Day 257/365 (May 2, 2009)

The day started off as a lazy day. Me and the puppy spent quite a bit of time playing and keeping each other company, whilst watching a lot of tv. Finally i realized i needed to swing by my apartment even to drop off my laundry so i could be able to bring home my pizza making stuff easily on sunday. Even though i was in a weird mood i got up and headed out. It should not have taken that long to get home, but alas between the subway running local this weekend, and the construction happening around columbus circle, it took close to 45 minutes just to get from 14th st to 59th st! once past there we zipped along at a normal pace.

Going home ended up being the worst thing. between the long uncomfortable ride home, my already weird mood, my OCD in full effect, and severe discomfort at the clothes i was wearing, walking in and seeing the place a complete and utter disaster while smelling right foul of animal urine just sent me on overload. there was new furniture we dont have room for strewn about with other furniture like things, and a BIG mattress on the floor in my room interfering with the air mattress set up for our guests, and blocking the walkway to my bed leaving barely any floor space, and i couldnt get in my closet to put my laundry away. instead i made my bed and laid the clothes out on bed to get them ready for hanging when i can get in. stressed was an understatement, and a tizzy i was in!

this all sent me into a downward spiral of an emotional mess. i just wanted to get my pizza dough, get to kim's, and make pizza and crash. Well i got out at 28th to go to Whole Foods and the only dough they had left was frozen solid which meant no pizza for me and then i got to kim's and was starving! i ended up ordering a very yummy cheeseburger and onion rings. After more puppy time and tv i finally fell asleep. On the subway back i eneded up randomly listening to Scott Alan's Dreaming Wide Awake and it helped me calm down a little, which was nice.

Day 251/365 (April 26, 2009)

Interesting day for sure!

I woke up (an hour after i meant to) by a phone call from Mark. He had said he was already in town and was trying the West Side Story lotto and wanted to know if i would meet him for some lunch at the yummy Chipotle. I said sure! Well i looked at the time, and then after a quick phone chat with Krysta, realized i needed to get to steppin' because if i did i could get down in time to help Mark with the lotto. Also note that emma was cuddle all cute with me.

I have some how gotten really good at fast showers, because i was able to shower and get to West Side Story lotto in about 45 minutes! (even more impressive knowing the trains were running local!) Mark was seeing it by himself but had done a little "wheelin and dealin" with another lone person. Then i went and we spoke with two other random people until just before call time. I am pleased they changed the lotto policy just a little so now the alternate can buy tickets of whatever is left for seating. On the day i had no desire or motivation to see the show wouldn't you know i was the last name called! After i got the tickets we went to Chipotle.

It was packed and there were no seats to be had so we went to the courtyard to eat and pass the time until mark had to go to hi show. We picked a table that was out of the way and in the shade so i didn't get a burn. There was a lovely group of people practicing some sort of performance quietly next to us, so we got a personal serenade by a violinist, guitarist, and pretty vocalist.

Then we parted ways and i went home to kill some time before going back out to meet kim. I didn't plan on taking a crazy long nap, but i did! i am glad i had set my alarm to tell me i should be getting ready or who knows when i would have waken up! after drinking lots of water i headed out to Kim's to discover i left way too early! So instead of riding all the way to kim's i got off at 34th street to walk. On my way i found a whole foods on 25th which excited me and decided i needed to get some Angel Fluff in my life! it took me forever to find (and of course forever at the check out) but i did... even though they changed the bag, AND the name! it is now called karma puffs which i think is stupid and it says it has a new improved taste and i am afraid to try it because what if i dont like it?

Anywho i got to kim's and met her super cute awesome puppy! I am glad she seemed to love me since we will be playing together this week! (which reminds me i need to plan with Susie.) After i had a lovely time with kim and puppy i went out to meet mark at TOL. I got stuck in the subway for ages which stunk and was a little late, but whatevs! Once out of the subway as i walked towards NWS i ran into the guy who got Mark's second ticket and he said he had enjoyed the show. We had a nice time chatting and stuff, then we left and went to Therapy. It was their comedy night and there were some pretty funny things and some not so funny at all things!

Finally i came home and caught up on a few emails and wrote this, though i wont uplaod the pictures until i wake up. At one point Fred started going into the bag of fresh litter and i was like what? so i took a picture and am going to make an icanhascheeseburger caption with something like "do i really haf to do allz the work maself?"

Now it is time for bed!

Day 232/365 (April 7, 2009)

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I should probably add Sasha to the tagging list since i know she reads this blog

Anywho today was a productive day (well that is in the eye of the beholder.) i updated like two weeks worth of this blog and was grateful that even though i wasnt writing the blog, i was uploading the pictures and writing the tags so everything (for the most part) came flooding back when i finally began to type!

i also watched some Charmed which i really do love and caught up reading Devons photo blog which is where i saw this picture so i decided to do it too.

i had discovered yesterday i couldn't find my camera so i went on a mission today and i cant find it in the apartment which frightens me since i know i couldnt find it in my bag right before i got to sasha's so i am afraid it somehow got lost in duane reade, on the subway, or by avenue q. i have always taken pictures every day, even before i started this blog and i keep wanting to reach for it to take a picture and can't. this leaves me feeling like a piece of myself is missing and i had some awesome pictures on my 4 GB memory card that are also missing with it :( i mean i NEVER take it out of my bag unless i am taking a picture, uploading pictures, or charging my battery. the last time i had seen it i was showing a picture i had taken of jordan and fred to her and krysta. i thought i had put it back in my bag after (which unless i find the camera here somewhere that means i did) but that is why i am thinking it must have come out of my bag on one of my outings yesterday without my noticing either by me somehow pulling it out or someone taking it out. but if someone took it out then why didnt they take my wallet? so that is why i think i accidentally pulled it out somehow :(

But in happier news (aside from that) i actually had a pretty good day. i have always noticed for the last 4-5 years that my bedroom is a reflection of my emotional health. the more chaotic i feel my life is the more disasterous my room gets. i generally hide my true emotions from people because there is just something about me that wont let people see me when i am not more than happy, so if you see that i am not more than happy that either means i trust you immensely or i have just gotten to a really really bad place and cant hide the true feelings anymore (which is a bad sign in my opinion, but anywho i digress). so even if i seem all chipper and happy out and about if you see my rooms and there are clothes everywhere and things not put away it is pretty safe to assume that i am not happy. well at some point today i decided that i was in a cleaning mood and i put things away (though i still have some things to put away but they are hidden tidy like until i am ready to deal with the mess and mayhem of organizing my playbills and tickets) and swept hardcore... i was quite proud that when i finsihed sweeping my room there actually wasnt that much that needed to be swept up!

then i got ready to go out and run a few errands. first i swung by the bank to do some depositing and then i headed downtown. since i was at the bank of america that is on 145th and something i took the A train since it was right there, and when i got off at 59th to transfer so many trains came but never the C and i didn't want to be late so i just walked to 51st St. this however turned out to be a good thing because the walk was so nice (even though it was still slightly chilly.) then i waited outside the Wicked SD for Kyle Dean... yea um i of course ended up being early since that is my MO and there is nothing like feeling like an uber creepster hanging by a stage door like that. i gave him the thing i was giving him and we chatted for a bit then because i enjoyed my walk there i decided to walk back to 59th st to go to whole foods since i wanted to make pizza and for some reason can't find pizza dough in any other store! i mean i love whole foods but i HATE how long the line always is... anyway i found my dough, picked up some delicious mushrooms, and an onion... then i waited for like 10 minutes to pay!

after i walked out the store i was feeling in such a good mood and still felt like walking so i walked to the 72nd station instead of having to transfer from the 1 there... i might have walked to 96th since i was enjoying myself quite much but i got hungry and knew it would take some time to prep the pizza.

i got home and started getting the pizza ready, i heated up the oven with my pizza stone in it, stretched out the dough, and then before i put on the pizza sauce i had cut up some of my mozzarella in strips and put them in a ring around the pizza then folded the dough over... i totally made my own yummy stuff crust pizza! (take that pizza hut!) then i put on the soauce on the cheese was so soft and yummy i couldnt shred it on my grater so i had to chop it up, then i put on the onions and fresh garlic i had chopped up and placed the mushrooms all over the top (mushroom and onion is my fave pizza topping) and i put that bad boy in the oven using my handy parchment paper! i cleaned up my mess and did dishes while it cooked and then enjoyed some yummy pizza... though i had to let all the moisture from the mushrooms drip off first! when i went to put away my leftovers i discovered that not only my camera is missing but my favorite tupperware set is too!

Eventually after eating that and watching some will & grace, and tuning out some boring news show since nothing was on at the time, i got to watch cupid. i saw the show last week and thought it was super cute, and had a fun discussion with kavin and nina in kavin's FB status... though because of my FB status i learned that this show was on (with different actors) in 1998 with like the same characters and premise... it failed, hopefully this one doesn't but i wonder why they would bring back a failed show without changing much?

then i wrote this blog to hopefully not fall behind again and did some online research for a trip i know i can't take but want to real bad!

Day 204/365 (March 10, 2009)

bag my ballet slippers came in

This was quite the day! I had decided i had lots of stuff i needed to do and after taking care of job hunting i set out on my errands for the day. This is the first time i spent lots of time doing errands. Although the weather wasn't technically "a beautiful day" i still left the house with nothing but a hoodie and it was good for me!

My exit began with some door troubles, no idea what happened but it decided that it didnt want to shut so after fighting with it for like 5 minutes i won and went on my way. The plan for the day was get stuff i needed to be able to take the ballet class i want to take and look for stuff for Texas. I headed to 34th street to get athletic wear and sunglasses. I looked in K-Mart and then went to old navy. Nothing worked at Old Navy (and i didnt even find any shirts for texas but that is why sasha and i are going out wednesday), so i went back to K-mart since i saw some there. In between i stopped in H&M hoping to find some sunglasses, but i will grab some cash and look on NYC streets some point soon. I also went to Bank of America to get my temporary debit card. Lucky for them i was in no rush since i ended up waiting 45 minutes for something that was finished in 5 minutes once a person saw me.

i got a chance to catch up on the phone with Mark as i walked.

then i walked over to Broadway Dance Center on 45th to get my photo taken for the ID card i need... sadly no one was at the kiosk so i couldn't do that but i got a feel for the place and asked some questions i had to an actual human and got answers that made me excited and feel better. Then i headed over to Sasha's and was greeted by Matthew and Pip, who he likes to call Nibs. It was nice having the pit stop there and chatting, sadly matthew wasn't feeling so well so he went to go for a long nap and i left before he woke up. Finally i had to leave to get to the Capezio store before it closed. I found the ballet shoes i needed for a very reasonable price and made my way out.

I decided to walk up to columbus circle and go to the Whole Foods there and ended up buying asparagus (asparagoose) and pizza supplies. The line was soooooo very long! but worth it. As i was walking to the store i gave Zina a call on the phone and ended up talking to her for almost an hour as i went on my crazy cheese hunt in the store and waited in line and then went outside. FInally i decided i didnt want to get off the phone and was sick of walking around columbus circle so i just walked to the 72nd street station while talking. and let me tell you it was a much needed talk. i have been having random really depressed moments lately and talking to her really helped, i cant wait for the cold to go away so we can hang out again (she doesnt come into the city when it is cold).

then i came home and made another real dinner of yummy pizza with onions and ate my beloved asparagoose! I finally went to watch Tv and we record Law & Order: SVU every week, and if i am home i usually watch it but today i decided i was going to watch without a trace... well as i was doing that i was checking facebook statuses and saw about 6 people with ones saying Gallagher was on the episode of L&O, and i had gotten a twitter from devon saying the same thing. So as soon as WAT was over i put on L&O. i was excited he had a large part on the show this time and well as yo may know i tend to be a little psychotic when i am watching tv shows and movies... i like violence, and i love bad guys, and i i love to see people cry! poor krysta had to deal with my craziness! he did such an amazing acting job on the show but i kept thinking gallagher!  So before i knew who his character was i was hoping he would be the murderer and he finally was! at one point his character was being interviewed by the psychiatrist and he got upset and i started yelling push him push him, and then he did and he feel to the ground and his character picked up a chair to hit him with it and i was screaming yes! the whole time causing krysta to die of laughter! later on he had a dramatic scene and ended up crying and i was like yes crying, and i got to see him dragged away in handcuffs... i dont know why i like to see the bad guys (though his character wasnt actually a bad guy but still) dragged off in cuffs and crying, and why i like so much violence (i like to call drama) but i do!) then instead of going to bed i stayed up way late playing online, writing this, ordering a leotard, and reading Devon's recently updated photo blog.

At one point while watching Without A Trace i stumbled upon someone's blog that had a really funny post that made smile, laugh, and be a little sad all at the same time, but it was a great read!

Krysta and i also decided it was time to throw out our High School Musical shower curtain because it was falling off its HSM hooks by ripping, so now we replaced it with a super cute duck one that i really like, but i miss HSM and it will take some getting used to! At least our bathroom is now primarily blue and not pink.