Lisa's Lunch Celebration

Another CELEBRATION today! That's 2 in a row this week. Today's lunch event was to wish the best for Lisa in her new role starting on Monday, February 15th.



The surprise lunch was at the Joan Benoit Building specifically in the Bowdin Room. We had an excellent hostess who greeted us and took our coats. As we waited for everyone to show up, we ordered our drinks and talked about how many of us had never been in or seen the Bowdin Room. About 5 minutes later Lisa walked in with a coworker and we all yelled, "Surprise"!



Lunch was excellent! Our set lunch menu was:
• Tarheel Salad
• Chicken & Salmon
• Chefs choice Starch & Veggies
• Dessert
• Choice of 2 beverages

Once we were all stuffed from the wonderful food & dessert we presented Lisa with a collage of photos from past events & get togethers. I was able to catch her reaction in the video below (excuse the shakiness of the camera).

Playoff Puppets

The NikeBasketball puppets made an appearance @TWC today while we were attending a meeting.

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Fire Alarm @ Pete Sampras

Fire Alarm went off around noon today. As we were standing there waiting for the firemen to give us the "all clear" to re-enter the building - we were thinking that this was a sign to get out early for our "summer hours". That didn't happen for me I ended up staying til about 4p. I will take it - it is an hour early.

LeBron Beijing Olympic Send Off

Just attended LeBron's event. Will post more later, but wanted to get these photos of him up on the ole' blog ...

AIR ELEVATOR CONFERENCE AREA

With the growth of our area, desk space for people is scarce in our building. Many conference rooms are already housing as many as four people and their desks. Now the existing conference rooms are slowly being taken over - hence the newly created "Air Elevator Conference Area." It is a totally genius name for the area I think considering many of the campus conference rooms are named after shoes, for example Air Griffey Max.

I have already attended one meeting here and it is not too bad, although just below us is the entrance to the building and sounds and voices do tend to echo. As the rainy season comes to a close for us, this means one thing - more reasons to schedule outside meetings!

RESEALING WINDOWS

So the Pete Sampras Building is undergoing some repairs. They are resealing the windows from the outside. This week was our turn to bare the cold winds when they replaced the windows at the end of our aisle. Thank goodness I am on the inner portion of the cube layout or I would have froze...

LINCOLN CITY FACTORY STORE

We made a team visit to the Lincoln City Factory Store prior to their Grand Opening on March 11th. It is only a 2 hour drive away so we all hopped in to the "Grocery Getter" (see below).


I got to relax in the backseat of the "Grocery Getter"- was a bit bored so I took a photo of myself and sent it to my peeps on groovr, twitxr and Facebook.


We finally arrive to the store and Erica realized she forgot her camera. I happened to hit the video record button on my camera and told her, "don't worry I've saved the day" - which she confirmed.


For lunch we hit up the only restaurant (mexican) that was open in this small town on a Monday at 1:30p... And with Menudo on the weekends, this must be one happening place during those days!


With food in our stomach, we were energized to finish the remaining items on our list. Thank goodness we had that energy - we did not leave the store until 6:30p or so...

SMC Binder Stuffing

Next week is our annual SMC (Store Manager's Conference). This is where we host all of our Factory Store Store Manager's for the week and present a ton of information, party and support our community by volunteering for the day at preset locations. It is a lot of fun, I get to see all of my friends from the Orlando area again, but it also is a lot of work.

On Thursday, after getting all of the finalized Holiday marketing info into our 60pg Holiday packet, I scrambled to find a printer to turn this around in less than 24 hours since our in-house copy center could not handle the job. Enter Mollet Printing. I called my contact explaining what we needed and they said, "no problem". They kicked ass in printing 170 sets, 60pgs per set and 3-hole punched within 24 hours.

After receiving our printed packets, next up was the fun part - stuffing them in to 170 binders for Monday's kick off. The above photos are the binders at our stuffing party late Friday afternoon.

Stay tuned this week for more posts on SMC activities - on Wednesday evening is our "Winter Formal", which should be a wild and fun evening...

Greg Oden's Get Well Card...

When I came in to work this morning there were signs to come out at lunch time and sign a get well card. Not knowing who it was for, I grabbed my manager and we headed out to lunch early.

When I saw the card saying, "Get Well Greg" it clicked... A couple of nights ago there was some TV coverage about Greg Oden of the Portland Trailblazers having surgery on his knee. The poor guy, number 1 overall draft pick is out for the entire year because of the surgery. After standing there thinking what to say on the card - I ended up jokingly asking, "What is a microfracture? Good luck!"

Serve The Runner

Walking in to work earlier this week, I noticed our athlete banners around campus had changed to a theme of "Serve The Runner". Since we are a "Running" company it is nice to see us get back to our roots.

Air Time With Charlie

Today Charlie Denson held his "Air Time With Charlie" radio show in front of the Pete Sampras Building during the lunchtime hour. There is an email that is sent out prior to the show asking for questions to Charlie - I had a reply email ready for my question but never did hit the SEND button.

Anyway, headed over across the way, got lunch and sat outside for a bit and listened to the show. It was cool, they touched on Nike Retail topics (Yay!) and the up n coming Hood To Coast Race. I was only able to stay for 20 minutes or so, but it was cool to see the President of the Brand in our area rather than on stage in a presentation.

Thanks Charlie!

Glass Cleaner

Walked out of my building to the parking lot late on Tuesday and found the gentleman cleaning the glass on the outside of the Jerry Rice Building.

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First Text On Me iPhone

First text on my iPhone after my activation is from the internet herself... iJustine w00t!