The Brits are arriving tomorrow afternoon, and I am well excited. Unfortunately, Murphy’s law had it in for me and decided to push our huge announcement(s) at work to, you guessed it, a week from today, which means that the majority of the next seven days will be spent at the office rather than using up my vacation days to spend time with them.

That being said, the craziness going on at work is enormously (dare I say it?) gratifying, despite some serious to-do lists. With the departure of our creative director, I’ve found myself the sole designer of many pieces of collateral, which means entertaining myself with Photoshop tricks and scrounging through various repositories of stock photography. Honestly, I often wonder why I didn’t do graphic design at college; it’s always been a habit/passion of mine. Anyway, things are turning out very nicely, my to-do list is growing steadily smaller, and the light can be seen at the end of the tunnel. Plus, the icing on the cake was seeing a case study I wrote some months ago published in an industry magazine this week. I know my mother will be so proud.

Because of everything, I’ve decided to forgo sleep for the foreseeable future in exchange for getting my stuff done at work during the day and playing with the Brits at night. Atlantic City is still definitely in the cards, as is spending quite a bit of time in New York. I hear the Easter parade is quite a trip, and the Brits mentioned wanting to see a show or two while they’re here.

I am officially not bothered by the fact that I’m still in the office at 7PM. This could be because I know I have a bathroom and a kitchen to clean when I get home, and who really looks forward to that kind of thing?