Day 329/365 (June 11, 2015)

Oh my gosh the morning was crazy! Ted had a bee in his bonnet or something but he kept asking me for different things like every 5 seconds so it was hard to put the information together with constant distractions. Then an old co-worker came in and it was nice to see him, but then I ran off for Softball.

I watched part of Curious Incident vs. Kinky Boots because I chatted with some familiar faces, then went over to watch the Les Miz vs. whoever they played game. Poor Penski wasn't feeling well so she wasn't playing so I got to chat with her which was nice, but OMG it was so hot, sweat was dripping down my legs where they were crossed and I was in the shade!

After the game ended I puttered in the park a bit waiting for the next game to start. Went to watch Davenport vs. I don't remember who. The girl from last week (Megan) was also there to watch so we chatted. The game was close and they had to have an extra inning before they thankfully won!

Then I went home and laid down because the heat was so overwhelming, I don't know how they all survived playing the heat!

Then i went out because there was a "Something Rotten" event at the Renaissance Hotel that was a complete sham/waste of my time. It was not a cast performance but the staff of the hotel performing the opening song with choreography and lip syncing. The good news was I found out I was seeing Something Rotten that night while there so I guess it wasn't too bad!

Got home again and showered then met up with Anna and Holly to kill some time before I met up with Neil to see Something Rotten. We were so close but I think of the front row seats A 103/104 are probably the best because of the shape of the stage. After seeing the show a second time I definitely do love it. so so much! I also finally had a moment of Christian Borle really does have incredible arms.

After the show Neil and I headed to Smith's Bar for a bit. Hadn't been in since it reopened. It was pretty nice until the very and because a live band started laying so it was hard to hear. All in all it was a lovely evening and I am so happy it worked out that way!

Day 322/365 (June 4, 2015)

went into work very briefly then I headed up to Central Park. I wanted to watch Penski play softball since her Les Mi team was playing her old Kinky Boots (Kinky Bats) team. It was beautiful out and they won... so woo for that! The old Wicked SD guy is on the kinky Boots team and when he saw me we chatted for a bit... apparently he is now a police officer, good for him!

Then because I was already in the park I figured I might as well go watch the Davenport team play. When I got there they asked me if I wanted to play... so I said yes... they needed a second girl or they couldn't play. I warned them that I am not good at sports but they were very encouraging :) Neil and someone named Simon gave me some quick lessons and got some tips from someone else who was nice enough to take a few pictures for me... I ended up playing catcher and I didn't completely suck! I somehow managed to hit the ball all 4 times and even got two runs batted in and I did make it first base one other time, the other time i was out before I got there but whatever i felt pretty jazzed by the whole thing and the umpire was very helpful to me as was the other people playing...  who knew sports could be so fun? We even won 15-0 against Aladdin. Then home i went to wait for Raphael. He finally came and now our tubs drain wonderfully!

Then I went to the evil cookie place and eventually helped Sasha with more of her flowers. Charlie ended up wearing the flower parts and poor fred was trying to lie on them.

Day 317/365 (May 30, 2015)

Woke up on the earlier than usual for a Saturday and decided to go for a run. It started off okay weather wise but by the time i was almost done it became so hot/humid I didn't think I was going to make it... but i did get myself to do 3.1 miles in 40 minutes on my own! The first 4 minutes i ran .5 mile without stopping! Then I came home and had to shower because I was a sweaty disgusting mess!

Then Hope, Sasha, Karen and I walked downtown to to the cake store/Michaels before walking back up to meet Lola. Lola was amused finding Charlie in one of my clothing drawers and Fred was being a cat and enjoying Sasha's laundry hamper.

Had a wonderful time with Lola per usual. While Sasha and Karen crafted we did the vote (poor boys don't stand a chance) we did a Derblin story/show, she sang me a song, and played hot potato with the friends. She also named my new runicorn Isabella. Shewas pleased with the job of doing that.

After she left I went to help Dom/Anna with the Hedwig lotto, then puttered around with them for a bit before bringing some leftover cupcakes to Penski and eating 1.5 myself.

Fred's new spot to hang is the bathroom floor because of the cool tile and Charlie was not pleased I was giving Fred attention so this is the shot of him trying to knock my phone out of my hand.

I ended the night sort of early because I had a really bad headache.

Day 312/365 (May 25, 2015)

I had a lay morning, and spent part of it looking out the window with Fred. Then I got my act together and met up with Sasha and Karen at The Running Store where I ended up buying very expensive new sneakers but I am giving the running thing a try and they made my feet feel unlike they have ever felt before! Special thank to the awesome Tom who helped me. Then I met up with Holly and Anna and we had a picnic in the park. It was lovely! Ran into Penski there, then we went to Columbus Circle and they did some shopping. Also I bought the tiniest popcorn at Whole Foods called Pipcorn, and it was rosemary flavored and so freaking good!

Then we walked to the evil cookie place for Broadway Bakes for Laura Osnes and Corey Cott.

Found Charlie sitting on/in his folded down tub, if it fits it sits!

I also baked some peanut butter cookies for a bribe fulfillment.

Day 139/365 (December 3, 2014)

So I found out Mike Schwitter was going on as Pippin and I really wanted to see that so I Spent my morning at Pippin Rush and was able to get a ticket for Shoshana and I to the matinee. Then I headed to work for a bit and went home. While I was home I made the frosting for the cupcakes and then frosted/decorated them. They looked so fun and colorful and tasted good too! Then I packaged them up nicely for Mike and Adam and headed out to Pippin, Even though we had front row tickets which is where I like to sit for rush Shoshana didn't want to sit there so she asked an usher if we could sit someplace else. She said we didn't have to but of course I am not one to disagree in situations like that so I sat orchestra right begrudgingly. I am still upset I didn't sit in the front but at the same time I am gad we sat back there so I could see the whole show without straining my neck and I mean I could see the whole show, which was nice. Mike really is so great as Pippin. After we waited in the audience because he said there was a talk back so he was going to come out to say hi... he had so many people waiting for him... so popular! Said a quick hello, gave him the cupcakes, dropped off Adam's cupcakes and then went home. When I got home I began work on dipping the cake balls in chocolate and decorating them with nerds... also super cute and very sweet! Ben David popped in so I made him take a bunch to give to his friends! Then I headed out to Kayla's birthday party for some karaoke fun. The book didn't know how to spell December, i saw Kavin, and Rachel, and Hope, and sang some fun songs that others seemed to like my picks! I ate 2 slices of pizza and junk food which was not smart but so tasty! then I came home because I thought we were decorating the apartment for Christmas... I was wrong. Then I ended taking some of the cake balls to bring to Penski and Ally. It was nice chatting with Penski since it had been a short time,.,, then home again for good/sleep.

Day 127/365 (November 21, 2014)

Had my Jenny appointment... oops! Birthday fun had a bad result on me, oh well! Then I went to work and had a training session with Travis and spent some time with Penski. Naturally after working out the best thing to do is go get ice cream right? The Bug Gay Ice Cream Store and Shake Shack came together for the weekend only to create a holiday treat and I wanted it badly. Eggnog ice cream with some sort of cranberry pistachio crumble and pumpkin custard sounded like a win, plus the cup was so cute. Everything except the pumpkin custard was SO good, especially the egg nog ice cream! The custard however was not the right consistency :( however Ally (who met up with me) ended up being given a free apple gobbler by a worker for reasons unknown to us and it was STELLAR!

Then i went home and cleaned up to head to movie night since they were showing CLUE!

Day 121/365 (November 15, 2014)

went to the gym in the morning, then came home and showered. When Lola came over we had tea party 2.0 for her benefit, costume and all! Jo Ann even came, as well as Sasha's boss and one of the little kids, and Pensk. It was super cute and Lola enjoyed it. We baked "better than brownie cookies" and the two kids decorated them. After it was over I took Lola to NJ to meet up with her dad. Cookies plus whip cream equal YUM!

Earlier in the day Giada (from the food network) tweeted that she couldn't go to Alton Brown's show anymore that night in NYC. Since Alton is big on tweeting via Post-It notes she said to post your funniest Post-It note tweet. I was like ooooo, too bad I am not funny. Then I got this idea and I dressed Fred in a bow-tie (like Alton) and wrote the note from his perspective and sent it in... to my complete shock and surprise and happiness she PICKED ME! I was pretty excited! Sadly ticketmaster was not cooperating so it took her assistant and me working back and forth like two hours before I could finally get the tickets.

The show was still really good. Things were changed up a touch, and he sped up some things and cut a tiny part out, but the really cool thing was Alton had Justin Warner come out and sing (well rap) TV Chef with him... it was ridiculously amazing! I love Justin too, so WIN!

Day 96/365 (October 21, 2014)

I decided to rush Pippin since KDM was back and he leaves next week. It wasn't as cold as I was expecting so that was nice! The lady who works as a porter there was actually super nice and friendly to me for the first time. I was shocked but very pleased. After rush I went home to drop off stuff and headed to work for a while. I then went to the gym where I was not as successful as yesterday, but at least it was something. it could be because I forgot to put on sneakers and was in my rain boots or the macaron that I ate that I shouldn't have!

After I came home and delivered my macarons to people (ate another) and then watched some DVR TV before getting ready for Pippin. On the way to the show I popped into Les Miz to give Penski her macarons and chatted with her for about 15 minutes before finally going into my show. It was good to see KDM back... man oh man will i miss him! The ensemble of the show truly are amazing and the way they can split tracks so easily is incredible! The new guy replacing Orion wasn't quite ready so he was only onstage for a few acrobat type things, and the other actors were giving him stage direction as he was doing things, i saw one say "lift up the ball" to him. He did pretty good for the most part, but they had to do a different second act opener with two of the others and they took out the fire juggling at the end of the show. KDM didn't make it up on the shoulders during Extraordinary so it was fun to see how he handled that and then the front somersault he did. At the stage door I saw David Tutera go inside and I was all excited and later when he came out I asked for a picture since he is so freaking awesome! I think he was excited about the idea since this isn't the  type of crowd that might recognize him because he has a gigantic smile and well that made my night LOL! It's funny how I pass people all the time on the streets that most people would care about like Orlando Bloom or Rupert Grint or whatever and I am not phased but I was like OMG ITS DAVID TUTERA!!!!

Then i came home and got stuff ready for the morning before going to bed

Day 75/365 (September 30, 2014)

I rushed Pippin again this morning for my 15th time to see the show! The woman who came in line behind me was very friendly. She is from Germany and when her friends started to show up she pushed each of them to the back of the line.... someone else just like me... woot woot!

Then it was off to work for a bit before coming home to bake cupcakes because well why not?!?!

I made these lovely cupcakes in honor of The Spidey Boys. Sasha's aunts were over for a bit so I got to chat with them while baking. I had training at 6 so I eft and made my way there. Once it was over i headed home as quickly as possible. In the span of 35 minutes I stuffed my face with dinner, showered, delivered cupcakes to Penski and made it to Pippin by 7:59! Cutting it close, but considering I left my apartment at 7:55 I did real good!

Pippin is always fun but I realized tonight that I am no longer another face in the crowd... I was getting a lot of nice to see you agains... oops I was trying to keep my anonymity! I ended up waiting at the SD for far longer than I should have because I met this girl and we were chatting so time flew, but the good thing was I was able to see Colin Cunliffe come out. He is one of my favorites in the show... everything he does is so spot on and hilarious, and his dancing is so incredible. every time I am just amazed! Then I chatted with KDM for a bit on my way home, man oh man will I miss him in Pippin! I am still shocked over the casting choice, if you are going to stunt cast could you maybe do it with someone is is actually a star or at least seems to fit the part?!?! I am guessing he won't be used to the rigors of the Broadway schedule so I will go back when I hear an understudy is on for him, unless he is surprising and people say he is doing a good job. I just don't want to taint my love of Pippin with an amateur.

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 12/365 (July 29, 2014)

After work I went to help Lindz out with the Kinky Boots lottery, and Penski came to help... good thing too because her name was called! Then Lindz walked with me over to the Broadway Theatre stage door so I could make a "first night cookie delivery" to Neil in CInderella. The stage door is right across the street from the Letterman stage door and Chris Pratt was out there taking pictures with fans. I didn't really know who he was but he was cute and it was pretty easy to get a pic, so I did. I IMDBed him after... I had seen him in Bride Wars and Moneyball... but still fun.

Then I came home and did laundry and made dinner and cleaned some stuff off the DVR.

Day 5/365 (July 22, 2014)

Today was filled with the usual House watching and work... but then after work I ran into Penski on my way home and had a lovely chat for quite sometime. Then Sasha and I headed to Michael's for a card crafting demonstration which was a failure. The person didn't really know what she was demonstrating. Then we came home and I baked some blueberry muffins... yum!

I also used the new die-cutter/embosser tool that Karen won from Michael's grand opening to make a really cool card!

Day 343/365 (July 27, 2009)

once again i should have updated sooner! i dont remember much of what i did in the orning but decided last minute i was gonna go to paula's and i knew i had to go over to sasha's beforehand... after emergency rush packing and several phone calls i decided to go out to new rochelle on the later side so i could visit sasha and be stress free.

so i grabbed my heavy suitcase (full of laundry) and made my way there and was pleasantly surpirsed to find matthew, mackenzie, and penski there too! we had a lovely time eating sasha's cookies and yummy cheesecake (see above) and helping the other 3 decided which headshots to use of what sasha took... then we overcame the burning on a cd issue using my computer... then sasha figured out how to do it on her own!

anywho sasha packed me up a cookie goodie bag and made my way to new rochelle. i also continued reading harry potter and the deathly hallows like crazy before i went to bed.

Day 282/365 (May 27, 2009)

i woke up pretty early on my own thanks to so much sleep the day before, but my throat was still kind of hurting. i checked my email and saw mark was coming in so i gave him a call and we made plans.

i met up with him at wicked and we put our names in the lotto but then took a peek at the cast list and when kyle dean's name was no longer listed there i was like i have no interest in seeing the show if he isn't in it, and he thought about it and decided he didnt want to see it either (mainly because i dont think he wanted to see it by himself) so we left... and i have no idea if either of us was called, oops! any who we ended up at the 9 to 5 lotto to help sasha and matthew. we ran into penski so she hung around to help too. after sasha won we all went to vynl for some yummy food... i love my BLT but next time i will get the mac and cheese that sasha had gotten... so much yum!

then we parted ways and mark and i did some more walking and ended up in starbucks for some time. i finally parted ways with mark after a great afternoon and went to path mark to do some grocery shopping. a stupid crazy lady began following me around saying "oh honey. you're so pregnant" (tho she was so stupid she probably thought your so pregnant) and saw my shoelace was untied (what else is new) and kept saying she would tie it for me if i wanted so i wouldnt trip and hurt the baby. ya know i might not be a decent weight but i do NOT look pregnant and it irked me every time she said it, so i had to ditch her by weaving up and down a few aisles!

Whatever i ended up home and did another successful bathroom walk outside with tucker. then it was time to try and not feel so sick anymore from my poor throat and the sinuses filling up. which isnt helped by emma's insistence on cuddling up on my face, this picture is of tucker misbehaving as usual!