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| Oct 25, 2004 - So, last week I had another Florist event. It had to be the 2nd worst event I've ever had. Fortunately, most of it was out of my control, so placing blame is pretty hard. 1.) my bus is late 40 minutes - the chairman is losing his mind. 2.) Flowers don't show up for the meeting. 3.) I ride in the elevator with the owner of the company & building after coming from an unoccupied office on the 7th floor (to set up the lunch space). Mr R asks me what I'm doing on the 7th fl. I tell him and he asks, "I thought that space was occupied" not looking happy at all. I hope no one told him that it was occupied. 4.) The Chairman's presentation doesn't work - our IT dept is scrambling like mad dogs. Everything looks bad. We look stupid & incompetent. CEO is pissed. 5.) The meeting was delayed, and I waited as long as I could to direct them but I had to run downstairs to finish a slide presentation for today's meeting. They couldn't find the damn lunch room. 6.) The restaurant we were at had changed the table arrangements to 2 tables instead of 3, messing up my table seatings. Aside from that, i started the South Beach Diet. I hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I don't know why people like it so much. It's full of crap. It made me really grouchy (like Miles grouchy)and I had a total lack of energy. I had a women's church retreat this weekend and I was just a ranging witch from the underworld. *SIGH*...dieting is bad for me. very bad. On the flip side, I'm able to fit my fat butt into a size smaller in the pants (at least at Ann Taylor & Banana Republic - where we all know they have vanity sizing...) Which leads me to the fact that I need to lose weight by January - I'm flying off to my cousins wedding in Japan after my conference in late January. I'm pretty busy then, but I don't want to miss her wedding, so I'm just going to go for the weekend. Crazy, huh?? Oh yeah - the reason why I need to lose weight before then is because I'll hear from my family how fat I've gotten...and I'd just rather not go there... Oct 18, 2004 - I need to let everyone know how much my pastor really hates me. Last week, I went to church for a bible study meeting. Naturally, i was the last one in the building (not necessarily because I was late, but rather because I was listening to the debate in my car). Well, I came in as Pastor Rob was counting off pairs of people for study group. Rob points around the room, heading in my direction, "19, 20, and...21" resting his finger on me, and without missing a beat adds his little double entendre, "the oddball." Hmmm...Yeah...love my pastor. He's also the one who says, "Hi, I'm Pastor Rob and you are....no, wait...don't tell me...I know this answer.." or "Hey, erin, can you tell your friend, Jenny, that she needs to increase her attendance to more than 25%?" I'm packing my bags and leavin' the church. :) I'm like Rodney Dangerfield...just don't get no respect!!! I went to a couple of parties this weekend. It was fun all around, but no exciting news to update. Work is starting to get busy again, but what else is new? Oct 11, 2004 - This weekend...San Diego. I met up with Tosh this weekend and we went to have dim sum. You really need more than just 2 people at dim sum. Not to say that i wasn't doing well with the 2 of us. I can chow down. We met up with Erin & her cousin (and friends) in San Diego. I stayed at the W with them. (tosh, the darn loser, left us...) The W was just ok. it was a beautiful people hotel - not my scene at all. Meanwhile, we were ghetto-ing it with the ice chest of drinks (well, i came into that...i wasn't there for that spectacle of going through the lobby with the roller cooler. Erin said I'd have been embarrassed. she was probably right.) That evening we went to grab a bite to eat at Rock Bottom. I had a burger...erin had a portobello mushroom burger type of thing. the thought of that one made me a bit ill, but...to each their own. Later that evening (while still at rock bottom), we were hanging out with the gang, erin starts to get stomach cramps. She gets up to go to the bathroom and proceeds to get violently ill. All. Night. Long. Violently. Ill. They kicked the gang of us out of the place. We had to stop at almost every block b/c poor erin was feeling really, really poorly. We finally chanced it in a taxi cab and made it back to the hotel, where she bowed to the porcelain god some more...and throughout the morning. She wasn't lookin' so hot when I got dropped off at my car (which I had left at Tosh's apartment). Well, we were all under the impression that Erin had gotten ill from the drinks, not realizing that she had only 2 drinks the entire evening. Turns out that she had probably had food poisoning. In the meantime, my lame@$$ friend, Henry, decides it's a really good idea to play Mexican Poker in Dallas. First of all, i can't believe there are places that actually offer these kinds of stupid, dumb pursuits. Secondly, I can't believe that some people are dumb enough to TRY these stupid, dumb pursuits. Anyhow, while erin was getting ill in the bathroom, henry is calling me to tell me that he thinks he has a concussion from playing this same said "mexican poker". A bull ran him over and he knocked his head against the ring. If you'd like to see what it is check out http://www.markjamesmullins.com/cowboypoker/ well, busy week this week. anyone want to buy a magazine subscription from my nephew? let me know! Oct 4, 2004 - A pretty slow weekend for me. I went to breakfast with Erin & Christa, caught up on everyone’s lives, had a mani/pedi, took a nap, & went out later that night with the gals. Beach cities are such an interesting mix. There were a lot of 40 – 50 somethings just trying to recapture their college days. Interesting mix – I really hope I don’t become one of those people. I just don’t like doing the bar scenes…it’s just so boring. I went to church yesterday. My pastor made fun of me for showing up really late. Like towards the end late. But what does he know – he wasn’t even preaching that day. Anyhow, there were a couple of missionaries sharing the situation in Thailand. This is the missions team that my friends, Greg & Nancy will be going on. There are thousands of children, every day who are victims of human trafficking. It’s just the saddest thing! A lot of my friends who are parents now saw the video clip explaining the situation in Thailand and felt the impact more b/c they were imagining THEIR children being trafficked to prostitution and crime. I felt really bad b/c I’m going to Thailand on a pretty luxurious vacation, while my friends are there to serve on a missions team. What kind of life am I leading?? If you’d like to support them, please send an email for more information to: Greg@gozoe.org Oct 1, 2004 - I updated my profile. Click here to see it. More stuff everyone wants to know about me!! |