Wednesday, December 9, 2009

It Went From Bad, to Worse, to Really Worse

My Day Today

My life is all about adventures, right?  Actually, my life is all about "seriously that happened to you?  Only the most random things happen to Erin Elton".

So I woke up and did Boot Camp with my friend Megan.  That was actually the awesome part of the day.  I might not think so when I can't walk tomorrow.  But for now let's just say it was amazing and I feel skinnier.  Then I drove to work.  My friend asked me if I wanted to go with a group of people to the Laker's/Jazz game that night.  I accepted as I was already supposed to be in downtown LA for a client meeting at 7pm right next to the Staples Center.  Perfect.

Then we picked up a client for lunch and had a rude waitress that took 40 minutes to take our order.  Whatever.  I can get over that.  It did make me a little anxious for my client's time but we had fun so no harm done.  Then I got back to work and it spiraled downward.

My friend instant messaged me that they chose another girl to give the ticket for the Laker's game to so I was uninvited.  I thought "well at least I will have more time at home tonight to relax and get a few things done after my meeting."  Wrong.

I left Irvine at 5pm and was 45 minutes late to the meeting where I was presenting to the CEO of the company and a few of his Vice Presidents.  A Branch Manager at my company had set the whole thing up and had me prepare a full presentation on Powerpoint for the occassion.  I quickly parked the car, grabbed my projector and laptop and ran into the lobby and then up to the 28th floor.

I apologized to the people I met as I came off the elevator.  Then they gave me a nametag.  Then they pushed me into a conference room where some guy was giving a presentation.  I thought - wait, I was supposed to be the one giving the presentation.  What the???  Then the speaker started talking about how great it was that she could work part time, have 5 kids, travel to Hawaii every month and have money to throw around the streets and burn.  I have heard this story before and it involves a big, fat PYRAMID!  The meeting my Branch Manager thought would turn into a great account was actually trying to get us to sign on.  I tried to leave but a very large man had rolled his chair in front of the only escape door.  So I stayed for another hour and a half.  Auggghhhhh I wanted to poke my eyes out!  3 hours of traffic for this and now blocked from leaving.

I finally got the heck out of there and got into my car, tore into the parking garage and out onto the streets of Los Angeles only to be spotlighted by a helicopter that was looking for a criminal in the same intersection that I was stuck at.  Why did Snoop like this place so much?

I leave for DC this weekend.  Can't wait for a new city and multi-level marketers to torture me.

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