This is the day, this is the day...

        This is the day that the Lord has made.  We will rejoice and be glad in it.  This is the day that I will finally have time to completely dry my hair.  My new goal is to wake up to my alarm and NOT hit the snooze button.  When I can get my morning routine down to a science, and know exactly how long it takes to get to class, work, or wherever, I tend to start waking up later and later.  This morning, I woke up at 8 which gives me just enough time to shower, partially dry my hair, and run out the door...a frazzled start is not the best start to the day, but it's one that I've unfortunately become accustomed to in the past couple of years.  Someone ask me how my new wake up plan is going in about a week.
        LGA came in for a meeting today and we talked about the media plan for the Meineke Car Care Bowl.  They gave us a chart of the months leading up to the day, and the different media that we will be using to promote the game: billboards, radio, TV, etc... and the rough budget for the plan.  This year we are advertising for the bowl later than last year because we want each game, the Bowl and the Championship, to have their moment to shine and give the consumer an opportunity to give undivided attention to each game.  Lisa from LGA gave us the idea to go to mashable.com which is a social media website that offers a wealth of information on the most effective techniques for the usage of sites like facebook and twitter.  What an awesome resource.
        The rest of the day was focused on finalizing several things for the Quail Hollow luncheon tomorrow.  After doing some office projects, we headed out to the venue, 12 Football helmets in hand to set up for tomorrow.  (I will put pictures up in my next blog).  The country club was gorgeous...and a lot bigger than our country club in Greensboro (obviously).  It was actually just added to the rotation of courses for the PGA and will host the tournament in 2017.  Anyways, we weren't sure how we were going to decorate the tables because they were 10 tops and you don't want them to look blank, but you are creating a room for a largely male audience.  We brought the ACC football helmets, and 2 Bowl Game helmets (to mark the 2 head tables) and used a couple of black table toppers-essentially large black dinner napkins- to dress the tables.  Simple centerpiece worked because the 10 tops were actually kind of small.  I'm really excited about tomorrow and meeting more Leatherheads and Football Legend, Bob Griese.  I'm not excited about the good ol' southern food on the menu.  I've been accepting free food for the past month and it is starting to take a toll on me.  My body just needs a salad!
        Tonight I went over to Lauren Patterson and Christie Schaus' apartment for dinner which was great.  Carrie, Caroline Plunkett, and their other roommate came too, and it was nice to just be around friends that I am familiar with.  It is so weird that we sit around and spend  a vast majority of our time discussing our jobs.  Definitely different from discussions we would have over dinner in College.  Look at us...we are all grown up!  My aunt Mary came tonight to spend the night before she flies out to LA with Uncle Oscar tomorrow.  She recently had surgery and so she got to show and tell me all about that.  Nursing friends, you'd be so proud.  She is an AWESOME cook and I got her to try one of my biscuits from the other night, and she liked it.  If Mary likes the food I cook/bake I will chalk that up to a success.  So good to sit with her tonight and just hang out for a bit!