Day 249/365 (March 23, 2015)

Passed If/Then load out on way to work sadly. Worked for a better part of the day then thought it would be a good idea to walk the 4.5 miles to the Upper East Side Target. Which would have been fine except it was so windy but I did find some interesting things. First I stumbled upon the bakery Jamie and her friends were talking about, so I tried a bite of the incredible banana pudding and got this yummy cinnamon bun cupcake. The frosting was incredible, so light and fluffy. The cake however I could tell was really good but it was over cooked so it was a bit dry. I loved the container they put it in though! Then I found a Food Emporium under a bridge and it said that... so funny, and I stumbled upon the Gracie Mews and kept singing Today 4 U from Rent because of it. Target was successful, but carrying a 16 pound bag of cat food back with the other stuff was not fun, but I was proud of myself for doing it!

Then I got ready for bed pretty early because I was not really feeling in a sit on the couch type mood. SO I went to my room and hung with Fred and Charlie for a bit until we got a surprise visit from Marty. So we chatted for a bit which was nice then I went off to bed.

Day 242/365 (March 16, 2015)

Got up early and got myself ready for a long day at work. I was there the entire day then headed home where i relaxed for a bit and ate dinner. Then I headed out to the concert I was filming... where Andrey startled the crap out of me when I arrived and my heart was racing for like 5 minutes after! Ewa also sent me a chocolate bunny in the mail :)

The concert (Say My Name) was pretty good but I had a snafu while filming. Of all the times for it to happen my camera which had a full battery decided to DIE in the middle of a song. It was during the one song being sung by the one person I knew so I felt bad in general but especially bad... what the frick happened? In my panic to see if switching batteries helped I missed his entire song, like I didn't even hear if because I was so caught up and managed to drop my phone down an abyss that took considerable effort to rescue it from. Marty came to see the show so that was nice to see him for a bit.

After it was over i decided to go for a walk so I could hit my step goal for the day.  I ended up running into someone I know so we walked together for a bit and caught up which was nice, then I decided to call Paula and talk about Friday. I ended up talking to her for 36 minutes and it was just so nice outside I didn't want to go back inside... and I knew I would be unhappy inside;

Sure enough I went in and was again ignored when i said hey. Then after settling my stuff down I went to wash dishes and she got up and went to her room. I am sick of crying over this. I finished watching The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and finally got ready for bed.

Earlier I had tried to mail some birthday cards and the box I usually use was locked! Charlie also was all about cuddling with me.

Day 106/365 (October 31, 2014)

Busy busy busy day! I had my Jenny appointment and did a bank errand. The appointment took a bunch of time because Shareen was running late, and it wasn't the best appointment because I was the exact same weight as the week before. I am okay with that since I over ate during the week and din't really get in much exercise since I was so busy. I came home, had breakfast, then got started on the tasks for the day. I made 56 cake balls and wrapped them individually, baked a cake for the cake balls for the party, made the pumpkin macarons... it was another baking explosion day. I also went over to New World Stages for a bit to help Marty and Marissa set up for the Halloween party.The place turned out to look super amazing!

I came home and did more work and then finally got ready. I went out to movie night to watch Rocky Horror Show... i do not like that movie after finally having seen it... nope! the music is catchy but nope! then I went downstairs to set up. The night went pretty well. People kept coming and I made a tiny profit. I got lots of great feedback and one scandalous bear thought he could help my business grow by giving me detailed instructions on how to get THC into butter to make the goods laced. I was like um thanks but ah no way! I mean he doesn't know me from a hole in the wall but if he did h would know that would never happen in a million years! I may have eaten a few of my cookies while there, oops! I enjoyed my costume as the sugar fairy and even more the fact  the only thing I bought for it was the cupcake patch and the sparkly fabric paint.

Day 44/365 (August 30, 2014)

This was a jam packed day! It started pretty early because I got up to rush Pippin. I was first in line, and my friends Matt and Jess came! Jess was a big surprise so that was nice. We also met a lovely girl we chatted with. Before they got there though it was just that girl (Brianna) and I and we had quite an interesting experience with a random guy who at first asked us what rush was but then tried to have a conversation with us about his family.

After we got our tickets Jess and I headed home... then I got freshened up for a bit and we finally headed out because I was meeting Andrey for lunch and she was going to get some food too. Had lunch at Blockheads and then we wandered around for a bit before it was time for me to see Pippin. I met back up with Matt and we went to the matinee.It was my 10th time seeing it. I really enjoyed the new Charlemagne, John Dossett. KDM was cute because he waved to me during curtain call and mouthed that he was sorry because he couldn't come out to the SD after. I said it was okay... and it was because I had lots of stuff to do!

We headed home and I spent some more time with Jess while I was designing and preparing thank you tags to go on the cookies I had made and packaged the night before. She finally had to head out and at first I was waiting for Marty to come but of course he never came, nor did he actually say he wasn't which made me pretty sad. Being stood up is no fun. I ended up going back out with Andrey which turned out to be a VERY good thing. We went to get him a standing room ticket to Lady Day (success) and then he wanted to go to steak and shake. Turns out Jake worked there and when he saw me (after a bit of time) he came over to start working out a schedule to pay me back the money he owed me from ages ago. This is excellent because I could really use it!

Then it was back home to get ready for the concert I was filming that night. A bunch of us dressed in our Disney princess dresses so that was fun! The concert was so much fun, and I enjoyed filming it. Natalie W. even told me I was her inspiration (for the whole weight loss thing). It was a really late evening though and by the time it was over and I had settled I didn't get to attempt sleep until almost 2:30

Random note in the dressing room area of 54 below they had this sign on the women's bathroom door... haha!

Day 43/365 (August 29. 2014)

I went to bed last night with "My Teddy" bear since I was feeling so low, and this is how I woke up. Today was another bad day as far as work was concerned. I just couldn't wait to leave. I finally did and got home and continued my baking spree. This time I made "hot chocolate" cupcakes for someone's birthday. I never used this recipe as cupcakes before so I wasn't expecting to make 36 of them! They turned out pretty awesome. I filled them with a ganache/marshmallow filling and made a frosting that had both hot chocolate mix and melted chocolate in it, then topped it off with some shaved chocolate and a marshmallow! I also made snickerdoodles for an event.

I had been looking forward to spending the evening with Marty before he left for tour again, but sadly when I checked in with him he said he had to come tomorrow instead because something else popped up. :(

Day 34/365 (August 20, 2014)

I ended up being at work way later than I was planning on and that totally messed up my plan for the day but it ended up being a good thing. I went to Trader Joe's and when I came home I found Marty there! I tried out a new Zucchini pesto recipe (I made pesto for the first time ever) and gave Penski my leftover cupcakes... then when Sasha came home we all went out for a bit with Karen too. It is always fun when Marty is around and then we spent more time at home before he left... Fred loves to sniff things and this wine really made his nose go crazy.

I also tried my new princess goldfish and Lola was over for about half an hour.

Day 24/365 (August 10, 2014)

Sasha, Karen, and I spent the morning shopping in Kittery, ME/Portsmouth, NH. We went to the outlets in pursuit of finding me a new purse to replace my poor dead Mickey one. We finally found one in Kohl's no less! There was also a Trader Joe's there so we stocked up on fruit and stuff for our road trip home the next day.

Then we did some more shopping before heading back to the hotel to pack/get ready for the show. We met up with Marty and his parents for Dinner at a place called Sebago's brewery. They are delightful people and it is no wonder why Marty is as fabulous as he is! Then we went back to Kennebunkport where I got more speculoos and pretzel ice cream from Rocco's before heading to Arundel Barn Playhouse to see Marty as Warner in Legally Blonde.

They have been doing shows there for 17 years and have pictures from all of their past productions hanging up. It was fun to look around and I saw some familiar faces that made me smile. Marty and his friend Nick did a really great job, and the Elle was very good as well. It was worth the trip out here to see it... after the show we said goodbye to Marty and went back to the hotel for a little TLC before calling it quits for the night.

Day 23/365 (August 9, 2014)

Today was such a fun and wonderful day! The beach is NOT my friend! I hate sun, sand, and sea water but what Sasha and Marty wanted to do was go to the beach so that is how we spent the morning. I had water shoes and they said there were no fishies in sight so I gave in to peer pressure and actually went in the water, then Sasha, Marty, and I made a sand castle while Karen watched on from afar.

Then we popped into Marty's to change into non-each clothes and made our way back out to Old Orchard Beach to go play mini golf at Pirate's cove. Sadly I lost to Marty but i did get a hole in one on the first hole!

Then we went a chocolate shop to see the world's largest moose made out of chocolate. Lenny weighs in at 1,700 pounds! He also has some bear cub friends, and one of those weighs 300 pounds! This store also had some lovely salt water taffy that I stuffed my face with!

Then we sadly had to drop Marty back off and we made our way out doing some more shopping. On our way home we called the hotel and asked for a restaurant recommendation and we were told a bout this place called Bufflehead. It was absolutely adorable, had a view of the water, and some really lovely food. Then we went back to the hotel and watched TLC of course!

Day 22/365 (August 8, 2014)

Sasha, Karen, and I got up early and after breakfast headed to the Aquaboggan water park. It was pretty lame as far as water parks go but we did go down the water slides once, and spent some time in the wave pool before playing with the go karts and bumper boats. Just before we went to the park we stopped into Wal-mart and I got this awesome batman shirt that had a cape!

Then we met up with Marty again and one of his friends, Nick. We all went to Old Orchard Beach and walked around the boardwalk and went on some of the rides there... super fun! I had some lovely fried dough!

I won't talk about how many times we went to Michael's, Wal-mart, Target, and AC Moore on this trip. AFter we dropped off Marty and Nick we went to a restaurant in Kennebunkport called Alisson's. They had some hilarious names for their sandwiches such as Jimmy Fowlin. After we explored again (I got more ice cream from Rocco's) and we found this heavenly store called Mainely Drizzle. They had pretty much every kind of flavor of balsamic vinegar and olive oil you could think of along with samples of each. We basically drank our way up and down the aisles. It was delicious. There were a few moments I made audible sounds of excitement while trying it. I got a pomegranate pear white balsamic vinegar... yum!

Then it was back to the hotel for another night in. TLC was our channel this trip!

Day 21/365 (August 7, 2014)

Whew! It was an early morning as Sasha, Karen, and I began our road trip to Maine to see Marty in Legally Blonde. We made good time and ended up there in pretty good time. We checked into the hotel, unpacked, & met up with Marty for a bit. He took us over to Kennebunkport (& Kennebunck). we checked out some cute shops and I got a delicious lobster roll... yum! Then Karen and I got ice cream from a place she found online called Rocco's. We each got a speculoos and pretzel ice cream that was pretty much to die for!

Then we did a little grocery shopping and called it an early night. our room had a king sized bed (and a pull out sofa) but we all used the bed to watch tv and it was fun.

Day 365/365 (August 18, 2009)

WE HAS COMPLETION!!!!

It was a roller coaster of a day for me, kinda fitting since i saw next to normal i guess!

the day "began" with my attempting to get some sleep before rushing. i got about an hour before i woke up all alert and stuff. BAD NEWS instead of going right then i tried my best to pass time and finally got to rush at 4 which is when i was planning and had refused getting there any earlier. yea i was 5th in line! PISSED OFF!!!! i called sasha and finally she came down and joined and we were able to get the last set of front row orchestra seats thankfully. lack of sleep isnt good for tamra but the time passed we made friends i made a stop talking drunky mcwasted acquaintance (though his friend that had been with him earlier was most awesome). i took a little nap towards the end at one point and all was good.

got back to sasha's and watched a tiny bit of big brother after dark before getting ready and heading to my crumbs interview. the interview went well and then back to sasha's. it was nappy time. i basically only ended up getting about an hour of sleep before i was woken up by a phone call. (before i fell asleep though fred came over and nuzzled with me for a while and although it made me sneezy it made me really happy.) and pip even slept on me at one point during the day. Then i got in a long 45 minute phone call with apple because all of a sudden my phone was having some serious problems with syncing my music that i purchased and i have a temporary fix at the moment but it needs to become a temporary one so i will likely battle it out with them tomorrow.

anywho so this phone call caused me such incredible stress and part of it meant i had to call my mm which resulted in more stress and tears and well i just do not handle that well so i shoved my emotions down my throat and have been doing my best to ignore them. well sasha and i hung some more and she worked and then we gots ready to go. we went over to blockheads and met our theatre buddies there and had a yummy and delightful dinner. then to the theatre we went and the overpowering AC was most welcomed!

the show was unbelievably good and definitely worth the time spent rushing. i cant believe it had been over a month since i had seen it and am impressed with my self control (i guess the show is rubbing off on me as far as obsessiveness is concerned, j/k but lol).

after i began taking my final 365 pictures with my special 365 project. basically i took every picture that i posted in my blog and it is all on one sheet of paper with a 365 on it. and the first one was taken with sasha who is the highest tagged human! then i took one with kyle dean who seemed to enjoy my collage work since he was the first 365 picture and i hadnt intended it to happen full circle but i loved that it had. and while i was chatting with KDM chylar (pronounced skylar, tho i feel i missed a letter in there from when he told us how it was spelled.) also i dont usually "geek" out about interesting next to normal things however there were three moments this evening that had me in serious LIH (laughing in head). during why stay at one point when alice sang why stay she drew a question mark in the air and well i just found it hilarious because it was so not a her seeming thing to do and i do that all the time. also when she was taking the pills out of the medicine cabinet you could hear that some of them fell whilst she was doing so. ( i am sure others could see but not from our beautiful front row). the third was during better than before bobby accidentally messed up a lyric and instead of saying you've got it DI hooray, he said youve got it yay hooray, so then a second later when jenn sng that they both looked at each other and turned giggling as they did what they had to and when they turned back around they were still smiling and although it isnt supposed to be all giggly like that it was kind of a nice shared father daughter moment so i enjoyed that. and in general any time i see tears from people onstage i am just floored and there were some tears by kyle dean, bobby, and alice... good times! (I know i am crazy)

then sasha and i headed back and saw some lightening, by the time we got inside it was hardcore lightening and fierce rain so sasha, marty, and myself ran up to the roof to look at the sky and it was so rainy and hard and there was one especially breathtaking bolt that illuminated the whole sky and was positioned just right that we got a clear view of its bolitness!!!! then we came downstairs and watched the most oh snapish episode of big brother and i got a text from krysta saying the super had seen emma hanging around so he will keep an extra special look out for her and let us know as soon as he sees her. i hope she was okay during the storm because i miss her so very much. i also took a picture with marty and then this one with pip and fred because they are all important people in my life/blog and i was fortunate to see them today. i personally love how pip looks like he was flying and fred was nice enough to stop licking himself for a second to look at the camera for the picture!

i added this so you can see it close up if you want :D (can you find the mistake?)

as far as things go i doubt i will do a photo every day but i will try to post an entry everyday we will see how that goes and i will probably create a new blog for that since this one has run its course and i am proud of myself for keeping it up!

Day 359/365 (August 12, 2009)

my day began by meeting sasha at the apple store and having her phone "looked at" so she could get new headphones for me since mine broke. i just have to go pick up the headphones today (so behind in writing so friday) now they have come in. then pip, her, and i walked to find a post office and then she went off to her voice lesson and i headed down to crumbs for a job interview. i got there wicked early of course but that is ok. the interview was really fabulous actually and well i love crumbs and after it was over i got to have a cupcake! hello raspberry swirl my favorite: how i have missed you soooooo much!

then i went back and met up with sasha and we hung and watched tv and stuff until i left to go help out kate (katlyn) with hair lotto. while there i ran into lots of people again, i helped pass out pencils to people signing up, and i ran into AnneMarie and Jean who i have not seen in a while. so we chatted and caught up a bit and i told them i would save them a seat for broadway in bryant park the next day. sadly we lost and then i went back to sasha's. when marty got home we begun the process of moving the furniture around in the living room and all that jazz. it looks completely different and its kind of fabulous! anywho then i left and swung by NWS for a bit because i wanted to finally check out jam sessions and was surprised at how hopping it was and i ran into Jo there... rather creepily if i do so myself :D

when i got home i found a swimming pool of dog pee on my floor courtesy of tucker i was so beyond mad and krysta cleaned it up though i feel like it isnt compltely clean still but that could be because he keeps peeing on my floor anywho it took a long time to clean up and i ended up going to be REALLY late.

Day 358/365 (August 11, 2009)

i dont remember the first parts of the day but i know i went to apple to drop off my computer for them to fix it. it was supposed to be a quick drop but instead it was a i had to wait twenty minutes to drop it off drop. Then i headed over to Hair Lotto to help Morgan K. with it since he tweeted asking for help. Sadly we all lost for him and everyone else i knew there that i randomly bumped into. After sasha and i got some subway for dinner and went back to her place.

we watched tv and hung out and eventually marty came home and we continued doing the same, i think this was the night we watched the emperor's new groove or i should say they watched it since i was busy applying to jobs. but the parts i paid attention to were quite funny!

then i headed over to The Irish Rogue for Shoshana's birthday party and i was a little worried at first since i knew the only person i was going to know there was actually Shoshana and contrary to what people might think i am actually quite shy and not always up to breaking the ice to make nice nice with new people and become their friends. well i was proud of myself because i forced myself to become a chatty person and had a most fabulous night and the shirley temples at place were laced with so much grenadine it made my taste buds happy! it was hot inside because the AC wasnt really working but that didnt stop us from having fun and taking about a bazillion pictures, true stalkerazzi! eventually we left and spent 40 + minutes just talking on the corner of 42nd and 7th ave until we finally went home. i had forgotten to take a picture until about 11:40 that night and it was so dark in there which isnt good for my iphone camera so this was the best i could do with the use of using a candle for light which was our second candle since i breathed on the first one to blow it out and we had to use all the napkins to hold the candle because it was very hot!

Day 357/365 (August 10, 2009)

i got up crazy early to do the rush for the bye bye birdie first preview performance tickets, they were for $10 each! i got a great lunchbox since i was one of the first 50 people in line and it had a tee shirt and pin in it. sadly i was not the one who won the opening night tickets/party passes. i slept a little and did a lot of talking with jennifer and her mom who was in line too behind me. i witnessed some of the bye bye birdie load in and witnessed one of the funniest things i have seen all year as the BBB ensemble did the fan club thing and spazzed over "conrad" and then "chased" him down the street. they did a real good job of pretending to be all fan crazy.

then i went to sasha's and changed and stuff and made my way to meet karolina. we begun our day of looking at bridal dresses and her mom even joined us. we made some amazing progress and it excited me and her een if i ended up feeling like it was a bridal sweat shop because i hadnt eaten since the day before and i had said i needed food. well we didnt get it after the first store and just kept going. eventually we made our way to ollie's and met up with david and his best man (i forget his name). food was appreciated and prevented me from dying. i also had the opportunity to meet the best man and he was a really great person and i can see why david chose him and we had some pretty adult conversations actually talking about the wedding... its weird to be adult like sometimes!

after we did some more shopping then i made my way back to sasha and martys and hung out with them for a long while before finally going home.

ps my picture is not upside down, they pulled that out upside down.

Day 356/365 (August 9, 2009)

so today i woke up and headed with Pip to wicked lotto to help chris and friends out. Luckily one of his friends won and then i took Pip back home to sasha's. he was so happy to be back and once we got around the wicked area he knew where we were and basically ran the whole way home. i then spent a lot of the day there chatting and catching up and beginning the renaming of my picture folders before i back them up. i started with may of last year and have to go through july of this year... a MAJOR undertaking to say the least. i am not renaming every picture but instead each day folder will get certain key words so when i want a picture i can search the word and find it easier. Pip still stayed cuddled with me a great portion of the day and at one point sasha made marty and i some extremely yummy turkey!

i also left with krysta at one point to get an 8 cent cupcake on 72nd st. it was ok but not fabulous! but it was exciting because when we got there there was an extremely long line and we were like oh well but we found out the line was for people who had just found out about the deal and were waiting for the text to get sent to them... since we already had the text we got to go straight in and not wait in line to get our cupcake... i paid with a dime and let them keep the change LOL!

anywho finally the time came and i headed home and i of course watched big brother and laughed so hard when jeremy piven made a guest appearance. everyone was so excited and i just kept thinking mercury poisoning and that if i were a contestant i would have said mercury poisoning? then sat down. i also thought it was so cute because one of the people was like i just met jeremy piven and he is a celebrity and i can say i met him... and i thought back to the days when i cared about that and how excited i would have been (joey fatone the first time i saw him in rent anyone, especially carol?) but now these days i just dont care. i mean clay aiken is someone i used to be batty about and he almost bumped into me when leaving billy elliot and i saw him an i was like o clay aiken just passed me what were you saying?

anywho i also got celery and carrot sticks ready to keep my tummy satisfied while waiting in line for the opening of the box office for bye bye birdie. i am pretty excited to see the show and you cant go wrong with $10 tickets, thanks bank of america for the help!

emma also kept going on my lap because she missed me so, it was cute but really annoying because it was hard to type.

the countdown has begun!!!! this is DAY 10