My Day!

I already told Mitch about my crappy day, but here goes for anyone else who happens on here!

Our Crowsnest Guide 2005 group appeared before Council last night to mixed reviews. The councillors who we know and who have bought ad space were all for it, and the stagnant oldies were against. Big surprise!

Then today we were presenting also at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon looking for some financial support. (I must preface this by mentioning the newspaper girl who stopped by last week to interview us. Interview went fine, paper came out Tuesday with me quoted as saying the Chamber did squat to help us in our efforts! Yikes, I don't think I said that, since time travel hasn't been invented yet and we were meeting with the Chamber today!) So it was all everyone was talking about and Betty (the former newspaper editor, who we are in semi-conflict with since they produce the crappy, typo-ridden Visitor's Guide to the Pass) stood up in the middle of the lunch and read the quote out loud for all to hear. Ugh. One of our team, Wendy, stood in my defence, as I was serving up soup and sandwiches at Stone's Throw Café, and she said that wasn't how it went down at all, she was there. Then the newspaper girl stood up and was all "Oh yes it did!" and Wendy was all, "Oh no it di'in't". I wish I could have been a fly on the wall.

Then tonight I had another meeting and the new Chamber prez was there and he was cordial, but he's pretty shy to begin with, so I couldn't imagine him instigating anything in the law office where the meeting was held. I made some self-deprecating jokes, but at this point I'm not going overboard with protesting my innocence! It's not worth the energy for a rag that 9 people read. The sales rep for the offending paper came in for a mocha (her mom is the editor and also sits on council, where we were last night! tangled web) and I told her we were extremely disappointed in the lack of attention to detail regarding the article. She apologized profusely and said they'd send the ditz back down to do a retraction. I think when she comes in I'll say 'Hi Tammy' when her name is Tara. If she corrects me, I'll just say, "Oh, close enough!"

At this point in the project we are 65-70% sold and may consider looking to the deep pockets in Waterton for our advertising bucks. Kind of disheartening, but the first year is the hardest and people will be lining up to advertise in it next year. If I live to see the day, I'll be happy!