My car freaked out a bit on the way to my meeting today causing the always-welcome engine icon to illuminate. I was so excited. I survived to the meeting, though. When I stepped out of my car, the guy parked next to me opened his door, staring at me. He finally spoke, “Are you Tammy?” After a drawn out, confused “Noooo,” I headed in to Starbucks for my meeting. That guy later came in with a really tall, oldish looking blond, who I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess is Tammy. Good times. I almost had a blind date.

So I had my meeting with Mr. Creative today for work, and it went remarkably well. He gave me lots of projects to try my hand at, which I wasn’t expecting. I’m really being given a genuine chance to do this job for a month. I’m definitely gonna stay busy, but it’s all good. I’m feeling great about writing, and after the long one-on-one talk, I feel totally comfortable sharing my ideas, and maybe my not-so polished work, with him. It’s going to be a positive experience, even if it turns out, I’m not cut out for the work. At least I’ll know for sure. The guy has agreed to try to become more cold-hearted & ruthless for me though when reading my work hehe.

On the way home, my car freaked out more, but I was chanting, “Must make deposit by noon. Please make it to bank.” You’ll realize the urgency by noting the graphic. So I made my life-saving deposit and the teller girl who is usually silent said “Thanks, Mindy!” which threw me off completely.

And random times continue as I’m driving on the road and a guy is just walking around in our lane in a gigantic puddle for no obvious reason with another guy off to the side. I swerved off to the left to avoid him and the puddle. Well, what do I see in my rear view mirror? Nothing other than the van two cars behind me go right through the puddle throwing a wave taller than the 2 men all over them. I had that split second of pure shock and gasped, but immediately after, I started cracking up.

So I make it over to the dealership, and I drive past the two random men, who are now drenched. One was spray-painting marks on the road. I’m still confused. Anyway, the dealership says they may not get to my car for a couple days, but luckily my warranty covers a replacement vehicle. The rental guy walks out and says “I’m really sorry, but all we have is a minivan.” So yes, I get to play soccer mom for the week. I laughed the entire drive home, but I must say it was nice being up so high. It’s quite likely I’ll pretend I’m a trucker tomorrow on the interstate. It has stow ‘n go seating and a DVD player, totally pimped out for the mom on the go. The rental guy was really nice, and told me to call later in the week, and he might have something I can swap it for. When I stepped in, I said I felt as if I’d aged 15 years. Wish me luck changing lanes tomorrow. I practiced a lot on the drive home today, so if you saw someone changing lanes for no apparent reason, that was me. hehe

But now I’m gonna take a stab at my first script. I’ve got a good feeling about it. My brain’s already taking off thinking of ideas left and right. I think if it could talk (work with me here), it would say “I’m free…I feel so free…” then if it’s owner liked POD, it’d break in to “I feel so alive, for the very first time…” hmm maybe I took that too far haha

Ooh and good times last night w/ Rachel. We rented movies and watched fireworks from atop a parking garage. On the way out of the garage, we came across some Star Wars-esque song on the radio. We had no choice but to roll down the windows and crank it up. I don’t think either of us had laughed that hard in awhile. Again, good times.

Gosh, this post has me so excited. My energy is back in full force. I’ve already jumped up & down and screamed.