Jane W

 
    
22
Jan 2009
5:40 PM EDT
   

January 22, 2009

Big news in the world of Jane W. and NASCAR.� My employer�Armando Fitz has sold his race team and the new name is Trail Motorsport.� This was nothing new to me but BIG news�in the racing industry.� Here is an article that was written after our press conference on Wednesday.

�http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=hinton_ed&id=3850027

I would also encourage you to check out our team website.� Our mission is to have the fans as our first and most important sponsor.� We are going to be fan oriented and try to provide our team members (fans) unprecedented access to the world of racing.� One of my focuses at work will be� “fan management”.� I am really looking forward to this!!!� Please join the TM�Team.

www.trailmsport.com


    
12
Jan 2009
6:20 PM EDT
   

January 12, 2009

Hope everyone is recovered from the Holidays.� I had a great time while I was visiting everyone at home but I certainly was happy to get back to my not so glamorous life and not be over eating and over drinking every day.� All in all thought it was great vacation and I am grateful for everyone I got to spend time with.

So as many of you may know on January 05, 2009 I started my new job with Fitz Motorsports.� My position with the company is on well defined but right now I am acting as the human resource department processing all the paper work for the new 2009 team they are putting together.� I am also helping the travel arrangement for the up coming season.� However, everyday there is a new challenge that has to be dealt with and I find my role with the company expanding!� I like it though.� Never really sure what the day is going to bring and it certainly is a great learning experience for me.� I have found all of my coworkers to be really great.� The core group of office/mgt staff all get a long really well!� The coworker I have most contact with is Liz.� She is just fabulous and we get along great.� If you thought I was high energy…wait until you meet her!� On our first day they said Liz and I would be sharing an office.� It seemed a little odd as we have so many open offices.� However when I saw the office we were getting….I had not problems sharing.� It is a huge office located right at the front of the building.� 3 sides of the office is complete windows.� We have a great view and it is totally cool space.� The only down side is I have to make sure that no one is entering the building when I decide to pick the food out of my teeth after lunch.� Other than that this is the best office space I’ve ever occupied. ��


    
12
Dec 2008
5:21 PM EDT
   

December 12, 2008

Thank you very much if you are reading this journal posting.� It means that you have probably checked the site many times to find that I had not posted anything for quite some time.� In mid November I finished up with my work at the Jeff Gordon Racing School and I am now looking for my next big gig.� I am now working a seasonal job at a local department store.� I work at the fragrance counter.� It’s pretty fun work, the people are nice and the schedule allows me to continue job hunting.� I have many irons in the fire, some are mildly hot and other are just warm but everyday I try to stick a new one in there.� I am confident that I fill find the right opportunity for me, it just takes patients (lots of patients).

I really have not written because I felt that I did not have much to report and that was because professionally things are moving at a snails pace.� It’s not good or bad, it’s just how it is.� However, personally things are just great.� I told someone yesterday that professionally this is about the lowest point I have ever been at in my working life but personally I am doing quite well.� �I feel that I have really grown as in individual since I moved to Mooresville.� Surviving in a city where you know, no one, really makes a person go outside their “comfort zone”.� I am grateful for the opportunity I have been provided to really expand my horizons.� It’s a great felling to know that when required you can step up to the plate and do what is required.� It has been a real boost in my confidence level that things greater that I ever could have imagined can be accomplished.�

Jokingly I told a friend today that having to take a seasonal job at department store while pursing my “dream job” and�earing not�much more that minimum wage (which I don’t even really now what it is, but I do know you can’t survive very long on it) will make for some good drama in my memoirs.� �I consider this my “paying my dues” time.


    
12
Nov 2008
6:50 PM EDT
   

I FINALLY DID IT!!!!!!!� I drove a real NASCAR race car.� What an experience it was.� I was not nearly as nervous as I thought I might be.��I was only slightly nervous because I had to drive in front of all my peers.� I knew all the guys I work with would be watching to see how well I did.� I did not care about how fast I went but was more concerned with be a "good" driving and following as I should.� My instructor said I did really well, in fact he said "You did better than I thought you would".�� He apparently did not think I was the race car driving type.� I was really quite proud of myself.� My top speed on my drive was 140 mph.� It was really amazing and I am really grateful to have had the opportunity to do it.� I would recommend it to anyone!!!!

1 comment(s) - 08:54 AM - 11/13/2008

    
29
Oct 2008
5:44 AM EDT
   

October 29, 2008

So, I hear that all of you in Wisconsin got a little snow.� Well, I never thought I would be saying this – but we also got snow yesterday.� Not here in Mooresville but in the mountains.� I had off work yesterday and went on a “date” to see fall colors up in the mountains.� When we arrived at our first destination, of Blowing Rock, NC it was snowing.� I could hardly believe it…we were here to see the fall colors and it was snowing!� And I’m not talking a flurry here or there, it was snowing pretty good.� It was actually pretty cool to see the trees that had turned colors and then also to see snow on the mountain. ���What a great day!


    
26
Oct 2008
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October 26, 2008

So, last weekend I was asked to do some volunteer work for an organization here in Mooresville called WAM (women auxiliary of motor sports).� Sounded like a great opportunity to do some networking so I agreed to volunteer.� Really had no idea what I would be doing.� I knew that I had been recommended for the work because I have experience driving a 15 passenger van but had not idea what I would be doing.� It turns out that I was needed to pick up all the performers for the benefit concert they were having.� Basically I picked them up at the airport and took them to the hotel, then would shuffle them back and forth from the hotel to the venue.� The headline band for the show was Rick Springfield.� His tour manager requested that once they were picked up at the airport that they have a person specifically assigned to take Rick and the band around.� I was asked to handle that!!!!� I was to take them where ever they wanted to go.� After the group was done with their sound check they wanted to go to dinner.� Rick had seen a billboard for a Japanese restaurant on the way to the venue and asked if I could take them there.� Turns out the restaurant was right across the street from the hotel.� So off to the restaurant we go…me and the band.� Up to this point I really had not had much conversation with them but once we got to restaurant we started chatting it up and where having a great time.� Apparently the boys like playing practical jokes and I turned out to be there next victim.� In a nutshell they told the waitstaff that we were out to dinner to celebrate the pregnancy of myself their bass guitar player Goerge.� So at the end of dinner they brought out a cake with a candle in and they sang a song for us.� It was quite a production and it got the attention of a lot of the people in the restaurant. The guys thoughts this was so funny, I guess I did!� Other performers that I met that weekend were, John Waite, Eddie Money and Lou Gramm.� It really was a fun gig and I’m happy I was asked to help.

1 comment(s) - 04:51 PM - 10/29/2008

    
16
Oct 2008
6:02 AM EDT
   

October 16, 2008

Please note that I have added new pictures to my site.� These are pictures from the race this past weekend at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.� Not all of you may be aware but “back in the day” when my girl Koreen and I would go to country music concerts together…..she and I seem to have the knack to get back stage and into areas not everyone is allowed to go.� Well, it seems I have found myself another partner in crime.� His name is Danny and he is standing in the picture next to the Bud pit box.� On Saturday morning of the race we had to be at work quite early and frankly there was nothing to do so we decided to a little spelunking.� With a golf cart, a woman driving and a guy that looks like he could be a race car driver it’s amazing where security will let you go.� I don’t have time right now to go into all the details….but will fill you in later.� All I will say is that it’s about the most fun I have had since I was down here!!!� If laughter is good therapy, Danny and I are going to be on the happy trail for a while.


    
13
Oct 2008
3:54 AM EDT
   

October 10, 2008

Well, the big traveling gig at JGRS has come to an end.� Our final traveling date was to�Kentucky Motor Speedway.� It will resume again in January 2009 with a trip to Miami.� There are still dates to work here in Concord but no more traveling.� When I started traveling with the racing school the work was a little (a lot) crazy and I was not sure how I was going to make it thru.� Now that I have survived the whole season I do have to say it was a great experience.� I found my grove and really started having fun with my job after about the first month.� The days were long and the weather was hot but it also had some great benefits.� One of those being, the people that I worked with.� I have really meet some great folks and over the summer had made some new friends which is something that is really important when you move to a city where you do not know anyone.� I have really become comfortable going out and entertaining myself but it is much better to know you can pick up the phone and call a friend when you can’t figure out what it is you want to do.� I am grateful for the opportunity to have met so many great.� Everyone comes with a different perspective and life experiences, which, when you get to know, them can really broaden your own horizons.�


    
09
Oct 2008
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October 09, 2008

Does anyone have something in there life that they do quite often that you just wish you could get over.� Something that is embarrassing and you just wish you could figure out stop doing.� Well I am going to share with that I have a serious problem with my coffee pot. I swear, at least once a week, I DO NOT put the pot back on and before you know it I have coffee everywhere.� Today was an exceptionally bad day, I did it twice.�If anyone has suggestions for this dysfunction…..please share.


    
08
Oct 2008
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October 8, 2008

As some of you may or may not know this weekend the NASCAR race is at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord.� Last Wednesday as I headed to work at JGRS to leave for Kentucky� the signs that�of the big race�were are ready starting.� It wasn’t the presence of NASCSR haulers or more people….but Porta Potties.� They were everywhere, in all the fields as far as you could see around the track.� What a crazy site….Pottie after Pottie!� When I returned to town late on Sunday night the campers had all ready started rolling in.� One group of campers had a full blown party going still at 3 am Monday Morning.� I just love to see that kind of enthusiasm.� This “race week” as I will call it because people come for the whole week….not just the weekend is going to be busy.� I have to work a promo event at the track for JGRS on Thurs, Friday and Sat and then there is racing to watch.� Thursday the World of Outlaws are at the dirt track,�Thursday is qualifying,�Friday is the Nationwide race and Saturday is the cup race.� Many just typing that is making my tired, but it should be a fun filled week.


    
27
Sep 2008
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September 27, 2008

Wow…a couple of weeks ago we were saying what happened to gas prices. They just went up up up.� Here in NC the highest I saw was about $ 4.29.� Now they have come down to about $ 3.99 to $ 4.19 - but we have no gas.� Yes, I said no gas.� I’m not sure what is happening!� There is not much on the news and when I ask other people no one really seems to know.� Yesterday there were only 2 stations in Mooresville that had gas.� For those who do not know Mooresville is about twice the size of Wausau.� It’s really crazy, only 2 stations with gas.� The lines at stations have been causing traffic jams all over the city.� It was a really scary thought yesterday when I was driving to work that the gas I had in my tank was all I might for a while.� And to think I was wasting that gas on going to work….I did hear on the radio this morning that we are expecting some gas soon!�


    
25
Sep 2008
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September 22, 2008

Something I have found interesting since I moved to NC is the way they serve beverages at restaurants here.� You certainly never go thirsty.� They are continually bringing you something to drink.� Usually they don’t just refill your glass they will bring you another beverage before you have finished the one you have.� I have never had to ask for a refill at a restaurant.� It is also common place to ask for a drink to go.� Sometimes you don’t even have to ask.� Yesterday when I was out for breakfast, the waitress brought a cup of coffee to go with my check.� They will give everyone a soda or tea in a to go cup!� I would be curious to know from Renee if fountain soda drink sales are much higher in the south than in the north?!?


    
22
Sep 2008
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September 22, 2008

It’s been a while but the other day I had a “famous person” sighting.� Last Monday, I stopped to grab a little dinner at Taco Bell. �As I was walking across the parking lot I was digging in my purse to make sure I had enough money for dinner and trying to decide is I had to order off the $ 1.00 menu or could get something from the regular menu.� As I approached the building I looked up to avoid tripping on the side walk and who was standing there!!!!� Greg Biffle.� I said well hello and he said well hello….he held the door open while I walked in.� I’m a little disappointed in myself that I could not come up with a little more to say to him.� Like perhaps, congratulations on your big win yesterday!!!� Oh, well…maybe next time I will have my act together.


    
15
Sep 2008
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September 10, 2008

This week the new Z Max dragstrip next to Lowe’s Motor Speedway is opening.� Last night they had a VIP party there.� Apparently anybody who is somebody in the racing industry was there.� The guests who attended were able to take their personal cars and race them on the drag strip.� We saw everything from Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghini to a Jeef Cherokee.� Oh yah, and a Ford F150.� There were several NASCAR drivers out at the event.� We saw Kurt Busch and Kasey Kahne driving there cars. �It was a pretty neat event to watch.� Now, I’m not quite considered a VIP on the local scene here….. so how I go invited?� I just happened to have worked last weekend with a guy that works over at Lowe’s Motor Speedway and he invited me to go.�


    
10
Sep 2008
3:53 PM EDT
   

September 10, 2008

Talladega Alabama was the next port for of call for the Jeff Gordon Racing School.� We left Concord about 12:30 and arrived in Talladega about 8 pm.� It was a little late to go to the race track so we went directly to the hotel.� Arriving at the hotel is usually pretty uneventful.� Well not this time.� At first glance it looked like a scene from Animal House.� Most of the doors on the hotel rooms were open, people had had chairs outside and were hanging out on the balcony and there were kids every where.� When I got to my room there was a 2 year in his diaper outside playing with a paper plate and a very large black bug!!!!� Come to find out that the hotel was housing people who had been evacuated from the hurricanes in Louisiana.� When we returned from the track on Thursday everyone was gone.� They must have been cleared to return home.�


    
03
Sep 2008
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September 3, 2008

As some of you know I have had an issue with my upper lip being numb.� After lots of testing my neurologist was not able to come up with anything that would be causing the problem, but did find�I was in great health.� The situation still purists so I decided to address the issue again.� This time I decided to see an acupuncturist.� I will start off by saying it does not hurt when they insert the needles.� It’s actually quite a relaxing experience.� So far the treatments have not relieved the numbness but I have found it extremely interesting to find out more about Traditional Chinese Medicine.� They have a very different philosophy from western medicine, in a nut shell they believe in bringing balance, harmony and well-being to individuals.� The symptoms we present – such as my numbness – they believe is due to an imbalance in my body.� Thru acupuncture, diet, exercise and meditation they believe you can strengthen what is deficient and disperse what is in excess in your body.�


    
01
Sep 2008
4:53 PM EDT
   

September 1, 2008

Boy, I don’t know where time goes some times.� It seems like just a few days ago I was on a plan headed back to Athens for the fair.� But now as it sit down to realize that ��I have not written for over 2 weeks.� I guess time fly’s when you are having fun.� �The road show just returned from 3 days in Atlanta.� It was a great trip.� We had good weather….I think we were there between hurricanes so we did not get any bad weather.� Prior to leaving we did have some serious weather here in NC.� We got so much rain that there were some seriously flooding problems. �In some areas roads and bridges were completely washed out.� �One morning on my way to work the radio announcers were telling people to treat this like a bad snow day…if you don’t have to out it would be best to stay home.� �There were roads closed all over the area.� Looks like we are in the path of Hurricane Hannah coming next week.� I will be leaving for Talladega Alabama on Wednesday, could make for� along 4 days there!


    
13
Aug 2008
7:56 PM EDT
   

August 13, 2008

Next on the traveling schedule was Richmond Virginia.� What a great trip only 4 hours!!!� It was a prefect weekend in Richmond.� The weather was beautiful, our capacities at the school were reasonable; it was just an all around good time.� Friday night “the guys” wanted to go cart racing.� I opted to go, my work partner decided to stay back at the hotel.� Shannon’s first trip with the school was Iowa.� She’s a great gal but life on the road had not been good for her – particularly concerning her bowels, if you get what I mean.� So she decided to stay in that night and take a little medicine to try and relieve herself.� The last trip she tried exlax, this time it was a 6 pack of bud light.� So we arrive at the go track – it is an indoor facility.� When we get in side and I take a look I realize this is not “mini golf” type go cart place, this is serious!� The first round my goal was just to hang in there, not embarrass myself and certainly not to sustain any major industries.� I did not do too bad my first round, although most of it was a complete blur because I just held the gas down and tried as hard as I could to make every turn.� After some advice from my coworkers on how to navigate the track I improved significantly, I even passed one of the boys.� It was really a blast but by the time we were finished with the 3rd round my arms were wasted.� I don’t think I could have gone again, thankfully it was late and we needed to head back to the hotel.� The road show is on a break now for 2 weeks.� JGRS has offered me work in the office to keep me employed fulltime while we are not traveling.� I don’t to anything very exciting.� I’m kind of the odd jobs gal, but works work right now.� I did follow up with the Cabarrus County Visitors Bureau and they are still 30 – 60 days out on make a decision.� While I what to hear more about that job I will continue at JGRS.� They are two more traveling dates this month, Atlanta and Talladega.� I have been to Atlanta before and Talladega should be interesting.

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13
Aug 2008
7:56 PM EDT
   

August 13, 2008

Next on the traveling schedule was Richmond Virginia.� What a great trip only 4 hours!!!� It was a prefect weekend in Richmond.� The weather was beautiful, our capacities at the school were reasonable; it was just an all around good time.� Friday night “the guys” wanted to go cart racing.� I opted to go, my work partner decided to stay back at the hotel.� Shannon’s first trip with the school was Iowa.� She’s a great gal but life on the road had not been good for her – particularly concerning her bowels, if you get what I mean.� So she decided to stay in that night and take a little medicine to try and relieve herself.� The last trip she tried exlax, this time it was a 6 pack of bud light.� So we arrive at the go track – it is an indoor facility.� When we get in side and I take a look I realize this is not “mini golf” type go cart place, this is serious!� The first round my goal was just to hang in there, not embarrass myself and certainly not to sustain any major industries.� I did not do too bad my first round, although most of it was a complete blur because I just held the gas down and tried as hard as I could to make every turn.� After some advice from my coworkers on how to navigate the track I improved significantly, I even passed one of the boys.� It was really a blast but by the time we were finished with the 3rd round my arms were wasted.� I don’t think I could have gone again, thankfully it was late and we needed to head back to the hotel.� The road show is on a break now for 2 weeks.� JGRS has offered me work in the office to keep me employed fulltime while we are not traveling.� I don’t to anything very exciting.� I’m kind of the odd jobs gal, but works work right now.� I did follow up with the Cabarrus County Visitors Bureau and they are still 30 – 60 days out on make a decision.� While I what to hear more about that job I will continue at JGRS.� They are two more traveling dates this month, Atlanta and Talladega.� I have been to Atlanta before and Talladega should be interesting.

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13
Aug 2008
7:55 PM EDT
   

August 6, 2008

Newton Iowa???� I had never heard of it either.� But it was the next stop on the road tour.� It’s actually a town of about 15,000.00 about 30 minutes outside of Des Moines and is home to Iowa Speedway.� It’s a track that was designed by Rusty Wallace several years ago.� Friday was a pretty good day at the track, not too hectic so the gang decided to head out for some entertainment.� After some pretty intense discussions it was decided we would go bowling!� Newton has a nice 12 lane AMF bowling alley.� I, believe it or not, was the high bowler for the first game.� Things went down hill after that.� It’s not that I got worse, it’s just that everyone else got better.� The trip to Iowa was one of the longest I had been on.� Typically it would have been a 17 hour trip, but on the way up out box truck was having mechanical problems so that put us behind schedule.� It took us about 20 hrs to get to the hotel.� Things did not get better on the ride home.� We came across traffic that was at a complete stand still.� There we sat for over 2 hours.� So once again another 20 hour trip.�


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