swingchickie | catch-up

random updates for the last week or so:

* had a lovely belated b-day dinner on friday night with

xtingu,

mrl24,

jeremym,

boutell,

opadit and many significant-others-without-LJs. i have learned a lesson, though... just because a restaurant is listed as group-friendly on citysearch, and they accept your reservation for 13 people, does not mean they will seat you well. an L-shaped configuration in a corner = people sitting with their backs to one another. not cool.

* jack and i vegged the rest of the weekend. we had noble plans to go to punkin chunkin on saturday, but we were wiped (because we were out until 1:30am on friday night, and we are old and slow to recover)... so we had a movie marathon instead. let me tell you, if you didn't see "grindhouse" in the theaters, rent each of the movies this weekend. yes, they are gory. but it's in an over-the-top, cheer-at-the-TV way. (why am i using so many hyphens in this post?) i mean, come ON -- rose mcgowan with a machine gun for a leg?!?!? AWESOME!!!

* the

holiday_homes group is off to a really good start... one week in and i already have almost 60 watchers! w00t!

* wednesday i am taking a vacation day... so i can work. the tailspin website needs a major overhaul, both technically (i need to finally fix some of the massively dense photos) and artistically (i have some great ideas for the holidays). so the day will be spent on my computer, as well as doing a photo shoot with all of the new holiday-themed hoops. it should be fun, but a hell of a lot of work. i just finished creating some of my new "branding" materials (shipping labels, hoop tags, etc.)... now on to the online overhaul.