Anyway - thursday was a pretty jam packed day with work. Last night, after we booked our HOTEL in BARCELONA I went to pick up my AMAZING care package from my lovely mom. It was the best thing I've received all summer! I'm eating apple butter every day til it's gone. I guess no one answered the door upstairs, so they dropped my package off with the guys in the basement - luckily they didn't open it and steal anything! They admit they thought about it though. I shared either way. Then Max and I took a trip to Sainsbury's to get some food and had a wonderful rotissery (spelling?) chicken dinner. I of course provided chocolate chip cookies for dessert. Then we hung out, talked celeb gossip, watched youtube videos and relaxed. Then I came up stairs and I guess went to sleep... not very eventful. Most of the roomies saw Wicked last night and raved about it. I can't wait to see it in August with you mom!!
Today, as is normal on Friday's at Bauer, work was laid back and unproductive. I sat in on a client meeting though - that was interesting. I enjoyed seeing the PITA (haha... Dad I remember our saying!) client battle it out with the mags guys (and girl) about how she wanted her product shot and message portrayed and how they could and thought they were supposed to be doing it. She kept stressing, for literally 25 minutes, that she wanted a RED HAIRED model, only red hair, absolutely NO blondes. Then out of no where she goes, "Oh wait, blonde is okay, blonde is our best selling color right now, let's do blonde" I swear the guy almost jumped across the table at her. It was great. The meeting lasted soo long though just because this one lady had to interject her opposing opinion every 5 seconds. Which, I guess was as it should've been since it she is the client and it was her product and her campaign. but still. It was interruption after interruption. I felt bad for poor Ruth - the Account Manager, she was just trying to mediate and keep everyone on schedule and on topic. I definitely liked sitting in on the meeting though, so I could see what I'll eventually be doing! Gritting my teeth in front of the clients while making them happy and trying to keep the people I work with happy as well.
Oh - to add on to that, another lady in the room, also the client, was someone I was warned about. She is supposedly incredibly difficult. As soon as she walked in she asked for tea, from me. Seriously? Do you REALLY want an American making your tea? She goes tea, two sugars, strong. ummmmm what the hell does that mean lady?! So I brought her tea, with 2 scoops of sugar. She goes ummm where's my milk? I almost said, well I figured "Strong" was the equivalent to "black" coffee - no milk. But I would've looked like a colossal idiot so I just got her some milk. I also got a major "are you serious" look when the girls asked me what kind of British food I liked and I said none.... whoops, bad idea. I recovered by describing how picky I am, but still.
***side note - for those of you who don't know, or can't figure it out PITA = pain in the ass.
I love the girls I work with now. I definitely feel comfortable around them and I feel like every question I ask they give me a complete answer and throw in some extra knowledge I'll need too. And I feel appreciated. That's huge. I'm glad things are working out!
We decided to eat lunch out today because Max recommended a great crepe place.
***side note - Max is one of the guys living in the basement flat with the rest of the boys on the program. He also works at Bauer and this is his second summer doing the London program because they asked him to come back, and he also did last semester here too. He's somewhat of a seasoned vet.
So, he recommended this crepe place that was great! I had a chicken, cheese and mushroom crepe. Then we went to find gelato and found the BEST gelato place literally 3 minutes from Bauer, good and bad news. It was VERY reasonably priced and DELICIOUS!
Tonight we went to get Mexican because it sounded good. We had some margs and ate some decent, but overpriced mexican food and on our walk back got approached by some guy who apparently loves and is attracted to all American girls. Obviously he's never been to Yorker Porker County - haha! He was fun and his friends that were obviously a couple wanted us to join them at a pub.. but Ally, Morgan and Emily are leaving for Amsterdam at like 4am and me, Kay and Megan are all going to the Queen's Bday parade and we're getting there by like 7:30 so we can actually see her. We've been told people camp out all night... understandable, I mean she does SO much for the country --- not. she's more like a figure head, a mascot really. But we have to be awake super early for that, so it's an early night tonight.
Maybe Sunday I'll finally sleep in... I think we're seeing a show tomorrow night too. The plan is to make a good dinner at our place and during the day find cheap tickets to Into the Hoods - it's a ghetto show with dancing so I'm obviously VERY excited!!!
Want to know what else I'm VERY excited about?? MY DAD AND SEAN ARE COMING TO BARCELONA WHEN I'M THERE!!!!! How awesome is that?!
Dad and Sean - I'm so glad you're coming, we're going to have an absolute BLAST!!
One last thing - I would like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my very special someone.....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEATH!!!!!!!!!! well.. officially in 48 minutes in London... in KC it's more like 7 hours from now, but I get to be the first to officially say it! Have fun getting older.. =) I miss and love you!
I miss and love the rest of you too! Night
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