You Missed the Catch

Um, so if you had wanted to catch me on the two events I had posted a couple of days ago, I'm afraid it's a no go.

For one, the baptism is over!

I'm so stuffed with love right now that I can't move. Children would probably run away from me because the tall crazy lady with the psycho smile permanently attached to her face is probably up to no good. Boom-boxes probably want to beat me up because I'm humming their tune.

I'm really sick of saying thank you. Really. I mean, I'm still so thankful and grateful for everyone who:

*got their booty to my baptism

*brought me goodies! (WHAT THE HECK, PEOPLE, WHAT PART OF "YOUR PRESENCE, NO PRESENTS" DON'T YOU GET?! YOU BET I'M GONNA GET YOU BACK. GET YOU BACK GOOD)

*left wonderfully colorful voicemails for me

*texted me well wishes

*Facebooked me congrats

*emailed me awesome e-cards

*just even thought of me at all this day.

I didn't take pictures but I have awesome friends who did. Here are some from Helen and Mike's blogs to tie you over)

The actual baptism part was...cold. And stupid me, even though I was fully prepared and packed for the event, in my haste, I ran out to the pool forgetting my towel.

Cold notwithstanding, it was a great ceremony in a beautiful house (thanks, Alura family!) and I'm like, totally a Christian now!

For two, the Justin Chon livechat decided to go in another direction with the host.

So I'm out and Bobby Choy is in. You'll remember him from here. I can't say I'm not disappointed. If only because I had to change a lot of plans to accommodate this hosting gig. And I prepped for it. And I was excited about it. But the thing was, if I had gotten this Playstation commercial that my sister and I were auditioning for, I would have ditched the gig like that and jumped on the next plane to New York. In fact, after I got off the phone with my editor, I was musing over what I should do with my free time now and New York was the first thing that popped into my mind. I checked plane tickets but $500+ for 4 days in New York is a bit extravagant, even for me, a woman of extravagance. *haughty head tilt.

Well, these things happen. And I'm sure there'll be plenty more rejections and set-backs in the future. It only makes me stronger, right? It's kind of a good thing too because my blog was getting a bit too happy! happy! It's like, turn down the joy dial, Janice, sheesh. Go suck a lemon or something.

"When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, sit back, relax, and watch the world wonder how you did it."