Wow! it *WAS* a Hot Topic!

Remember all the comments that were generated last week by THIS POST about my upgraded seat?

It turns out that CNN thought enough about this kind of dilemma to write a whole article about it!

I love the first line:

(CNN) -- When it comes to relationship minefields, watch out for frequent flier miles.

When Regina sent me the link to the article, saying “I expected to see your name in this article!  Hope it was resolved peacefully?  (I am behind on blog reading - so you may have posted about it already)”  I had to go click the link and read the article myself.  What would it say?  I knew I couldn't be the only one facing this dilemma!

So here’s what happened with MY situation ----turns out the plane from Dulles to Dallas was a small commuter jet -- there were only two rows of 1st class seats.  The first class seat I was upgraded to was in the second row and was a window seat, and didn’t have as much leg room as you would think….

Remember this pic of me with my hexies?  See my knees that close to the seat pocket?  Yep! This is the first class seat! 

And DH would have had to climb over the big guy who had the seat next to me to get out to the aisle to go to the restroom ---- He PREFERS an aisle seat --so he told ME to take the first class seat, and he was much happier with his aisle exit row seat.  He actually had more leg room than I did!  My computer bag was parked under the seat in front of me, and I really had no room to stretch out.

But to make it up even more to him --- when checking him in for his flight home on New Years Day, I bumped him up to Economy Plus all the way  home.  He was happy with that, and it worked out fine for both of us.

The big realization is that every EVERY relationship is different, and it is okay to get other people’s opinions, but their opinions are just that ---opinions --- and you have to take it with a grain of salt, and do what works for you and your family!

I just realized something.  If I am going to retreat tomorrow – I won’t be around on Saturday for Yard Sale Saturday this month.  I hope you don’t mind, but I want to do it the first Saturday in February to give us more time to pull it together, okay?

The first MONDAY in February will be the next Mystery Monday Link-Up.  You still have until Friday at 11:59pm Eastern time ((That’s tomorrow at almost midnight, folks)) to link up to THIS MONDAYS Link-up.  There are currently 99 links there!  So if you don’t link by Friday Night, it can wait until the first Monday in Feb, and maybe by then we’ll see full quilts with binding!

So --- all this under control for the first Saturday and Monday in Feb --- how about THIS COMING MONDAY, Jan 9th, we do our CHEDDAR BOW TIE LEADER/ENDER LINK-UP!?  I’ll be flying out early Monday morning for San Diego, and that is the perfect thing to have running on a day when I’ll be away from the computer.

Note on that --- you don’t have to use cheddar in your bowties.  You can do them ANY WAY YOU WANT --- just link your blog to mine so we can all visit!

Ready, Get Set – SEW!