This blog is not for the light-hearted or easily offended. If either one of those descriptions applies to you, i would suggest you start drinking before you read this blog. A sense of humor is suggested. If you don't have one that sucks for you … find one and get a life!
I’m supposed to be sleeping but I’m not so I figured that as long as my brain is running away that I would just jot down some of my rambling thoughts about Type A Conference.
First, a most excellent thing happened when I checked in. There was a gigantic tray full of Hershey’s kisses at the desk and you could hardly have welcomed me in a better way. Not only that but they have left the tray out for a day and a half and I must confess that I have snuck back more than once, possibly up to 10 times, and grabbed handfuls of kisses to munch on. Fortunately the size of each kiss is so small that I don’t actually count them as calories.
My initial plan was to have dinner with some people on Wednesday night. Since I arrived early, I felt the best place to wait for everyone was in the bar. Of course, hanging in a bar without a beer would be downright rude so of course I had a beer…or two. By the time my dinner party was ready to set out I was feeling downright talkative and was ready to go.
So we set off for dinner; a trek as it turned out. Of course, after a while our fearless leader, Bernice of “Woman on a Journey,” started wondering where the hell the restaurant was. I pointed out that’s what happened when you put a woman on a journey in charge of the directions: yeah, I was feeling no pain. Dinner was great except I’m pretty sure that someone spiked my water with four beers. Now I have a habit of getting exponentially louder with each beer and because I drank a fair amount of spiked water, I plead the fifth on the conversation that ensued. I’m assuming I was my normal demure self.
Finally, I realized that it was way past my bedtime and went upstairs and popped some Xanax and went to bed. I assume I slept but I don’t know, as I was unconscious at the time. I woke up this morning and very frankly I’ve felt better. First order of business: coffee. So I drank coffee and went to the gym where I quickly realized that THAT was a bad idea so after 40 minutes I said fuck it and went downstairs to get more coffee … and breakfast!
Now all the girls were looking cute and eating breakfast and I had just worked out and looked like shit. I had barely drunk any coffee and I was still struggling from my spiked water. In short, I had both felt and looked better. I had breakfast and than I decided to head upstairs to shower, but I got waylaid and spent an hour and a half bullshitting downstairs while drinking more coffee. By the time I showered and came down it was 11:00 and all I had learned so far is that the water is dangerously high in alcohol content in Asheville.
I went to my first workshop and very frankly, I was bored and spent most of my time catching up on Words with Friends. After all, it’s hard to lose 11 games in a row if you don’t actually play right? Next workshop was about building traffic. I’m all over that so I plopped myself down and listened. I shouldn’t have bothered. It turns out that building traffic actually takes a LOT of time and effort. Now I have a LOT of time but I am seriously lacking in the effort department. What did I learn? I could hardly be doing more things wrong.
Jeez. What happened to the good old days when you could just buy traffic? At any rate, I did manage to convince Erica Meuller (@ericamueller) who was sitting next to me to do some modifications to my blog. So that was pretty sweet. Of course, then people started being mean to me for making a woman who was 8 months pregnant do stuff for me. WHAT? It’s not like I made her do my laundry although now that I think about it, I did have some stuff that should have been laundered…
By now, it was time to stop learning and head to the bar where Nicole (@bywordsmusings) bought me a beer. And so began my not so slow descent into an alcohol infused evening. We eventually went to this awesome Tapas restaurant where I had not one, but TWO mojitos. Now keep in mind here that I’m a beer drinker and rarely venture into mixed drinks. There’s a good reason for that. Well, actually there are more than a few good reasons for that but without anyone to monitor me, I ventured into dangerous “Lynn has lost her filter territory.” I know, I know. I can hear you all saying right now in unison “wait a minute here. Lynn has a filter?” YES I DO. Kind of.
Did I have fun at dinner? Hell yeah. Did the people around me have fun? I have no idea because I was totally on a manic roll. We eventually made it back to the hotel where I hung out with the Band Back Together gang. I totally love Becky and Janna! Love em. I can’t quite remember what we discussed but I’m pretty sure I was quite talkative.
The rest, as they say, is history. I decided I would feel like shit in the morning so I should get some sleep but at 12:00 A.M. I had this brainstorm and started writing this post. Of course, I only wrote half the post before I lost my train of thought and went to bed.
It’s now Friday morning and I’m finishing it. My personality is gone and my energy is nonexistent but I will persevere. After all, tonight we are going to yet another dinner and I plan on painting the town red!
More updates on Type A to come. Well, maybe.
Girls have all the fun!
Dontcha know it’s when they start spiking the beer with water, is when you got some problems…
Have FUN and Aloha!
I know…i was just being friendly and then WHAM! too much alcohol.
I don’t know you well enough to detect irony in the beer-spiked water but I think that it would be a possibility to “stretch” your beer. Personally, I like to drink wine-flavored water. Germans definitely love their mixed drinks and come up with all kinds of interesting concoctions. For a quick reference click on this link: http://germanfood.about.com/od/drinks/a/mixeddrinks.htm
It cracks me up that you’re such a resource guide for me!
Ahaha! We had a FABULOUS conversation! And then another. And another. And another. Loved meeting you! xoxo
hahaha…i had fun! it was all quite perfect … usually until the morning1
Awe – sounds like good times.
Glad you enjoyed your decent for the night. lol
It’s all about the networking right? And me + alcohol = fun!!! Yep, come on down and give it a go
At least you got to hang out with some people.
true, and that was lots of fun!
Anywhere w/ unlimited Hershey’s Kisses gets an A+ in my book.
I couldn’t agree more…