In Flight Socks – Now this is exciting stuff!

You know when you are getting old when you get excited about something as wonderful as compression socks.  I can’t even begin to share how amazed I am by this invention.  Whoever decided to come up with this idea, is my idol, and I thank that person, team, or whoever, because if you travel long distances and never tried them, do it!  They range in different styles, prices, textures, designs, etc.

After my long haul flight to Australia a few months back, I landed in Perth with the most oversized swollen legs and feet ever.  It can be described as a feeling I will never forget.  It was like my muscles were trying to escape through my skin, and my legs were about to burst at any moment.  I had tried everything on land, from laying on the floor with my legs up a wall, massaging them, walking through town to get everything back to normal, but it only took time for the swelling to go down.

On my travels back to Canada this time, I was determined not to go through this feeling again.  In the Sydney airport, this lovely lady at the pharmacy in the airport helped me, and she told me her 20 year old daughter uses them too, so I didn’t feel that bad.  I pulled on these puppies on the flight before take off, in my so desired 2^nd last row seat which is prone to being hit by the service cart and close to the toilets.  Now here is the magical part.  They worked! The In Flights, aka compression socks, worked!!!!!  I landed in LAX, with normal size legs, no pain, and a newly found love for these socks.

Now, I had to promote the socks, and on my flight from LAX to YVR, I was amazed to find out that my flight mates in my row use them as well.  Wow, I am not alone and neither should you be without the socks.  Do it, believe me, you will thank me after a long haul flight!

I am starting to accept the fact that I am getting older, and I need to take care of myself better than before.  It all starts with one step, and when I take that next step onto a plane, you can be sure I will be rocking out a pair of my In Flight Socks.  Now, where should I fly next to…perhaps California? 

A Blast to the Past!

Arriving at the Vancouver airport, I was overwhelmed with excitement, nervousness, and the sense as if I was returning to my past, as I wasn’t too successful with my endeavor of a stable land life.  To be honest, I had not thought about ever returning back to life at sea, especially after I had all of my belongings shipped back from Australia to Canada.  Sometimes, you can’t predict the future, and you have to be open to maybe taking a few steps back into your past to refine your techniques and skills.

Mostly everyone wants to move forward, gain a new skill, enhance what they already know, and not many want to take a step back to the old way, or that previous job.  Coming back to California to the head office of the Cruise Line I am working with again, brings me back to the memories of my first visit over a year ago.  Instead of viewing this chapter in my life as reading the book backwards, I am going to take on this role with a new vitality and zest.  I am going to use my past, bring it into my present, and create an amazing future for myself and those that I help.

What skills do you want to refine?  If you had the opportunity to do something over, would you do it?  Would you change the way you do things?  Or, would you be completely satisfied with how it all turned out and that is what you would relive any day.

The travel to LA was actually a great experience on Alaska Airlines.  I pretty much won the airplane lottery with great people in the row and I was pretty impressed when I got asked if I worked for West Jet, as I had the look.  Now, I have been offered a job to be a Flight Attendant with West Jet, and I am just waiting for the day when they post the job for Flight Attendant and it does not say “Bilingual”.  The recruiters at West Jet know me very well now, as I like to remind them how much I want to be part of the team, and I love when I get the emails stating “Dear Lynsay, thank you for your continued interested for a position of Flight Attendant……you need to speak French fluently….blah blah blah….”

Well, I am not here to be a Flight Attendant right now, but I am here in LA to continue my training to be the best HR Professional I can possibly be for 900 crew waiting to see my smiling face on April 16^th in Perth, Australia.

Don’t ever be afraid to revisit your past, unless it is a bad relationship, then just stay away from that….You can do better!  Lots of love from California!