among many other things, i am hunting for a barrel lamp shade. it needs to be around 14-17" tall, and of pretty good-sized diameter. i'm kicking myself for taking home the lamp from my great-aunt's house and not the lamp shade. the shade was ugly, but now i have a way to recover it. the shade needs to be a wire frame - i don't think that the plastic kind will work.
guess it's time to start haunting garage sales and thrift stores...
sometimes i think i should just keep my mouth shut. i was just getting things under control at work. it was going smoothly...summer is approaching, which is our busy-as-hell season...and i have to go and decide to offer to take over the maintenance billing for the company. granted, it's something that desperately needs overhaul as we seem to be losing more and more money every single month, but it means to do my job and oversee the overhaul of this department, now i'm having to work late nights...just like i did when i was trying to get the accounting department put back together. i keep telling myself that i'll eventually get caught up, get all the paper off my credenza, and not have to look through every single work order before i cut checks. considering that work order/check matching hasn't been done for the last year, i think i've made decent progress. i've gone through nearly 4 paper boxes-full of paper, but unfortunately have a lot of missing stuff. ah well. i just have to keep reminding myself that more work will be there tomorrow and that i can go home without feeling guilty.
at least tomorrow i'll have incentive to leave on time - there's another round of local bands playing at the del mar fair.
tonight? i worked until 7:30 and, feeling a little stressed still, i came home and made chocolate chip cookies. granted, i'm supposed to bring a batch for the potluck on friday, but i tested a few just to make sure they were fit to share. ;)
that's what i've been doing, and i'm not complaining. friday night the fremonts played at the whistlestop, so gary, me, roderick, danielle, sal and jamie (and lindsey a bit later) showed up and danced until the last notes of ghetto boogie. (hee!)
day two of the weekend, i slept in until 11, watched a couple of movies, did some laundry, then hit the first evening lindy by the bay of the summer. talk about a perfect night. the weather was great, the leads were good, and it was just all around a good time. a group of us went out afterward and talked and laughed and capped off a really great evening.
day three was roderick and danielle's 1-year anniversary party, so i gathered with a group of their friends to listen and dance to the fremonts, visit, and eat lots of food. i got to meet mike, gary's friend with the sail boat, nathan james, and a few other random people. afterwards, gary, lindsay and i decided spur of the moment to go to the last few hours of the del mar fair (er, san diego county fair - whatever), where nathan and billy watson were playing. we danced a bit on the not-very-slick dance floor, chatted with the guys between sets, and ate really-bad-for-us fair food.
now to go crawl into bed and rest up for the week ahead...
at least once in every woman's life, she should own the perfect dress. it should make her feel like audrey hepburn and grace kelly. it should turn every head when she walks in the room. it should be the epitome of grace and style. just slipping it on should automatically give her confidence. it should render at least one man speechless aside from a single word - "wow." some women are lucky enough to own this dress. some are even more lucky to have the chance to wear it more than once -- and look even better in it the second time.
i was lucky enough to find mine last year. i was in the store, looking for something else. and yes, i spotted it from across the room. when it even fit - wow. i rarely find floor-length dresses that i can actually wear. i wore it to last year's mark of excellence awards. this year - friday's dance at camp hollywood, themed "new year's 1935." hopefully i'll get a picture or two and post. i tried it on earlier this evening and remembered as i looked in the mirror that i'd dropped even a few more pounds since the last time i'd worn it. guess that makes me one of the doubly lucky ones to look better in it the second time 'round. :)
i signed up for the london balboa festival...and ended up on the waiting list since it filled up so fast. alison's going to talk with the organizers when she's in france to see if she can sweet talk me in. it'd be cool to spend a week or so over there, visit my dad, get in some sightseeing in, dance the weekend away...i think by then i'll need some time away from work. we'll see. i'm taking the attitude that if it's meant to be, it will.
well, to bed with me. tomorrow i'm heading over to the del mar fair (or the san diego county fair as it's now officially known...) whee! funny how i've started looking forward to this so early this year...