Okay...now that I have a few minutes.  Going back almost a week and a few odd days.

Tuesday July 13th.  Last day with Matt, first day of training JD, my replacement.  It was okay....pretty calm.  Okay thats a lie.  Matt and a group of 6 others were traveling to the east coast, to have some meetings with American Ski Company, a new client.  They have 2 resorts, Killington and Sun River.  I was instructed by Matt and Randy (CEO) to get the cheapest flights out there.  Which means layovers.  And the flights were already full.  So I had everyone going complaining about their seats (middle) and the layovers.  Flights were changed for some.  Seats were able to move, for some.  I really didn't get into much "training" with JD.  Matt leaves, I cried a bit.  Then I headed for rehearsal.

Wed July 14th.  I assumed it was gonna be a slow day, and I was gonna get a lot of things done with JD.  Never ever assume.  I know this.  I did it anyway.  It bit me on the ass.  Matt and his group ended up being stuck at Dulles for 6 freakin hours!! Crazy storms on the east coast closed a closure of the airport, cancelled flights, and just plain chaos.  I spent most of the day on the phone trying to get them on flights, as they did the same thing at the airport racing from gate to gate.  Poor JD was starting to wonder what she got herself into.  Welcome to the madness, strap in and hold on.  I was able to get some things done with her.  Finally.  Day ends....I go to rehearsal.  Last one till tech the following Tues.

Thurs July 15th.  Last day of work.  Sweet Jesus the day finally arrived.  I told JD I would be around...in the resource library, and that if she needed anything I would be there for questions.  But I wasn't working. LOL   She only had a few questions....I spent the day saying goodbye to some people and working on the program for my play.   A group of girls (Carisa, Stephanie, Kristin and Kirstin) took me to Racha for a going away lunch.  Susana gave me a wonderful bouquet of lavendar....then around 5:00 I was summoned to the Main conference room.  I didn't want to go.  I knew what it was.  The T-mobile team presented me with a cake and some champagne and a Gift certificate to Old Navy.  It was very sweet, but sad too.  See I normally do that for people's birthdays and other special occasions.  Aw well.  We ate our cake, drank some champagne....then headed to Peso's.  This is where Scott (my other boss) wanted to go.   At this point....I hadn't seen him all day as he was over at T-Mobile stuck in meetings since 7:30 AM.  Pretty soon the back area of Peso's is filled with Publicis folk, all for my benefit.  I was truly expecting a few people....and there was almost 40 people there!! I was a little miffed that no one from Matt's team showed up.  Only Amy had an excuse as she is due to have a baby any day now.   The drinks flowed...and pretty soon I was handed a phone, you have a phone call.  It was Scott, and it was around 7:30 PM...he was STILL stuck at T-Mobile and wasn't gonna make it.  He felt soooooo bad.  Bastards work him way....way....way to much.  A group of us ended up going to Chopsticks, a dueling piano bar.  My friend Michael showed up there.....then a smaller group of us headed to R-Place, a local gay bar.  Okay it was Dwight (HR manager) his boyfriend, Michael, Jinger and I.  LOL We drank more....danced ALOT, and just plain went crazy.   I was taken home around 1:30....and I proceeded to get sick.  Gross. 

Friday July 16th.  Hang over city baby.  I woke up around 10ish.  I showered and headed back to Publicis to pick up my box of stuff.  I was able to sneak in and back out pretty quickly.  I was hoping to get on an earlier flight to Denver.  Ran back to the apartment and packed a bag.  Note to self.....never, ever pack a bag with a hangover.   I was soon at the airport and was #2 on the standby list for the 2:00 flight.   It finally boarded at 3:30ish...with me aboard.  Get to Denver and just hang with my parents for the evening.

Saturday July 17th.  Day dawns...its finally time for a Harry concert!! WHOO HOO!!!  We actually had to be out of the house by 11:30 because my parents are trying to sell the house.  So we go run a few errands, and then drive up to the Flat Irons in Boulder and have a picnic up there.   Then we run to Old Navy.  Then to Tom and Ski's for a few beers.  See we can't be back to the house till 4:30, as there was an open house as well as the earlier showing.  We finally head home, change, and jump back in the car.  We make the hour drive with me chanting most of the way, please no rain, please no rain.   I had talked to Spencer earlier and it was pouring where he was.   Luckily the rain held out and it was the BEST EVER Harry show.  I am not just saying this.  2 hours and 40 minutes of the best music...he was working the crowd.   You could tell how much fun everyone on the stage was having.  The energy that was in that venue was fantastic.  He played a lot of the songs I hoped he would...with a few suprises.  Always some suprises.  Got to talk to Mark and Craig after the show....always just awesome.  Mark tried to pay me off for the bet we made last fall.  LOL  Then it was time to leave...we make the trek back home and got there around 1ish...

Sunday July 18th.  Up at dawn.  Okay 7:30.  Our guests arrived at 8:00 AM.  Some friends from Montana, my parents and I load up a Blazer and head to breakfast.  Then back out towards the Red Rocks area.  Time for a little NHRA drag racing babee.  I hadn't been to one of this in YEARS!!! we used to go in Spokane ALL the freakin time.  This time I could go into the pits.  Standing by one of the rail cars, or a funny car when the are burning the engine.  HOLY SHIT.  Nitro filling the air, burning the eyes, the whole world feels like its is shaking....it rocked.  I got soooo sunburned.  We spent the entire day out there and just had a freakin blast.  around 5, when all the drivers my parents and friends were pulling for were out of the finals, we left.  Went home and had a bbq.

Monday July 19th.  Fly back to Seattle, collapse

Tuesday July 20th.  First tech rehearsal in space.  We had an hour to get the right look with the lights and run the show.  Needless to say we didn't get to run the show.  The lights took the whole time, then we did a quick cue to cue. 

Wed. July 21st.  1st attempt to have lunch with Scott, of course a T-Mobile meeting popped up, we reschedule for Friday.  2nd and final tech rehearsal in the sauna....ran through the show twice.  Gotta love 30 minute shows.

Thursday July 22nd...Work on our poster for the show.....Show opens.....sweat like a fiend....show goes great.  Festival shows are crazy, fast, intense and a whole lot of fun.  One show ends and we have 10-15 mins for the them to take down their set and ours to go up and start.  Rock star. 

Friday July 23rd.  Lunch actually happens with Scott.  He really has been the best boss ever.  I am gonna miss him a lot.  Matt decides that he needs to have lunch with me as well.  That happens Monday.   No show this night...

Saturday July 24th.  Show.  It rocks again.

Oh have you noticed I haven't said anything about packing??? Thats because I haven't started yet!!!  I have a show at 4:45 today...hopefully gonna buy some plastic bins at Fred Meyer today.  Tomorrrow I have a spa appointment at 9, then lunch with Matt, we are also having a cast party...but I am also hoping to go out one more time with Michael.   Tuesday, I truly have to pack.  Dinner with Roxanne and Summer that night.  Wed, I am on a 10:00 train to Portland for a Harry show...drive back to Seattle with Kristy that night.  Thursday we head to Vancouver BC for another Harry show....Friday Harry show in Seattle and my Bro-in-law shows up.  Saturday, load up Uhaul, Sunday, we leave.  Damn.

Kristy is on her way to the Berkely show right now.   Girl gets to hang with some cool folks down there.  And suprise suprise...guess who else is gonna be there?  Doug Belote.  :) :) 

wow...so much to document since my last post....and no time.  Its been crazy, crazy, crazy.  Did I mention crazy?? Tomorrow starts my last week in the great northwest....will try to come back and blog later about everything, but its almost time to head to my show for Mae West Fest!!

Today's task. To get through today. Its my last work day with Matt Stiker. One of my two bosses. Tomorrow he is on a plane to NYC. Won't see him again. Shall be an interesting day.

So here we are. My last week for work for Publicis. Well its not my last full week, my last 4 days. And its been hell so far.

I was here nice bright and early, so I could make sure there were fresh flowers in Jen B.s office. It is her first day. Then Scott went on a rampage. Not at me. Thank god. Various other people. Matt had me busy right away as well, with typing up documents for a meeting that some how got moved up to 8:30....from 9:00. And no one informed me.

I had right before the 4th of July weekend booked travel for 7 people....3 to Boston, 4 to NYC. They then drive to either Killington or Sun Valley ski resorts since we are now doing work for American Ski Company. Matt had me research the flights for a few days so we got the cheapest. Since Publicis is paying for the flights. Well now, everyone hates the flights because there are lay overs. One each way. And they don't like the fact that the only seats available are in the middle. Don't look at me peeps. I booked what Matt asked. I have spent most of my day, on hold, trying to change at least 2 of the flights. One just went from $422.00 to over $1100.00. So glad I won't be here when Randy rages about this. Okay. Just had to vent. Now I have to run to Larry's and get lunch for the ASC brainstorm meeting, the BB meeting and various other meetings.

OH and I was arranging interviews for the AAE postion with Safeco. But don't know the schedules of the people who will be do the interviewing...because I don't have access to their calendars. Talk about fun. I already have to go and change at least on the interviews I set up. Joy.

So Friday. Laser procedure. I don't recommend it. Way back when (in March)I started having my eye issues, I was talking with Andrea, and we thought I was just going to have this laser procedure done, she had had it done and so we kinda talked about it. Then it turns out that the left eye was worse than originally thought, blah blah blah, surgery, blah blah blah. Well I went in at the end of June for my 3 month check up, which the left eye is now healed and doing wonderfully. In fact my sight is a bit better than before the surgery. But the right eye had two holes in the retina. So he scheduled me for an in office procedure. Techinally I think it was a surgery, they had me sign a surgery form. But whatever. I get there a little after 2:00. My appointment was for 2, and I waited in the lobby for a good 15 minutes before BeBe came to diluate my right eye. Which soon made reading impossible, as one eye was wacked out. Finally after what seemed forever, Dr. Nguyen came to get me. This was around 2:50. ugh. (thought I would be back to work by 3) They take me to this room with a few different contraptions set up. The one they used on me, kinda looks like what is in every eye docs office, where you have to rest your chin and your forhead. But this one had straps! Dr. Nguyen puts some numbing drops in my eyes, I asked if he had anything stronger, kinda joking, kinda not. Because what he gave me just numbs the top of the eye. He did tell me that opthmology (SP) is the only practice to use cocaine for medicinal purposes, in a drop form and it numbs a whole lot more, but stings for about 1/2 a day. I said no. LOL I then but my chin and forehead in place and he puts this insturment on my eye, the only way I can describe it is as what a jewler uses to look through, but it goes right on my eye. It had some sticky kinda gel on it. He didn't "strap" me in, and all I could see was this white light from the instrument. I had my left eye closed. LOL. After about a minute, I asked if he had started already, and he said no, but was about to. Then this green light starts flashing, and there is this obnoxious humming/thudding noise in my head. Pulsing fast. I was sitting there thinking..hmm not to bad I can handle this. Then came the shooting pain. It was quick, and didn't feel like it was in my eye but my sinuses. Some areas it hurt like that, others I didn't feel a thing. I explained the pain to my mom and sister as like when I got my tattoos. But it was in my FREAKIN EYE!! The doc kept having to stop and telling me to move back forward. I didn't realize I was pulling away, but I guess that does seem natural. He even told me to breath at one point. He was done within 5 minutes. He told me to sit back and then he cleaned out my eye with some drops. My vision in my right eye wasn't there for about 10 seconds or so...then it slowly came back and everything was purple. I kid you not. It slowly faded, in the next 5 minutes I was seeing normally again. It was soooo weird. My head ached, and as soon as I got back to work I took some Tylenol. I felt a bit better, but my eye was sooo dilulated that you couldn't even see the brown of my eye. My pupil was that big. But he said it went very well. I go back in 3 weeks, right before I leave to make sure it healed properly. My eye is still a little sore, but seems to be doing okay. Hopefully thats the end of it for a long long time.

my eye/head hurts. it was lasered today. the right one. now....to take the pain away...wine? or tylenol pm? or both? :P

One week from today...thats it, the jobs over. And its already 6:30 PM PST. soooo I only have 4 more days of work left!! But really, I will be here this weekend. I need to get things done, and it doesn't look like they will have hired anyone to fill my spot by the time I leave. Well I shouldn't say that. Matt and I both like JD, she actually temped over at Safeco, and I worked with her that way. If neither of the two other candidates don't just WOW Matt, then Scott will meet with JD on Monday. I don't know how fast she can start at that point. If she can start right away, I will have 2 days MAX with her. And if she can't, she comes in blindly. Which royally sucks.

Yesterday, Scott said "Take me with you" and Matt still claims to be in denial. Now to just get past Thursday, then I can concentrate on Harry. :) :) Speaking of....I heard about this the other night:

with this as part of the copy: Bonerama features four trombonists, sousaphone, guitar, bass and drums. The band is led by Mark Mullins, who works with Harry Connick Jr.'s touring band on the road, but leads his own eclectic group when he's back home in the Crescent City.


In the main article they are mentioned twice:
There were plenty of savory musical dishes, served up buffet-style, on 12 different stages. This year's festival combined dozens of up-and-coming performers like Bonerama with older, established road veterans such as James and Winwood.

and ...while the British soal singer Joss Stone, the Joe Krown Organ Combo and the local funk and rock band Bonerama all found wider followings as a result of their shows in front of international audiences.

For the full article, check out July's Relix. Awesomeness

The craziness has set in. I woke up, around 2:30 this morning, with this thought: OH SHIT I AM MOVING TO NOLA....in less than a month. I think the reality hit me. I was wide awake for hours after that. Matt says he is on full on denial at this point. I really don't think he will have anyone hired to fill my spot before I leave. Gonna have to leave some seriously detailed notes for who ever it is. I have been having to read through resumes and set up interviews of the ones I like. I am a little possesive about my job right now. I don't think that anyone will be good enough for my guys. Even though they are a pain in the ass from time to time they are still my guys. I am gonna miss the people here, and of course my job, but I can't stay somewhere where I am not happy, for a job. As Scott said to me the other day, "Things have a way of working out, they may not be for the right reasons, but eventually it all works out" He wasn't talking about my move...but it totally made sense.

Its now July. 28 days till moving day. 8 more working days. I think I have a room to stay at for a couple of months...in the Treme district. Have heard from 2 people that says its a mixed neighborhood and its okay. 1 person says its not where I want to live. I have Carrie and Adam who are gonna drive by and maybe take pics, let me know what they think. But I haven't heard from the lady in awhile and she advertised again the other day on Craigslist. She never actually said I could have it, but we were talking alot about the place. She even said I could stay there till I found a place of my own. Well, we will see. I think I found a place to hang out if that falls through:
It looks perfect. I heard from the one job that everyone thought I was perfect for...an Exec Admin Assit at a advertising company. Didn't get it. Its hard, can't find a job when I don't have a place to live down there yet, because I can't interview. Can't get a place to live, because I don't have job yet. frustrating. but it will all work out, one way or another.