Day 46/365 (September 1, 2014)

Another crazy early morning. I had to get up to get on a 6:45 am train to Boston. Then i walked from North Station to South Station (while pausing in Faneuil Hall for some breakfast. I was at South Station way earlier than I needed to be but it was either that or take the next train which would have gotten in after my bus was supposed to leave, I was hoping to get standby on an earlier bus, which thankfully (despite potential revolt) I was able to get on the 10:30. The bus made great time until we got stuck outside of Macy's for a really ong time. After about 15 minutes or so I knew something strange was up because our driver parked the bus and came back to us the bus bathroom! He then told us all he would let us off there. We had no idea why until we were off the bus. I went to walk towards 7th and the entire area was blocked off. The police officer there said there a bomb threat so they couldn't let anyone through and I watched a giant double decker tourist bus trying to turn around to drive out while my poor bolt bus and one other waited their turn to do the same.

I was able to walk home using 6th and unpacked and ate and then got the air mattress ready for Andrey. I then met up with him and did some arts and crafting.

Later i got ready and met up with o Ann since we were going to 54 Below to see Grind: The concert. I knew nothing about the movie or its music but Eric Michael Krop, Anthony Rapp, and Natalie Weiss were performing so that's why I went. Eric even got to perform a few of his personal songs... seriously that dude is insane!  Then I stayed for sMASHed Up... Ben's mash up concert. Andrey and Rachel joined me for that and let me tell you it was cray! Not only did Ben create incredible song arrangements but the performers were just unreal! There were several BIO people which made m happy, including Taylor who has returned to NY (at least for now).. Those videos will become popular! Zach came to it also so we chatted after for a bit. I went home and didn't get to sleep until well after 2... oops!

Day 45/365 (August 31. 2014)

Barely any sleep! Since I was up so late the night before I only ended up with about 2 hours and 15 minutes worth of sleep before heading out to Mega Bus to head to MA. Thankfully the bus ride was swift and I fell asleep for just about 2 hours, we even arrived right on time, but sadly my ride got lost on the way there so I didn't get picked up until 25 minutes later.

I finally made it back to Ayer and spent some time with Nana and Grandpa  and my mother before taking a much needed extended nap. I woke up as Samantha, Mike, and new baby Xavier arrived. He is a total cutey and I got to hold him for a very long time! A bunch of people came over too to see him, including Becky and the kids. When Sam and Mike had to leave Becky kidnapped me and we went grocery shopping before heading back to her place. I go to spend some good quality time with her, Colson, Tessa, and Mike. We made dinner and then watched Blended in their home movie theater which is complete with a vending machine, it is pretty cool! It turns out Blended is a pretty funny movie.

Then it was back to my mom's for a tiny bit of sleep.

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 42/365 (August 28. 2014)

Time Warner caused so much grief for me today and it made the work day really bad. The internet was down all over but that was the final straw that broke our router's back and it just stopped working. I was on the hone for hours with TWC and finally was able to go exchange the router for one that actually worked. Once i brought it back our IT guy installed it, he sent an email out to all saying we were back up and thanked me... well my boss responded back with a thank you to him and capitalized his name, basically saying that he did all the work and I had nothing to do with it, and even my other coworkers noticed it. I can normally let things like this roll off me but something about this just really unrattled me and it hurt my feelings pretty bad. It still stings thinking about it. I ended up going on a crazy baking spree to make myself feel better which was good and bad. So tasty but i ate way too many of the confetti sugar cookies and mimosa truffles I made.Here is Fred doing his best at looking dejected.

Day 41/365 (August 27. 2014)

It was a work day as usual and then I went to a training session before heading to Trader Joe's. I missed dance class again because training really weakened me... so crazy!

I also spent some time backing up my entire iPhoto library... so many pictures! it is over 200 GB of space!

Day 40/365 (August 26. 2014)

Both a sad and happy morning. On Mother's day Fred and Charlie (okay Sasha) gave me a quote jar and I have been reading one each morning, today was the last one... It was exciting that I finished reading them al but sad because it has become such a good part of each morning. I take my vitamins and read a quote before I do anything else.