what do you do if you get to leave work early?

there's a chance i might be able to scoot out of the office a few hours early today, like my manager suggested to me at the end of last week. if i'm going to do it, today's the only day -- my whole day is free and clear of meetings, whereas the rest of the week is packed solid. i'm going to try my darndest, i need the break... but what the heck do i do with a few hours to kill? yes, i need to do responsible house-y stuff like switch the electricity into my name... but part of me wants to just drive into the city and read a book in an outdoor cafe or something. i'll have to ponder this.

got a lot done at work yesterday... i "took a lot of bites out of the elephant", as the saying goes. i even got to record a voiceover, which i haven't done in a million years. the big project i'm working on is a morning of workshops that our sales managers will run with their reps at a meeting, and we need to train them on the information... so we're creating an online training module with narration that takes them through everything. for one of the chapters, they asked me if i'd do the narration, since i created all of the info. so i got to sit in the booth with the headset and big fat mic and everything, and voice about 15 minutes of script... lots of fun. i didn't expect my 15 minutes of fame to be on a training CD for my company, but what the heck, i'll take it. :)

ta-daaaaaaaaa!!!!!

i am rejuvenated!!!!!

work was pretty busy today, but darnit, i was determined to leave at 2:00. i definitely had to catch up on housey stuff, but i wanted to allow myself some "me time" as well, for all the personal time i'd lost in the last week or so. i ran my house errands and made my phone calls, and then what to do? i was strongly considering driving into the city and sitting in an outdoor cafe with a book... then i thought i'd go for a walk in the park... or sit by the pool? go shopping at the mall? hrm. then it hit me... and i ran home, booted up the computer, and looked: the davinci code was starting in 15 minutes at the theater down the street. PERFECT!

that was the best 2 and 1/2 hours i've spent in a long time. not that the movie was brilliant (although i thought it was really fun, i don't know why everybody's been bashing it)... but i haven't been to a movie in months... and to sit in that darkened theater with only 3 other people at 3:30 in the afternoon on a weekday, still in my skirt and heels from work, with a big bag of popcorn and a soda i could swim in, was so gloriously indulgent to me that i had to sit there and bask in it. *bask, bask* <--- that was me. i left that theater at 6pm grinning from ear to ear... and i swear, i have more energy than i did when i walked in. in fact, i'm so fired up, i don't want to stay in the apartment... perhaps i'll walk around the mall after all?...

yaaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!