Last night was our first night without our new baby:


He's spending a weekend with his grandparents while mommy and daddy go camping to a music festival for the weekend.

The hellish interviews are over now, so it's just a waiting game. Maybe I'll try mind-bending. Oh wait. Shit. I just googled "mind bending" and realized its purpose is to bend one's own mind, not the minds of others. Doh!

On another note, we gorged ourselves on many marvelous cuts of meat last night at Fogo de Chao. Wow, I never thought I would be so ravenous over so much meat, but it truly is a wonderful place! I think I'm still sweating meat, though, so that's maybe not so wonderful. I think I'll also be dreaming about their tres leches cake for a few years to come... How can you go wrong when you soak something in cream, serve it over cream, with whipped cream on top? Yum.

The hell that is an interview. Or five.

So I'm supposed to be "preparing".. of course I'm writing a blog instead. What fun is work if you don't procrastinate too? It's like having beer without peanuts! Or a Saturday without a nap!

I'm preparing to prove myself. To five people. What if they don't like me, you ask? Then I fail again, I reply. I know I shouldn't really spend time and energy in the negative, but I have such anxiety that this won't work out either. Haven't I already proven myself to dozens of people, for a year and a half? That's not the way it works, though. You don't just get recognized and moved on.. you still have to prove yourself before you get to pass go and collect $200.

"Tell me about a time ..." those five words drive me crazy! Not because I don't want to tell you about a time.... but because my telling you about a time has to be formatted and structured with all the "right" elements that you want to hear. Otherwise, well, you know the drill ("do not pass go, yada yada yada)

So I'm here. Preparing. I'll try not to give you too many details. I'll try not to ramble on. I'll try to relay to you examples of a time where I took partners, communicated an action plan, created a contingency, implemented a process, developed a team member. To prove to you that I am ready to deliver the financials for your bottom line.

Just so that my bottom line can have an extra $200.

Have a Guinness for my girl Lauren...

She's trekking in the Himalayas right now, and although I TOLD her she would want her "kiss me I'm irish" t-shirt, I fear she has nothing to wear for St. Patty's day. oh vell. I'm sure she has plenty of other adventures to distract herself.

I started the massive revolution that is spring cleaning today - packed away a boxfull of clothes for the semi-annual clothes swap, and even emptied out TWO DRAWERS for my man when he moves in in May.. That'll be enough, right?!? I'm a little afraid it's not. I'm thinkin it'll take a little more than 2 drawers to help him feel like it's his home too, but he's not a very picky boy so we'll figure something out.

The St. Patricks Day festivities will hopefully begin any minute now. It should be a marvelous night filled with guinness and green as far as the eye can see!