donde esta yessica?

are you surprised to see a blog post here? me too! what has caused this long pause in my blogging? ok, here i'll make you a list:

{1}

a new job.

this is really where it all began. i hope no one will be disappointed that you will no longer find funny flight attendant stories here.

now that i am not employed by that airline, i feel like i can finally breathe and come clean about that job....i absolutely loathed it. ahhh, what a relief to be honest with you all. i was there for 8 years and they weren't all bad, but the last few years were quite hellish.

God provided me the most amazing job at a wellness center just 4 miles from my house. i don't work weekends or holidays, i have breakfast and dinner with my husband, we get to go to weddings, parties  and take a nap on sunday afternoons together.

since retiring my uniform and landing lips on june 1st, its been nothing but blue skies and cherry pies.

{2}

a new addition.

avery ryan kutzner arrived last month. she is beautiful. and perfect. and smothered by all family members around... including her loving little brother.

 

{3}

the garden.

i can't say i spent as much time there as others, but i tried to get there at least for the picking.

and of course there was the canning, freezing and baking that followed. we even harvested almost 60 pounds of our own honey and by 'we' i of course mean

my dad.

 

 

 

{4}

ireland.

we celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary on september 13th, so i booked us a short trip to celebrate in ireland. we had a killer time and unfortunately caught the traveling bug again, making us anxious to get out of the country quickly.

 

{5}

life.

it just gets busy...

like road trips with friends to lancaster...

your husband gets terribly sick, for a week straight...

going to visit friends & their beautiful boy in florida...

bike riding through DC & celebrating independence day...

etc.

etc.

etc.

all this to say- sorry. i will try harder. i promise...

...and that i hope your summer was swell too.

name dropper

another question i get asked quite frequently is what famous people i have had on my flights... i can never give any exciting answers. i work for a low cost vacation airline, ain't no celebrities here.
on very rare and seldom occasions i have had run ins with people you might have actually heard of. let's begin...

1. while waiting in the crew line if customs in the newark airport, i noticed mr. busta rhymes aprroaching(nana, that's a famous rapper)  i was too nervous to say hello because i couldn't decide just how to address him: 'good day mr. rhymes!' 'what up busta bus?!?' alas i missed my chance and live to regret it.

2. because the singer pink grew up in a town close to me, i really enjoyed the behind the music show on her life growing up. i unfortunately became very familiar with what her family looked like from watching it so often. so when pink's mother was onboard, i made sure to tell her i hale from bucks county and am a big fan of her daughters (a slight  absolute exaggeration)

3. i've had two different cast mates from the real world. their names aren't even worth trying to remember. since i'm usually the youngest crewmember on board, so none of my friends even knew what the real world is.

4. about a month ago in cancun while waiting for the hotel van i walked past cheech. again with my keen celebrity eye, i happened to be the only one to notice him pushing his luggage cart and his much much younger girlfriend.

5. our company used to use the owners private jet to shuttle us around to different places when it was too expensive to buy us plane tickets. private jets have their own magical private airports as well. once while waitingin such airport, i saw miss patty labelle. she was adorable in a peach suit, and it made me love her (even though i know none of her songs)

6. about five years ago i was on a short vaca to cancun over spring break. while coming off the beach i saw another two forgettable real world girls. maybe if i had grouped them all in one category, they could  make up one legitimate celebrity?

7. the movie invincible is about a bartender from philly who tries out for the eagles and makes it as their quarterback. i had vince, the man the movie was based on and his family onboard about a year after the movie came out. he was a genuinely nice guy.

sooo you can see why i dread that question, my list is pretty pathetic. i'm sorry i can't fake this to be more interesting!

more ugly truth from a fligh attendant

since my last work posts were recieved so kindly, i decided to give you guys some more. although it is lost on me why this would be of interest, i'm more than willing to share.

1. [ i know what you did in the bathroom ]





what i find funny is that people think they are being so stealth about this.... like "oh, i'll just pop in here real quick, do my bidness and no one will ever know". you are so wrong. while i understand the week long tequilla and burrito diet reaked havock on your innards, you are killing any sense of smell i had left. we carry 'lav spray' around like it's life or death and as soon you trot down the aisle on you merry way, we don our oxygen masks and spray the place down!!

2. [ cup of joe crap ]





Lord help you if this comes as a surprise-  there is no good coffee to be found on ANY aircraft. well hallelujah  i found this lil french press travel mug and my world has been rocked. so when you slug down your coffee i gladly serve you, you will be correct in noticing my nose go up a little higher as i look down at you.

3. [ ugly pj's]

lucky you...this is an actual picture me before bed on a cancun overnight.






if it's not glaringly obvious, i have on horrid yellow sweatpants. these are actually my husband's sweats. on every overnight, i sneak a shirt or something of his to sleep in. ohhh the things we do for love.

4. [ you are weirding me out ]






i believe my job is pretty simple. the hardest thing i have goin on is whether you said coke or diet coke. just playin, well kinda.
in the one second it takes for you to tell me what drink you want, i have already forgotten and it's actually your fault. here is a list of excuses why i can't remember what you just said (all of them have most definately happened before)
- your are a 40+ year old women and wearing full length pajamas complete with footies.
- you are reading 'mature' material in full view of me and small children.
- you asked me for something i do not have, when i gave you the entire run down of all beverages available to you at this time.
- i'm watching what weird stuff you are playing on your iPod over your shoulder and its  freakin me out.
- you crop dusted your whole section and i'm seeing how long my last breath will last me for.

camera randomness

i have accumulated many different pictures on my phone, most that i don't know why i don't just delete. i guess i thought i would use some of them to show you all, but they never quite made it that far. such a slacker.

i will share them, random as they may be. enjoy.

Christmas tree skirt i whipped up for our bare Christmas tree.

snow.

shocking....more snow.

a really good fish recipe, i had the best intentions of sharing with you.

proof that the fish is really good-

husband scraping the pan to eat the last bit.

yeaaaa for winter hats!!!

just another tuesday....

our friend goliath, making himself cozy in our bed.

handsomeness.

God's pretty sun set.

old shirt....

beginning to get refashioned.

a birthday present for a sweet lil girl.

quilt i've started for a special someones bridal shower. 

plaid and pinstripes from husbands old work shirts.

breakfast from mr. obama.

testing out homemade headbands 1,

2,

and 3.

i wanted this purse out of a magazine. by the time i looked it up online it was gone.

i mourn for the loss of it now by not deleting the picture from my phone.

@ work.

ideas from a book i would like to take a stab at.

micah's birthday. impressive facial hair boy!

the elephant in the room.

8 hour cancun layover.

last family picture for 2 years when baby katy returns to us.

2 gentlemen.

crazy illuminating sushi.

 a necklace i will surely copy cat off of.

classic that's what she said. 

a shirt from a thirft store, i deeply regret not buying it.

maybe i can sleep peacefully tonight knowing i have finally shared these pictures and can erase them!