PC, that's absolutely awesome about your friend and her Bollywood career! Go Team Her!

Thanks, Fay! It's very cool.

Wanna hear something bizarre?

Last weekend, I'm chatting with a good friend who owns a super high-end communications firm here in DC. We are sharing the typical "this was my week" stories.

She starts telling me about this really interesting proposal she's gotten from a similarly high end architectural design firm. It involves a integrated business strategy model that she thinks is really impressive.

Suddenly, a bell goes off in my head...certain phrases sound very similar. I say, "Wait. You aren't talking about X company, are you?"

She's stunned. "Yes, how do you know them?" she asks.

I KNOW THEM BECAUSE I DEVELOPED THAT PROJECT AND TRIED TO SELL IT OT THEM NEARLY 6 YEARS AGO.

Here, let me show you the proposal I wrote.

What are the freakin' odds of this happening? Company X courted me long enough to get this great idea out of me and then dropped me like a disease. Now, 6 years later, they are peddling it to others. I met this friend less than 2 years ago and we've become quite close. We don't often talk about her clients. In fact, I only know the name of one other company she works with.

I was SO angry, and then went through every stage of grief because this incident is what precipitated my decision to leave organization development behind.

In the end, it was a good thing, as I really love my work now, but jeebus. I was used.

The living well is the best revenge news is that my idea IS really good and this company has never been able to get it off the ground. Apparently I was too small potatoes for them at the time. "We didn't think she'd have the ooomph to get it off the ground." Well, apparently they were big enough potatoes to know it was a good thing but not enough to make it work.

Ha.

But still. Isn't that bizarre?

Well, Company X is about to get a cluestick, if your friend happens to mention the interesting confluence of ideas that Company X is now peddling.

That's crazy, bonny! Also: those jerks.

That's awful, bonny. Sorry to hear it.

Fay, I was deep in morose-land awhile back when you were posting about body demon issues etc., but I just want you to know that I think you are beautiful and sexy and charming and a total catch. Fwiw.

I baked a cake! From scratch! And I have a slamming frosting recipe that will be put together next. Won't get to taste it all until tomorrow. I hope it is as good as it smells.

White cake with white chocolate icing, sliced strawberries and drizzled milk chocolate. YUM!!!

We just got back from looking at the apartment. Want!

Pros:

1. Off street parking.
2. Two family house.
3. Quiet neighborhood.
4. Hardwood floors.
5. Not a large apartment complex.
6. A porch to grown herbs.

Cons:

1. Oil heat.
2. Paying to move again.
3. We'd have to purchase a portable dishwasher.

Oil heat.

Years ago, the city of Madison (or was it the state of Wisconsin?) had some program where you'd get tax credits or somesuch if you converted to gas. Or maybe the gas company offered a discount or something. Maybe that's an option to help you switch?

Maybe that's an option to help you switch?

I don't think as renters we'd be allowed to do that.

Oh. Duh.