New Year long time coming

I hope this message finds you all in good health.

This is my first annual message of peace...I thought I'd give a little summary of my last year. Sometime in June I started working on what ended up being the job that consumed my life. I'm the team lead of the Starbucks Mobile Sampling unit.
The summer I spent giving away thousands of Starbucks goodies at various festival and public event with a wonderful team. With the job, I got to go to every event around town - and beyond: The Abbotsfor Berry Festival and the Air Show, Tour de Gastown, Golden Spike festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, the Writers Festival...the list goes on. I even got to take the mobile unit to such cool places as Kamloops, Kelowna and Vernon...though I spent more of the time under the Van than inside it, working this job has been a huge treat. I have learned a lot as well as got to know some really wonderful people - didn't get too many dates out of it, but I got a lot of shopping done.

But it wasn't always like this... in August I got to go on a road trip with Craig through the Kootneys... as well as my annual pilgrimage to Widgeon Creek on a Canoe.

The last two months have been particularly eventful as I was involved doing samples inside the Safeways of SBUX products. I was so busy with it that I hardly had any time off, so my apologies to all my friends for having missed dinners, Birthdays and Births!
I hope the coming year will be a little easier on the schudule so I can catch up with you all.

Hey this is a good place for you to make your wish for the coming year...and if you post it on this page in the comments section - you know what they say, if you write it down, it is much more likely to come truecome true.

Hugs and kisses all of you...

Viken