Day 222/365 (February 24, 2015)

It was a long day at work, but got lots done! I also spent the day on baby watch... Ania went into labor... still waiting!

Then I came home and didn't do too much except watch TV, hang with the kitties, and make a birthday card for someone. I was pretty proud of how it turned out!

I love waking up to Fred and Charlie cuddled with me, and Charlie was being extra cute.

Also during the day I got two random texts that just made me super happy! The first was from Travis telling me that after I had left training last night one of the other trainers told him they could see how much stronger I have gotten. The place I go is very small and the clients are usually different but there is usually the same group of other trainers there so it is nice to get some outside validation!

The other text I got was from MKC saying that Clark had noticed and pointed out pictures of me on FB so he just wanted to tell me he thought I looked awesome an was really happy for me. Considering I just got back to a place of feeling good about myself again I have been a little shaky and to see something like that is something that helps keep me focused to remember why I started to make these life changes. I like to feel good about myself, an feel good internally/health wise. I really hate feeling crappy and sludgy and I love food I really do but certain foods are not worth the yucky feeling they give on the inside.  But back to the point it was nice to hear that from him and then catch up a bit.

Day 290/365 (June 4, 2009)

so the day started out with finding out softball was once again rained out... which turned out to be a good thing because i didnt feel like having to get ready for the day that early. anywho i found out during the day that mitch was going on for luke in altar boyz and even though i have been really good about not seeing it too often i wanted to see him as Luke since that is my favorite character. i also knew i would only get a ticket if i could get what i consider a good seat since i am a seat snob. i also made plans with kavin and he knew i would only go if there was a good seat.

well anywho my plan was to go to the box office then help mary lotto hair. i got to the box office and was not given very excitable seat options so i was going to hold off until i could talk to kavin and help wit hair... so i high-tailed it over to the theater just in time for the lotto and found mary, sasha, matthew, mackenzie, and zuri.  luckily mackenzie was called right away so sasha and i peaced out! (later i found out my name had been called... yay?)

Sasha and i went on a mailbox hunt, and did a little bit of walking then i went to the box office to buy the tickets. well just s i was about to give th discount code i was told it was going to be a wunderstudy show and that mitch had been switched to mark and joey was going to be luke. so i ended up not getting the tickets because i knew i was seeing mitch as mark on saturday. (i have already seen joey do all 5 roles!) then we went back to sasha's and hung out for a while.

later i headed to NWS to meet kavin for the final round of karaoke idol. i made a random friend for a few minutes waiting for kavin, who it turned out was inside the whole time seeing The Toxic Avenger, and i chatted with Michael for a tiny bit while he waited for someone.

anywho finally met up with kavin and i got to sing twice during the night and watched the final round of karaoke idol... i wasnt happy with the winner but whatevs! it was so nice hanging with kavin and it was one of my favorite nights i have spent at karaoke because he is so fun and i havent seen him since january and we danced around and all that fun stuff... we left at seriously like 2 in the morning!

Day 258/365 (May 3, 2009)

i woke up feeling alot happier which was nice, and after some good puppy time i made my way out. It was raining, and he the streets were so water filled. i ended up getting soaked on my 25 minute walk tot he life cafe. sneakers were a pool, and my pants got hit so bad, it went all the way up to my knees!

Anywho Emilie wanted to celebrate her birthday at Life Cafe, so that is where i went. Emilie, Jennifer, Carina, Steph, Vicki, Jerri, Some other girl, and myself stayed there for like 2 hours (maybe a little more.) They very nicely didn't kick us out even after we payed. I really don't like the food at Life Cafe, yeek! my turkey burger was plain and burnt! Then we walked to Crumbs by union square and i was proud of myself for no breaking down and buying a cupcake! then we all headed uptown. i went to the NWS Box Office to buy tickets to ABz for dawn and myself. Ended up with great seats for tomorrow night! while there i ran into Ravi very quickly, and MKC and group of his friends holding up the line buying tickets. (not really holding up the line) then i got my tickets and headed back to kim's. i was able to finally make the pizza and do the dishes that i have made since i was here. Soon i am going to make sure i have all my stuff and head home, since Kim gets back tonight. I am watching a cheesy movie on ABC Family called Taking 5 and enjoying it quite a bit!

I also got bit by the organization/cleaning bug! i decided my closet needed sme work so i switched out the winter stuff and put in the spring stuff and i also reorganized it back into sections... it took a long time but felt wicked good!

Day 224/365 (March 30, 2009)

i didn't get much sleep and ate a ton of the yummiest purple grapes (ok technically red but i call em purple) ever!  i also watched lots of TV... then finally i got ready for the day and headed over to Lincoln Center to see The Music Of Bobby Cronin.

i met mark outside and we headed in to wait in line and get out of the cold, eventually carina came in and joined us. slowly everyone else started to trickeled in. (Krysta, Michelle, Lynette, Michelle, diane, karolina, nicole.)  Mark and i had run into andrew as he was leaving sound check, and then we all saw michael come in but logan was with him so i chatted with him for a bit. eventually we all went in and took seats in the front.

I had never heard of Bobby Cronin before and just knew that there were a ton of people that i love to see perform participating in it. Aside from the people who were all great let me tell you he is such a talented song writer! i enjoyed each of the songs very much, especially the understudy song and music from BRATT Camp. Michelle, Nicole, and I were maybe going to leave during part of it to go to something else but shortly before the time we were going to leave i had decided i wanted to stay and continue hearing the songs which was a great decision!

they were just really well written, played, and performed! the host guy was funny because he kept referring to in the heights as into the heights. The first song of the evening was sung by michael kadin craig, andrew call, marcus paul james, and jared gertner... i was quite excited because they are some of my favorite performers and i was like 3 of my favorite shows are being represented on stage (note that MPJ represented Rent for me). then michael sang another song, and andrew ended up in two more, and kate pazakis did some killer vocals and it was nice seeing her sing again since i had been absent from mostly sondheim for so long!

afterwards the group of us chatted for a bit and eventually parted ways, i was about to go home when mark was like lets do something so we walked down to vynl and i got the BLT sandwich again, and then we headed to TOL and enjoyed part of open mic night before heading our seperate ways.

Day 210/365 (March 16, 2009)

It was so great to be home! I fell asleep about 5 am so I am unsure why I woke up about 10:30 on my own! However when I did Fred came over to me and nuzzled me for a bit, and then he left and Emma came up and took her place on me.

I finally got up did dishes, ate a little something, spoke with my mom on the phone, finished my blog, then began my tireless internet pursuit.

It has been not working unless I steal unreliable wifi from someone so after hours of fighting I was finally able to send a few emails and send off some more resumes. Now I am getting ready and going to NWS in the hopes of Jesse going on as something in Boyz since it is probable…. But I am only seeing it if he is on… which causes me some stress because I really was doing good about not seeing it and I can make it until April but it isn’t often he goes on so I will if he is.

Turns out he was on and I got like the second to the last ticket to the show! Somehow I managed to lose my ticket within 60 seconds of having it, but luckily I found it 5 minutes later, and the show was great! I was made extremely happy by running into Mr. Cookie outside NWS! It was nice to see how Jesse has made the role his own and he was super bubbly and bouncy.

After the show I of course needed to get a BC/EFA picture and MKC had come to watch the show after he got back from TX… I was so busted since it wasn’t April, but I mean Jesse was Mark!

Day 208/365 (March 14, 2009)

I got up so very early and took a shower in one of the worst water pressure showers ever! Then I dressed and headed to get some breakfast form the hotel lobby… a blueberry muffin and orange juice. Then I went outside and found it was so very cold so I had to change into sneakers and long pants… so glad I brought my hoodie!

I have no idea how I made it to meet Hope’s sister Sara at the train station in Dallas without getting too lost. (I did have a tiny detour) and by the way the Texas highway set up is really annoying and confusing! Not all the exits have numbers and they have so many routes that collide and have weird names… like 35E… but that doesn’t mean it is 35 East… that means 35E in either north or south… it messed with my mind, and there aren’t random signs along the road that let you know if you are on the right highway still!

I waited a bit before meeting up with Sara then we went to use the dart and took it to Lover’s Lane… then we walked a bit to meet up with her friends. Let me tell you the St. Patrick’s Day parade was all sorts of fun! There were people everywhere dressed in green and having a fun time, almost all he floats that drove by threw beads into the crowd and I got really good at catching them. Other stuff was thrown too, most unusual a jalapeño and oranges.

Her friends were all really great and when the parade was over we walked to find a bar they said was great and had food. It did seem like a pretty fun place to go hang out but because the parade crowd was all there after waiting for like an hour or so we still hadn’t gotten a table and I had to leave so we walked to our cars since we were already more than half way there and I passed girl scouts selling cookies and bought a box of somas… best and worst thing I could have done. In the parking lot there was also a couple sat on top a cooer in the middle of the roadway making out and cars had to go around to avoid them and we all found it pretty funny! Another thing to note was that people were tailgating the parade and it was just a really fun environment/atmosphere. It was also fun to walk in the middle of the street to get to the bar called Ozona… since the roads were still closed off because they needed to be cleaned before cars could drive on it again.

Then I made my way back to Fort Worth so I could meet up with some people to go to dinner. On the way I found someone’s credit card in the ground… sadness for her! We went to PF Changs, which I had never been to before and got some yummy food. The shrimp dumplings were my favorite, and I got sesame chicken and then some sort of banana thing for dessert. It was an interesting dinner since the waitress just kept coming over and talking to us every chance she had, and she was really nice but I kept thinking “don’t you have other customers?” There was also a little mishap with finding glass in someone’s food… seriously glass! (good thing it wasn’t me!)

Then we finally left and this was the first moment of the trip I saw something and didn’t take a picture of it which I kind of regret… but there was this building that had windows and stuff painted on top… so it looked like there were windows, it was pretty random!

Then I passed sometime talking on the phone with mark and roaming the area. I am happy I decided I had to use the bathroom when I was in the performance hall because the stalls had music bars on them and I liked that lots!

I saw the show again and was the awkward person to start the standing ovation at the end… I mean really people the performers just worked really hard to entertain us; standing is the least you can do to show your appreciation!

Then I went to the SD one last time and said goodbye and found my way home… I didn’t get lost and towards the end I dint need my directions anymore… I was quite proud of myself!

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Day 207/365 (March 13, 2009)

Barely 3 hours of sleep, but nothing could bring down the happiness! I got up, got ready, fed the kitties, said goodbye to the kitties, and headed to the bus to take me to LaGuardia… Sadly I just missed one by the time I had walked to 125th ST but luckily I only had to wait 6 minutes or so in the cold. Then the bus got me to the airport and I got all paranoid because when I went to use the kiosk machine to check in and avoid the lines it said Please See Agent. So I had to wait in a long line while freaking out that somehow my tickets had been cancelled. It turns out it was because my seat was in the exit row and they needed to ask me if I would be willing to help out in an emergency situation if I wanted to get my ticket on the plane… I said yes. Then I waited through the security checkpoint, which didn’t take that much time in the grand scheme of things. I grabbed a bagel from Dunkins so I wouldn’t starve and wait to board the plane. I was stuck in a middle seat but it was still all l good in the hood. I fell asleep for a while we taxied and waited for take off. It got backed up we left so much later than we should have which caused me worry that I would miss my connecting flight. However in a very rare moment for myself I told myself “I have no control over if I miss the next flight and that what will happen, will be and not to stress over something I can’t control.” You know what it made the trip so much nicer! I spent the majority of the trip reading the final Princess Diaries book, but after like 75 pages I got tired of reading and began rocking out to various boots of Bitch Of Living (unusual) until we had to turn off our electronics. We landed and pulled in and they made an announcement asking the passengers to let the people off that had to make very tight connecting flights… I ran off and got to the terminal at 12:05, which was 5 minutes before they stopped letting people board! Lucky lucky lucky! There was some sort of team on board and when we landed they pilot wished them luck on their competition…. It was a gymnastics team that seemed like it had about 20 junior high schoolers in it.

The next flight (layover in Atlanta) put me in the middle again, but I made a “new best friend” when the window seat guy got to our row and was like you can just move down if you want so I don’t have to step over you and I was like THANKS! (So lucky)… I know most people think I am crazy but when I fly I love to look out the window and I think it is wasted when people shut the flap or sleep the whole time. My favorite is take off or landing when you can see the ground below. It always makes me think about how amazing people are and how everything was built like roads and houses and buildings and how it all somehow seems to fit on this space we call earth and we have this incredible technology that can bring us like 30,000+ feet in the air… so crazy! I would also like to point out how stressful it is to transport cookies through air travel? (I stuck a few of Matthew’s cookies aside to bring to Texas. I listened to music, wrote yesterdays and this part of the blog, then nothing until I go to the airport. Our stewardess had a strong Scottish accent.

So it was freaking freezing, 39*!!!! And rainy, and I had to wait over 90 minutes to get my rental car because their computers were down! (Everything was being done by hand.) I reserved a small car because I am only one person with not that much stuff… but they didn’t have any small cars so they gave me this beast of a car, a KIA rotundo. Guess I finally get to drive a KIA even though I don’t care about that anymore. The car also cost WAY more than I was told and I had a little heart attack but freedom right?

So I get in the car and I pull out my 4 mix CDs. I made them by selecting songs I would want to listen to, I mixed them up in a crazy nonsense order, burned them to 4 discs, then I shuffled the discs so I had in idea what came first so I wouldn’t know what was on any CD. I put in the disc I later labeled 1, pushed play, and know what the first song to play was? Honey by J.I. as sung by MKC… was that not crazy? Then a little ways driving I found this place and it made me giggle… I got so lost finding the hotel and I am bummed I cant go swimming because it is too cold, but I am excited to get settled in, then I am going to go exploring a bit before I get to see High School Musical.

The show itself was actually quite good! I think the cast did a great job. The theater (though it is actually a “performance hall” is really quite pretty and radio Disney was there to entertain the mass of kiddies before hand. I cant believe that show was put together with only two weeks of rehearsals! Before the show started though I had about 4 children and three adults think I was an absolute kook! I put my ticket in my “playbill” as I always do and put it in my bag. Well I went to double check my ticket was still in there and I couldn’t find it so I looked up and down the aisle to locate it to no success and it was no where near my seat… the people around me could tell I was looking for something and when I told them my ticket they couldn’t understand why I still needed it since I was already in my seat, but they helped to look nonetheless. One little boy told me he thought he saw something flutter down form my stuff like a leaf when I went to sit, and the little girl next to me looked down in the orchestra pit and found it on the ground, so I had to ask a keyboard guy if he could please hand it to me and he did thankfully! Well then I went to find my phone so I could turn it off… yea couldn’t find it again and the same little boy behind me found it on the ground under a seat down the row form me… how it got there I have no idea! But yea I was a bit of a discombobulated mess!

I waited at the Stage door after and it was nice to see MKC. The little kids were all so cute and excited and it made me smile. I was able to chat with him for a bit before I left and got so very lost… I ended up at a 7/11 where the employees thought I was hilarious when I told them about my night and that I had come from NY to see HSM… but eventually I found my hotel and played online before going to bed.
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