A Birthday Surprise

Dear Kate,

Every morning, when I would go to work, I heard the radio DJs (our faves, Sarah and Vinnie) call people's names and tell them that they have 10 minutes to call and get $500. Finally I had enough. I could totally be one of those people. So, when I got back from Tahoe, Labor Day weekend, I signed up and thought, ok this could be something I never win.

Every day I would be in the car in time to hear the 8:10 name be called (because how sweet would it be to have my favorite morning show, Sarah and Vinnie, announce my name on air!!) and every day for the past month, they would call someone else's name. Today I thought, it would be excellent if they called my name, but highly doubted it! I made sure I was in the car at 8:10 and damn the woman from Milpitas who took my money. Damn! But then it went out of my head because I was so excited that it was my birthday.

Then it became something that I didn't think about and at noon I sat down with Betsy to go over a new project for a client. She's giving me details, I'm taking notes, the usual! Then Mary's husband calls her cell phone and tells her that they just called my name! WHAT? WHEN? NOW? WHAT'S THE PHONE NUMBER! IS THIS A JOKE? were just some off the things that I blurted out when I was running around trying to calm myself and be able to form a sentence.

Finally I got the number and called in and talked to a lovely woman in the promotions department and she asked me a bunch of questions and then chatted me up a bit so she could get a sound bite!! She told me I didn't sound too excited, but I told her that it was my birthday and that I couldn't believe it!

As soon as the interrogation sesh was over--actually I shouldn't call it that because it's my money now-- they played my sound bite (that's right, I'm practically famous now) and I had to tell people about my SWEET present and spread the word that they should enter!!

What are the odds of that happening? And on my birthday? Maybe I should stop singing it's praises until I get my money? Yeah that's a good idea!!

Ok, don't sign up until I see the cash!

If you are in Hawaii...

This morning I was listening to my fave radio show, Sarah and Vinnie, and they were talking about the train wreck couple, Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox. They have been engaged, broken up, dating, broken up, dating since apparently 2004. So now these crazy kids feel like they are on the right track again so on June 1, BAG decided to propose to Megan when they were in Honolulu, on a beach. Well, both of them had a serious party foul. When he proposed she was so stoked that she was jumping up and down so much that the ring (which obviously was too big) flew off her had and into the sand. It must have been quicksand because they spent 2 hours looking for it, and DID NOT prevail. So instead of staying there till they found it, they decide to walk away.

Sarah and Vinnie raised a good point…why not whip out a metal detector people!? Every summer in San Clemente, I always say that my goal for the week is to get a metal detector, and comb the beach, find some serious cash money and then retire. So I should get my butt on a plane to Hawaii and make my dream a reality!! Having a 2 CARAT ring in my pocket is not shabby. And there are options for me with it. I could either keep it, after having it resized from that woman’s stick fingers of course. Or I could sell it and retire.

Or, and I feel this would be most likely, I could use it as leverage with BAG and Megan to meet some celebs. But that plan has some flaws…I don’t know who they really hang out with. It could be some 6 degrees of separation though…Megan could talk to her transformers buddy Shia LeBouf who could talk to his Wall Street amigo Josh Brolin..who could talk to his step mom Barbra Streisand. Oooor, I could have BAG talk to is 90210 sister Jennie Garth who could talk to her husband Peter Facinelli..who could talk to his Twilight friend Taylor Lautner. Just kidding, I don't want to chat with him, so he would talk to his Valentine’s day costar Kathy Bates who could THEN talk to any of her Office pals—most specifically John Krasinski. Done. Who wants to go to Hawaii?