these are the days when you wish your bed was already made

this is a story about why living in the south is awesome. saturday i went to a french restaurant called can can in carytown. i had a ham and cheese sandwich. with an egg on top. COVERED IN GRAVY. it was FABULOUS.


after we ate lunch we went to a shop called i love chocolate... because... well, i DO love chocolate! i mostly just walked around smelling things. and then i bought a present to send to little dan. he will love it. i almost died laughing when i saw it. it's perfect for little dan. next we went to the byrd for the screenings of the films from the 48 hour film project. that was pretty interesting. we saw 20 minutes films that were made completely within 48 hours right here in richmond.


this city is amazing.


i was thinking about how everybody always says sense of humor is like the most important thing. so anyway a few weeks back i was in the car with someone and it was probably the most excruciating car ride of my entire life b/c they just seemed so serious and not to be having any fun at all even though i was trying really hard to have fun (and fun normally comes so easy for me... i mean i AM the ambassador to fun after all). anyway, this person starts talking about dating and says that the most important thing to them was sense of humor and that they couldn't imagine a life without laughter. at which point i had to do everything i possibly could to keep from laughing. i just thought it was hilarious that i had spent the last half hour wanting to poke my eyes b/c this person had no sense of humor and here they are saying that sense of humor is the most important thing. i suppose really you should be looking for compatible sense of humors.


speaking of being the ambassador to fun... UGH. so at work i sign my emails "your ambassador to fun, elaina" and i get comments all the time from, mostly, dudes about it. one time i had some guy ask how much it would cost for me to be his personal ambassador to fun (it came out way worse than he expected, i'm sure, b/c he was really embarrassed after he said it). at any rate last week i was at a networking meeting and they decided to have everyone stand up and introduce themselves and i got really distracted and flustered and words just started coming out of my mouth and i ended by yelling "I'M YOUR PERSONAL AMBASSADOR TO FUN" simply b/c my brain knows that is the worst thing i could've yelled. at which point everyone busts up laughing and i sit down and thinking good gracious woman what is wrong with you?!?


man i thought james was going to have a meltdown today. so 30 minutes before a party is supposed to start i walk by the room and notice that it is set up totally wrong. and so i grab the servers and start rearranging and taking care of business. i was sweating and running all over the place. i'm really glad we're not allowed to wear high heels anymore. at any rate about half way through james walks by and is like what are you doing? i think he thought i just randomly decided to go in and mess up the room. and i was like hey this room is set up wrong and i'm taking care of business b/c that's what i do yo (i'm not totally sure but i feel that is possibly an exact quote of myself). at any rate he got very upset that it wasn't done right but i was thinking 1. you should be happy it was me that discovered it and not the party host 30 minutes from now and 2. be glad i'm not some neurotic party planner who yells at people (neurotic? yes. yeller? no). so you know, count your blessings bud!


this is what winnie the pooh says: you can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. you have go to them sometimes.


thanks winnie the pooh. that is valuable information for life.


and one last reason why virginia is great: