64 posts tagged “life”

Monday:
8am-12: work in office
12-1: lunch
1-2: personal trainer
2-6: work in office

Tuesday:
7am - 1 hour workout
8am - design newsletter
930am - website/email marketing consult with hip little hair salon
1200-130 - brainstorm in-house email marketing
130-230 - lunch
230 - 5pm - email campaign design for awesome bartending company
5pm-6pm - meeting/follow up with lovely financial advisor
6-645 - dinner
645-11pm - in house marketing campaign design

Wednesday:
8am - website design for client
930 - drive to north end of town
10am - website/directmail/email consult
12 - LUNCH
1 - 3: Brainstorming for client
330-6pm - Feel overwhelemed and as if sleep hasn't happened in years. Remedies this by manicure & massage. Ahh, much better.

Thursday:
630-945 - Meeting with local Chamber of Commerce
10-11 - Personal trainer
1115-1230 - Consult with prospect
1230-130 - Lunch
130-430 - Consult with client who has NINE LOCATIONS (WOOHOO!)
430-6pm - Visit with Kade
6-8 - Wrap up emails, designs, cook dinner
8-10 - Pretend the world doesnt exist and watch GREYs & LOST. Turn off phone. Bless.

Friday:
730am - Conference Call
830 - wrap up blog
830-9 - shower/dress
9-12 - work with client at client location
1230 - HAIR!
130 - Lunch meeting
230 - work on laptop at some coffee shop in Scottsdale with wifi.
345 - FACIAL!
5pm - Home & possible date night. AMEN!

Saturday:
630pm - Networking/Pre-party
830 - Fashion Show at Axis/Radius to support new awesome client
930-?? :  PARTAY! :D

LA VIE EST BELLE, YO!

This weekend I...
1. Drank a ton of cosmopolitans
2. Went bar hopping (Hello, haven't done that in YEARS)
3. Was told "Honey, do you know where you are?" by a bartender after ordering a cosmo in an Irish pub.
4. Got hit on by white boys (!!!)
5. Watched all 3 Back to the Futures
6. May or may NOT have sang the Enchanted theme song out loud
7. Played Bennie and the Jets in an Irish Pub and danced&sang like a chubby Katherine Heigl
8. Wore something relatively conservative out partying! (wtf!me!)
9. Had an amazing time with some amazing girls.
10. Was totally the Charlotte.

Today I...
1. Was on the radio in Montreal
2. Listened to the Habs kick ass and wrap up the series
3. Had a Manicure
4. Really, really missed living in Montreal
5. Received a gift from Favourite Client from Italy
6. Wore a dress
7. Met with my personal trainer
8. Felt really, really good about my design skills.
9. Designed some new business cards for Franci and I
10. Loved life, OTC, friends et al.

Fin.

Life for the past month or so, in photos. Roughly 50 new pictures, ranging from the Ren Fest last month, to a seminar, to a night at Salty's, a trip to El Paso, and of course, some of me and my new lovely VERSA <3 Oh, and can't forget little Harley pup!

Enjoy!

.. most of you know the story by now.. the reason I've been absent from the blogosphere is that my Jeep had taken a turn for the worse, and I was scrambling to get to meetings, appointments, and trading back and forth with our ford F150 and Nick's Grand Prix. Finally, after a week of doing that, I decided enough was enough, and stumbled upon this gorgeous lil creature:

ceesversa.jpg

So.. my day didn't go according to plan, but I suppose it going the way it did prevented me from a huge dramatic escapade later this week. First off, I woke up, had a nice quick breakfast and got to work... emails, phone calls, the usual. As I'm getting ready to go to Favorite Client's office, I get a phone call from Old Colleague saying his ex's father is ill, and Oh, I forgot about appointment and can you please watch the kids?
A wrench in my day, but yes, fine, sure. A friend in need, etc etc, right?
So I spend three aggravating and homicide inducing (due to the environment, not the children) in the Chuck E Cheese. Why is there not a warning about places like that? Where the music is so loud you can't hear yourself think and the parents who come up to you and are like "Your kid hurt my kids feelings!" and the way the place turns the most amazing kids into screaming, greedy, crazed maniacs who will lie, cheat and steal to gain the 10,0000 tickets needed to redeem for an eraser that one could easily find at the dollar store, FOR A DOLLAR, and certainly in a pack of 10!
I was unprepared. But I digress.
On the way to return Lovely Children (who really are lovely, I swear) I hear Insanely Loud Screech coming from my beloved Blue Machine (aww, Jeepie<3) I drive cautiously and scared out of my mind to the appointment so he can pick them up. Turn off the Jeep, unbuckle Lovely Children and take a look at the Blue Machine as we're saying goodbye, and yep, there it was.
A puddle. Oh yes! A PUDDLE, coming from my Jeep, pouring onto the ground.
Old Colleague looks down and then at me and says "Yeah, you're not going ANYWHERE."
Oh, great.
So now, my beloved Jeep in stranded in Scottsdale at a clients, while Nick takes me home and I stress the entire way and a good bit into the night as well. I know what the car being stranded in Scottsdale means. NO CAR = NO BUSINESS and then, of course NO BUSINESS = NO MONEY.
Breathe calmly, breathe calmly.
So now, it's 1030 at night, and 2 conference calls later, I'm sketching out site ideas for a foundation as part of a volunteer thing. It will really help get my company name out there. More on that later.

Until then, wish that my car sitch gets resolved by the weekend, or things will REALLY get rough.

1. Spending the evening talking work with amazing women in amazing fields. My dear friend Erica invited me to a "Women in Design" networking group tonight and I met women from all different aspect of business, and the common thread was design and a desire to move forward. How refreshing!

2. My business cards. They were a great conversation starter. Remind me to post a picture of them, they are such a cute way to break the ice!

3. Going to a new restaurant. There are so many here in the Valley, it's lovely!

4. Chai. It's freezing out, and nothing warms you up like a steaming cup of Starbuck's Chai tea.

5. Busy days. I can't believe it's 20 to 9 already. I have been up/out since 8am and I didn't even feel the time go by!

... thanks again for your patience with the lack of updates. I did want to post a bit about what I've been working on. My company, Outside the Cube Marketing is sponsoring a referral marketing webinar on Friday, so we've been doing gobs and gobs of promotion. Outside of that, I'm working on designs for some email campaigns and making quotes for websites. I'm also working on re-designing the cubes information on the site - making them a bit more user friendly.. and you can expect the return of CrystalCoons.com in the next few days.

Oh, so much!

Re the webinar: If you have some time and want some good info, here's the link to signup:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/980559850
And if you work for a small business, pass it on to your manager/superior. It's geared towards small businesses, so just about every industry can benefit from it.

Okay, back to the grind!

I just want to be one of the first to say...

http://outsidethecubemarketing.com/

It's about 85% done, but it's live and it's what I've been working on for 4 months now.
It feels SO GOOD to have it up, live, and really.. open for business.
Love it!