July 17, 2006

Sunday Cleaning and Saturday’s Movie Marathon

Yesterday was a lovely day cleaning and playing with Zozo. It’s easier than I thought to vacuum with a small child on your hip, I found out. The house is clean and smells good (yay lemon Swiffers!) and the yard looks fantastic (yay M!). Zozo’s raging diaper rash is under control, finally, so she no longer screams her head off when we lay her down to change her. That alone made for an interesting weekend. I’m sure the woman who was in the restroom with us at Panera yesterday afternoon still has ringing in her ears from Zoe trying to let everyone know I was ripping her arm out of her socket (that’s what it sounded like, anyway).

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July 16, 2006

Bye Bye Boatie

Yesterday we said good-bye to Grandpa’s boat. I know it was hard for Mom Z. to let it go, but she’s keeping lots of good memories. And gaining half her garage back.

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July 15, 2006

The Dress

So excited! Beans and I selected the bridesmaid dresses for her wedding, and they are beautiful! Well, here, take a look for yourself.

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July 14, 2006

Not much. You?

I’ve been chastised by my loving sister to “update the damn blog,” so here I am. Sorry for no post today. I had the after-event craziness at work to contend with. That craziness is the result of pushing everything that doesn’t pertain to the event at hand to the back burner, thereby resulting in lots of scorching of deadlines and burning of projects. Smoke alarms go off, firefighters are summoned…it’s not pretty. The day after the event, which should be spent basking in the glory of the event and gathering commendations and congratulations from adulating coworkers, is instead spent scurrying ’round, trying to catch back up and get the rest of the marketing train back on track from the major derailment. Oh dear me, now I’m mixing metaphors. It’s been a long couple of days.

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July 12, 2006

Gratitude with Attitude

Tonight we have our AirForce Nutrisoda St. Louis media launch here the spa. The room is going to look great (thanks to yours truly), and it just might be a success despite the children who are planning it. It seems the Nutrisoda has decided, as a start-up, to keep costs at a minimum by hiring teenagers (or those who were recently teenagers) to be their “Lifestyle Marketing Managers” out in the field. Bless their hearts, they have all the energy in the world when it comes to standing around and “yapping.” That’s the one’s favorite word: yap. Other than that, they’re about as useless as a barnacle.

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July 11, 2006

Imo’s…yum!

Last night we had Imo’s Pizza for dinner (thank you, Mom and Dad Z!). It was quite delicious. It’s been a looooooong time since we’ve had Imo’s, and it was very good. We did our usual: a mushroom and pepperoni pizza and split a house salad.

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July 10, 2006

Organizing Schmorganizing

M has completed his Arena chair stand prototype. We have four seats from the old Arena that we’ve had since our old house, that are virtually unusable without stands. They’ve been hanging out in our ultra-small storage room in the basement, taking up way too much space. They’re funky because they’re rather large, and bulky, so you can’t stack them on anything, or stack anything on them. Constant source of frustration to me, the girl who likes to organize more than just about anything else.

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July 9, 2006

Agfa B-2 Cadet

Yesterday Papa, Grammy and Beans stopped by. Papa found something when cleaning out Grandma’s home that he thought I might like to have: an Agfa B-2 Cadet box camera that was produced in 1937-38. It’s pretty darn cool, and will be added to my collection. I found an image of one on the Web:Can’t imagine shooting with one of these, but maybe I could try sometime. They still make film that can be used with these types of cameras, and the negative is huge, which is tempting. Although then I’d need to get a film scanner so I could input it into the Mac, and of course it’d need to be a mega film-scanner b/c this isn’t 35 mm. That’s too much trouble, and too expensive, so I think I’ll just stick it up on top of the Digital Darkroom with my other old cameras and admire it for what it is and not what it can make.

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July 8, 2006

The C-Word

Yesterday’s great day went to hell in a handbasket shortly after work. We were all waiting to see what the doctors would determine was going on with Uncle Cloyd, hoping and praying.

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July 7, 2006

Sunshiny Day

Yesterday was full of running hither and yon at work, doing this and that, and I have to say I am loving it. I love my job. LOVE it. I have fun, but I work hard, and I totally enjoy what I am doing. Having worked in non-profit most of my career, I was really struggling with the transition to for-profit and finding “the mission.” What am I doing to help people? At Red Cross, it was easy. First I was helping people who were affected by disaster, and helping people prepare for disaster, and making sure as many people as possible knew the life-saving skills of first aid and CPR and whatnot. Then I was helping people by encouraging everyone who can to donate blood. I still feel very passionately about all those things, by the way, and still adore the American Red Cross as an organization and encourage all of you who can to please continue donating time, money and blood whenever you can.

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