Had a great weekend!

* Pat Gary and I saw The Cribs at the Paradise on friday night and they were a-mazing.  I know I use the word often but they were fantastic.  Even more fantastic was the opening band Drug Rug who are from the town of Bean.  Even better than that was the quotes of the night tied with Pat's "This is why school shootings happen" or the parking attendents "The Jason Brothers were here last night" to which Pat, Gary and I in unison replied "The Jonas Brothers?".

*The opening opener was named Jeffrey Lewis.  I can't go in to detail because I believe it's something you have to experience on your own.   Truefax - i just tried explaining some of the madness on this here blog and had to erase because it made no sense.  

* Spent Saturday in Ikea playing moderator between Hillary and John (a job a take very seriously).  Then went to din with Alison and Annie to our favorite place.  Later helped Hill and John take out old furniture and passed out watching Enchanted (which brings me to say Amy Adams was robbed awards season).

*I didn't do anything on Easter.  Mom and R were working and so were all the buds.  Later however Hill and I got Cheescake Fac take out and Annie and James came over and we watched the Office.  best . show. ever.

* Dreaded money and getting my taxes done.  Please don't ask me to be your friend for the next month for I will be paying my debt off to the man.  Damn you taxachusettts.

*Had a classic IM convo with Ellaine about how the rule of thumb in PR entertainment should always be "What would they do on Entourage" .  Back story.  I'm doing my first celebrity seeding all on my own and I was at a slight loss of who better to approach: Managers, Agents, or Publicists.  You'd think publicist to publicist would be a good plan i.e. on Entourage when Debbie Mazar's character (Totally blanking) got Turtle the Uggs.  Agents out of the question i.e. On Entourage Ari would totally toss anything that wasn't directed to him.  I decided on manager being my good point of contact i.e. Eric is totally the best way to get to Vince.  

(I tryed to save the exact convo but when I went to lunch my computer had a tantrum and aborted itself.)

Really today has been the longest day.  Am I a nerd because I am really looking forward to DWTS tonight and CSI Miami!?

xo

Video friday!!

Thought I would share some schtuff that got attention today.

In love.  Just a little.  Ok alot.

Ok one more :)

For sers. I have a huge crush on Mr. David Cook.  Hillary and I have the same argument every week about him being a dick and me loving him regardless.

Another thing that caught my eye was Anne Hathaway's acceptance speech at the HRC awards.

My one wish is seriously that everyone will one day have the outlook she does. Beautiful.  I knew I liked her for a reason!

And there is one more but unfortunately I cannot embed it.

I'm going to ask him to be my best friend!

Happy Friday!

Lots of good stuff going on just very little time to actually blog about it.

Travelled last week to Minneapolis for work party and other good things.  The company I work for is very cool.  Their proper "Holiday Party" is actually St Patricks Day themed in March and includes beer, donuts and bagels in the am.  Literally 9 am I go to get myself a bagel and there is a line at the beer.  The reason we were out there is because if you're new you have to perform in the talent show.  O'Gong show as it is called.  Much like the Gong Show in the 80's you perform until you get gonged.  Mike, Lori and I decided to be hula hooping cowboys.  We really didn't think we'd make it through the first few notes of "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" - but we did.  We were begging to be gonged - and finally about 2 minutes in it ended.  So fun though.  B's team won second place with their rendition of Welcome to The Jungle complete with brooms as guitars and pens as drum sticks.  They looked great.  After the show we were whisked away to the airport to make our way back to Beantown.  I had of a lot of  and got to meet a lot more people that I missed in January when I visited.

Saturday night we attempted to celebrate St Patricks Day early so we went to the brew house and enjoyed some Magners and themed drinks.  What I love about the Brew House is there is a jukebox.  Well not an old school one obvs but one of those fancy ones you can put your credit card in (which didn't work).  I don't have to listen to crappy music (unless someone plays it).  Anywho one of the guys in there looked like a super music snob so he was totally challenging us.  Hillary played SOS by Jonas Brothers and seriously we sang so loud and laughed so hard.  This guy looked like he absolutely wanted to murder us.  So he goes and spends like forever trying to pick some new songs.  As soon as he's done Hillary gives me some money so I can go trump him.  I find  Foo Fighters "Hey Johnny Park" and it gives you the option to play it or PLAY NEXT - which in turn means interrupting the previous persons song choices.  So I do it.  It comes on and he's like WTF and throws his arms up.  Seriously though he'd JUST played "One by One" by the Foo and now he's all mad that I'm playing a better song from a better album (The Colour and the Shape FTWWWWW).  He wasn't pleased.

After the Brewhouse we went to Annies (who JUST GOT ENGAGED!!!!  Damn should have taken a picture of the ring for my blog) to check the ring out and say hello.  Yes Annie and James just got engaged and I'm so excited!!! Robyn on the other hand is not.  She is sad because she thought she'd be next.  Sorry Crickett.

[Disclaimer: Robyn is really happy for Annie.  I just like to pick on her for it]

But yeah October 2009 Annie will be Mrs Fernandez and I will be 27!  Congratsss guys!

Sunday Robyn and I went into Boston to see  Funny Games (as previously mentioned).  I read a few more reviews about it and I think I like it a little bit more.  We also walked around town and made fun of people.  We're 13.

Last night for St Patricks Day Jess, Hill, John, Robyn and I went out to the Half Door for some celebrations.   God I have been drinking so much in the past two weeks.  I think I'm going to take a drinking sabbatical.

Work is going good. Last few weeks have been crazy.  I have days where I just want to cry because NOTHING is going right but then I have days where I just feel like on top of the world.  I just officially joined a new account team today so I'm super excited about it.  Can't wait to get my hands on new stuff.

Lauren moves back to NYC next week and it's really struck a cord in my head.  I really miss New York.  I feel like something is pulling me back there.  Like I'd miss a few friends like crazy and I'd miss my mom but sometimes I feel like the odd girl out here.  Everyones getting engaged and married and it's like where do I fit in?  I don't know. Just a thought.  I mean I do need to find a man so I can beat Robyn down the aisle (I kid I kid).

Back to work!

xo

PS Best New "Skit" on SNL.

"Really with Seth and Amy"

Which reminds me. Bring back "The Needlers".

They also did the Target Lady sketch last night which obvs is my favorite but NBC already put the kibosh on the video of it going around Youtube. Lame NBC, lame.

So today I saw Funny Games.  I've been really looking forward to see this since I saw the trailer.  Michael Pitt and this new comer named Brady Corbet play these criminals who torture rich families vacationing in the Hamptons. 

Naomi Watts (who also executive produced) and Tim Roth and their adorable son play the family.  Naomi was actually really great in it but Michael Pitt was the standout for sure.  I always feel like he does crap movies but this really showcased his acting talent.  

Anywho all in all I thought it was fantastic.  Lots of Gus Van Zant moments aka LONG shots of absolutely nothing and this one part in the movie where Michael Pitts character rewinds and changes what happens. Random because they never reference it again.

Seriously.  

Side story.  So we get in the theatre and for like 15 minutes we're all alone until this woman walks in with a baby carriage and plops herself down in the front row.  We're all like oh maybe there's a real small baby in there and she still wanted to see the movie.  No not really.  A 3-4 year old child crawls out and sits next to her.  OK.  We still give her the benefit of the doubt by thinking she may have meant to see Horton Hears a Who! or something.  Movie starts, few more people trickle in - woman with young child does not move.  Couldn't believe this mom who deserves to have DSS called on her brought her kid to a rated R movie - FUNNY GAMES of all movies.  There are a lot of really graphic things that happen and yea -not for kids.

So movie ends and the guy in front of us is all like "Do you think it's wise to bring your young child to such a deranged movie?" and she's like "Yeahhhhh".  I do a pretty good impression of what she sounded like.  Everyone thanked the guy for saying something but he was still all pissed and went to yell at the people at the theatre who let this woman in.  Flash forward to 5 minutes we see this lady screaming at her little child outside of the bathroom.  Messed up.

More on the weekend later.

So I just watched this movie called Lollilove.

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I absolutely adore Jenna Fischer and I was told that this move is a must see for Jenna fans.

So I ordered it off of Amazon and just watched it.  Fantastic.  It's pretty much a mockumentary directed/written by Jenna (and she's also in it) about rich people who self centered-ly (word?) give to charities just to make themselves feel important. I mean I guess everyone feels a little lighter when they donate to charity but the inspiration for this film are the people who go to benefits, fundraisers that cost $1,500.  But in actuality that money pays for the event - and does not go to charity.  Advertisers pay the benefit so these rich people can see their brands/stores etc while enjoying their overpriced dinner.

 So Jenna and her real life husband star as this self centered couple - she's a bitch and he's crazy OCD germ a phobe.  They write all these charities down that they'd like to give to which is hilarious in itself and decide that homeless people need help the most.  They call their charity LolliLove  So they make these Lolli-pops with inspirational phrases on the outside and hand them out to homeless people.  But what happens before they reach out to the homeless is just genious.  Jenna Fischer and James Gunn work ridiculously well together.  They just bounce right off one another. 

Makes me really want to make a short film.  They had a crew of like 3 people and a handheld camera. I mean clearly she's Jenna Fischer and she has celeb friends (Linda Cardelinni, Jason Segal, Judy Greer) that make funny cameos but wouldn't it be fun to just say you've made a short film.   Especially a mockumentary.

Yep I did.

I bought a new Coach bag the other day at the Outlet! In my defense it was only $75 which I think is a steal for Coach.  

I decided I needed like a weekend bag.  Something that I can just run around the town with.  All my others are far too big.  I used to use my Hamptons Tote for work stuff but now that I have a laptop bag I stuff everything in there so I have little need for another big bag to lug to work.

So meet Bleecker Small Flap ( I know that means nothing to non Coach-aficionados) 

Don't mind my sexy legs and my messy desk!  

Isn't she so purty.  She's wicked tiny.  I had to downsize my wallet from the Soho Checkbook Flap to a Mini Skinny which may prove to be a huge problem when I travel but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.  It really does fit alot (ipod, keys, cell, mini wallet, 4 lip glosses, excedrin, antibacterial, visine) even though it looks like it doesn't.

And for $75! It was $229 marked down to $119 and then I got 40% off.  I love sweet deals! Then Robyn and I went to the Gap Outlet which was a headache.  All I wanted to get were a few tanks and a beach cover up but the line was far too long.  Then we checked out Barneys which had some Marc by Marc bags on sale but not ON sale.  Like $375 down to $340 or something.  Lame.  Checked Off Saks and they had some pretty sweet shades for real cheap.  I found a cute Dior pair that were $350 marked down to $120.  You bet I would have bought them if I didn't just buy a new bag.  So cute.  They have alot of really nice designer bags on clearance there.  TON'S of new LAMB which I actually like alot more in person.  They had Coach flats too in the shoe department but they weren't on sale AT ALL.  Maybe I'll try to go for a pair on Ebay.  Though I really have my heart set on these Tory Burch flats.

I haven't decided on Black or Red yet.  Discuss?

Maybe a better "monoblog" later this week that isn't about frivolous items.

xo

Wow late night commercials are crazy.

Just saw one about ExtenZe - I guess it grows the penis.  How does that work? Weird.

Had one of those classic nights tonight.  Andrea, Hill and I went to the movies to see" The Other Boelyn Girl" and it was absolutely fantastic.  Hillary said the story wasn't 100% accurate but I liked it anyways and so did she.  We were running really late and figured it probably wouldn't be sold out - we get in there and there are NO seats left.  We sat in the front row.  No lie.

Then we went to Rick's Cafe after for some drinks and food and some serious girl talk.  I love the boys but sometimes it's really great to go out with the ladies.  Talked about everything under the sun from sex in funny places to diets while enjoying some dirty martinis.  Totally Sex in the City except it was Randolph and well less cool.

Also realized tonight how much I can't wait till the summer.  Can't wait to roll the windows down, leave the jacket at home and enjoy the fresh air.  Nerddd.

Until next time I leave you with this note:

xo

Today has been the busiest day. In lieu of having a martini tonight this is what has been getting me through the day:

Mark Ronson - Version.

Get it.  Serious.

I can't stop watching that Pam and Jim video. Swoon. I have already watched Season 2 for a second time.
Little bit in love with John Krasinski. Just a little.

So the Oscars blew? Amy Adams was the only redeeming part of the Oscars. She killed it. And ALL by herself. I wasn't as impressed with Kristin Chenoweth as I thought I would be. She was just ok. I saw Juno, Michael Clayton, and There Will Be Blood and of the course the one I haven't seen - No Country for Old Men - wins. But Robyn and Hill did and they said it was stinky and pointless.

I liked Juno but I really didn't think it was Oscar worthy good. Same with Ellen Page. Anyone can be cute and witty and use lots of abbreviations? I do it everyday hello! There Will Be Blood was absolutely fantastic though. I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE! Amazing. Best movie line ever?

Speaking of - the skit of "I drink your milkshake" was SO funny on SNL the other night. Which gets me to excited because it was NEW! Say what you want about SNL in the past years but to see writers writing again and NEW tv made me so excited. Oh and Tina Fey was the host = win.

April 10 = New Office Episodes. Counting down starting..... now.


xo

It's offical.  I have become a Jim and Pam Fan Girl.

I am crazy obsessed with the Office as of current.

Like obsessed.  Casino Ep?  Are you kidding me.  Anywho.  Being a nerd I wanted to find a nice Jim and Pam montage from the internetz and I think I found the best one:

Jim and Pam - The Great Escape - Letterbox
Uploaded by detective_agent_scarn

Yeah Love it.
Seriously.

Happy New Year to the 3 people maybe that read my blog!

Last time I blogged I was on my way to the cruise!!  It was amazing.  The time of my life.  I can't bare to look at my pictures (ok it's not that bad lol) without getting wicked sad.  The wedding was flawless and it only rained once but it was still better than ANY rain we get back here in Beantown.  

I tryed to copy and paste the pics and such from my livejournal entry but it didn't work quite as well so I linked it here.

Christmas was AWESOME.  Got some great stuff, new Coach bag (which I will talk about in a second), Heroes Season 1!!! (even though I've seen it but I love it) the Office Season 3, One Tree Hill Season 4, Harry Potter, Twilight,  some LLBean stuff and other christmas staples.

Well I guess the Coach bag wasn't a real Christmas present seeing as I bought half of it for myself.  I had $125 worth of gift cards, $50 from mom and $75 from Lyd Phil and Alysse from my birthday.  Also I had one of the hard to get a hold of Preferred Customer Event coupons which gives you 25% off.    So I decided I NEEDED to get a new bag.  The bag I wanted was $448, then 25% off and my cards made it $227!!! Not bad for a Bleecker Collection bag.

Everyone meet Brandy.

And duh me being wicked excited about her.

I stuck with the tradition of naming my bags so I decided to call her Brandy.  She looks like a Brandy color.  I was going to call her "Brit" because the real name of the color is British tan but it would remind me of Britney Spears and that's not happening.

When I bought it in the store I really didn't see it.  They take the name and # of the bag you want, they go back and get it while your paying and boom you're done.  You don't even really get to see it.  So I get home and see that it wicked scratched! I understand it's Brandished Leather and it's supposed to GET scratchy but not out of the box.  So I exchanged it and they sold out of them in the store so I had to wait another week to get it.  She came even more beautiful than before.  I just was out in the rain and got it all wet and freaked out minorly.

PS Why is it thundering in the Winter?!?

Anywho.  While I was on vaca the big boss was coming from Headquarters for big news.  Bummed I wasn't going to be there, I asked my coworkers to send me an email after he leaves and tell me what it was.  I prayed to god I wouldn't be out of a job when I got back ie. Sorry guy's we're closing the Boston office etc.  So I get back that next Monday and I have a HUGE package of stuff on my desk.  We were actually bought out by a larger company in Minneapolis!   I'm psyched because they're benefits are MUCH better, they have a TON of offices around the US and I've never worked for a bigger company.

HR and IT came from Minn. and pimped us out.  I thought my computer was fine but they're IT guy was like "Why do you have a PC?" and I'm like "Well that's what I got when I started here"  so he goes "Ok... we're getting you a Mac".  So now I have a Black MacBook (twinsies with my White MacBook at home).  It's very pretty and amazing that I can bring it home and put all my work stuff on it.  And I can get my use my entourage (Mac's version of Outlook) at home!!! No going to the office on the weekends for ONE email.  So I'm still using two computers because I don't know yet what to do with all my PC stuff (getting to that today - I'm sure it's going to be a huge project.

Also fun things about my "new" job - I get to go to Minneapolis on Monday for seminars and orientation.  While the other two women I work with in my office are kind of bummed about it I'm super stoked.  Never been to the midwest! Excited to meet everyone over there.  I'm excited to learn about how they run their office and such and I hear we're staying in the nicest hotel in Minneapolis.  I'm crossing my fingers for a detour to the Mall of America.

Another new aspect of my job is doing time sheets by 15 minute intervals.  Crazy yes but you don't realize how organized it makes you.  I actually had to do away with my Coach Planner (your welcome Robyn) and I moved down to a At-A-Glance.  Much more room to write and it's less hefty than the coach one.

xo

Ah can't believe I'm leaving in less that 2 weeks for the cruise!
So psyched you don't even know.

Picked up my dress last week. To my surprise and excitement it's WAY too big. Like I have to physically hold it up if I wanted it to stay on. However the people at Manhattan Bridals are super nice and instead of telling me I needed to get the whole thing taken in they are just going to bring the back in so at least it will fit on top and then will just be flowy. It's very cute but I still feel huge in it. Maybe cause I tried it on with Missy who is like 5'1" and way smaller than me. Not sure if I've lost weight or if the lady measured me wrong. I also bought the Spanx but it doesn't really make a difference. I'm going to keep them though. They are so comfy and literally make me look two sizes smaller!

The bridal shower was so fun! Hill and John for lots of cute stuff and we had the perfect amount of food. Missy got the most amazing cake from Konditor Meister and yeah it was a good time. Lots of work but fun! Andrea was the best for letting us have it at her house!

Hillary already gave me my maid of honor present. Two gorgeous Coach bracelets. Yeah bet you didn't know Coach had jewelry either.
This is one and this is the other.
Missy and Robyn both got the second one also.

They're so cute. I was super excited.

Hillary's Bachelorette Party was also amazing. I saw a side of me that I don't want to see again any time soon. I'm the one known for being so laid back but I was running that show like a slavedriver. We had to be at dinner by 7 and then Jake Ivory's by 9:30. JI's threatened me that if we weren't there he would charge my credit card $200 bucks and throw away our reservation. Seriously.

I probably should have a heart attack. Dinner was AMAZING. Seriously everything was super. We went to Teatro in the theatre district. Drinks were awesome. Food was better. Hillary enjoyed herself.

Made it over to Jake Ivory's by 9:32 and the guy at the door assured me we could have been there by 10:30 and still been ok. He was super nice. The guy on the phone was not so much. I have never been there but damn it's officially my favorite place in Boston. It's right behind the Green Monster and def the best piano bar in the world. They brought out 4 bottles of Champagne for the 15 of us. And then brought us out the x-rated cake for Hill.
It said "Hillary the best is yet to CUM".

Equipped with a big rice krispy penis. Wish this picture was from the front lol.

They got her up on stage a few times and she HAD to give the piano guy $20 for Tiny Dancer. It's tradition. At the end of the night Robyn and I ran around getting guys to kiss Hillary. It was hilarious till we found the guy who wanted to kiss all of us. He was hot though lol.

We made our way home around 2am. Drunk and full of energy we ate our leftovers and chatted till about 4:30am. Woke up with John standing above us on his bed asking when we were going to breakfast. He told us about his party and we told us about Hills. Went to breakfast, ordered a ton of food and ate hardly any.

Went home and took a solid 3 hour nap. Like I haven't taken a nap like that since college. Dan had asked me to come to Dane Cook that night at TD Bank North and I was like Ok I'll sleep for 1 hour and watch some Heroes and get ready. Well I wake up and I'm like mmm it's definitely dark out. I jumped out of bed chatted with my mom and before i knew it Dan was there to come get me.

Dane Cook was insane! Great seats (thanks Dan!) and a good time overall. I got nachos and they were kind of wet but I ate them anyways. I took one picture from our seats with my camera phone but it's not so good.

But yeah you get it.

He was hilarious.

Back to the real world. Short week (and my boss told me I could leave early-ish tomorrow if I wanted). WOO!

Thanksgiving at my house then Missy and Nat's place!

Friday doing the after thanksgiving sales! I was going to by a new digi cam but I really can't afford it right now so I'm mostly going for some cheap TV shows on DVD lol.

That is all.

xo

In less than a month Hillary will be getting married and I will begrudgingly go on a cruise ship.
Yikes!

The wedding I am excited about but the cruise still makes me a lil Queezy.

I got everything. My passport is on it's way, got my flight to Miami, and getting my dress next week.

Course between all this is planning her Bridal shower and Bachelorette party have been stressful. I actually LOVE planning stuff but people are NOT rsvp'ing. I mean hello? I just think it's rude. I would have just sent out an email if people were just going to disregard the invitations I spent hours on. Seriously hours and a cramped hand. Bridal shower is saturday and I'm really looking forward to it. We worked really hard on it and made alot of with what we have. It's at Andreas house so that helps alot and about 5 of us are contributing food and drinks so it makes it easy on all of us. She does know about it unfortunately but she needed to know what day it was so she could take off work because she can't afford to just take days off. Whatev. Hopefully the rest will be a surprise.

Bachelorette party is going to be AWESOME. Can't reveal the details (i'm almost sure Hillary doesn't read my blog but just in case) but it's going to be fun.

I'm going to get Spanx for under my dress just to make sure I look my fly-ist (yeah I did). I've heard great things about them but has anyone had any experience with them? They seem fun and great. Need to get a strapless bra too and possibly some new makeup (I know I know me makeup?) but this is one of my best friends wedding and I'm going to want to look at these pictures forever. Haven't decided on the hair yet.

Stress.

Quick update on my exciting (but not so much) life.

My birthday was awesome. I got new Marc Jacobs perfume Daisy, Nip/Tuck season 4, Ugly Betty season 1, some silly High School Musical stuff and possibly the best gift $75 Coach Gift Card. However I am saving it because my mom said she'd get me another for Christmas so I could add to it and get a real nice Coach bag. After the last few months I'll fucking deserve it.

Went to Salem two days after my birthday and it was awesome. Possibly what a textbook fall day should be forever. Ate at the Salem beer Works outside and had a grand time. Did a witch tour (which was lame but essential) and instead of going to a haunted house we took over this kind of fancy-ish bar and screamed for the red sox!

PS Red Sox World Series Champs again!?!!?!? WTF!! Yeah it's not as exciting as 3 years ago (which is odd cause I wasn't even in Boston) but amazing regardless. Once we were on a roll we were unstoppable. Hope the parade is Thursday and NOT tomorrow.

I ended up being White trash for halloween and not paris Hilton a la jail. I had such a hankering to wear teal eyeshadow, ugly fake nails (that lasted 2 minutes total) and fake tattoos. I think i did look quite trashy and the ironic part was people kept telling me how good I looked with makeup on. Rando. Pat was Garth and Robyn was a scary ish vampire - she wore fangs and everything. She didn't drink anything and I couldn't really hear what she was saying when she talked but i guess it worked anyways.

Speaking of Vampires I saw "30 Days of Night" yesterday. It was actually quite excellent but made my stomach do flips. I can usually handle grossness but this was just yucky. Good movie overall though. I think I might like Josh Hartnett again.

Some pictures for your viewing pleasure before I leave.


Yeah I totally got the High School Musical game for my birthday. I'm sure this was the only time it will be played.


My martini out for my birthday. Caramel apple martini. Had little sliver of a caramel apple on the slide. I had to take a picture of it before I ate it!


Hillary really did get me this. It's not your imagination. She knows I love the Zefron.


Biggest and best Mojito for reals at said Bar we took over.

xo

Phone saga # 810.

The other day I realized some of the buttons on my phone weren't working.
For instance I couldn't erase notes/lists that I made. The Erase button wouldn't connect.

Also (sounds really trival) my Navigaton wouldn't work. The OK button to launch it was just not working,

So when I went to the mall yesterday I went by the Verizon store and they gave me a new one. Now there are total pros and cons to this. Pro is that the phone got totally mangled by the case that ate it (refer to post a few ones down) so getting a new one would make me happy. Con is that I lose every picture from Vegas and other things I took photos of. Last weekend @ Greg's I took a video of Hannah and Autumn singing and dancing with their tooth tunes. Also lost my fun ringtones but I think they gave me a credit because in my phone now I have like 4 credits when I only had one from my exchanged phone.

Anywho. I'm not taking the protective sticker off the front of the phone or off the main screen in the inside.
I thought it would look silly but you can't even tell it's there.

Friday night Pat and I went to see Playin Dead again. It was sooo fucking cold out!!! It wasn't cold in Braintree and when we bot into Boston it was like 38 degrees. WTF! But we got to listen to some tunes and watch the Red Sox own the Indians (for that night we will not talk about Sat night). I got an Octoberfest that smelled like Pee and one of Pat's friends tried to convince me it was the pumpkin spice in it - lies. Later I got wine and Pat was so excited when he realized he was going to two halloween parties that he hit my wine glass therefore flipping it down my shirt. I was jinxed that night. We left around midnight and got detoured through Copley and Pat was making me laugh till I was almost crying.

EDIT: Pats's recount of the evening is WAY better. His blurty is in my links over there <--------

Saturday Robyn and i saw We Own the Night which obvs I saw because of Joaquin Phoenix. Good lord I love him. The movie was actually quite decent but I'm REALLY excited for Reservation Road, another movie with Joaquin Phoenix and I'm also reading the book right now. I go two years without a new Joaquin movie and now two in two weeks! AND one being my birthday week! What a treat!!!

Yes it's true I will be a quarter century aka 25 on Thursday. Yikes.

PS. I want to see Legally Blonde on Broadway! I've been watching it via MTV and it looks so damn good.

la laa.

So I'm sitting here stuffing mailers for the new PB product and listening to the new Foo Fighters (good shit btw) and I have decided to update the blogspot.

Not like anyone cares. So emo.

I have finally decided on a Halloween costume. Thanks to Annie for the past two years I've actually had to come up with a costume after avoiding it for so many years.

Hill, Robyn and I went to Halloween Express in Weymouth. They had some really awesome costumes and I was going to dress up as Professor Trewlawny from Harry Potter because Hill is going to be Hermione, John is going to be Harry and Robyn is going to be Bellatrix - and yes we're nerds we like to match.

I really wanted to be Alice and Wonderland but the costume was so skanky. I had hopes it would fit but I felt as though the skirt would be WAY too short. I finally saw a costume for Princess in Prison aka Paris Hilton circa jail time!

The costume was hideous but I can totally make one!!
So that's what I'm going to be. I'm going to make my hair super flat, get some handcuffs, HUGE glasses and a little stuffed puppy to carry around!!

Best idea ever? Y/Y??

I'm going to stencil LA County Jail on the front of the shirt and stencil Hilton on the back.

Fucking sweet.

My office looks like a tornado came and blew through it - I can't wait till this mailing is DONE!!

xo

So stoked!

So in my previous post I posted the picture I took of the editor interviewing one of the Sales guys from PB.
I was so stoked about it and I've checked the Bicycling website since Sunday and nothings come up.

In the world of PR you can get an editor to talk to you - you can send samples and they can give you confirmation that yes they will use it, but things can always fall through - so you can imagine my excitement when I decided to check the site out today for shits and giggles and look what's up there! The interview I set up. I really felt like a mini big shot! David asked me what I thought he should highlight and where they should stand. I cut the Happy Hour line so I could get the beer (with the PowerBar logo pint glasses) in their hands.



So watch it. If for no other reason that I was a rockstar for 10 minutes.

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Makes me feel like this - without the brain drilling and all that nonsense.



Now I must start working on my report to feature that and another video I scored.

ROCKSTAR.

View of the Bellagio Hotel and Casino from where Carson, Katie and I ate dinner Tuesday night.
I played tourist of course. That light/water show will forever impress me!




What's the West Coast without a trip to The Coffee Bean (my first). PS Lauren that is a Vanilla Latte that I fell in love with.


The entrance to Tao which needed to be documented. Gorgeous marble tubbs filled with candles and rose petals. Hello!
Outside of Tao after we ate there was a little red carpet set up I guess for people going in if they wanted to be silly and pose in front of it.
Andy and I got a photo in front of it and it's on one of their cameras. I neeeddddd it.





This was the ever growing line at our happy hour. Never seen so many people excited for Sierra Nevada beer before. And I still didn't get any. But I had numerous people tell me they went to college where it was brewed.

Side story.

This editor I met with tells me the story about how it's brewed in Chico, California and that's where he attended college.

Me: haha.

Editor: What's funny?

Me: I think that's where one of the characters on the OC was from. Chico.

Editor: Ryan. No he was from Chino.

*pauses*

Editor: Can't believe I know that and just admitted to watching that god awful show.


* We then talked about the demise of the OC and how Chuck (also by Josh Schwartz) is already more awesome than the OC ever was.





One of my favorite moments of the whole show. This editor (the one with the camera) met with me earlier and was doing a montage of Happy Hours and wanted to talk to a sales guy. Sales guys are typically personality free and not very interesting. I sweated it out asking them if they'd do an interview. That guy in the blue was the 4th guy I asked who finally said yes he'd do it. David you were my rockstar!


You can't see in that picture but they're drinking out of PowerBar pint glasses that I really want to get my hands on.




xo

MM I'm knee deep in post Vegas follow up and reports but I thought it appropriate for a quick update.

-someone stole my cell phone. yeah lamepants.
-my company bought me a new one. A very pretty one. I tryed to link to it but Verizon is ghey. It's the enV. Envy.
-Got a nice case for it.
-dropped said phone and said case broke. nice.
-now I can't get the fucking case off and my fingers are purple from trying to do so.
-did the Vegas thing.
-worked my pretty little head off and learned more than I could ever wrap my head around.
-decided West Coast may be the perfect place for me because my hair looked hot everyday.
-Went to celeb hot spots like Tao and Light. Saw no celebs.
-Saw Jason Biggs yesterday outside the movies in Boston. Go fig.
-ate better in vegas than I have in my entire life. Thanks for taking good care of me.
-decided that yes - I can actually get ready, look decent and pack my suitcase in 8 minutes.

Ugh.

I did a great job in Vegas. Trade shows are interesting places. I talked to lots of media even if they didn't want to talk to me. Whatever - you come to our booth for snacks and I can't talk to you. Whatevs.com. I gave my card to anyone who'd listen and give me a minute.

I'm getting better at being more forward and not being so shy about bothering people.
Good/bad? lol

One question I got 100 times in Vegas was "if you're from Boston how come you don't have an accent". Got me thinking - I really don't. Thank god. I love my hometown but I have become completely devoid of having an accent. I guess it's a good thing. I think they are cool but sometimes Boston accents sound completely trashy.

My fucking phones case is driving me up a wall. Biggest waste of $25 EVER!
It made my phone even dirtier and ugly.
Then when I drop it it breaks? And now I can't get it off.
I'm going to go to the Verizon store after work tonight in hopes they can take it off while saving my phone.

Back to work.

xo