The Good, The Bad and The Butt Ugly
After being out of the office for 3 days, I came to work with my system about ready to crash and burn. I guess it's "business as usual" now that the announcement has been made. For me, there are still a lot of uncertainties that need to be answered...but we'll get those soon enough I'm sure.
Friday's comp shop was fun but Walnut Creek was too frikkin' hot. Lunch at PF Changs was not bad, considering we got free desserts. Can't beat that! The manager came out apologizing that our food came too late. Honestly, we didn't even notice. The lettuce wraps came out and between that and chatting, we didn't realize our food hasn't come out yet. The mango chicken sucked big time but the honey shrimps were good. The free desserts were the Great Wall of Chocolate and the Banana Spring Rolls. Yum! We hit every store we had to go to (not bad!): Eddie Bauer Home, Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Williams-Sonoma, Bombay, Bombay Kids, Z Gallerie. By the end of the day, we were SO pooped but mission accomplished. We didn't even have time to shop for ourselves! Pretty darn good, if you ask me. We didn't leave Broadway Plaza until 7pm. We walked and walked that by the time we were done, we were so pooped. It was a good, productive day.
Saturday was a good weekend - it was MIL's town had a fiesta up in South City which we ended up going to. The Big Guy's relatives from Alaska are in town so he wanted to go see them at the fiesta. It was so cold up in the city, it was no fun! We had to stop by Target to get me a sweatshirt since I didn't come prepared. Hey - it was sunny when we left the house! I should've known better. After the fiesta, the 3 of us headed out to Japan Town. We had SO much fun! The Big Guy was just elated - brought back too many memories of Yokusaka. We went to Ichiban and went crazy with the little gadgets and the food. I love Japanese food, their candy and the chips. Yummy yum! We walked around the center for a good hour or so, then headed out to AC. We were just going to meet M&D E at home but since they changed the front door, we didn't have a key to the new lock. We took the long (and cheap) way home through Golden Gate. Jake was fast asleep in the car and I was busy with Sam. Oh yeah, she's finally up and running :). Too cute! Dinner out for some carnitos with the MIL and FIL. Jake had a blast. Cheap but good dinner. SIL and the family came by later that night and Jake and Joseph had fun polishing MIL's hardwood floor.
So then this is when it gets Bad...
Jake is weird like me. When he gets exposed to cold air, he comes down with asthma (just like his Dadddy). So as expected, I saw the symptoms slowly creeping in Saturday night. By early morning Sunday, he was down with a low grade fever. I told the Big Guy, this is it! He didn't have any appetite either. We didn't want to take him out so we figured we'll stay in until we go home. Turns out that SIL was going to meet the neices and nephews in Valley Fair so we thought "ok, we will go too." Everyone came by for pizza dinner before heading out to Vacaville. R and S were going to stay there with the SIL until today. Anyways...when Jake started throwing up, I knew the inevitable came. My poor Jake.
Monday, Mama and Jakey stayed home. It was fun. He didn't get much sleep the night before so we decided to keep him at home and I didn't go to work. M&D came by to bring lunch. It was a fun day. Did some housework - finished the laundry, finally tackled the nightmare of a closet, and wrote some cards out.
So here's when it gets BUTT UGLY...
- The stuff we shopped for on Friday were supposed to be for my Hotel Collection, objectives which have been sent out a week ago. I come back to work with trend directions changed and updated, which means change in directions to the vendors and overseas offices. Can't these people get their act together and get it straight the first time? Ugh!
- The vendors have been screwing us over with the ugliest samples I have ever seen in my life! Nuts!
- Don't even get me started with our Big Boss
R will be doing his cheeseball rationing this week. How exciting.
- M&D leave for Maui tomorrow. How fun!!!
- M&D E also leave for the Alaskan cruise tomorrow.
- The Big Guy and I are thinking of going to San Diego to take the monster to Sea World and San Diego Zoo. Probably sometime in Sept.
- Heard from best friend C ... she and Baby V are doing well. Glad to know.
- My pink shirt ROCKS!!!!
- J baked me a whole loaf of banana nut bread. Thanks J.
- Finally bought The Sixth Sense dvd. I was too chicken to watch it by myself so I'm still waiting for the Big Guy to get to bed early enough so we can scare ourselves to death.
- I'm loving my Z Gallerie ring :>. L got the 3 of us matching rings on Friday. Too cute!
- The Big Guy talking about getting my engagement ring re-set. Ahhhhhh! I miss wearing my ring.
Toodles people. Have a good week!
Friday's comp shop was fun but Walnut Creek was too frikkin' hot. Lunch at PF Changs was not bad, considering we got free desserts. Can't beat that! The manager came out apologizing that our food came too late. Honestly, we didn't even notice. The lettuce wraps came out and between that and chatting, we didn't realize our food hasn't come out yet. The mango chicken sucked big time but the honey shrimps were good. The free desserts were the Great Wall of Chocolate and the Banana Spring Rolls. Yum! We hit every store we had to go to (not bad!): Eddie Bauer Home, Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Williams-Sonoma, Bombay, Bombay Kids, Z Gallerie. By the end of the day, we were SO pooped but mission accomplished. We didn't even have time to shop for ourselves! Pretty darn good, if you ask me. We didn't leave Broadway Plaza until 7pm. We walked and walked that by the time we were done, we were so pooped. It was a good, productive day.
Saturday was a good weekend - it was MIL's town had a fiesta up in South City which we ended up going to. The Big Guy's relatives from Alaska are in town so he wanted to go see them at the fiesta. It was so cold up in the city, it was no fun! We had to stop by Target to get me a sweatshirt since I didn't come prepared. Hey - it was sunny when we left the house! I should've known better. After the fiesta, the 3 of us headed out to Japan Town. We had SO much fun! The Big Guy was just elated - brought back too many memories of Yokusaka. We went to Ichiban and went crazy with the little gadgets and the food. I love Japanese food, their candy and the chips. Yummy yum! We walked around the center for a good hour or so, then headed out to AC. We were just going to meet M&D E at home but since they changed the front door, we didn't have a key to the new lock. We took the long (and cheap) way home through Golden Gate. Jake was fast asleep in the car and I was busy with Sam. Oh yeah, she's finally up and running :). Too cute! Dinner out for some carnitos with the MIL and FIL. Jake had a blast. Cheap but good dinner. SIL and the family came by later that night and Jake and Joseph had fun polishing MIL's hardwood floor.
So then this is when it gets Bad...
Jake is weird like me. When he gets exposed to cold air, he comes down with asthma (just like his Dadddy). So as expected, I saw the symptoms slowly creeping in Saturday night. By early morning Sunday, he was down with a low grade fever. I told the Big Guy, this is it! He didn't have any appetite either. We didn't want to take him out so we figured we'll stay in until we go home. Turns out that SIL was going to meet the neices and nephews in Valley Fair so we thought "ok, we will go too." Everyone came by for pizza dinner before heading out to Vacaville. R and S were going to stay there with the SIL until today. Anyways...when Jake started throwing up, I knew the inevitable came. My poor Jake.
Monday, Mama and Jakey stayed home. It was fun. He didn't get much sleep the night before so we decided to keep him at home and I didn't go to work. M&D came by to bring lunch. It was a fun day. Did some housework - finished the laundry, finally tackled the nightmare of a closet, and wrote some cards out.
So here's when it gets BUTT UGLY...
- The stuff we shopped for on Friday were supposed to be for my Hotel Collection, objectives which have been sent out a week ago. I come back to work with trend directions changed and updated, which means change in directions to the vendors and overseas offices. Can't these people get their act together and get it straight the first time? Ugh!
- The vendors have been screwing us over with the ugliest samples I have ever seen in my life! Nuts!
- Don't even get me started with our Big Boss
R will be doing his cheeseball rationing this week. How exciting.
- M&D leave for Maui tomorrow. How fun!!!
- M&D E also leave for the Alaskan cruise tomorrow.
- The Big Guy and I are thinking of going to San Diego to take the monster to Sea World and San Diego Zoo. Probably sometime in Sept.
- Heard from best friend C ... she and Baby V are doing well. Glad to know.
- My pink shirt ROCKS!!!!
- J baked me a whole loaf of banana nut bread. Thanks J.
- Finally bought The Sixth Sense dvd. I was too chicken to watch it by myself so I'm still waiting for the Big Guy to get to bed early enough so we can scare ourselves to death.
- I'm loving my Z Gallerie ring :>. L got the 3 of us matching rings on Friday. Too cute!
- The Big Guy talking about getting my engagement ring re-set. Ahhhhhh! I miss wearing my ring.
Toodles people. Have a good week!
