

Next weekend I go back to the job I love doing. This weekend I’m escaping to family and
friends back “home” in SF where I grew up.
I want a break between being a Fighting Machinist and the Hostess with
the Mostest Flight Attendant. As I’m
flying to SF I’m grinning my ass off. I
MISS this gig and I know I’m going “home” again next weekend. Home to the skies I love. Home to the friends that I DO have at work. Home to working again with the love of my
life, taking 50 people at a time to the place they really wanted to get to.
Next weekend is as good for me as much as going back to Half
Moon Bay is today. Next weekend is all
about finding my joy again. Returning to
everything I love. I am so blissfully
happy and excited I’m going to make people puke with my saccharine sweetness.
A quick sidebar... My mother has me subscribed to a few of my old favorites magazines... They stack up on my ottoman until I have a lazy day or I fly somewhere for fun. I bring the stacks of magazines on these flights and do my best to
get through one or two and give them to the Flight Attendants. I know they scour People and the other junk
magazines when they have downtime between flights. Thus I do my best to hand them magazines like
“Country Living”, “Martha Stewart's Living”, and “This Old House”, knowing it’s
like being handed a steak instead of ground beef. Those magazines are rarely found on
planes. So my non-Flight Attendant
friends… when you’re in the airport and choosing a magazine… Choose one of
these or Bon Appetit or Gourmet Magazine.
It’s as much of a treat as a box of chocolates… Granted you can hand
your friendly Flight Attendant Godiva too…
I’ve made some of the best friendships flying. We talk when everyone is asleep. We spend 3-4 days together at a time and get
to know each other. Why do Pilots and
Flight Attendants hook up? It’s like
speed dating… You fly with one crew for 4 days.
Then another crew for 4 days… then another… The odds are sooner or later talking on the
aircraft and/or doing dinner with a crew you’re going to meet a friend or a
significant other just because you find people with common interests. You end up doing things outside of work; Running,
art festivals, dinners/lunches. We are a
different breed. Not everyone can live
sleep deprived for 4 days, working 14 hour shifts and then return 3 days
later. Most of the people I know have a
problem with jet lag after ONE flight in one day. We do 18 in 4… and we thrive on it. It’s hard to date someone outside of the
industry. They don’t understand that
when you’re home you need to 1) sleep
until you’re alive again, 2) don’t want to leave the house… and 3) may not get
home for hours after you were scheduled to because flights aren't always on time. Especially when it’s important to you. Some crews are truly a joy to work with… when you have one
of those magical crews the customers glow… and you laugh at anything that goes wrong... because of the people you are with.

I’ve met celebrities… (Shawn Mullins, Mike Epps, congressmen
& women , misc pro wrestlers and football players…) I’ve met amazing
individuals (one man sticks out who had no lower arms and no legs and yet he
jumped off a wheelchair in a jet bridge and jumped up into his seat before I
could blink... Made me think ‘handicaps’ are all in the mind)…
I’ve woken up in
Canada one morning and on a beach in FL the next. Where do you get that in a 9-5 job? You go to work daily and if Lois is
complaining about life every single day in her cubicle you can’t get away from
it or make her STFU. My job, if someone
is complaining, I try to make them happy… if I can’t… in 2 hours I’ll never see
them again.

Every day is an adventure. And… maybe that’s the secret to our breed… We love the
adventure.