It was the old Compaq "portable" that came out in the early 1980's. It was about the size of our desktops today and ran on DOS. It also had the BIG floppy disks. I didn't actually do any work on it, but I did learn how to use the computer with it.

What memories that brings…

My to-do list this week is mostly buckling down with my third-to-last class. I also have a networking event tomorrow and, oh yea, I'm shooting a movie on Wednesday. I'm IN the movie! Maybe Devon can give me some pointers on what to wear 😉 It's a film my friend is producing. He's been making films for years, and he wants to send this one to SXSW. I'm not holding my breath, though. I've never acted before, so this should be interesting. My husband thinks I'm crazy. He's probably right 😉

This was the first temperate, dry weekend we've had in months when I didn't have a stack of work to catch up with. So I intended to trim the 150 miles (oh, right…linear feet, it only feels like miles) of privet hedge in the back yard. I usually do that around Memorial Day and again around Labor Day. But I bought flowers for the pair of fancy strawberry jars my brother & s-i-l gave me for my birthday. Magenta geraniums on top, pink & cream moss roses on the upper pockets, and flowering vincas (dubbed "lipstick vincas" – they are various shades of white, pink, magenta…)on the lower pockets. Then I started thinking the vincas might overgrow their spaces….

I also planted a small larkspur I bought at a friend's friend's plant sale, but there was no root system, so who knows if it will take. Pulled more of the invasive woodvine that keeps crawling over and through the fence of the foreclosed house next door. (That side of my property only has 2-3" of "yard" between the house and the retaining wall that goes down to the neighboring yard, so I'm always fighting those darn vines.) Potted up a couple more 75-cent geraniums, dragged my giant hibiscus out from the house, swept the porch, planted a few more seeds, pulled weeds, hand pruned a few smaller shrubs and picked some broken branches from the yard. The hedges will have to wait. (I didn't have yard bags, anyway.)

Wrote a column. Did laundry. Need to do a deep cleaning, but there's only so much one person can do in one weekend.

The highlight of the weekend? The Tony Awards!

Don't know if you remember (although I know my activities are the center of your universe) 🙂 but last month was the ton of projects in the queue, but on hold for various reasons.

Well, the floodgates have opened – 2 case studies, a marketing brochure, a newsletter sales letter, a blog post/week for a client, a ghostwritten article, a 2,000 word resource document and I just received 4 new projects for the rest of the year from my favorite client.

The VP of that favorite client is leaving, but promised to connect with me in her new job. Woo-hoo. Life is good. 🙂

With the Belmont Stakes AND the Tony Awards AND the Stanley Cup these last few days, it's been insane.