The countdown has begun!

So today we've tried to get some wedding stuff done.
We've been slacking a bit and work has been crazy for me for the last two weeks. Almost like being back at JDK!

Today our goal was to get all of the seating arrangements done- we aren't picking actual setas, but just tables. Easy and not easy. We have a few "science experiements" and we're hoping that things go well on that end. It's good for people to mingle!! Right?

So i tried just making lists of people but it quickly became extremely messy once I started moving people around. I came up with the brilliant idea of using stickies. If you have ever worked with me.. you might notice that I have a certain fondness for Post-It® notes. I love them. I write notes on them. nubmers. I've even been known to do site maps and do layouts on them. They are quite handy and I like because there is a lack of "permanence" to them.. meaning I can move them around here and there without scratching out or erasing or wiping off. I love them, in short.

Anyhoo. So we go to Walgreens to pick up sticky notes- we leave 20 minutes later with sticky notes and a bunch of extra crap and head home. This was after a late morning trip to the dog park and judging from the behavior displayed this afternoon.. we didn't wear out Sirius nearly enough. I digress. We get the list out and i put each name on a sticky note. 186 sticky notes later- i started putting them up in groups of 8. It was great- I should put together a kit and sell it on theknot.com. seriously.

This is what it looked like:


I made sure to purchase the EXTRA sticky sticky notes which came in handy as we moved people from table to table. I'm hoping people will be stoked to sit with who we've put together.

So now we're just waiting to run though everything with our folks to make sure we got their friends/family right and then I can formally check it off the list and get started on the name tags that go on the favors.

One little gross picture to add in.. so I woke up friday morning to an itchy puffy ring finger. I went in to the bathrooom to get some water because my fingers were so puffy that I couldn't gt my ring off. I finally slide it off and there is a nice ring of red crusty itchyness in the place of the band. I thought I would attach a photo of it... might be a good time to upgrade to Platinum!



With that I sign off for the evening.. Have to go down and rouse Vin off the couch to get some dinner. Have a happy!

Wow. Its thursday and I haven't gotten shit done.

This week has been crazy.

Remember all of those posts about "I'm bored." "I'm bored at work" "I don't have anything to do at work"..

yeah. Thing of the past.


This week alone I've managed two get 3 huge ass presentations pulled together (i love my new team. they are great!) (but that doesn't mean i don't miss my old jdk team... i love you guys...) push a new campiagn live, help push a bunch of people that don't know jack about online to create a better campaign, pulled together a big presenatation that was requested last minute and keep working on 3 internal projects. Whoa Nelly!

I'm sitting here at work... lamenting that i have a client meeting and i ran to the office without brushing my bottom teeth as I got a "it's not working" phone call at 7.05am whilst i was in the middle of sonicaring away. My hair is fro'd out. And i just grabbed whatever clothes i could and ran out the door to come here and try to help our team who is in MN. So once I'm done with them- and who knows if it works- Actually let's pause on that thought for a moment. Anyone who gives a presentation on a computer should have to go to some computer school to learn how to troubleshoot shit themselves- i've slapped some coverup on undeer my eyes to cover up the circles which are getting darker exponentially eery day- and decide that for 15 minutes.. i'm not going to do any work. i'm going to look at gossip sites.

here are some of my personal favorites:

www.thesuperficial.com
www.goldenfiddle.com
www.jossip.com
www.gawker.com
www.perezhilton.com

just to name a few.

Then I spend some time looking at designer-ey sites...

Looks like it's going to be an interesting day.... gotta go.. i'm gettin' sharked by account managers...

Have a happy!

Dogs Rule

Anyone that knows me KNOWS i love my dogs.
Often referred to as "the babies", "retards" (i know. not PC.)"pain in the ass" or "bubs" or my favorite "The Bubaloos".

I love my dogs. Every day I am reminded of life's perspective. I get caught up in the daily grind and bullshit of work, wedding planning, the jack off driver in front of me. And then I come home to my little bubaloos. All they do is eat, shit, sleep and play. And be obnoxious. But I love them with all my heart. I talk to them, laugh at them, play with them. Hell I even sing to them and make up songs about them.

I've had Suki since she was a teeny little barky puppy. Was so little they weighed her in what looked like a fruit basket scale when I took her to to the vet the first time. She was so little and spunky. Still spunky not as little. She has huge ears and long gangly legs. Like Bambi... So cute I could just eat her up!!!

Sirius defnitely rides the short bus.. but is so sweet. I swear every day is Groundhog's day though. We did foster care for him and once we had him for awhile.. well. I couldn't imagine giving him away. I joke about it.. but really.. I'm attached to the little wing nut. He barks at nothing and goes ape shit over the cats on the other side of the fence.

anyhoo.. the reason why I posted this is because I came home from dinner with Heather and Shannon.. and when I opened the door, they were so excited to see me! Really.. every time I come home they act like they haven't seen me and I am greeted with wags and kisses..

So everyone give their Bubs hugs and kisses and remind yourself why you have that little obnoxious, retarded bundle of fur. They don't care about the small stuff- they just want a master that loves them and tells them where they are in the pack.

Easy.....

Friggin' Hot

It is too hot to blog.
Will write more tomorrow and upload some pics from our friend Ran Coulter's birthday party.
Where we sat outside.
In the heat.
And ate BBQ.


90º friggin degrees at 11.37pm.

Memories

I've been out in Greenbush, Michigan since Friday. For those of you that aren't familiar with our Great Lakes, it's pretty close to going to the ocean. Except it's not salt water and freezing cold. My folks have a place right on the beach. Every morning I look out the window when I get up and see the lake. When I have my breakfast, I'm sitting in front of a huge picture window and look at the lake. It's great. I've come here almost every summer of my life, give or take a few years here and there. I've spent the last few days jet skiing, tubing, swimming, lounging in the sun... you get the picture. Rough life. I actually decided to partake in some real "excercise" and went for a bike ride across the road along Cedar Lake today with my mom and my Aunt Judy. One thing that's been most interesting is that for some reason this trip really made me think of coming here when I was little. Maybe it's because my cousin's second kid is about to turn 1 and I'm getting married.. who knows. All I know is that I have some great memories up here and one thing I realized today while I was battling the flies that seem only to come out when there is a west wind is that there are some things that literally have not changed as long as I can remember, and then there are some things that have completely. The same volleyball net hangs in the same place. I remember playing volleyball with all of the cousins and aunts and uncles. The same lady lives next door- Sandy. She just celebrated her 70th birthday over the weekend. Some of the same toys that I played with were being played with this weekend by my cousin Kelly's son Rory. So it's comforting but also made me realize that things change everyday. Sometimes I don't really notice change because I'm busy paying attention to the things that are the same. Maybe it's because I've had so much change in my life in the past 9 months that hanging on to those things that aren't different have kept me from losing my shit. Who knows. Just made me think about stuff.

Anyhoo--

We had a private fireworks show. The neighbors "kids" showed up with probably $500 worth of fireworks hauled in from Ohio. It was great. Hour long of profressional fireworks just down at the watersedge, while we sat in chairs on the porch and watched. We used to do bottle rockets out of Coke bottles in almost the very same spot back in the day. This evening we had a family BBQ. Aunts, uncles, cousins all gathered around one single table for a great meal. We were going to go in the boat south to Oscoda to watch the fireworks from the water, but the wind picked up and the temperature dropped and you can't trust a west wind. So, my mom and I watched movies, talked to my sister on the phone.

I would post up pictures but I will admit I haven't taken any. Will get on that tomorrow. Hope everyone had a fantastic fourth of July!