd side of Asbury Avenue. If you don’t have beach from on Central – the odd side of Asbury is the next best thing – a quick walk back and forth from the beach!

We had a great time (as always) – weather could’ve been a little better and the ocean could’ve been a lot warmer. The water was 55 degrees due to what they call upwelling – current/wind from the SW moving the warm water out into the ocean replacing with colder water from the bottom (see you even learned something while reading this blog today). That current is gone now so it is much warmer now so those down this week can get in the ocean to get out of this crazy heatwave.

I have lots of things I plan on sharing about my vacation – just need to get my act together!

Stay cool!