Impatient!

I am feeling impatiently anxious about a bunch of stuff today:

1. I worked really hard on a pitch for Ford Sync. Presentation was last week. I was one of three agencies they had present. They were supposed to have a decision by Tuesday. Still no word today....the meeting keeps getting postponed. We assembled an awesome team with great energy and fun ideas. Hurry up, would you!

2. My friend Sara caught me on a weak moment and I agreed to help this way-over-their-head young couple with the grand opening of their ice cream and dairy store in Royal Oak August 10-12. My fee: lifetime ice cream cones! I can easily pull it together for them but I don't want a lot of drama. Let me get you the big cow display balloon, the magicians and the milk mustache photo man and be done. (It really is fun...but I have way more than a full schedule.)

3. We had two great editorial briefings this week with the Bridge...one with Crain's and another with the Detroit News. My clients don't get what a coup this is! I'm kind of anxious about the stories.

4. I hauled all the way out to Howell yesterday for a SECOND meeting with a potential client and their response to my PR ideas was along the lines of "we're not sure we want to tell people what we're doing." AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Get me out of here.

5. Happily, I'm going to Toronto for the "girl trip" on Saturday with my Mom and Hannah. We have a hotel, train tickets and mezzanine seats for the Queen "We Will Rock You" play. Everything else will happen if it feels right. Hope it goes well and my clients leave me alone.

Co-inky-dink

OK, I am becoming more and more convinced that all aspects of "Six Degrees of Separation" are converging this week. I was up on the Ambassador Bridge yesterday (awesome day...we got some incredible footage) with a film crew and find out that the cameraman Ed knew my brother Tim really well and roomed in college with a whole bunch of his buddies from Milford. He had even been to our cottage in Kingsville and had seen a baseball game with my Dad.

Ro and Jackson are Up North fishing this week with Rick, Kurtis, Tyler and Trevor. The annual guy trip is a highlight of their world. Lori and I (the fishing widows) had a great dinner last night in Ferndale to toast their annual trip.

Today, after Hannah's game (they lost!), we went out to dinner with my folks since they had tickets to a concert at the Fox. On the way back through downtown, who do we see on a side street....my brother Tim and his friend on their way to Tiger Stadium! What's the likelihood of that happening? Huge city and we find my brother! They didn't even have tickets...they were just going for standing room since it was such a nice night.

I have the new Harry Potter book and I'm going to try now and wrestle it away from Hannah. I have to admit, I peeked at the last chapter. I'm not sure yet who Rowling picked to die....but I know who was still alive at the end. Wish me luck getting the book away from Hannah.

New Business

Sorry no posts lately. I have a new business pitch tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11:30. Think good thoughts!

Kicking It

My pal, Corinne, is something else. I just read her blog (Curly's World--link is on the right) and discovered that she is doing a triathalon this weekend. I am so not worthy. This is a woman who after her husband died needed a change of scenery so she packed up her two young kids in her Jeep Liberty and moved to the mountains, got there, found out she had breast cancer, beat that and has always been one of the wisest people I know. She has done an amazing job raising her kids while keeping sane amidst all her health issues. But hell, a triathalon! Can't you just go shopping and celebrate!?! Holey moley. Swimming, biking and running. You go, girl! (This is a picture of Corinne with the scarf I wove for her a few months back. )

Running

It is a mere 95 degrees here in the D at 9:00 at night. Damn it has been a sauna this summer. Hannah had a double header yesterday and Jackson had a game too. That trifecta was a lot of baseball in one day of hot, hot, hot! It didn't help that all three games were losses. Our old house has no air (just a few window units) so today Hannah and I headed for the movies after church. (The guys were fishing of course.) She wanted to see Transformers. It wasn't my kind of movie but what the heck... it was cool inside the theater. Also was fun to see good GM marketing for a change.

Jackson and I just got in from a run. Ugh....I sweat a lot normally. Now I am just gross. Jackson is in awesome shape from ROTC and baseball and I'm well...43. I think he just humors me by going along at my snail pace. I bought the Nike IPod sensor a few weeks back and it is a great motivator. There is a small sensor in my shoe and I plug another sensor into Hannah's nano Ipod. It keeps track of my pace, distance, calories and time. It also keeps a history of all your runs so you can track your improvement. There are even pre-recorded voices of celebrities that congratulate you when you achieve a personal best. Hard to believe that I used to play the IPod music just so I wouldn't hear myself breathe so hard.

Guitars

After throwing the Fourth of July BBQ for the Burns block on Wednesday and working all day on Thursday, you'd think I would be too tired to accept free tickets from my friend Miriam for the John Mayer concert that night.....but no! Last night, Hannah, Taylor and I ventured off to the Palace for the show. We really enjoyed it. Lots of blues, solos and very singable tunes. Hannah (a rookie guitar player) thought it was cool to see how many different guitars he played.

The most memorable part was when a huge fight broke out between two guys across the aisle. Beer was everywhere and they were swinging hard. The one dude was there with his kid!! Glad I could teach Hannah and Taylor about brawls. It was a John Mayer concert for God's sake, not some heavy metal show.

Facebook

I am so sneaky....Jackson started a Facebook account so I built a page too. Now I can keep tabs on all the antics that he and his pals talk about. So far, it is all pretty harmless. Interestingly though, a lot of my friends have Facebook accounts so it has been nice to catch up with them too. Man, the technology behind it rocks. As soon as I set up my page, it zoomed through my address book and told me all of my friends with pages. Eerie...but cool. I see why the teen set likes it.