Jil Freitag:  

It's 2008. I am in Albuquerque, have 3 kids, 2 in Middle School and one almost 3. The Balloon Fiesta is coming up in October and we always go. I get free tickets from work. I guess I should back up some, huh. Well, I moved to Cape Cod after college at PLU in Tacoma in 1989. Then after 3 months of cleaning toilets for the rich golfing set at a resort, I moved back to Alaska and did a brief stint at ARCO. Let's see, then I was a counselor at Salvation Army Booth Memorial Home, then went to the old Travel Academy for a 10-week (?) class. I worked for Fritz Co. out by the Airport at the FedEx hub and did that for 3 or 4 years. Then I met my now ex husband (at a bar) you can guess how that worked out. We bought a house on Colville Street, had 2 kids, Nicholas and Samantha, and then in 2000 we moved here to Albuquerque. We got divorced in 2001, and I moved from Corrales to Albuquerque with the kids. I got a job with the FAA at the Air Route Traffic Control Center as a Secretary, then in 2004 got a promotion and now I'm the Secretary for the Air Traffic Control Tower. It is so cool working here. I bring my kids sometimes and we go up to the tower and get out on the catwalk and watch the airplane traffic take off and land. Just last week I got to listen to the Air Traffic Controlers talk to the planes, and one...Expand for more