Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Kalahari Here We Come

So, heading out to Kalahari tomorrow for a 2-night stay with the fam. Should be fun except that as all mommies out there know, it's also a lot of work. Gotta head home tonight to load up the coolers and pack up EVERYTHING we need for 3 days of waterpark fun. Wow. Lots of work ahead, and I actually have to go to a meeting at 7:30 tomorrow morning before we leave!

All day I have been making a mental list of all things I must pack...

I put hubby in charge of shopping for snacks/drinks today. I'm sure he did a great job, and it's one less thing for me to worry about. We'll see when I get home tonight...

Lots happening at work. Totally busy few days, and I will have to keep my eyes on the email while we're at Kalahari. Very glad they have free Internet access!!

Friday, August 7, 2009

Today's List

Woo-hoo! It's Friday. Not a whole of stress going on today. A few things I need to get done, but nothing major. I also think I'm feeling better after a pep talk/meeting I had this morning for work. Anyhow, here's my list:

1. Need to get birthday gift for Maddy to take to friend's party tomorrow
2. Thinking our Friday meeting/dinner is going to run later than I'd like
3. Hoping we have time to visit the Corn Festival this weekend
4. Hoping I can figure out a way for our little company to fund an intern
5. Need to round up stamping $$ owed to me... Hubby is not happy about that.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Thursday's List

Here we go. Today, I'm thinking about:

1. What am I going to wear tonight? Going out with the neighbors to a bar/pub. I'm thinking jeans and my fav black flip-flops, but I'm not sure about a shirt...??
2. Will I be able to find what I want to wear in the giant pile of clean clothes that fills my extra bedroom? Hmm.... should probably put that all away sometime this century.
3. I need an intern. So happy to be talking to someone from NOCHE tomorrow!
4. I have to wake up early for the third day in a row tomorrow! Damn breakfast meetings.
5. Should I go through the mess of creating a "media kit" for the company?
6. Hoping hubby doesn't flip out when the credit card bill comes this month... which will be any day now, perhaps even today.
7. I NEED to put in the July stamping order this week. Damn all those ladies who haven't placed their orders yet!!! I hate harassing them.

That's it for now.

Hiatus

Well, it's been like 6 months since I've posted anything here. Why? Well, a lot has changed with me personally and professionally, and honestly, I had no idea what to do with this blog.

Do I want to be a "mommy blogger" and post about my kids? Not really. I love my kids, but more of my thoughts about them are purely in a bragging-show-off sort of way. Who doesn't think about their kids like that?

When I re-entered the blogging world last year, I had all intentions of writing more about my corporate life and the fashionista side of me that came with it; however, I am no longer living that life. Everyone knows I was job hunting during my last post. Happy news - I am employed and started a new job shortly after that last post. The interesting thing is that I now work for a start-up online news service and I am the only "employee" at this point. So, now some of this blog may share the trials and tribulations of heading down this untread path, I don't have too many characters to use here, and upon any Google search you would instantly figure out all of them.

Aside from the question of what to do with this blog, I also started wondering why do I want to blog at all? Answer: it's an outlet, a place to vent, a place to clear my head. Yes, sometimes I can write fun, spunky things, but I don't want to stress about that.

So - what's on my mind? What do I need to write about? Every day this is going to be my list of things on my mind, things that are stressing me out, things I just need to put somewhere... Maybe it's interesting to other people, and maybe it's not, but that's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to keep the name because, frankly, I love the name. And, also because finding the perfect shoes to any outfit is frequently a source of stress for me! Right now, I have some stress related to shoes: I have a DSW gift card (where said plaid pumps were purchased) and no time to shop!!!!