musings of Mother Hood

Monday July 31, 2006

This will be my first pic-free post in awhile.  It's been a very busy few weeks and I have news on several fronts.

My Mom is home! The Desert Chief is home for good! She came home last week and is currently on tour. She was in Arkansas this week for a few days and left here headed north for Fremont and Sioux Falls. Check your local listings.

Sister Laura is home from her travels as well. You MUST check out her pics. She is saving the world, one toucan at a time. So proud of her!

My 6-month anniversary at Saatchi was July 23 and along with that came my first Formal Evaluation process. It went very well and as of Friday, 28 July I have been promoted to Account Executive. I am now assigned to the Baby Care account for Procter & Gamble.  I am responsible for coordinating projects from creative conception to in-store execution for Pampers, Luvs and Kandoo.  There are some exciting things going on in Wal-Mart and especially in the Baby Dept. We are helping them overhaul the Baby Gift Registry program among other things, and there are a lot of changes coming soon stemming from the success of the Plano Store. 

As of yesterday, I am no longer working at Outback. My manager, Mark, is leaving the company and I've decided to follow him. Those of you who know Fayetteville probably know the Brew Pub on the corner of Dickson and West. It is somewhat of a Fayetteville landmark and will only benefit from Mark's influence. I will be starting there in a few weeks and can't wait for Football season to start!

Going to San Antonio this weekend! I get to see Mom and Dad and Chip and Laura and Keebler and Becky and Punky! Should be a good weekend.  Maybe I'll have some good pictures after that!

Friday July 14, 2006

Yesterday I got to show my putt-putt skills! I was on a team of four people that have ME to thank for helping us win LAST PLACE in the tournament and win a prize! We got a "Happy Gilmore" DVD and a hat!

They didn't give a prize for the person with the worst score, but I'm pretty sure it was me... I shot a 64! It was fun-- but as you can see from the pictures, I did not dress accordingly and played 18 holes of mini golf in Mid-July in Arkansas wearing "school clothes" instead of "play clothes" and I got more than a little warm.

In other news: I think I have developed a nemesis. I will be referring to this person here in code-- as "FDR". More details on FDR to come.

I have watched the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie again this week and had forgotten how good it was! I can't wait to see the new one-- maybe this weekend!

"But why is the rum gone?"

Sunday July 9, 2006

Didn't do much Friday, thus no pictures. Saturday, however, was a different story. I worked at Outback, but got done pretty early. Beth's sisters were in town so I met them at Noodles to say hi. Then, I met the boys at Brewski's. Several weeks ago Keith signed up for a Karaoke contest at You Know, Unos! and has been chickening out of competing ever since. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of hearing GK sing, it's really incredible and we were all encouraging him to sing.  Last night was his last chance to enter the contest, and he agreed to enter. We walked over to Uno's and the fun started...

Keith sang "God Bless the USA" for the contest.  The crowd got to vote, but you had to buy a drink at the bar to get a ballot, so we were doing our part... Keith didn't place in the top three, so clearly the contest was rigged. But! the fun was just beginning-- We originally met Rosemary at Brewski's earlier in the night. She was "feeling no pain" and having a seriously good time. The following pictures really don't do it justice-- I tried to take video with my camera, but have not figured out how to include that here.

Rosemary is the one with "the earrings".

At this point, Rosemary was on the floor. We mostly enjoyed this group from afar-- I don't know the names of anyone else in these photos, but Rosemary was the life of the party. I don't think she ever actually sang, but tried her best to be part of every karaoke performance.

Above is Keith and Cindy. And below, Keith Beth and Don at Brewski's.  

Today, we tried to see Pirates of the Caribbean-- apparently, so did the rest of NW Arkansas... We'll try again someday.

I am somewhat discouraged by the lack of feedback on the last blog or two-- I know people are reading! So those of you in Georgia, Alabama, Texas, or South Dakota-- leave a message!

 

Tuesday July 4, 2006

Yah! Long Weekend!

Don and Keith had company in town from Dallas for the weekend. Scott, Melinda and Michelle.  Saturday, we spent the day at the pool.

Saturday night, Jeff and I went to a poker game at Shorty and Allison's house. Allison works with me at Saatchi.

Sunday, we had big plans to meet at Keith and Don's at noon to get to the river by one oclock. Needless to say, getting nine people in one place on time and ready to go-- ain't easy. We headed back to the Elk River in Noel, Missouri with Jennifer and Luke.

We managed to make it down the river before dark.

Yesterday, Don and crew went to Eureka for the day and got back in time for us to start cooking dinner around 8:30. Don always makes yummy food and we always eat too much! Josh and Cindy came over, LaTresa brought her friend Heath, and Scott- the Pyrotechnic Genius!- was in charge of fireworks. We got a late start on the fireworks and didn't make many friends with the neighbors by shooting them off at nearly midnight! But, Dad, I got to use the "Fireworks" setting on my camera!

Roman Candles!

Don, LaTresa, Heath and Keith.

Yah! Fun weekend!

Trying something new with the pictures today. Let me know what you think. At the top left of your page, you should see a tab called "photos". Click here to view more photos of the weekend. I only put a few on this main page. Feel free to leave comments about this new system, and you can also leave comments on each photo.

Happy 4th of July!