Yep...This is My Life

Alright...first off a recap of the events over the last 2 months:

End of Feb. my little brother TJ came to New York. Mainly so he could attend the open house of AMDA, the college he has applied for, but also to vist me, his favorite older sister (sorry Kay ;-) )

We had soooo much fun, after my adventure of getting to JFK airport, which included me getting on the subway, getting lost in the gehto of Queens, taking 2 different buses, and finally getting there. We went to see RENT, times square, Rockfeller Center, and a comedy show. The open house at AMDA was awesome and TJ loved it. The downside to all this was within 24hrs of TJ flying in I got sick, which was awesome.

Mid-March - Google completed its 3.4 billion dollar buyout of Doubleclick, the company I worked for. We as employee's got a whole 20 mins of Woo Hoo time before the news of there will be a reduction of headcount...fancy talk for layoffs.

Easter weekend - My first trip back to Dallas, TX since 1983 (?), this trip was mainly put in place so I could see one of my closest friends Hosanna. It had been almost 2 yrs since we had seen each other. This was a good weekend for me for a few reasons:

1) Helped me get over my fear of going back to TX ("He who shalled not be named" still lives there.

2) I re-connected with Hosanna, which helped me deal with the whole falling out from the Denver church.

3) I had a fun vacation, and by the end of it I no longer was worried about my fate at Google (more on that later), plus I got to go to my 1st ever hockey game.

April 2nd - D day...Google/Doubleclick announced who stays and who goes....if you haven't guessed by now, I was one of those fateful 300 who got the boot. All in all, I am happy with this, I wasn't very happy at Doubleclick. Google has treated all of us who were laid off very well, and I have no hard feeling for them. I mean come on...Blogger is owned by Google.

April 14th - This was a very weird day, I woke up to find an email letting me know that by biological grandmother was passed away over the weekend. This left me with a mixed feeling, I wasn't really sad, I have no real memory of her and the only time I had ever heard from her was a few days after I turned 18.

April 16th - Two very different things happend on this day:

1)I had an interview with a company, Outsourced Ad Ops. Thanks to a fantastic former co-worker who was kind enough to pass along my information to the owner of the company. This company really impressed me, it is a small trafficking company run by traffickers, its got a nice laid by atmosphere. The best part is...after I interviewed with them that afternoon, I got hired that night, I have to say that has never happened to me before in my life.

2)My birth father contacted my mom for the first time since I was like 2. I guess she signed the guest book for his mother's death. This blind sided both of us, the only question he asked was "how is Misti doing". So, this right here answers the one question I have always wondered...Does he ever think about me, well I guess he does. For those of you wondering...no, neither me or my mom replied back, we're not that stupid.

So that brings us up to the present....I started my job almost 2 weeks ago and I love it, the company is made up of awesome people. It is a little weird going from working for Doubleclick to be a client of Doubleclick's again. I miss all the kick ass access I had to all the systems.

May is shaping up to be a very busy month for me, I have the Makeup Show NY on the 19th, my favorite little sister Abby (okay she's my only little sister) is coming to see me from the 22nd to the 27th, and I already have a kick ass weekend planned for her. Also, I finally get to go to Las Vegas!!!! A friend of mine invited me to join her the last weekend of May in Vegas, and the flight was cheap enough so I figured why the hell not.

Soooo, hope ya'll enjoyed this mini-novel I have just posted here, but keep checking back as I will update often.

Also, this will be replacing the myspace blog I had.

M.