New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


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Friday, March 12, 2004

I am in a much better mood. Where does the week go? Honestly, they fly by. Then again the weekend goes even faster.

So today I was bracing myself for a looooong day because I had a lot to do and back to back meetings from 2P-5P. Not so much fun.

Something happened today that was very very bad but anyone outside of my skull should find it amusing. It's the kind story that people who read this should find amusing.

So Loki's former crush was doing a radio interview. (Loki can't crush on a regular boy...no she has to crush on the type of guy who does "radio interviews") tee hee. But anyway he was doing a radio interview for one of the markets participating in my promotion from hell. Though the radio station was under strick instructions to only interview him about C/L not the promotion. He's the face and voice of C/L that's what he knows best. So everything was supposed to be pretty cut and dry.

I should preface this by saying that I've worked pretty hard to develop a relationship with the press person handling C/L. It doesn't hurt that she's very nice. Today I emailed her because apparently the lady who owns the company where Dave Navarro got his "pre-wedding" hicolonic was appearing on a local cable public access and the affiliate who must have sold her local advertising wanted to help her get clips from the show when he gets his hicolonic, 'cause the lady was going to be talking about the process on TV. Okay so I get this request and I know that we don't have clearance to send it out AND I am also on a anti product endorsement kick lately and I think that us sending her that would make it look like he was endorsing her product which would be false.

But I run it past press (via email) just to make sure. She responds back...telling me who the lady would need to contact to buy the clip. I reply, "THANKS!" and she responds, "You should feel honored, it's not just anyone I would respond to while sitting in my dentist's chair."

I thought that was very nice and just showed how strong our relationship was.

So anyway Loki's Former Crush was supposed to do this interview. And then I get a call from my dentist friend telling me that the radio girl started asking all the questions that she wasn't supposed to and that she'd even asked him how much he got paid when he first got hired!!! Apparently he was pretty ticked off. Then my dentist friend called the girl to discuss the fact that she went off track and well the girl apparently had a meltdown and almost started crying on the phone and basically she's a headcase.

So I got to hear all about it because my dentist friend "had to vent." I was just happy that she didn't want to kill me because he was doing the local interview for one of our affiliates.

So I ended up sending him a $50 I-Tunes gift certificate via email and then I ask her for his extension because apparently it's not listed with the "regular people" company directory and she says, "Wel you might not want to call him because he's a little pissed at the moment." and I said, "Oh you don't have to worry about that because I was going to dial directly into voicemail." Technology allows us to all be cowards when nesc.

So I left him this long apologetic message and now I can only hope that he won't be a pain in the ass when I work with him in the future. The good news is that he doesn't know what I look like so I don't have to worry about any "awkward elevator incidents" in fact should the occasion arise I can silently giggle and feel all creepy. That is until I finally have to introduce myself and then if he remembers me from the elevator and the fact that I didn't introduce myself then, well he'll really think that I am really creepy.

So who am I kidding? The next time I see him I will tell him who I am. Tell him how sorry I felt about the whole thing and then he'll just think that I am lame.

I'll just think that my dept. is $50 poorer and still short of one thank you for that there I-Tunes certificate that I can't be certain that he even got unless he tells me.

Later in the day my dentist friend forwarded me a voicemail that she got from the crazy radio lady that was just even more proof that the girl had gone around the bend. Plus when she googled the crazy radio lady's name there was a posting on a local radio tag board that said, "The best thing that this station ever did was fire INSERT CRAZY RADIO LADY'S NAME." Who hires someone at a station when you know that she's been fired from her last job? Apparently someone in a C market. (C being generous)...

So I sent my dentist friend up a $50 AMEX gift check a C/L messenger bag to appologize for all the hoopla and then she called and said she had to send it back and then I called her back and said we keep those things on hand for times like this and basically I know that it wasn't a violation of the decency and gifting thingy that we all sign to make sure we don't let vendors/associates bribe us.

My life is very trying at times. At least there is some comic relief.

On another note...I told Gilly that the world has become a very sad, boring, PC place. Why? Because you if I had this conversation in public people would call me a racist. So for some reason I started talking about the commercial where the people are in the cleaners and the woman says, "Oh how do you get your shirts so white?" and the guy responds, "Ancient Chinese Secret!" etc...Well you couldn't say that outloud today (complete with accent) without getting thrown an very dirty look. So I told Gilly that I am going to teach our kids to say it. Just to be snarky. "Suzie Q how does mommy get your shirts so white?" "Ancient Chinese Secret!" Complete with a bad accent.

Plus only one of us could remember what the brand was. Gilly thought it was Tide and for some reason I thought it was Calgon. But was I confusing it with, "Calgon...take me away!"?

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