July 2006

Yesterday, we’d only been checked into our room for about a half hour when the phone rang.  The hotel phone.  It was the front desk and they wanted to know if we were "alright in our room".  Huh?  She asked again if we were ok, if we were smoking or taking a shower.  Huh?  Apparently the front desk was alerted that our smoke alarm was going off.  It wasn’t.  Weird.

This morning, I took a shower and within 2 minutes the alarm started going off.  And it wouldn’t stop.  And it was 5am PT!  I finally climbed onto the computer chair (naked and wet) and unscrewed the bloody thing from the ceiling. 

My apologies to those in BLDG 7 who thought the hotel was on fire.  Next time I turn on the shower, I’ll make sure to disconnect the smoke alarm first. 

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OMG I MET NANCY WHITE.  I HUGGED HER, A LOT.  OMG!

I also met Lisa Stone, finally! After all of these years and all of that women.com history.  I met doggone Patrick Scoble! (I blogged about him last year, a couple of times, lol)   I met Mir of Woulda Coulda Shoulda and Jenny from Three Kid Circus and Chris from Big Yellow House errr Notes from the Trenches, I mean lol and Sour Duck and Britt Bravo and OMG I met all sorts of people and they were nice. And cool.  And some are short.  And some are really tall – Dooce is so damn tall and Nancy White, tall.  And Grace Davis not tall but has a big personality.  And Jenn Satterwhite and OMG I met all sorts of people and I can’t list them all and I’ve only been here for a few hours. 

I MET NANCY WHITE, I can die a happy woman, now.  (And Jory, well she wanted to rub up against me and stuff which was kind of fun too)

NANCY WHITE!

wow.

I’ll be uploading pictures, unedited to flickr all weekend and you can see them by clicking that flickr thingy on my left side bar.

NANCY WHITE!

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I’m feeling pretty good about my lack of things "to do" before Blogher.  Everyone is all bent out of shape over what to wear, what shoes to wear, buying bathing suits and new clothes and which purse to pack and blah blah blah.  Those things are so totally not on my "to do list".  I cannot imagine how I would manage to even get to Blogher if I had to deal with those things.

I will show up in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, maybe badger’s naked woman t-shirt, and my Reboks or maybe my Tevas and that will be that.  I will not have a purse but will have my laptop bag.  I’m considering deodorant though, thanks to Mrs Kennedy.  I’m not going out to buy a "shell" but deodorant, I can do that.

Update 7/25… I’m about to add to the list, darn it.  One word of advice, don’t wait til the last minute to print your business cards (or other fun giveaways) because something will invariably go wrong.  Grrr.  I should really learn to NOT procrastinate. 

1) Clean the Eli Wiesel and the Alex Grey and the Catie Curtis and the Terri Clark shows off of the iRiver to make room for recording sessions at Blogher.
2) Track down the charger for my camera.
3) Write 3 pieces for work.  Write 1 for Clubmom.
4) Call Jenn and make sure she knows I will be out of town.
5) Make sure Michelle and Chris have my itinerary and phone numbers (on Protopage and paper)
6) Pack enough books for both me and TW (since we are not currently reading the same books).
7) Email or call Elaine
8) Consider trading laptops with Michelle – her battery is better than mine…
9) Make sure TW’s meds are all re-filled and double check Michelle’s.
10) Get sudafed for TW.
11) Batteries for the bathtub floaty lamps.
12) Print confirmation numbers, itinerary, things to do lists.
13) Buy deodorant because Mrs Kennedy says so.

14) Pack
15) Do a load of laundry

16) Go to kinkos (grrr!)

17) Go to the darn library again, sheesh

18) Take TW to get her bloodwork done

19) Go to the grocery store for trashbags (Oh wait, I can send Christopher!!)

20) Drive the half child to work on a day when I don’t normally have to do that (grrrr!)
21) Print bookcrossing labels! 
22) Go to Office Depot for ink to print bookcrossing labels! (umm do I have labels??) (Can I send Christopher for that? YES! I can!)
23) Housework that I procrastinated all week? Ha, right, I’m such a dreamer.
24) Find an ethernet splitter since there is no wifi in the hotel room.

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