Hi Friends!
This post will be all over the place, so bear with me please.
- I went to Denver for a long weekend for a wedding and a birthday. It was fun. It was 60 in Denver on Friday and 28 degrees in Silverthorne in the mountains with 3 inches of snow. I went only knowing the bride and groom and bridesmaid. I was sat at a table with the other people from Lincoln who I had never met before. By the end of the night, they were telling me to stay at their rental house with them that night so I didn’t have to drive an hour back to Denver. It was fun!
- When we were returning the rental car we were stopped at a light. As I looked to my left there was a truck full of men around my age. They rolled their window down and smiled and stared at me. I just smiled inanely back. Dudes, man.
- Sunday I went Christmas shopping. But, like any good American consumer, I also found myself shopping for…myself! I had liked that navy blue skirt at The Limited a few months ago. But I decided that $60 was entirely too much to spend on it, so I decided against it. Well, imagine how happy I was when I went back and found it on clearance, marked at $8.99 with another 40% off! I paid $5.77 in exact change for that sucker! Love it.
- I spoke at my Alma Mater today–The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Journalism and Mass Communications. I was part of an alumni panel about students who are (or in my case were) in the biz. It was fun. And they gave us these lovely pads. My professor (and friend) outed my blog to the entire group!! (insert minor panic attack here!) But I decided, whatever, are a bunch of 20 something year old college kids going to want to read it? Probably not. One girl asked me about my work at the Non-Profit and getting out of the biz. I told her that Journalism’s dirty little is secret is the terrible pay and hours. And I was burnt out on both.
- I ran into a former classmate at this panel discussion. He hadn’t seen me since graduation, but we are friends on Facebook. He kept telling me how great I look and how awesome he thinks it is that I run marathons. I forget that it really IS awesome. Not everyone can or will run one. And that shouldn’t be something I just brush off. It deserves to be celebrated.
- I joined OkCupid last week. Among the gem of emails that I’ve gotten have been these 2. I’ll give the first guy some props for his message. I don’t mind being told I’m hot! 🙂 But, as much as I wanted to ask him if lines like that have EVER worked for him, I decided not to engage the crazy. Good choice Melissa, good choice.
- Also, 21 year old, PLEASE! If I don’t respond, please don’t send a another message. I wanted to tell him: Well, I have nearly 12 more years of life experience than you do. I just don’t think that I want to date someone who recently became legal to drink. Also, no, just no.
- Another busy week ahead…isn’t that how it always goes?
Have a good one friends!
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