Urban Grinding
Have I mentioned lately how much I love hanging out at this coffee shop? Sure, the couches here are like bad college apartment furniture (if I was sunken any further into this couch, I'd be sitting on the floor), but it's just so chill in here. Warm colors on the walls, a little jazz playing overhead, a nice warm skinny chai latte to my left, humongous windows for watching the cars fly down Marietta Street and the weather not being able to make up its mind between rain and sun. Nothing too crazy or busy going on in here and it always smells wonderful - I love the smell of coffee but generally don't drink it. Not to mention, I can always count on there being some awesome eye candy eventually coming in (holy hotness, batman!). Anyway, it's close to home and my favorite spot to pass the time when I don't want to be at home.
It was quite a week last week and a crazy weekend. Let me tell you about this awkward meeting I had on Friday: We've got a couple of local promotions running with some sports radio (CBS Radio) in some of our markets. So one of the VPs comes into Atlanta and wants to do a quick meet-and-greet with myself and my supervisor. "Joel" was based in NYC the last time I talked to him; he's since moved out to LA. Anyway, I pick him up in the lobby and we're riding up the elevator and he starts randomly talking to me at a million miles an hour about Tico's Tacos and asking how much I miss LA and if I go back often. Which would have been fine....except I had absolutely NO CLUE what the heck he was talking about! I've never been to LA, much less had a Tico taco. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I think he was getting me mixed up with someone else. *smh* I kept hoping that the look I was giving him was going to clue him in. No dice. It was awkward, but hilarious!
Friday night, my girl Lex forced me out of the house and I'm so grateful to her for it. We all ended up having a blast! She, Nisa, and I were trying to go to Whiskey Blue - but I'm kinda glad that didn't work out because I keep hearing that place is uber-pretentious (and we all know I don't do "scene"). So we hung out at the hotel lobby bar and had (almost) free drinks from goofy Bartender Mike. Then Lex's pseudo-date and his wingman finally showed up. The wingman actually turned out to be an okay guy. Pseudodate dude, however, was a different story. I really don't like to harshly judge people from first impressions, but by the end of the night I was ready to throw this guy in front of the car and hit the gas! I'm glad Lex isn't actually dating this dude because I'd be in the midst of planning an intervention right now. After drinks with Mike, we all headed over to Loca Luna to meet up with another friend having a birthday. I was feeling a little awkward @ LL because being surrounded by drunkerly barely-21s was making me feel hella old and I know my unease was written all over my face. So while the girls were dancing it up with a pretty drunk Birthday Girl, I was just trying to stay in the background. At one poing Pseudodate dude tells me "Here, hold my drink" and I think I gave him a Tica Look of Shady Death (TM) because all of a sudden he starts hollerin about how I was giving him an "ugly look". He's lucky I choose to conduct myself like a grown-ass woman because my first reaction was to slap the living daylights out of him. That really pissed me off - wtf do I look like, the hired help? Yeah, if he was trying to make a good first impression with Lex's friends, he didn't do himself any favors with the way he was acting. Anyway, after the lunacy at Loca, we were all hungry (and it was about 3am), so we made our way to Waffle House (aka the Awful Waffle) to try to sober up the birthday girl and get some food in our tummies. Good times, good conversation. It was 5am when I got home! I can't pull off nights like that very often, but it was so much fun.
Yesterday was a pretty busy day with me running around town, trying to get some shopping and stuff done. And then there was the game-watching party @ the BB&G. The game itself was a heart attack and a half - Couch Willie Martinez had better start pulling his resume together because if our defense continues to play like that, it's curtains for him. But the guys that were there made watching the game so much fun, it was like being in Fayetteville. My buddy Tm came through...which was cool until he got a little drunk and touchy-feely. I'm definitely looking forward to being a participant instead of the coordinator of the next game watching party when we play Tennessee in a couple of weeks. It'll be a whole different crowd, so I'm really looking forward to that. :)
-TicaDawg
It was quite a week last week and a crazy weekend. Let me tell you about this awkward meeting I had on Friday: We've got a couple of local promotions running with some sports radio (CBS Radio) in some of our markets. So one of the VPs comes into Atlanta and wants to do a quick meet-and-greet with myself and my supervisor. "Joel" was based in NYC the last time I talked to him; he's since moved out to LA. Anyway, I pick him up in the lobby and we're riding up the elevator and he starts randomly talking to me at a million miles an hour about Tico's Tacos and asking how much I miss LA and if I go back often. Which would have been fine....except I had absolutely NO CLUE what the heck he was talking about! I've never been to LA, much less had a Tico taco. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I think he was getting me mixed up with someone else. *smh* I kept hoping that the look I was giving him was going to clue him in. No dice. It was awkward, but hilarious!
Friday night, my girl Lex forced me out of the house and I'm so grateful to her for it. We all ended up having a blast! She, Nisa, and I were trying to go to Whiskey Blue - but I'm kinda glad that didn't work out because I keep hearing that place is uber-pretentious (and we all know I don't do "scene"). So we hung out at the hotel lobby bar and had (almost) free drinks from goofy Bartender Mike. Then Lex's pseudo-date and his wingman finally showed up. The wingman actually turned out to be an okay guy. Pseudodate dude, however, was a different story. I really don't like to harshly judge people from first impressions, but by the end of the night I was ready to throw this guy in front of the car and hit the gas! I'm glad Lex isn't actually dating this dude because I'd be in the midst of planning an intervention right now. After drinks with Mike, we all headed over to Loca Luna to meet up with another friend having a birthday. I was feeling a little awkward @ LL because being surrounded by drunkerly barely-21s was making me feel hella old and I know my unease was written all over my face. So while the girls were dancing it up with a pretty drunk Birthday Girl, I was just trying to stay in the background. At one poing Pseudodate dude tells me "Here, hold my drink" and I think I gave him a Tica Look of Shady Death (TM) because all of a sudden he starts hollerin about how I was giving him an "ugly look". He's lucky I choose to conduct myself like a grown-ass woman because my first reaction was to slap the living daylights out of him. That really pissed me off - wtf do I look like, the hired help? Yeah, if he was trying to make a good first impression with Lex's friends, he didn't do himself any favors with the way he was acting. Anyway, after the lunacy at Loca, we were all hungry (and it was about 3am), so we made our way to Waffle House (aka the Awful Waffle) to try to sober up the birthday girl and get some food in our tummies. Good times, good conversation. It was 5am when I got home! I can't pull off nights like that very often, but it was so much fun.
Yesterday was a pretty busy day with me running around town, trying to get some shopping and stuff done. And then there was the game-watching party @ the BB&G. The game itself was a heart attack and a half - Couch Willie Martinez had better start pulling his resume together because if our defense continues to play like that, it's curtains for him. But the guys that were there made watching the game so much fun, it was like being in Fayetteville. My buddy Tm came through...which was cool until he got a little drunk and touchy-feely. I'm definitely looking forward to being a participant instead of the coordinator of the next game watching party when we play Tennessee in a couple of weeks. It'll be a whole different crowd, so I'm really looking forward to that. :)
-TicaDawg