When I space out for a half an hour before I start writing, I know Im doomed. Im going to go ahead and blame it on putting too much half and half in my coffee. I hate when that happens.

I managed to get all 10 lamp shades done yesterday. I had some serious motivation. When I go there, one of the ladies that works for my boss occasionally was there already. Another girl was there that Ive never met before. Well, when I got to work we were chatting and having a nice time. Then we hit that point where it was all about working and not chatting. Since they were there first I didn't touch the radio and instead listened to the albums of their choice.

God help me. Ive never ever sat through an entire Journey album in my life. Nor have I ever met anyone until yesterday that loved them so much they had to "hear that song again!" Yes, repeat Journey songs. Then, when that finally ended I figured it couldn't get much worse. I was horribly horribly wrong. The next two albums I endured: A live Simon and Garfunkel and an entire Olivia Newton John album.

Never in my life have I heard any of these things in full album form. It really gave me that extra push. And so, in the end, I built the shades in record timing. Id like to thank Journey...and Olivia, for giving me that extra boost of motivation I really needed.