Last night I attended an awards dinner with a supplier. The night turned out well?
First off, this is the same supplier I went to another awards dinner with about a month ago, so a new dress was definitely in order. Despite worries about potential chav mixture of black and light pink, I got some lovely compliments and felt great in it. I had considered a more expensive, more chic dress but actually felt more comfortable in one from River Island, go figure.
The dinner was cool, nice venue and décor and the host, Rob Brydon, was side-splittingly funny. I remember looking at a friend across the table with that ?oh no he didn?t!? look a good few times ? very funny set.
So the awards start, and my company had 8 magazines nominated in 10 categories. We swiftly picked up the first two awards in a row ? this was great, but also worried me because I thought we may have peaked too early, as my title was only nominated later on.
But, sure enough, we won, Most Effective Consumer Title (non-retail) for one of the titles I take care of. Now I haven?t been working on it for the whole year but the issue cover they put up on the screen was from my tenure and so I felt really, really chuffed!
I rode out the rest of the night on a comfy wave of champers and water (I?m a sensible girl!) and as we came to the end, we reached the big one, the award for Customer Magazine of the Year. The nominees for this are only revealed then, and as they read them off I counted four from my company, in a list of 9! And, mine was one of them! While mine didn?t win, another of my company?s did!
We won five awards in total out of 13!
Result!
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But where's the pictures of you in your schmancy dress Nat? :-)
Sadly no pics - there was a photographer there though who stuck his pap lens in my face a couple of times so we'll see.
Just rereading this entry - enough with the exclamation marks already.
Maybe you were like, feeling really enthusiastic at the time that you wrote it, or like, something. At least there's never more than one at a time, that would be bad.
Congratulations, Nat! That must have been a very enjoyable night for you, careerwise!
Hmmmmm... and then she got home at ridiculous o'clock and wanted to brag while I was desperately trying to hold on to the last vestiges of sleep.
I'm not understanding like that. It's a weakness.
Congrats on the award Nat!!!