Crow

Pardon me while I crow a bit.

Great vaunted creative director is late getting us five sentences worth of letter for a mailing. The mailing has to go out today. As of 11:25 we did not have the letter. Hmmm. Make my job difficult much?

So I got fed up and started writing the letter myself. Pulled up the last three letters as examples to work from. Got two sentences in and...he sent me the letter (with a nice little note that I should wait for D.'s approval first - um, her name is on it so of course I would, like always, wait for her approval).

The thing is, the letter was bad. Dry. Completely antiseptic. Oddly enough, he thought the note was "warm". (Not even. It was obviously not his best work or even his normal level of work.) Plus it was nothing like the other letters we've sent in a series of mailings, which means the brand consistency wasn't there. No brand image. (Combine it with pictures of bank billboards, and can you imagine the snoozefest of the mailing?)

So I straight away edited the letter, jazzing up the intro and editing the closer to make them more in keeping with previous mailings while not futzing up his copy too much.

*evil*

Of course I let D. know about the edits and why. Fun part? She had told him to go for a different angle, but he went too far, so she went with my edited letter. Ha!

Sometimes it's fun to rule over the creative director. Makes him think. (I'm not the one telling him I changed his copy, though. D. gets to tell him that.)

Dang creativity

koska_the_cat has become a bad influence on me. And I'm not even sure why, because the influence hasn't been until the last couple of days.

I wanna sew.

Granted, I'd bought some fabric to sew with and a couple of patterns recently, but not in the vein of the last couple of days. Yesterday I went to Wal-Mart to look at a sewing machine. That I will buy on Thursday night. *headdesk*

And today I was rabidly looking for a dress pattern (that doesn't exist) because I'm creating a costume.

It's all you, K! You play with kittens and it makes me want to sew. *sob* Or I blame Vogue and Oscar de la Renta for giving me the idea for a specific gown.

OMG yes!

Just noticed:

September 30 (Friday): Serenity
October 2 (Sunday): Talladega

That's going to be the best weekend ever!

Gilmore Girls and more

I plan to embrace my inner girly girl romantic tonight. There will be much silliness and giggling and girliness. Really, it's all about the most unattainable of men: the Perfect TV Man (that doesn't exist in real life and never will). Ah, bless the fabulousness of Luke Danes. Gruff. Rough. Tempermental. Bossy. Fiery. Down home. Big ole pussy cat at heart. *sigh*

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My plans for the evening are as follows:

6:15-8:00

Do all of the necessary things to get ready for the next day, including walk the dog, shaving, remove makeup, etc.

7:30

Order pizza

7:45

Make daquiris

8:00

Turn on Gilmore Girls/Supernatural/Rock Star:INXS TVathon and veg

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Pizza, girly alcohol, and new TV. Nothing better. Maybe I'll wear a girl girl dress while watching. If ever a night called for overly girliness it's this one.