Breaking The Dress Code

Nearly Perfect

This is why my friends ask me to pick the paint colors for their house.  I spend a lot of time looking at color and hue dealing with 7 brands with 7 different logos..today I ran across this fun little game that let's you test your ability to correctly read hue. Blue/Green has always been my weakness. I knew when I was taking the test something was wrong but I couldn't fix it. I thought I had the pink/purples right though, damn. 0 is a perfect score - the worst on record was 1049 for my age and gender.

30 Tiny Moments

Sitting in the airport eating brownies and ice cream, drinking wine, and ordering jewelry.

30 Tiny Moments

Sitting in the airport eating brownies and ice cream, drinking wine, and ordering jewelry.

30 Tiny Moments

Sitting in the airport eating brownies and ice cream, drinking wine, and ordering jewelry.

Low Bandwidth Travel

Spent the day in meetings meetings meetings. Not bad really actually some different stuff than the everyday and had a good time but now I'm back at the Wyndam and they don't have "free" high speed internet and my aircard as usual is sucking wind.

Anyone else having this problem with Verizon's Aircards? When I got it about a year and a half ago it was great. But now it barely works. Speeds are about the same as dial up. My only guess is that there are so many people with them now it's just sucking up all the bandwidth.

That sucks and all but what is worse is I'm paying almost $200 a night for this stinking hotel room and they want to $10.00 per day nickel and dime me to death to have internet access in my room. This is not a lonely hotel. This hotel is sold out most nights. They can afford to chunk up the broadband. Cheap bastards.

So tomorrow it's back to the meetings and then home again home again jiggidy jig. I'm hoping to be home in time for dinner.

More notes from the road - Interviewing day

Spent the day interviewing people to replace a person that two years ago I so wanted to replace. Now two years later and we've both worked so hard to find a place where everything works - it's hard to imagine him going. I find myself looking for someone just like him and I have to remind myself that I can't compare and have to be open minded. Know any fresh-out-of-college-have-some-graphic-design-experience types who want a job as a marketing assistant on the north side of Atlanta?

Now for a quick refresher back at the hotel and a lovely drive in rush hour traffic down to Super Suppers to meet some more blogedy bloggers.. including Miss Zoot! Way excited about this.. Promised all my food to the one who's leaving - my gift to him.

Notes from the road - AirTran

Seriously cheaper than Delta and way less crowded. On time. All good things. But the in-flight mag sucks.

Landed.

At least it's job security

I can put together killer marketing campaigns...
I can wall paper our client base with intriguing and informative press releases...
I can design pretty pretty brochures...
I can negotiate contracts with our print and promo vendor that reduce our costs...

  ... but do you know why they love me around here? Why they find me an highly valuable and talented employee?

I can find a video of John Travolta dancing the solo scene in Saturday Night Fever on You Tube and embed it in a presentation.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how I rock their world.

... Your should be dancing... Yeah....

Glamour

Don't you love flying on those small commuter planes.

You know the ones where you could pretty much spit on every other passenger.

The ones with no cockpit door.

The ones where you can hear the alarm that saya you're decending too quickly.

Yeah I love those too.

Morning of Highs and Lows

It's lunch time and I feel like I've had a full day. So far we've had more mood swings around here than a 13 year old girl.

For the first time every when I got FuzzyHead out of the crib and put her on the changing table she said "I poo poo on potty."  Hmm, I felt the diaper I just took off, not full, kind of cold. Okay maybe you haven't gone in a while. Let's give it a shot. Off we go to the potty. She's sitting there content and making some pretty funny faces like she's trying but nothings happening. Then I hear the sound that has started to break my heart.

The cat started having another seizure in the hallway outside their rooms. So I tell Puddin' to keep an eye on her sister and keep her on the potty since she doesn't have a diaper and I go to the hallway to sooth him through it. This one doesn't seem so bad and I realize he must have just come from the litter box because this time there is no loss of control so to speak. I'm petting him gently he's calmed down a little but is still panting.

Suddenly Puddin' screams from the bathroom "She did it! SHE PEE'D ON THE POTTY!" and comes running out in the hallway, freaks the already freaked out cat even more. I decide this is more than I can handle alone and tell Pud to go get her father. So simultaneously we have the high of the first successful pee pee on the potty and evidence of increasingly frequent seizures. My head hurts.

Then I get down to work. The call comes and something that I really really really needed to happen, happened. A vendor moved heaven and earth and went out on a limb and came through for me. This was something I had been holding my breath about, loosing sleep over, not eating about. And it happened. Whew... hurray things are looking up now let's get down to business and get some stuff done. CRASH... Blue screen of death.  Currently restoring from backup.

Not sure how much more of this I can take today. Vet appointment is at 3:00. Not holding out much hope that there is going to be a "good times" solution.