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my second best friend as now also left bridge to move on to bigger and better. grome’s last day was friday. my other best friend (and daily lunch buddy) amanda quit the week before.

with grome gone, who will:
a) fix the printer for me when i need help with the printer that never seems to like me and always seems to malfunction at the worst times
b) laugh at me when i do and or say silly things (which happens on a very frequent basis)
c) help me make books and boards for presentations
d) and make fun of me at every possible chance

o well, grome will be missed. but he gave this really cool Mr.Clean action figure that my barbies are gonna think is hot. j/K. but he is the perfect size/height for a barbie doll.

and i have decided not to make any more best friends at work, b/c they seem to leave. i wonder if that is coincidence or not.

at our company outing on thursday, we enjoyed red stripes, and daquiris, and pina coladas, and great jamacian food. i also ended up getting recruited to play dominoes. they needed one more to complete the bracket of teams. my partner was josh. i ended up winning in every bracket no matter what the rules the opposite team seemed to make up. josh and i still dominated and sweeping the tournament. pic showing the intensity to come.
but it’s official i’m the domino queen.

97º and i wore a wool sweater at work today. everyone thought i looked cute in it. got 3 compliments. they were not surprised by it as odd as it seems since i sit under the air conditioning vent in which i feel a constant draft all day long. wear layers all the time. wonder if i will be real hot in the winter. be wearing mini-skirt in 12º weather

i’m in luv with CS3. it is wonderful and fabulous and everything i have always wanted. we upgraded to CS3 and now work is just that much better. now if only i could upgrade at home… but i think after doing some research that my poor little mac is to old. so if you want to donate to the get renee a new mac fund, or pay me to mow your lawn, please feel free to contact me. i accept any and all donations. haha just kidding. maybe. but i do have a new reason to save money now for a new mac.

this story dates back to when i was on hiatus, but it a good one.
on fine monday, scott, antony and i decided to stroll over to the skyline on 6th and vine i believe. i ordered the usual - two cheese coneys with everything. when our food arrived, the waitress took our drinks for refills. while she was refilling our drinks i eagerly went to scoop up a coney when i noticed a very dark spot on the end of the bun. and at the very moment i was trying to decipher whether the dark spot was the chili just soaked into the bun or worse, the waitress returned with the refills jsut in time to see the ugly face i made when i realized it was mold, yes big bright green mold. she asked what was wrong. i told her. she immediately said just mold ok i’ll get you some new ones. and as she snatched up the moldy buns, she began explaining to us in full detail how moldy buns on mondays are a common problem - no big deal. apparently, every monday part of the prepping for the day routine includes a bun inspection for mold. she said it’s not uncommon for the buns to go moldy between saturday and monday. especially in the summer with the hot days. she said that this morning they had more then usual b/c the dude responsible for them on saturday did not properly put them away. five minutes later, she left our table to go get me some nonmoldy buns. the funny thing is instead of trying to cover up the situation, everytime she returned ( to give me new coneys, refill our drinks, check to make sure the new ones didn’t have mold and drop off our checks) she would go right back into that story repeating how it happens a lot and it’s a routine check on mondays. any other waitress would prolly jsut say i’m sorry, i don’t know why that happened and try to forget about as soon as possible. not this one. i think she unconsciously wnated to make sure that i completely lost my appetite. so anyhow, the moral of the story is that scott, antony and i have made a pact - we will never eat at that skyline on mondays. and we figure we shouldn’t go on tuesday to make sure they get through the weekend buns and move into the fresh buns on wednesday.

the hits jsut keep coming. my team got two nice wins todays for pitches we have done over the past month. can i get a wooot whooo?!?! bonus, i even got out of work on time/early today. it was so weird i was on the hgiway getting so confused. i was like where did all this traffic come from. and then it dawned on me. this was the first day in weeks that i left work before 6:30pm. it’s called rush hour traffic. but i still did appreciate leaving work at 5:15. woot. good day.

u know ur 15+ hour day was stressful when as soon as u pull in the garage, u grab a beer out of the kegerator before u even get upstairs into the house and set down ur keys and purse. ugg. straight to bed to do it all over again.

today i pulled into the parking lot promptly at 7:01 am. and to my surprise, the first four rows were already at least 2/3’s full. that’s crazy. no worries, though, i still got a pimp spot on the end of the first row. but seriously, i thought i was crazy getting to work at 7 this morning? apparantly, to be crazy you need to get to work before the sun even begins to rise. good to know there are more insane people then me around.

yesterday was a very good day at work. i had a huge presentation for the big “man” in the city yesterday afternoon. and let’s just say the presentation ended in applause and i had hit another grand slam. that makes me 3 for 3, batting a 1000. everybody at my work was so excited. the client responded with i never could have imagined anything so unique and creative, you’ve far exceeded any of our hopes and expectations for this project. Can I get get a woot whooooo! anyhow, everything went spendidly except for getting teased about how i was getting hit on by quite a few gentlemen on the walk over to present. all i could say was that’s what happens when u r cute.

oh and i almost forgot - while there presenting, the other client i had there was on the phone with all his account people from all the agancies he works, telling them how happy he was with the rush creative i had done in and account had managed in on an extremely tight timeline (1/3 the necessary time). all in all - all my hard work paid off yesterday.

i am really getting forgetful. I forgot the best part. the cops came at lunch to talk about cincinnati and safety. they were hilarous, so entertaining. not a boring presentation at all shockingly. the Lt. should think about opening a comedy act. or maybe it was just the delicious burrito joe’s chicken burrito that made me so happy at lunch. hmmmmmmm.

tomorrow i move into my 3rd, yes i said 3rd workspace at work. this one i hope i will be at for a while. it’s a room with a view as my coworker shannon put it. it’s really not a room, but it’s definitely got a view. from my desk, i look out a window ceiling to floor at mcfarland ave and fourth streets into downtown cincinnati. i just hope i’m not blinded by the sun every morning. the only thing better would be if i was at the opposite side of the building and able to watch the bengals practice. but no worries i get my fill. let’s just say, while they are practicing i find myself spending most of my meetings watching my boys play outside and get ready for the fall.

p.s. my money tree was very excited to move right next to a window where it will get lots of light. even though it did very well at my old job in the basement, my money tree has been flourishing splendidly at my new work. last week i had to transplant it into a larger pot.