Well today was pretty relaxing. Sandy came to the gym today so I mostly just walked on the treadmill next to her and interjected spurts of jogging. It was really hot in there so I was glad to not be going crazy on the elliptical.

I was out of there by 10:30 to get back home and showered for my 12pm pedicure. I found a coupon and its the beginning of spring so I thought I'd go for it. Luckily, the place was nice and the employees spoke pretty good English. The massage chair made the pulled muscle in my back feel better too.

When I got home I cleaned my whole house. I especially needed to get laundry done so that I'd be ready to pack tomorrow. I need to plan extra in advance since most of my clothes don't fit anymore. I'm excited about going to New York. I've jam-packed our time there with meetings and also decided which sessions at the conference my bosses should go to. It's all detailed on a color coded spreadsheet. I think I have Tina-tendencies.

So now that I have all the important stuff out of the way, I will be spending the rest of the evening reading David Sedaris and watching Rock of Love Bus. Mmmm white trash :)

Yesterday was the final weigh-in day for the Armstrong Biggest Loser Contest. My final weight came down 10.75 pounds and my BMI is no longer in the "overweight" zone, but in the "healthy weight" zone!

My partner and I came in 4th place as far as percent of body weight lost. Too bad only 1 - 3 got the cash prizes -- my t-shirt is on its way.

Anyways, I'm definitely going to keep it going, even without the contest. My friend Liz has some weight to lose and we're going to work out together.

I don't really have anything exciting planned for the weekend except maybe a pedicure :)

Today I worked on my development plan with my boss. He's meeting with our GM and HR tomorrow to discuss my "promotion." I feel lucky that my boss is really good. All my bosses have been, actually.

It was so gorgeous today I decided it was time to take a cruise down the street and get a Lancaster County library card! The teeny-tiny Mountville Branch is basically in the basement of an office building. It had really low ceilings with drop tiles that were like 4" x 4" instead of the standard 12" x 12" (yes I'm a nerd not only for noticing this, but also for knowing the standard size and for the confusion this caused me).

Anyways it was sort of dingy there and I had to pee so I didn't feel like hanging out there long. I was hunting for David Sedaris, but couldn't find it or anything else remotely appealing. THEN I realized that David Sedaris writes non-fiction so I had to go get the dewey-decimal number and got the only, abused copy of the book.

I throughly abused my body at the gym yesterday. Our normal instructor for Body Works is on vacation in Ireland. So we had Dawn who is extremely energetic and hilarious. She kept calling the class "Body Pump" which was appropriate because what she made us do is in no way related to what we do in Body Works. So, I'm really sore today, especially in my abs and chest. Abs and spin is on Wednesdays, but I skipped them and did a 45-min interval course on the elliptical instead.

I wanted to get home early enough to do some laundry. Now I'm just waiting for American Idol to start soon. PS I'm in love w/ Anoop-Dogg :)

Oh and I keep having these really bizarre dreams. Last night, I drempt that the dry cleaner lost my clothes and I was so upset that I started hysterical crying and I was standing outside the house that I lived in with Mom and Dad and there were blinds hanging over a sliding door and I ripped them down until Dad hugged me and made me calm down. Then I got an email that a girl somwhere far away got my clothes in the mail and was shipping them back. Weird!

Birthday & Famous Peeps

Sooo I went up to Hoboken with Brent on Friday night in the Camry. I dropped it off at Kris' dad's shop and it actually was sold 2 days later for $2,500.

We hung out for my birthday on Friday and Saturday night. I was really mad at Brent on Friday night because he got belligerent after drinking 1/2 a bottle of Jose Cuervo. And that isn't the first time he's done that. Saturday night was a lot better and we actually had fun. Pics below.

Why does it always look like my head isn't really attached to my body?
Someone at the bar gave me bunny ears!!
Much better behaved tonight :)

Sunday night we all went into NYC and dropped Brent off at Penn Station. Kris and I continued on to the Westin Times Square to drop off my stuff, then we explored Times Square a bit.

Monday was the first day of the conference. It was pretty good. On Tuesday, I met Kelly and we went to a taping of Celebrity Apprentice. Here's all the famous peeps I met:

Celebrity Apprentice cupcake selling truck
Tom Green & me
Kelly & Bryan McKnight (and the $20 cupcake)
Me and Jesse James (aka Sandra Bullock's husband)
Me and Dennis Rodman
Me, Kelly, and the Naked Cowboy

Well, that's about it. I hope Tina is happy the "brown, fuzzy thing" is gone. Thanks for the Uggs and DVD!!

Last Wednesday, I met up with Beth in Silver Spring on my way to Herndon for Omniture training. It was nice... we had some banana-y chips with guac and I had a steak with chimichurri and Beth had some salmon. It was really hot in there but it was good.

A bunch of funny stuff happened... but I can't remember : (

When I got to my hotel in Herndon, all they had left was a two bedroom suite. It was bigger than my condo. I felt bad because I was wasting all the space for just me, but it was pretty bad ass.

The next day I got up at 6 cause I thought I had to be at training by 8. When I got there I checked the papers and class started at 9.. dammit! So I went back to the hotel for an hour.

There were these two weirdos in the class who brought this:
Apparently this is a "Domo" some character from a Japanese tv show. I can't really explain this. The one guy had a really weird voice and I couldn't help but think that it wasn't his real voice and he was just wanted to sound like a Simpsons character.

I spent some quality time with my new boss. He's pretty cool and I think I'll learn a lot working with him.

So this weekend Armstrong and other businesses in Lancaster participated in the United Way's Day of Caring. Maybe you can explain why I decided to sign up after hearing the description. Basically you donate your time to local charities and organizations. Our team was assigned to weed/clean up a children's garden.

It was raining Saturday morning and we met for breakfast at 7am. I opted for the inside work of cleaning windows while the other 30 people from our team worked outside in the rain. I couldn't even believe it! Everyone was completely soaked, muddy, sweaty... and I couldn't even make it inside. I faked a stomach ache around 10 just to get to leave. Bleah I'm not doing it next year, that's for sure. I really earned my "princess" nickname. Don't look for me in the pic below, I'm not in it... but there's an idea of the hell on earth that occurred.

Kris came this weekend. We talked on his birthday and decided to hang out again. He even volunteered with my on Saturday morning by digging poles out of 3 feet of concrete.

We hung out with Brent on Saturday night and went shopping and watched football. It was pretty nice.

Hello loyal readers,

My life is sooo interesting.... I was actually going to go to walmart after work today (i know.. CRAZY, right?) but I realized I left my coupons at home (the horror!!) and once I got home I didn't feel like going back out again.

I cleaned my house REALLY good this weekend so I actually LIKE being here, haha. I've been cleaning up after myself more to keep it clean. I've even been making my bed before I leave for work. I actually remember thinking, "Wow, people really do this every day!"

One crazy thing that happened to me last week was: I was getting home from Gap one night around 10pm and this lady was waiting for me in the doorway of my building. She asked me if I drove a green Jetta with at "screwed up antenna." She has thick Greek accent and probably just doesn't know that the English translation is "fucked up antenna" but I let it slide. She starts diggin in her "Mary Poppins" bag (I'll get to that story in a second, Beth feels me) and pulls out a new antenna!!! She then told me that she works at a carwash and someone had left it behind. I thought it was so nice of her to go to think of me when she saw it and to bring it home and give it to me, especially since I rarely see her and we had never even spoken before! So nice.

Soo... while Beth and I were shopping in Beth's fave town, Cockeysville, I was trying on a top and I wanted to see what it would look like with a cardigan, which I happened to have stashed in my purse, of course. Beth goes "Did you just pull that sweater out of your Marry Poppins bag, because if anyone were to have a sweater in their purse it would be you." I mean... what if I got cold??

So I'm interviewing a Jesus Freak tomorrow. My interview candidate for the eMarketing Intern position we have open graduated in May from Messiah college and my friend at work who recommended him Dave aka "You and I both know I'd be happier if you were a Christian" Dave. So... we'll see. I painted my nails red... so I remind him of the devil. I think its going to go well.

Well, its 10:20... WAY passed my bed time. Plus, I still need some Quality time with Helen of Troy since I <3 historical fiction. Nitey nite!!