Tuesday: the New Friday

A short week split in half

Having a holiday in the middle of the work week really throws off one's schedule. At 5 p.m. this afternoon I was all packed up and ready to enjoy a weekend of relaxing by the pool and sleeping. Then it hit me -it's only Tuesday and this holiday is nothing more than a tease. Yes, I do have a day off work, but it's not the weekend. Sure enough, after enjoying my one day off I shall return back to work for two additional days. Not only is the holiday a tease this week, but especially next week when I have work for five consecutive days. It's going to be a rough one.

With the fact of this week being shortened, thanks to the 4th of July, it by no means meant my work load was shortened. If anything it was hyped up and ready to roll. After having a seemingly unproductive Monday it was time to kick it into high gear. I arrived at work at 8:30 a.m. and began to send personal emails to help start my morning on a productive track. Three emails and one facebook-twitter-and-pinterest log in later I was ready to start work right at 9 a.m.

My first and main project for the day (as well as Thursday's) is to compile all the hits for Talladega. The High uses programs whose purpose is to filter out client mentions and articles; however, all things convenient surely have their downfalls. It is my turn to act as the filter and try my hands at being a search engine. I spent a better part of the day researching articles and I have made a decent dent in the project. I am hoping that as the week continues I will quickly find the remaining articles and hopefully reach the 100 mark.

On top of logging Talladega Murals' hits I have also been completing the High's promotion with metro-Atlanta restaurants of southern cuisine. Megan and I were able to visit the Design department and get a sneak peak into the world of Macs, Photoshop, and Indesign (a world that I am infatuated with). We picked up the coupons and made two trips to nearby participating restaurants: Empire State South and South City Kitchen. Both of these restaurants were beautiful and had the aroma of amazing southern food with a surrounding upscale air. I hope to visit these restaurants, along with the others. As southern food being a guilty pleasure of mine I am sure to be pleasantly satisfied.

It was nice for me and Megan to get out of the office and run the coupons to Empire State South and South City Kitchen, but there was one thing I would have changed: mother nature. Lordy, it was so hot outside. Not that I need to remind anyone that it's hot (photos of dashboards on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest remind us enough). However, walking a mile, dressed in business clothes, at 3 p.m. in the dead heat of 100 degrees is not ideal -ever! On top of that my lovely Nine West flats were not cooperating and made the mile even longer and less bearable. Any-who, we made it to the restaurants and back in one piece -I am sure the pit stop at the Clothing Warehouse didn't hurt either. What can we say, but that girls love clothes (and these two girls love vintage clothes).

After our one and a half hour trip around midtown to search for restaurants, in the heat (may I remind you one last time), we only had 30 minutes left to our day. We made mailing labels for the remaining restaurants and finished up last minute details with on-going projects. One more time I would like to explain my frustration with printing labels. Something that seems easy and quickly overlooked, mailing labels are a pain to create. We spent a better part of an hour today working on the labels, and in the end we wrote them long hand. Sometimes a computer and printer just can't beat a hand and the mightier pen.

It is now Tuesday night and only hours from my fun celebration plans! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Fourth of July. Enjoy time with family, friends and loved ones, but more importantly do not forget why we celebrate.

Sometimes isn't what we received, but rather what we gave.