Atlanta, SHRM and Millennia

I plan events - cool hotels, great hotel, amazing food and travel lots of travel. It is as glamorous as it sounds…Right now its 730pm and I am in my hotel room wondering how early is too early to call it a night. Honestly the perks are great and I do like my job. The cool part though is what it enables me to do and I am able to use my job to do a little bit of good .

My company as a mission of social change and I am allowed a lot of leeway in how incorporate that into our events and exhibits. Last February I had the pleasure of meeting Millennia a therapy robot that works with autistic children. I knew one way or another I was going to get Millennia into one of my booths. SHRM was that show. I have spent the last two days working with Millennia and his operate and I am amazed at what technology can accomplish. As part of our exhibit we donated $10 for every picture take to a local Autism school. Here is a little info on the therapy work the Millennia does.

Millennia is also very famous – he was in Rocky 4 (he has had a face lift or two since then), he was made into a cartoon for Family guy and had a two year run on Days of our lives.

Rocky:

Family Guy:

A few other cool Millennia facts: Has a passport, American express card, is a member of SAG and prefers to fly first class.

Yup, it is true I might have a little crush on Millennia. Here is one last photo that was take with a booth next to ours when they invited us over to have a picture taken with the Heisman trophy.

Off to recharge my batteries! ;)

Nashville and NSA

I was in Nashville as an exhibitor for the National Sherriff Association conference this week. It was the first time that my company or I attended this event. I also got to bring one of my fellow planners out to her first tradeshow. The show itself was great and I learned a lot about this audience and what they are looking for when attending conferences.


Anyone that knows me knows that I LOVE Nashville, it is my favorite city to visit. The people are nice, the city has a lot to offer and the artistic awareness is huge. And, I’m not just talking about Music, painters, sculptors, wood workers, writers and a few musicians - it is a city full of creativity. Two of my co-workers had never been and I have the fun of showing them all of my favorite places. Overall it had been a great time.

There may have been a little excitement on Tuesday night when the Opryland Hotel had a gas leak caused an explosion I was very thankful as a planner that most of my staff had already left and we had cleared out of the Opryland a whole 4 hours prior. The good news is that no one was hurt – which was amazing considering that the hotel was sold out and they evacuated over 5000 people. The bad news Gaylord is looking at 750k in damages. Thinking it is a good thing that Marriott just put in a bid to purchase all their properties.

Today I flew to Atlanta. I’m very excited about this event did I mention I’m going to have a Robot?

Where did May Go?

Ok, I was bad in the month of May. It was just a crazy busy month. I was crafty, but didn’t seem to have the time to blog. And, oops now it is June. I also had one trip to Atlanta for work. We had an amazing work event and blew the attendee numbers out the window. The event was hosted by an outside company and there were some logistically bumps, but nothing that we couldn’t fix with some duct tape. (My dad would be so proud.)

Card of the Day

Eiffel Tower – Thank You

I needed a thank you for a co-worker that went out of her way to make the Atlanta event a success so I made her this card. I cased this card cause I just thought it was simple and prefect!







Elements

• Stamps: SU!: Merci
• Inks: Memento: Black tuxedo
• Paper (brands, colors & size): Gina K (card Base): Passionate Pink, 5 ½ x 8 ½ Taylored Expressions: Snow White 3 ¾ x 2 ¾ , SU!: Basic Black: 5 ¼ x 4 & 4 ¼ x 3 , DP: Sweet Always: 5 x 3 ¾
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• Copics: Eiffel Tower: RV10
• Accessories: SU! - Circle punches, Michaels Ribbon