So it’s a little after midnight on Sat (now Sunday). I should be asleep but my brain is jumping all over the place making it hard to fall asleep. I know myself well enough to not fight it, I just have to get up and occupy this extra brain energy with something. After a little while my eyelids will get heavy and I will drift off. So it seemed like a good idea to blog again. I’m really quite proud of myself for keeping up with this little site as much as I have in the last few days. Sometimes it’s so hard to convince myself to sit down and commit some time to updating the world on what’s up around here. Hopefully people are reading what I’m saying.. and it’s not all in vain.

Today should have been a day off for me, but real life sometimes doesn’t follow the rules. I’ve already put in a solid work week but in this business you just never know when things are going to pop up. I was shaking off sleep at around 11:00AM when my phone rang. It was a colleague in convention services who was having a mini event emergency.

In one phone call she drummed up a good little bit of work for me.

• An event that I already have planned for tomorrow morning is moving venues
• The client throwing the above said event would like an additional 100 Mickey Ear hats… thats by 8:00 AM
• A VIP event that is happening tomorrow night is in serious need of a large floral piece

So really all in all there wasn’t too much stuff… I’ve had much much worse phone calls from work (like “can you make it snow in the ballroom about 12 hours from now?”).

The venue move entails several calls since there is many elements to even this little event. We have a Jazz Trio who’s got to plan on a new arrival, a florist delivery, some support from our technical folks, and of course the other half of the Mickey ears and custom Mickey Mouse chocolates that are waiting in various places for me to pick them up in the morning.

The additional ears were the biggest pain. I had to call my good friends at one of the shops on Main Street USA to set them aside, and just go to the park to pick them up myself. Since I was going to the park to pick Janey up anyway (she picked up a White Rabbit shift today) I decided it wasn’t a big deal. I felt a little strange going into meet this merch. manager in my sandals and golf shirt, but hey… I’m not dressing up to pick up some ears.

So a call to a few florists to see what was in stock solved the night event problem, and all was well. But by the time it was all done it was 5:30 PM. Awww man! I wanted to get that 6 ft tall pile of laundry taken care of today. I have to get to work by about 7:00 AM tomorrow to tend the load in of this venue change too… so my Sunday morning is shot too. Ahh well. I have the rest of my life to do laundry.

Even though calls like this one can be annoying… I wouldn’t have it any other way. They call me because I say yes, and make things happen. While so many others can make things happen, they don’t. So… I made this little bed for myself, and I’m OK with lying in it. Making the magic takes a lot of energy, and sometimes it happens off the clock. I love it.

Thanks for reading.

R.