Look at this post I found hiding in my drafts, just waiting and waiting for me to give it some attention. Poor neglected, abandoned post! Here’s the story:

A couple of years ago, IZEA (though they were only known as PayPerPost at the time) had a call out for pictures of ‘posties’ for their new office wall. They had just moved offices and wanted to decorate this big, blank wall in a special way and those of us that posted on our blogs for them were known as ‘posties’. (Hmm…are we now ‘Sparkies’? Cuz that’s way cute!) They were calling it ‘The Great Wall of Posties’ and everyone who sent in a picture for the wall was sent a ‘Postie Pack’ – which was a box of uber doober shwaggy goodness! Here – you can read this post that was another call out to posties to send in more pics: The Great Wall of Posties.

Now, over the years, I’ve gotten several Postie Packs from them, for different things, and sometimes just as a surprise. And the last two I received were sent from Ashley Edwards, a very sweet guy who works over there and who is a blast to hang out with, though I’ve only gotten to do so virtually, so far. (We used to have lunch every Thursday, remember, Ash?) And in his last two packs, he taped a picture of himself and Veronique (super cool chick who is PPP employee #1!) in the first one and in the second one was a picture of himself and two other sweet girls from there whom I can’t remember. (Bad postie! Bad postie!) Well, I do know that one of them is a cool hippy chick like me and may even be vegetarian. I just can’t bring her name to mind. Ack! *

It was such a surprise when he did that – when I opened up the first pack, I laughed so hard!! I thought it was really awesome – so up on the wall it went! Then a few months later, when I got the other one, up on the wall it went. And now I have begun my own wall – ‘The Great Wall of IZEA’!



Oh man! You know what I just realized – I did have a huge face picture of Ted Murphy that we had printed out and used as a ‘Flat Stanley-esque’ project. Sammie took him to school and took pics of him in band class – it was great! But I should have saved that for my wall, too! I imagine, though, that after traveling in Sam’s backpack for a few days, he was not lookin’ so fine! Ah well….

Ok, so – this is the picture I sent to them for their Postie Wall. I was pretty proud of all the work I’d put into it and it paid off, because, Ted said it was one of his favorites! Some of them were so funny – one guy sent in a pic of himself dressed as a woman and just workin’ it – too funny!

Here is the picture of my office and my little bitty ‘The Great Wall of IZEA’ over there in the corner – ok, so it’s lacking a bit…lol…

What a mess my office was! Ok, ok, it’s still a mess – but, it is rearranged differently now. And I’m working on the mess. It’s a process, people, a process! Here is a close up version of the two pictures:

So there’s my “Great Wall of IZEA” post, dragged up out of my drafts to see the light of day. It is happy. Hope you’ve enjoyed this segment of ‘Drag it out of Drafts’ – hey a new category, perhaps?

*(Edited to add: Oh, oh, oh, I think one of them is Carri Bright – she’s so funny and cool! And she got to see the space shuttle launch – and she probably shouldn’t come visit me in Alabaptistbama, but, damn, she’s funny!! Not sure she’s hippie-ish or vegetarian, though….I think that one I was thinking of had a baby and isn’t working there anymore. Or I could just be crazy and making up stories, as I am known to do. [be quiet, Micky and Mark! - evil brother and evil husband who like to tell stories about my telling stories! pshaw!])