As Promised!

Despite bad allergies and an afternoon storm, I finished what I needed to get my next project launched. Announcing Lush Lamps!

Super fun project that constantly has me on the lookout for cool lamp shades and bottles. And for the record, no, I didn't empty a single one of the bottles on the blog. :) They've all been donated by my awesome family members and friends.

Chugging Along

Happy to see these on store shelves again!

Sorry I've been MIA on the updates! I swear this weekend I'm going to really finish my special project and launch that website I promised about a month ago. It's the same old song: work has been busy! I think our last mega-deadline will be April 30th, then we should go into maintenance mode. Adding to my craziness is the fact that quite a few teammates have been out of the office this month - two of them out of the country, even. So there's plenty of slack for the rest of us to pick up.

Not that I'm complaining - I'll take all the distraction I can get right now. A little action on the adoption front has me excited/trying not to be excited. I read more than half of the Hunger Games last night and hope to finish it tonight, and I'm house-sitting and dog-sitting for my parents most of next week. I also have to be at work at 6:45 AM on Monday in order to set up and film a presentation related to our mega-deadline.

In the next couple of weeks I'm looking forward to a trip to Goldfork Hot Springs and of course, Easter. I got my hands on a great recipe for a traditional South American Easter dish, and it just happens to be vegetarian, so it will be nice to have something new to eat while everyone else chows on ham.

Happy weekend, everyone.

Spring, a Mixed Bag

Nothing to report on the adoption front, except that I have made progress on my latest fundraising project and I hope to have some product ready in the next week or so.

I spent last weekend in Salt Lake City with friends and family, and it was a much needed break from the ordinary schedule I've been keeping lately. I got a great deal on a pet-friendly hotel with a pool and the weather was beautiful. I even found a cute owl mug on clearance.

We've had some major changes at work, most of them good, some disappointing. But I do get to travel to DC for a conference next month. I've never been there and it's definitely on my short list of places to see. The cherry blossom festival will have just wrapped up, but I should be able to stay an extra day and see the sights. I reached out to my contacts and immediately found three people willing to put me up for a night or two.

Tomorrow my sweet Jayda dog turns three - that's 21 in people years! I may see if the dog-friendly bar is still open downtown.