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Wow. What can I say? I was totally wrong about Santino winning Project Runway. Chloe did a great job and her collection was beautiful! I am going to be so sad next Wednesday night when there is no Project Runway to watch!

Some highlights from the last week... last Thursday I had lunch with Kristin, Rachel and Donna at Whole Foods. Saturday night we went to some friend's house for a very good dinner and great conversation. I got my accounting caught up from last Fall. I started updating my website. I have gotten a few orders now from the myspace page which is nice considering how much time I have put into it. Also made a decision to advertise in rare this summer since they are doing that special for the Austin design community. I am really amped about all the advertising.

Today was a super busy day. I met with my trainer this morning, had lunch with Jennifer P., went by p&l to drop off items, mailed orders, went by the bank, picked up office supplies and had a facial. The facial was a very interesting experience. I have had one other facial. It was so relaxing! Today was quite different. I started asking her a lot of questions about my adult acne problem and the scars I still have from my teenage acne. She said that micro derm abrasion would help that and offered me a free treatment. Holy crap. It was like she was rubbing sandpaper all over my face. Then she got out this electric thing and zapped my face in all these places to help my face not break out. It was like I was in some old frankenstein movie. Kind of funny. A little pricky feeling. I am sure it was all for my own good. No really, I am griping about it but actually I am really excited to see the results! She followed all this up with the relaxing part - neck and arm massage and fancy stuff on my face. I came away smelling all aveda-y. Nice! Fun experience. She said it would take about 8 micro derm treatments to make the scars go away. I kinda want to do it! I hate the pits in my cheeks.

Lunch with Jennifer P. was great. I came away super excited and inspired. We caught up and talked about a lot of biz and marketing stuff and she was very encouraging about my ideas. She has so much cool stuff going on. I am in awe!

Man, it has been such a crazy week. I think it is because I had to do so much accounting work. Every night I found myself wishing for more hours in the day. Even tonight after my busy day I am doing laundry and cleaning house and hoping to sit down at my jewelry desk to work for a while tonight. I don't know if I have a balancing problem or just load myself up with too much work. I do think that having all that accounting work done has freed up some creative energy though. It feels like a monkey off my back!

Short rant: I had a weird experience on Sunday. I was asked to lead a girl scout badge-getting thing where they would make stretchy bracelets. I was supposed to talk to them about jewelry and show them stuff I had made and discuss all the different types of jewelry. I was just doing it because my friend who usually does it had to be out of town. Now remember, I was totally volunteering my time. So everyone got there and I was talking to the kids and they were all cute and fun and then we started and I got really nervous. I just ended up talking so fast through my talk and forgetting half of the stuff I was supposed to say - All the mother's were sitting on one side of the room and they just made me feel really nervous. So then I got the girls to pick out their beads and I was going to show them how to do it but they all already knew how and finished really early and then the mother's were all griping saying that this activity was supposed to last an hour and a half. I was like, "I'm sorry, the girls just worked really fast." *smile, nervous laugh* In hindsight I totally should have talked slower but seriously folks, public speaking is really not my thing - especially with a bunch of helicopter moms staring me down. They were just so freakin' rude! It was a horrible experience. I wish I hadn't agreed to do it. *shutter* Shake it off!

Looking forward to a fun weekend. Tomorrow I am having lunch with my new friend Liz. And then my in-laws are coming into town for sxsw. Glen, my brother-in-law has a film in the film festival - Conversations with Other Women, I totally recommend it. I am excited to see Brenda, my sister-in-law and Charlotte, my niece. I haven't seen those two in two years! Brenda and I are going to try to slip out to go shopping at the outlet mall. Fun! Charlotte who is now almost four has grown so much, I can't wait to see her at this age. She is really cute! I am interested to talk to her and see what she is into.

Next week on Thursday is my 5 year wedding anniversary. We wanted to make some kind of super cool trip but once we started looking at trip we realized that everything is really expensive right now because of Spring Break. So, we are just going to go on a nice date and then do something really cool this summer, like go to San Francisco with Forest for a long weekend.

Alright, I suppose that is it for now. Back to the grind.