I WON I WON I WON something

So, strangely enough, after having two pieces accepted into the juried photo show, I wasn't convinced that I was going to attend the opening reception because that meant leaving utopia a few precious hours earlier than planned. But I have skipped some events in the past (like the graduating ceremony when I got my masters degree because no one wanted to come) and regretted skipping, so I sucked it up and left utopia early enough this morning to go stand in a room for three hours and listen to people (hopefully say good things) talk about my work.

My plan was to head down the utopian driveway around 10 this morning, which meant that in my typical leave late every single time fashion, I headed down the driveway at 10:40. Not bad for me! I just couldn't forgo my mandatory road trip cup of joe, speaking of which, after putting 1,000 miles on my truck visiting colleges this weekend I think I need a box of white strips, (I am not kidding- it was like I was trying to single handedly create a coffee shortage) so I made a quick spin through the DD drive thru and foolishly got a large iced joe instead of a medium, and then I thirstily did not pace myself with the afore mentioned large cup of iced joe so I had to pull over at the rest stop at the top of the garden state parkway (where in a completely I'M GOING TO VOMIT NOW move I stepped in a big slippery pile of dog doo right in the middle of the sidewalk) , all of which leads to me being 10 minutes late for the opening.

After a quick change of shoes, I walked in the door of the art center and there was my editor and her husband just beaming at me because, unbeknownst to a shaking from excess caffeine intake me, BOTH of my photos we given an AWARD OF MERIT. Oh YES they did!! And as if winning a spot in the show in and of itself wasn't kick ass enough, they gave me a $50 buck prize for each photo and that almost pays for one of the frames. HAPPY DANCING in stepford tonight!!

Honestly, I'm so happy that I am not even going to look in the dryer to try to understand why the clean sheets that the house keeper dude took out of the dryer to put on my bed while I was in utopia have little green smeary lines all over them. I'm just going to kick back and enjoy some Dexter tonight, sleep on my new green striped sheets, and then go my photo class tomorrow and gloat!