Day 325/365 (June 7, 2015)

Woke up completely torn about what to do concerning Dennis. I went back an forth a bazillion times before deciding not to go out there. If i had known sooner I would have planned my weekend around it, le sigh!

I ended up going for a long walk up the west side highway along Hudson Park. It was lovely. Then I popped into Hope's for a while and we had a nice chat then I left with some of her incredible cookies!

One of the cookies she gave me was Finding Neverland so I decided to go take a picture of it by the marquee and on the way out i ran into Gabe Violet. It was nice to have a quick chat, then i went and took the picture, and also one in the Tony Awards Pop Up Shop since they were just down the street from me. I was calling it #cookiesontour

Helped Sasha with more flowers, then eventually Ben (not her brother, her former step dad) came over and we had a delicious avocado salad. I also made more shishito peppers! Karena nd I also drank some Rumchata/fireball. Finally the the Finding Neverland Cookie after the opening number if the Tony Awards. The broadcast was pretty good, I thought Alan and Kristen did a great job hosting, the in memorium tribute was beautiful and there were no sound issues! I am sad that Brian d'Arcy James and Something Rotten didn't win though!

Charlie got his claws clipped and I pretended to win an award with Sasha's presentation bouquet... sadly the best picture was the one she missed the tiara. Fred "sniffs" the flowers.

Day 306/365 (May 19, 2015)

After work i went to my Jenny appointment which crushed me, then I went home and caught up on a few things before going out for a walk. Then I met up with Bryan and we got a cookie from the evil cookie place then ended up chatting on a corner for quite sometime before moving because a fight was about to break out behind us. Looking forward to seeing him tomorrow and sad the evil cookie place was out of the corn cookie! Also the employee who helped me was a bit snarky!

Fred and Charlie were lounging with me.

Day 293/365 (May 6, 2015)

Went to work, then headed home. Got Jess and Coleen's awesome wedding invite. Charlie didn't want me to go so he held onto my wrist for a while.

Had to go to the gym before training, then all of the hard work. Told Travis i think I need to go back to two times a week since he is likely leaving in a few months :(

Then I went home, and after dinner went back out for a walk because I still hadn't hit my step goal for the day. It is becoming unrealistic i think.

Fred was drinking out of the HP cup Sasha left on the table.

Day 281/365 (April 24, 2015)

What a day. I went to work for a few hours then headed downtown to meet up with Michael, Lauren, LeiLani, and her friend Abbey only to turn around and head right back to midtown! Did you know you can only swipe 4 people on one metro card at a time? That is so stupid! it should be 5! While on the train uptown I noticed Thomas Kail getting off the subway and he was talking to the person next to me, so i looked and it was Lin-Manuel Miranda! I said hi and asked for a photo and then my people asked who he was so i explained and then Michael was like I want a photo and Lin was all you don't even know who I am, then the others wanted one too and I was like guys leave him alone we have to get off... but he posed for a picture and was of course his super sweet self an told me to tweet the photo... so I did. He also told us about Hamilton and I was like oh I know!

They wanted to eat someplace "new york" and I can't think of things super fast so I went with John's Pizza since i knew where it was and people sing its' praises. After there we went to the evil cookie place and began our whirlwind tour. (also Lin Retweeted my tweet and less than an hour later I was twitter famous and ha like 45 favorites) We passed by the Richard Rogers because Michael wanted a picture of something with Lin's name on it. Then they got a photo op in times square, took a picture with a ghetto minion that tried to get aggressive for a payment and I was like TIPS ARE OPTIONAL I WILL CALL THE COPS so he left Michael alone. Michael kept getting stopped by people, then popped into the M&M Store and took Michael to the Deli David Letterman I guess shows on his show, so he got a picture with the deli guy and a sandwich. Then I took them for a photo op at Radio City and the Rockefeller Center. Onward to a quick stop in Grand Central, then we made our way downtown towards their destination. We made a quick trip to the World Trade Center because they wanted to see the memorial. Then went to take our place in line for the book signing they came for. Some guy named Connor Franta (I am calling Connor Fratata) who is a "youtube personality" and just wrote a book. No clue who he is but let me tell you he is LOVED by a gazillion pre-teens and young teenage girls. The line was wrapped around an entire block and we were far away. The kids made friends with the girls in front of us and I hung out with them for as long as I could but I was cold and tired and hungry so I left when I found out Sasha was heading uptown because I was close by where she works. We took a cab uptown and then I walked home from her destination. Got some food and finely got to relax!

Day 280/365 (April 23, 2015)

Got up and took care of the boys' litter boxes and all the garbage, then showered, and headed to work.

Then I headed out to New Rochelle for Dennis' birthday. It was nice to visit with them and get a little Penny love. Penny and I went for a walk/run and by the end of the night I was in an emotional wreck for reasons unbeknownst to me. Got home and watched Scandal with Sasha... glad Jake survived!

I didn't make the cake,  but am trained to take pictures of them!

Day 271/365 (April 14, 2015)

Today was not a good day. While I was at work I got a call from my cousin that just gave me a really bad feeling. A little while later I found out that her father in law had passed away that morning. Obviously I am concerned for my younger cousins and Ted because that is there Grandpa/Father and I know they are hurting. My cousin's family by marriage has become like my adopted family over the last 14 years. I have spent many holidays with them, and other random times and he was one of the kindest and nicest men you could ever meet. I feel like I have lost someone special, and I know I am allowed to feel that way, but then I feel bad that I don't know how to help my cousins because this is their first major death and death always sucks but i think something like this is extra hard.

I met up with Karen and we went to Michaels and Trader Joes then after dinner I made myself a fireball milkshake and ate cookie dough. I also went for a tiny walk to hit my step goal.

Then I took a shower and went to bed.

Also Fred is drinking water out of a dish which is great... and he also looks pitiful sleeping on the floor.

Day 270/365 (April 13, 2015)

I went to work, then headed home for a little bit before heading out to see a reading of a play called Our Class. I was going originally because Hunter Parrish was supposed to be in it, but he had to cancel sometime last week. Since I already had a ticket I figured I would go any way. It was at the Skirball Center so I decided to walk downtown and enjoy the lovely day. Only when I got there I realized something was off so I checked the email with info again. How many times did I look at this email and skip over the address and the full name of the place? Moron... i am a moron! At 6:34 for a 7 pm start I realized it was at the Temple Eman-uel Skirball Center which is on 66th between 5th and Madison... I was not only in the wrong place but the wrong end of town! I quickly looked up how to get there and set off. I had to do some running but I got there by 7:05 and luckily (or so I thought) it hadn't started yet.

I should not have gone... it was longer than they said it would be, and although the concept was fascinating it just was too much. I actually started texting during it because I was off to the side and the people that had been around me didn't come back after intermission... curse my OCD! They also did a Q & A with the playwright unexpectedly before it began and the guy could only speak Polish SO there was a translator which made it take a really long time

When it was finally over I fled... and heard a group of older people talking about it and had the same thoughts as me. I popped into a Subway for some food because I was starving then home I went!

On the ride home I noticed that NYU Langone had some fabulous ads... I didn't take pictures of all of them, but brilliant... especially the Long jump which is so me!

Day 263/365 (April 6, 2015)

I woke up and had a freaking meltdown with Charlie. He is lucky to be alive. He had two very clean litter boxes an he choose to poop in the tub... like a massive amount, He had to have come back multiple times it was so much. That is not the way a person who just spent 6 hours cleaning an apartment wants to spend her morning. I wanted to kill him.

Then I began my 3.5 mile walk uptown. On the way I passed by the Law & Order: SVU set... but only saw chairs because they were in an apartment and some cray guy got up in my personal space for a few moments.... I was not having a good start. Also on the way i was close by the address of the exterior used for Neal's apartment in White Collar so I swung by BUT they are doing work and it is covered in scaffolding and you can't tell what is underneath... so fail all around! I did however discover where The Following is filming tomorrow (104/Broadway) and I may not have watched Seinfeld but I recognized the deli place used as inspiration. Also I want to be an actor just for craft services.

Had my first appointment and now feel very AHHHHHH. Then I headed to work.

After work I got stuck speaking with Marisol and her sister outside. Thankfully they were in a good mood but all I wanted to do was go inside and relax. Finally I went in. I failed again at iMovie and am getting too upset by this.

Karen finally came home and I helped her unload the car. After we had dinner we went and got cookies from that evil place because we are failing at life.

I wanted to try and go out to a concert but fell asleep on the couch at 9 pm :(

Charlie also tried two different times to poo in the tub again but I caught him and turned the water on.

Day 250/365 (March 24, 2015)

Long day at work and I am feeling overwhelmed by life in general. I can't seem to control my eating habits right now and I am sad... like just sad. Yes i get randomly happy at moments and things but my default right now is just sad and I don't like that.

When I got home i decided to make brownies. They ended up having Fireball in them and I ate way too many but they were ooey and good! I also went for a little walk to hit my step goal for the day... success!

Also as it turned out this week The Following had TWO episodes and I only knew about one.... I watched and became horrified when my guesstimation for Hunter Parrish's character was severely off... you should have heard my pained scream/cry as his character was gunned down... at least it was by Kevin Bacon's character and not The Pretty 2.0!

Charlie was loving sleeping in my full bag.

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.