OMG
I just had a total geeky freakout in the coffee room at work.

So here's the backstory -
my company is sponsoring some benefit for American Red Cross in Baltimore this week and they needed some quick announcements done and asked me to whip them up.

The assistant to the vice president is really funny and we get along so i felt comfortable asking him if the VP was going to go to Charm City Cakes.

And he totally laughed cause he watched Ace of Cakes too!!!!

So i just ran into him in the coffee room and he's like "Pat's going to Charm City Cakes today!"
and i was like "NO WAY!!!

And he was like "WAY! and you know how hard it was to find their address? I had to sweet talk my contact at the hotel at ARC Benefit is at to tell me! Apparently they go to great lengths to hide their location"

and i was like "NO WAY?! Did you tell her (the VP) to say hi to Duff and MAry Alice?"

and he said "Of course - but especially Geof - he's my favorite!"

And i said, totally SCREECHING like a 12 year old at this point "ME TOO!!! OMG I love how he engineers everything and can fix anything!"

and we laughed and i told him i absolutely need to hear how it went after.

Then i was standing there actually getting coffee, and a coworker, Debra, who's cube is like half the building away came in and asked me what i had been screaming about cause she could hear me from half the building away.

HRHRHRHHEHEHEHEHEHEEHHE.
Awesome.
I'm in such a good mood today :D
When i got off the MARTA this morning there was a woman i see nearly every day dressed in bright teal and lime green dress and i said to her - "you look so springy today! it makes me smile" which probably was not the smartest thing to say to a stranger who doesn't know i'm not deranged but she smiled and said "good - i've done my job!" :D

Friday.
When my alarm went off today all i could think was thank god i don't have to hear that noise tomorrow.
Turned on the weather channel and it said it was 21 degrees and I immediately shivered.
Then it said it was -23 degrees in Chicago (near where i used to live) and i thought, hmmmm, 21 isn't so bad i guess.
Regardless, I still took the train instead of walking to work.

I'm already annoyed with Sam.
Why can't he just answer a question yes or no?
I think he's starting to notice how impatient i am with him.
Which makes me feel guilty, but girl can't help it.
It also makes me feel guilty when i see coworkers working their asses off for this company. I over hear "i was here until 10pm, i was here until 2am...." WHAT? PEOPLE GET A HOLD OF YOURSELVES!

I realized last night I must be feeling better because i updated my LJ 5 times yesterday.
My brain is functioning again.
Today I'm going to attempt a class at the gym at noon too.

You know what is exciting to me? (Cause I'm a geek?)
One of my favorite shows season premiere was last night and i taped it cause i couldn't stay awake til 10:30 when it was on and I'm so excited for new episodes!
Can I just say, it's a guilty obsession so i don't really mention it to people, but i adore the TV show Ace of Cakes. I adore it so much. I wish i worked there for oh so many reasons.

But mostly it's just so inspiring - the cakes they make - that is the cakes they make that represent real things. It's kinda like what I like to do in my scrap art - use materials you wouldn't think of using to do something. But really, i don't understand how they make flour, sugar and eggs do the things they do.

OK, enough of that ramble.

There was some nastiness this week over at a scrapbook message board i frequent. It made me feel super bad about myself and my inadequate scrapbooking because i already am totally unconfident, but the ringleader publicly apologized in a wonderful post and i feel a little better. I still have the nagging doubt that i will ever find any place that will accept my scrap art for what it is, but i'm not going to change my style just to fit in, thank you very much Adam Yauch.

This weekend I'm starting to get overwhelmed with things I want to accomplish. Maybe I can do half:

- Retool resume. Right now it is 2 pages long and I want to figure out how to get it to 1 page, although i don't see how i can. That's the problem with having 4 jobs in the last 5 years. (Actually there's been 6 but 2 i don't count because i was at them for less than 6 months each). All 5 of which offer meaningful job experience.
I also want to create 2 versions - a more "conservative" design and a more "designy" version.

- Write cover letter and send it and the "creative" resume to a super "fashion-forward" design firm in Buckhead, BBDO. I probably have no chance in hell getting a job there, but i'll try.

- Finish the CDC application. I have so many conflicting feelings about even applying for a government job, but it seems like it would be the exact experience i am looking for.

-African Well Fund stuff i need to catch up on

- Catch up on a couple of scrapbook pages - there are 2 from the 365 challenge i haven't done and then i want to do one about my tattoo

- Go see U23D on Sunday with Eric. I wanted to go alone, but I feel to guilty telling him that.

- Laundry and Kitchen cleaning - haven't done shit for at least 2 weeks because of sickness and the house smells like old drain now

-sleep, OMG sleep!