sorry, but i’m not done bragging about how awesome my day was.  the following events were not necessarily the most exciting things, but i was proud that i had three things to do tonight after work and the timing had to be just right to pull it off and i actually DID IT!  without being embarrassingly late to anything!

after spending the majority of the day at a videoshoot for work, i headed back to the office to find that somehow i had timed everything and routed everything so that i had nothing to work on for the remainder of the day.  this was EXTRA NICE, because i had planned a bit of a crazy evening.

i hit the road at 5:00pm on the dot.  the number of times this has happened in my advertising career is still in the single digits.

i headed immediately to the grocery store.  we’re supposed to get a monster snow storm AGAIN this weekend, so i definitely needed some additional food before i was stuck at home for three days.  i knew it was going to be hellish and i was right, but i was a man on a mission.  parked on a side street and dodged the insane parking lot, ran in with a basket and loaded it up with exactly what i needed.  i was dodging ladies with shopping carts left and right.  since i didn’t have my own cart, i was able to move fast.  no dead weight!  i got all the essentials and headed for the lines.

self-checkout was totally fucked.  the line was forever, and inevitably there’s always 3-4 people who still don’t know how to use it.  i immediately found the shortest line with a cashier.  things moved slowly, but not as bad as they could have been.  i was in and out of the grocery in THIRTY MINUTES.  stoked.

immediately after the grocery store, with minutes to spare, i headed to cous cous to meet chrissy, a writer for richmond.com.  i did an hour-long interview with her about decoration day recordings and the SEAS record for a new feature on their site.  as always, it was fun to talk about the label and this project because it’s something i care so strongly about right now.  usually i have to resort to talking friends’ ears off about it, so it was nice to do it in a more professional setting.  when i ordered my greyhound, the waiter said “of course.  i should have known!”  can i just say how much i love being a regular at a place?

after the interview was over, i chatted briefly with chris at the bar and then sped off to elephant thai for yet ANOTHER meetup with minutes to spare, this time with my friend lauren over thai food.  we hadn’t hung out in a while, so we did a lot of catching up and talking about life and all the goings-on.

i finally made it home about an hour ago and i feel like i just did a mental triathlon.  it’s time to relax, put on some music, and revel in the fact that in 24 hours it will be the weekend, and there will be a blizzard, and i have ample amounts of sharp cheddar cheese, hummus, milk, ritz crackers, and leftover thai food.  WIN!