I am backed up on projects, can you believe it?
I volunteered for a few creative tasks so I wouldn’t lose my brain to the pink and orange clown shoes, and well, the baby started demanding my time and the job search was also feeling a bit cranky and, you know what, sometimes I just wanted a do nothing day filled with naps and ice cream. My blog went down, my Internet connection went down, I am unsure if the two events are unrelated. I lost my temper almost with Verizon high speed Internet tech support and yelled all the way to India. India, I tell you, is now on notice as American customer service reps have been for quite some time: know what you’re talking about when you claim you know how to resolve my issue. Then resolve it before irritation peeks around the angry corner. India now knows.
Funny crazy story on the way to wakefulness from my nap. I checked email on my phone and look! an email from a potential employer weeks after I figured the company wasn’t interested. Written in English and not in Internetscammish. On the way to wakefulness, I sent the cutest, most excited email to Q beginning with and I quote: yay yay yay. Except I didn’t hit forward, I hit reply and sent the enthusiastic email meant for my husband to the owner of the company. I spelled the word love with like nine Os, people. As in looooooove. And it was irretrievable.
Thinking fast, I emailed the owner (again, right?) and explained what happened and that nowhere in her marketing materials would I ever spell love with more than one O. Prayed she had a sense of humor. Glad [kinda] that the more explicit emails to Q were left behind in our dating days. Relieved that it was one sentence about the job, one sentence about the baby and the now infamous O-string.
Her reply: happens to the best of us, she thought the note was cute and funny and that it showed genuine enthusiasm for the job. She said she was looking forward to my actual reply to her list of questions and request for an impromptu marketing piece.
Lesson learned: check business email only while on the laptop, not on the phone mini-screen. Wake up from the nap first. Keep sense of humor and react quickly to fix mistakes. Did I tell you since her phone number was in her email signature, I also called? We both had a good laugh.
Cross your fingers for me. Part-time, work from home, good company whose services I used multiple times when Jordan was younger. Toes, too? You are awesomez.
I cross all fingers and toes for your success!
I loooooooove you, and I looooooooove this post.
*snort*
hope it works out for you
As I said: you guys are awesomez