Friday was sure a night of debauchery!
It was actually Missy and Nat's housewarming party. (which PS their apartment is amazing. I want to move there. I'm offically looking for a roomate because I believe the one bedrooms there are quite expensive. They have a washer/dryer, a patio, HUGE living room, and their own bathrooms.)

After we were sufficiently marinated someone thought it would be a grand idea to go swimming in the community pool. Apparently it closes @ 9 but they have a key. We got down there and found out that we weren't the only ones with the idea. Hillary and I ( and some random dude) decide we're going to go in the hot tub. Mind you sober Kristen would never take her pants off and just jump into a hot tub - but drunk Kristen would and did. The random guy kept trying to show us his junk. He had a cute butt but a small peen.

After the hot tub we were going to go in the pool but I realized how freezing I was even though it was wicked hot out. Before we went back into the apt I took my sweater off I put my sweatshirt on. The random douchey guy kept telling me the sweater looked nice on me while it was wet. Nice line dude.

Someone decided it would be really fun to play Spin the Bottle. I remember playing it when I was a kid and ONLY wanting to kiss the boy I liked. This time it was a free for all. I got the douchey guy and he damn near choked me and stuck his tongue down my throat. I immediately felt the need to be checked for herpes. Kissed the dude who looked like Harry Potter and my best friends fiance. All in good fun.

I actually thought the spontaneity in me was gone after talking about all the random stuff I did in college last week to a friend - but it's back and it wants to come out an play.

I was really drunk. So we all chillaxed and I left finally around 4, went home, took a shower, tried watching the first ep of Dead Like Me season 2 but fell asleep

You know when you go to bed still drunk how hard it is to stay asleep. I really want to know the science of this. Is it because the alcohol is so active in your stomach and it keeps waking you up? Mom and Roger called me @ 830 am asking me to put the filter on the pool on. Much to my sleepyness I got up and went out and practically gagged because it was so fucking hot out already. Went in back to bed for like an hour before Robyn called me.

Went for breakfast with Hill Robyn and john. Still can't believe what I ate. Totally got a big bacon omelette and I COVERED it with tabasco. WHY? I didn't get sick and I actually enjoyed it quite much but I felt sick for the rest of the day.

Saw Superbad which was really funny but not funnier than Knocked Up. The whole period stain thing was kind of disgusting, but it was mostly hilarious. McLovin was the best dude in that movie, followed by Evan (played by George Michael Bluth aka Michael Cera who I am in love with offically) and Jonah Hill who was kind of my hero who actually wasn't that spectacular in the film. Despite how much he looks like Robby :)

Relaxed mostly all day sunday and went to Cheesecake Fac with Annie. Got pasta and felt really bad about it. But it was fucking amazing.

I really need to buckle down with the diet again. I was doing so good until that pizza last week. Then last night I ate ice cream after my walk and while it was really good I felt such hate towards myself after. I'm going to get a yummy salad for lunch for reals.

My power outlet in my car broke so I have been without ipod connection in my car for like 4 days and I think it's crushing my morale. Do you realize how AWFUL the radio really is??? Like it's not so bad when I leave work because I kind of enjoy listening to Toucher and Rich on WBCN because they are funny. But in the morning it's torture! It took me roughly 25 minutes to get to work today and I heard that fucking Fergie song twice and a Pink song that sucked also twice. The rest was stupid talk. I have to go to Honda to see how much the replacement is but I need to do it soon.

Getting actually really nervous about Vegas. My first trade show and it's for our biggest client! Yesterday my boss was like I hate telling people what do and boss people around but you REALLY have to do your research and know your stuff.. The client will pretty much be over my shoulder the whole time. Like for real this may dictate how and when I go to any other trade shows. Just got butterflies thinking about it.

Rents are going camping this weekend so I'm super stoked to have the place to myself. Hoping to have a get together of some sort to drown my sorrows over the end of the summer.

I beat my first song on hard on Guitar Hero. Watch out now.

xo

Put tonight in the record books.
Not only did I jump into a hot tub with random people half naked but I also played spin the bottle.

Ok so the new celebrity hot-spot in the area is totally the new Cheesecake Factory in Braintree.

About 3 weeks ago Steve Carrell was in by himself and he had a pulled pork sandwich and diet coke (per my good gossip getting BF). Last weekend Mr David Fucking Beckham was in!! YES! David Beckham sans his alien-esque wife. Didn't give a fabulous tip but was also bothered by FOX 25 during after this meal.

Then a few days ago for the second time JoJo and her boyfriend Freddy Adu (soccer player) were in eating dinner. From what I heard she is very sweet and really skinny.

When's Nicole Richie and Joel Madden coming in?! Such an untapped resource.

PS I totally beat Guitar Hero on medium! I'm that much closer to be in the Rock Band.

Told my boss about the whole CC debacle today to see what she thought. She's going to bring it up to Joe the building manager to see what he thinks. She def thinks it's mighty shady.

What's not mighty shady is my love for High School Musical 2! I'm not sure why we enjoyed it so much. Maybe it was Zac's "Bet on it" sequence, or Sharpays fabulousness. Or wait maybe the fact that we rewinded the baseball scene twice. You know I have no shame about it either. How often do you watch something just for the pure cheese of it, something you don't have to analyse (even though we totally did) and just have fun with. Drink of choice was boxed Sangria by Franzia. Yum.

Saturday I lounged, did laundry, washed and cleaned my car top to bottom, made chili, went to Best Buy for my much needed memory card and also bought the new Rooney album which I love. I also watered the flowers cleaned the pool and organized some of my junk. The most exciting part of my day though was finally breaking into medium on Guitar Hero. I finally see how John can sit there all day and just keep playing. I played for four hours! FOURR HOURS. Now that I can save my game I have become that more competitive. Last night I made it till the end and I ONLY have to finish Freebird which I was able to make it 86% the way through before failing. I think I am going to try it on practice mode later. Maybe Friday because I serioulsy can not get in GH time during the week.

Don't know if I mentioned this last week but I totally sprained my right ankle last Wednesday night pre CC freak out. I am proud to say that I was not drunk this time (per last summers LEFT ankle fracture) but I was actually quite the opposite. I was kicking some serious booty in my aerobics class. Five classes in with this lady and I am getting good with all the little sequences. I finally think I got it all down and I go to make my little over the top do hickey and down I go. My right foot - half on the ground half on the step kind of gets mashed over and snap. Same feeling as last summer but less fuzzy. I'm brave and I usually try to ingore pain so I get up and keep truckin. Later that night I have a particular case of cankles on that one ankle - so yeah not fun. I'm skipping gym tonight but I'll try tomorrow night.

PS thanksssss L Brown for the new Rilo Kiley album!
Wooo!

And the credit card saga contines...

So I lost (or so I thought) my credit card two weeks ago. I look in my wallet and I see my BOA CC is missing and my debit card is in place of it. Weird because I would never do that. Figuring I dropped it somewhere I thought nothing of it. When I went to cancel it I saw that it was used @ Burger King. Classy theives they are.

Got a new card.

Fast forward to Tuesday of this week. I am at CVS paying and I notice that my business CC is in the place of my NEW Bank of America CC and it is once again missing. FUCKED UP YES??

So I go home later to cancel it because I needed the # on the card (didn't know it off the top of my head seeing as I had it for oh 3 days) and the person who stole it has used it @ Friendly's, Wendys, Michelles Ice Cream and Sandwiches in Weymouth and one other place (I'm assuming it's a food place cause clearly these people are fat-asses) - over $ 70 worth in charges. You have got to be fucking kidding me really!? So I'm on the phone with BOA for over an hour just to get it cancelled and talk to the fraud people.

Thing is it that I had it when I went to lunch that day and 4 hours or so later it's gone?! The ONLY time my wallet wasn't with me is when I either a. went to the bathroom or B. checked the mail, which leads me to believe that it's someone in my office building. Someone in my office building who thinks I am clearly a fucking idiot and a fool so they like to switch up the arrangement in my wallet.

I am 99% sure it is the same person as before. But really what I am wondering is WHY my CC. I have a debit card, a american express business card, cell phone, ipod, Marc Jacobs glasses, and Coach bag/wallet/change holder etc etc in my purse - WHY just the credit card.

Cancelled the card obvs but now I have to lock my bag up in my file cabinet and if I leave my office even for 2 minutes I lock the door. Really I have never had anything stolen from me and then I get my credit card stolen twice - IN SCITUATE?

Totally and utterly fucked.

ANYYWAYS.
Took myself on a little shopping excursion last night because of my feeling shitty-ness and went nutso @ Old Navy. They still have that AMAZING sale!!! And the fall stuff doesn't look as hideous as it usually does. I got 4 shirts, a pair of pants and a shrug for $60! I also went to Victorias Secret and bought my favorite Bra in black. Dear VS - Please don't get rid of DD's again :) I don't want to have to go to lady Grace. A new bra can make anyone feel like a new woman.

High School Musical 2 Party tonight!! We always have a themed drink and now that Zac Efron is babe of the year we're debating calling it the Zac-Tail or the Efrontini. Tentatively it's going to be store bought Sangria with Peach Seltzer. We're nerddds.

kz

Who knew iTunes had a radio!
I really had no idea until today!
Got to say I really love it.

Alt X Radio is my fav.
Also on my listening roster these days are Lauren's Podcasts! Very cool! Everyone knows she has an awesome music tastes and now she's taking it to the airwaves. Todays Flashback Podcast was my favorite!! Kudos LB. Anyone wants to hear the awesomeness leave me a message and I'll pass them on to you.

Booked half of the cruise today. I feel like a weight has lifted! Pat, Robyn and I booked a room together which made it cheaper = more awesomeee. Should be really fun as long as those crazy kids don't call the wedding off (please guys don't). I kid i kid.

Now all I need to do is save some money and look fabulous in my dress and it's all good.

Last Friday Pat and I went to a Grateful Dead tribute show @ Harper's Ferry. Serioulsy I knew ONE GD song and just kind of bounced around. At the end they played a cover of Hey Jude which was awesome and the only song I could sing along to (Pat assured me they don't do covers of their popular songs). We got sufficiently drunk which was fun and awesome because Pat was totally dancing his face off. Lots of funny people dressed in tie dye which is always cool.

Was superrrr hung over Saturday morning and in a whim bought PlayStation 2 ONLY so I could finally join the Guitar Hero club. I bought a used Playstation 2 and it's soooo much smaller than the one I used to have before someone kept it thinking it was theirs Aurora ahem. Played it for like 2 hours until my headache came back and then lounged. I'll be a Guitar Hero before long!!

It's good to know that I give off the right impression. Yesterday we were talking about a clients Spring 2008 line and that they really want to go into the fashion direction rather than an outdoor thing. So my boss was like I'm going to put you in charge of the fashion/music angle for them because that's what I see you being really good at. Me really!? Fashion. I guess I do have an eye for fashion. Not that you would tell it from how I DRESS ha but I sure do have a love for it. So yeah hopefully if I do good with this client they'll be my own someday.

I am completely crazy in love with New Found Glory's cover of "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls for their From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II. Someone sings the chorus with Jordan but I can't put my finger on who it is. Not an NFG member.
I want to put it on my ipod badly but it's not on iTunes. While I was listening @ New Found Glory's Myspace I also ran across another song I have never heard called Situations. Another great song, but not a cover just a B-Side that was thrown off Catalyst I believe (or I'd like to believe) I can't listen to that monstrousity that came from Coming Home. I think it may have gone up the list as my favorite NFG song.

Enough of my rambling.

xo

Ugh I can't stop listening to The Con by Tegan and Sara.
Amazing.

So let's just say this week has been stressful. Last friday we picked out our bridesmaid dresses.
This is the one we chose. In that color (tealness) and the sash that goes around the middle is going to be ivory to match Hillarys dress and her sash will be teal to match ours. Actually very cute. But getting fitted for it was kind of miserable. So needless to say I'm on the South Beach Diet probably more hardcore than I have ever been before. I want to lose like 30-40 pounds before Dec and I'm determined this time. I will have to look @ these photos for the rest of my life. I'm stressing out so much I feel like it's MY wedding. The dress also comes with straps so I might have them put on as well. Depends how it looks on me when it comes in in October. I started Monday and I have already lost 4 pounds. I'm doing quite good. I'm not even having the allotted snacks your allowed to have (sugar free fudgesickles). I've been living on salads and grilled chicken but I like it. It's not so bad.

Movinggg on. I've been trying to save money so much and I find out tomorrow i have to go get my car fixed. Now I would rather not get it fixed (has something to do with my ac that I have gotten fixed TWICE this summer and still kind of sucks but blows out cold). I paid $180 and I understand the principle of paying for something and not getting anything out of it but really if something is broken and it's going to cost over $150 I am not going to bother. Luckily it's the mechanic I'm really good friends with so he won't try to fuck me over. I also have a tire problem stemming from last May when I ran over a key in the Stop and Shop parking lot and it seems to have a slow leak. And I need my 2008 sticker also. My oil light has been going on quite often as well but I got a letter of recall from Honda regarding something of that sort so they should be able to do it for free.

I also have to book the cruise asap and I found out that if we book with 3 people that it will only be around $372 a person which is AWESOME. I keep hearing that your pretty much NEVER in your room on cruises anyways so I'm sure Robyn, Pat and I rooming together won't be a huge deal. Still feeling really apprehensive about going on the cruise but I'm sure I'll get over it. Like Jess said so elequently FUCK LAND.

Ari totally name dropped PowerBar on Entourage this past Sunday. I just watched it last night but I can't wait to talk about it Monday with the team. Yes I am a huge fucking nerd.

kz

So I have finished Harry Potter. And Pat didn't give it away as much as he could.

I thought it was fantastic! Perfect ending! I'm not upset that none of the three main characters died. I'm glad they all lived. That book was full of such comradery that I would be heart broken if Ron, Hermione, or Harry died. Neville for the motherfucking win BTW.

I loved the epilogue also. It was all a little to convienent. But nonetheless great and I cryed.
What do I read now? Oh yeah the 90 books I have been putting off because of HP.

Country Fest was such a blast. Seriously one of the best concerts EVER.

We left around 130-ish after running around packing food and drink and we were off.
Wish it was that easy. We were going to meet my cousin because he had been tailgating since 1130 and we figured we'd have plenty of time to chill.

Not the case. We were in traffic for 3 hours. A total of 20 miles took us 3 hours. Bumper to bumper on 128 North and 95 South. Think Warped Tour 2005 but instead of little brats next to us it was drunk people with trailers. it was actually pretty fun and entertaining. We listened to the radio and sang really loud. By the third hour and being in my car with no AC we were getting really thirsty. With all just alcoholic beverages we needed water badly. So we just started asking cars next to us. We asked one car of dudes and they threw one to us which ended up going under my car. Then later we asked a lady in a winnebago.

Sweet.

We had about 30 more minutes once we got on Route 1 and by that time it was 5pm. We parked ($40!!! highway literally robbery) and drank as much as we could before went into the stadium (sounds bad I realize but the drinks inside are like $8-10 and I did bring that much money, but I did bring my favorite new low-carb beer so I was looking forward to enjoying a few before the show. Chris had already went in so we missed him but we found him inside later. Totally looking like it was going to rain we made the short walk to the stadium. We went in, found our seats and danced a little bit to Sugarland (ps thanks for the best seats Andrea! We were sad you didn't make it). By this time we're pretty well marinated (my new word for drunk pick it up lol) so we figured lets keep the buzz on. We got more drinks and waited in an obscenely long bathroom line. Went to find my cousin who well very drunk himself. Love that kid. Danced with him took some pictures moved on.

Went back to our seats to watch Brooks and Dunn who were quite good. I swear country is the bst when your drunk. Almost towards the end of their set Jess and I decide we have to pee. Being half in the bag and really having to go Jess says she's going to go in the alley lol. While over there she finds and event staffer that tells her to just go in the men's room. They do it all the time apparently so with our gut levels a little higher we make a run for it. When we go in we see like 5 other girls with the same idea and we can't stop laughing. All of a sudden like 5 cops come in and make us leave and tell us if he sees us in there again we're leaving in cuffs. Darn so close! So I get back in the ladies line. This guy comes over and tells Jess and I how ridiculous it is and how he'll keep a lookout for cops so we can go. In we go again. Jess makes it in and I'm waiting telling her to pee as fast as humanly possible and I feel a tap on my shoulder.

Cop: Blondie didn't I tell you and your friend. Next time it's these ::: swings handcuffs like 3 inches from my face::
Me: But I have to gooooooo.
Cop: ::imitates my gotta go pee dance:: Toughhhh. Come on. Handcuffs or leaving now? Your choice.
Cop: You with the pink toenails! YOU TOO. (clearly best line of the day)
Jess: ME!??

So yeah we left and by that time my bravery bought me a pass to cut in line for the ladies room.
I swear we must have told the story 10 times that day laughing harder everytime. Talk about a power trip. He totally looked like Scott Storch .
Loves it. There was totally a girl behind us who clearly was passed out before she even walked in the place. That's why she earns a spot on my Wall of Shame:




And her poor boyfriend (who she threw up on and is in that picture next to her) was dancing and singing all by himself.

We should have adopted him.

Here are some more random pictures from the day:

Me and the Hill Duff looking very festive


Please ignore my fatness but I love this picture because we have a total of oh 1 picture together.


Kenny is fucking amazing. And yes he has a Boston shirt on!


Hill and Jess - totally looked like it was going to rain! it didn't so WOO.


I look a smidge on the special side in this one but it's of the three of us so I don't mind.


This doesn't even BEGIN to describe the traffic.

Anyways the concert was AMAZING. Kenny was incredible. Something about his music ALWAYS puts me in a good mood. Maybe it's the talk about flips, drinks, sun, and good pals that gets me all warm and fuzzy. Never thought I would be a Kenny Chesney fan but I am a changed woman.

We left prob a half hour early to miss the traffic. We walked and hobbled (Jess broke her sandal trying to escape the police) back to the car, made a quick pee and head out of there. We got home in NO time. Phewwww.

Slept till forever on Sunday. Watched 3 disks of Lost, read some Harry Potter (still not done but thanks to P Dunn I know the ending. Thanks) and did some work work.

Maybe possibly going to the Red Sox game tonight.

xxoo

PS Congrats Robyn who just called me to tell me she got a new JOB!!!!!

kz

Almost got arrested @ Country Fest this weekend.
True story.
More later.

I can't believe how fast this year is going by!
I was just thinking back @ January and feeling like it was yesterday.

Crazy!

So I had my first conference call today. All by myself. I usually have my boss with me leading the PR reigns but since she's out today it was me. Answering all the PR questions the client had. Sounds really stupid but I was nervous. It's for the show in Vegas that I am attending anyways so it's good it was just me. I outlined things I had researched etc and they were so impressed. I did quite well. I mostly just listened to really boring stuff but when I came up I kicked ass. I'm really looking forward to the trip! Sounds like it should be a good time.

Got my company credit card yesterday. So weird to see my name on an American Express card. And in my wallet. Bad? y/n.

Enjoying the peace and quiet of not having mom and roger around. I got home yesterday after work and cleaned up for I was having some friends over for pool and fun. I go out just to turn on the pool and I notice it's really low. Like way below where it should be. I pretty much fall over myself trying to find out where the leak is and I see this hole in the hose that is attached to the filter. Stuck inside the hole is a HORNET! That probably worked it's way through the skimmer to the hose and found this little hole but made it that far thus causing the leak. So I bravely open it a little further so the bug can come out and I see where I can pull it up so it's connected again. Phew. Still leaking slightly but I'll keep my eye on it. I put the water hose in the pool to start filling it up and cross my fingers. Also figure I won't tell my mom and roger seeing as they're on vaca and they'll be flipping out the whole time if they know something is wrong with the pool and they aren't there to fix it.

About 10 minutes later John and Kim, two of Rogers friends come over for a awim, super duper nice and rad so I didn't mind at all. John makes a mad dash for the pool seeing as my house is 100 degrees (did I mention the AC is busted too?) and Kim and I chat in the kitchen while I wait for Hillary. I tell Kim the story and we go out to look @ the leak. I make John promise he won't say a word to Roger until Saturday and he gets out of the pool to look @ it. He miraculously closes the small leak that left and even this morning before I left for work I checked and still looks good.

We ordered food from Fowler House via Dinner Delivered which was pretty damn awesome. At trivia a few months ago we won $20 from dinner delivered for answering a Bonus question. DD is pretty much this service that will deliver you food from all these various restaurants in Braintree/Quincy. So we picked Fowler House because they have the BEST pizza and it's cheap. We didn't realize we would have to wait an hour and a half unfortch. They did keep us updated though on when they were coming and such which was cool and the food was so yummy.

Working my face off today and then possibly maybe seeing The Simpsons tonight with Patrick and then tomorrow is Country Fest with Hillary and Jess!! So excited!! Kenny Chesney, my gals and some cool drinks - sounds like a great end to a good week!

xo

Back from camping!!

Before I get into the camping story I must talk about getting the new Harry Potter book @ midnight on Friday.
Met up with Diana around 7 @ Rock Bottom for some din and chats. Saw my worst enemy in the entire world and I wanted to barf. Luckily Pat was coming shortly so he sat next to me therefore me being out of his eyeline. Piece of shit kept staring @ me.

Anyways. Hill and John met up with us and then we went to their house for some wine and guitar hero and we were soon off to Borders.

We had to park near the Garden part of KMart (anyone who knows Borders Braintree knows how FAR away that is). The lot was PACKED. We get in and turns out we're a twisted orange color. It was really entertaining for like a half hour maybe and then it got old. Took lots of pictures (I will post them tonight!) of some crazies and us turning into crazies. Found out that Barnes and Noble totally had NO crowd so we got a genious plan to head down there. Unfortch we don't make it but Hill and John do, so when we get to the door we're begging the guy to let us in. No avail. Asshole. He's like SORRY We're closed (literally like 3 minutes ago). WTF why wouldn't you want to sell more copies? We all head back to Hills and stop @ CVS - none there either. I figure I give it one more chance @ Borders cause it's so close to my house - Robyn and I walk in and we're like "What color are you on?" and the guy was like "eeeh.. ok just get in line and get the book". Sweet! We told them how much assholes BN was and they were happy (I found out yesterday that Borders sold the most copies in the entire US). Got the book and giddily read 2 chapters before I went to sleep.

Woke up early for camping to pack and etc. Really glad I got the book before the morning because I was super busy. Hardware store with R, supermarket liqor store, made my world famous chili and various other packing processes.

Picked up Robyn and headed for Claires. From Claires in Salem NH we made our way to Maine. Not before stopping @ Heavn'ly Donuts which is the best coffee ever! I have been hearing about it from my fam for so long and getting ridiculed for drinking DD. It is very good and I have went to the other side. I even bought a bag of coffee. So yum. Not the one Chris and Tom work @ but it was good regardless:) Then stopped @ Lisas house to say hi to them and lil Julia. So cute. She looks like what the Olsens looked like when they were 2 on Full House. For reaaal.

Finally got on the highway and got there around 5. Ate some din ran some errands and had a campfire.

Sunday we discovered the fun of Reny's. I'm sure there isn't any BUT maine but it's like a Target/Kmart smooshed down with way lower prices. Got some noodles (pool toys duh) and some Beach Towels. Layed out by the lake most of the day and caught up with Harry Potter though it's hard to read when your whole fam is around, so needless to say I didn't read much.

Monday we went to this campground that was like literally on the beach. Hermit Island or something along those lines. Listened to the old folks reminice about their time there as children and played in the ocean briefly with the cousins. Not sure if I could totally do it there. While gorgeous there are only outhouses and no electricity WHAT SO EVER. Eh. Got lobsters for dinner and then Mom, Claire, Robyn and I went our way to Boothbay Harbor. On the way we saw a guy selling homemade Whoopie Pies on the side of the road. For shits we stopped and bought a few. The guy was probs about 80 and had a "Whoopie Man" shirt on, homemade of course.

Did lil shopping in Boothbay. Picked up something for Kim's baby and something for Gram's birthday. Started raining hardcore so we popped in this lil dive for some food. Best boneless wings ev. hit a few more stores before we made the way back to the campground.

Got back had lobster fest with the fam. Best lobsters I have had in a while. After dinner we played this game called Left Right Center. You start with 3 quarters (or really whatever you want 3 dollars, 3 5 dollars, 3 pennies whatever. You roll 3 dice that have either Left, Right, or Center on them and you have the pass the quarters based on where you roll. If you get a dot that means you get to keep it. Seriously most fun and competitve game ever. Claire won twice, Roland twice and Jamie once. We were all scrounging for quarters the next day. We then went for a walk and played on this odd contraption and went back to the site. One of our neighbors comes over and gives us a HUGE bowl of steamers like seriously massive. We bring it down to the campfire and Jen brings over meatballs. I can't believe how much I ate that day. Insanity. Talked around the fire about funny stories when we were younger and went to bed.

Left yesterday but not before playing around the lake a lil more. Showered, said goodbyes and made our long journey back to Mass. Got back to Salem around 5 and had to battle the Boston commuters to get back to Braintree to change only to go back into Boston via T for the Motion City Soundtrack show which was amazing. But I'll save that for the next post.

Phew that was long.

xo

I won the bag on EBAY!

Well ok Dan won it on Ebay mostly thanks to his insane Ebay smarts. And I was running all over the place when the auction was ending. He paid for it and then I paid him through PayPal.
For $58 bucks! Schweeet.
I can't wait to get my little hands on it.

PS I couldn't link to the picture because it was protected by whatever picture hosting place she used - but I screen capped it to bring it to my loyal 2 (3?) readers.


But yeah as you may have guessed I kept going after I was outbid.
The picture SERIOUSLY does not do it justice. You know how sometimes they said that on Ebay and you can tell their full of shit. But this bag is seriously amazingly gorge in real life.

I'm listening to Bush in my office. Very random. I heard one song on shuffle and I was like fuck I miss Bush. So here we are.

Anyways. I did the Step class last night @ the gym like I said I would. When I walked upstairs I saw lots of the regulars from other classes I take and they were like OO this class is hard! So the instructor sees me and she's like "Ohh you've never done this class before huh - oo well just so you know it's intermediate".
Me: Nope! This is my first time I love step though.
Her: ooo OK so you've done it before.
Me: Yep (clearly I'm thinking you idiot in my head).
Her: OK well it might be really hard to keep up being your first and you can stop whenever you want *turns around*.

How annoying that's for clearing that with me but don't underestimate me because I'm not a size 4.
Anywaysss. She then turns back around and says almost whispers, if you want to take off your risers and just use the step that's fine. I tell her I usually use 2 sets of risers in Aprils class but thanks I'll be fine with this one.

Honestly I learned two things about myself last night due to this class.
1. I may not be skinny and all but I am in good shape. I exercise at least 4 times a week usually doing some sort of high impact cardio and weights. I had NO problem keeping up and actually kept going when alot of the people in the class were taking breaks.
2. I DON'T back down from challenges - EVER. Not like I would have downgraded my step but even if I felt like I really needed to - I wouldn't have. Just because she had suggested it as an easier way.

Which I guess are two really good things to learn about youself.

Needless to say I felt like I just got out of a pool with all my clothes on! Gross I know but I sweated so much. It felt amazing. It's insane how good endorphins feel. I went for a swim in the rain when I got home and spent like a half hour in the hot tub. Verrry nice.
Can't forget to add that after the end of the class she told me I was one of like 2 other people that did the class for the first time and kicked ass. I told her I'd definitly be coming back.

JUST finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Def shed a few tears at the end even though John let it slip to me that Dumbledore dies at the end like months ago. So excited to go get the book tomorrow night @ Borders. I reserved it heck yes I did. I think I read a spoiler about it today but I'm trying to forget. Who knows, maybe it was just someones "prediction".

xo

So that bag I wanted from Coach the other day - I'm totally winning it still on Ebay!
For a whopping $28 bucks.

Ok it's used. Gently used but used regardless. But if I am going to win it for $28 bucks I'm going to buy myself some suede cleaner and spruce it up. Because it's gorgeous and I am in love. If someone out bids me in the next 5 hours I don't know if I will keep up the bidding war. But you know I love me some healthy competition.

Woah the link is like 9 pages long hello.
I'll just have to model it when it's MINEE.

Went to Margartias with Robyn last night. It was opening night and stupid me I really didn't think we'd have to wait long. They told Robyn a half hour when she got there. We sat down an 90 minutes later. Food was good, margaritas were alright, service was eh. Our server was SO flustered but he was helpful. The balding guy at the table behind Robyn kept staring at my boobs. Not on the menu sir pay attention to your wife. So funny.

Decided today that I am definitely going to go to New York for Cara's birthday in 2 weeks! I was talking about it with my mom last night and she was like it's time to do something for yourself! Go! And she's right. I don't do anything because I WANT to anymore. I do things because I have to. Like I was saying in my previous post I don't even really want to go camping (but I'm starting to get a little more amping knowing I can devote some time with the new Harry Potter book which I have so nerd-ily pre ordered @ Borders).

New York should be really fun. I actually JUST remembered today while reading Trent's Blog that Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp are reprising their roles in Rent this summer. I reals want to go. But I'm sure there will be too much fun and debauchery going on.

I'm think I'm going to do the 6:30 step class @ the gym. I need to sweat badly. That sounds so gross.

xo

Ok so I'm getting a little bit more excited for camping this weekend. I still don't really want to go but I'll try to make the best of it. It's only for a few days and I have Motion City Soundtrack July 24, Jesse and Kevin July 25 and Country Fest on July 28 to look forward to.

I'm mostly excited because the WHOLE damn family is coming and I rarely get to see them. It should be a good time. Claire, Robyn and I will be going up together Saturday (hopefully after everything has been set up) and leaving Tuesday around 2pm.

Hoping at least to get to Boothbay Harbor for some seafood and shopping.

Still at work on a Tuesday is rare for me. I usually go to the gym @ 5:30 for my class but I am getting so very annoyed with the instructor lately so I really had little motivation to go. I'd rather go home and play around in the nice weather (which is what I will be doing in about 20 mins or so). I'll try to go tomorrow night and definitely Thursday night for Aprils class.

Totally pre-ordered the new Harry Potter book today so I can get it before I go on said camping trip. I think it will be a read off between Robyn and I. I'm really almost done with the 6th book!

Until next time.

xo

Lost.
Yes it seems as I have been dragged into that show by my friends who talk about endlessly.
I borrowed Season 1 from Hil yesterday and I watched the first two eps before bed. Which if anyone knows me wasn't a good idea because it really freaked me out. When they get to the top of that hill in the season part of the pilot and hear what the lady is saying in french I got really weired out. Which I guess is good because that makes for good TV.

Not a good time to start it because I'm really trying to finish Harry Potter book 6 before the 7th book comes out on Friday. I will be so mad if someone blows the ending for me. Seriously.

PS totally found that bag online and I'm bidding for it on ebay as I type.

xo

What a nice weekend.
Played with my pals Friday night, went out with my main gay Saturday (thanks for the present!), chillaxed Sat night, shopped my face off today and had a dinner talking about wildly innappropriate things with 3 of my favorite people.

Last night Robyn came over and I made nachos old school style. I got possibly the BEST myspace message ever from a drunk pat (even though when we were talking about it I guess I misunderstood partially - I like my interpretation better btw).

Today Annie, Katrina and I went to breakfast and then Hil called me and we went to the Wrentham Outlets = me spending money and loving every minute of it.

I saw this bag @ Coach. I wish I could find an image of it but it was BEAUTIFUL! The only one of it's kind in the store. With the sale it would have been $120. It was $230, marked down to 150 them 20% off. I HAD to have it. But after doing the math in my head I really shouldn't be buying it. But I still held on to it. Finally a girl asks me where I found it and I was like have it. Please take it from me. I hope that gives me good bag karma.

I did however treat myself to a very nice Micheal Kors jacket.

And some cute stuff @ the Gap Outlet.

Dinner was enjoyable as always. We are the most innapropriate people EVER. EVER.
I love them.

Starting South Beach offically again tomorrow.
Mostly because I want to look nice @ the wedding, oh and I have to try on the bridesmaid dresses in the next few weeks.
Greattttt.

Is it nerdy that I am excited for work tomorrow?

xo

Dan sent me the link to this commerical today and I thought it was quite awesome.

Which reminds me I really want to go to a game soon.

Anyone interested in going Guerilla style sometime soon?
EDIT: By Guerilla style I mean like just going and winging it and if not we don't get tickets (which almost NEVER happens) we watch it in Tequila Rain or something. Silly faces.

Did alot of writing today for work.
Yesterday I got a request for one of our clients in the Nov/Dec issue of InStyle from the pitch I sent out which is pretty exciting since I'm new and haven't really done anything yet. This is good and makes me way more confident in my writing.

My boss sent out a Welcome email about me to the rest of the company yesterday pretty much talking me up hardcore. I never realized how cool I look on paper errr on email rather. One of the guys in the other office who's a youngin like me emailed me back and sent a picture of him high up Wyoming cause I have never been out there. I feel the need to share the gorgeous-ness.

He says where the arrow is, is his office. LOL.

Anywhoo. I'm sitting in my brr cold office wearing a hoodie from one of our clients just finishing up for the day.

xo

So I can't play any of my music that's on my iPod on my iTunes here @ work.
And it's quite annoying because that's pretty much how I buy my music.
Apparently you can only authorize 5 computers to play the music and with my house and work computers crashing and then registering it on my Mac I have used up my 5.
I wonder if I went to the Apple store they could give me a secret to over-ride it? Or maybe disable the other ones?
It's really annoying.

So I submitted my first piece of writing at my new job yesterday.
I looked it over 100 times and made sure the grammar was on point.
And I sent it to my boss. Then she calls me in and tells me about all this other random stuff and as I was walking out she's like - oh great pitch by the way! You're my new pitch girl.

Are you serious. Yeah awesome. It always feels so good to be accomplished.
And I think about it after how stressed I was about writing it - but I'm a good writer and I wish I didn't underestimate myself.

I'm super excited to see the new Harry Potter tonight. I have seen it already about 3 weeks ago @ a Trade Screening but that was with just Gregg and like 10 other people. I'm looking forward to seeing it with a packed audience and the whole gang.

I think that ends my summer of movies I'm excited for. Well ok Hairspray but that's it. I'm done after that.
Of course in October Joaquin's new movie "We Own the Night" comes out. Looks not so great but hello I'll see it anyways.
Also in October Gone, Baby, Gone comes out. I JUST saw the preview the other day and I'm super stoked for it. I've read half of the book but had to put it aside to finish Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (yeah yeah I know I'm still not done) because I don't want to be the only one NOT reading the final book. I'm going through it pretty fast mostly because I'm forcing myself to read it whenever possible.

xo

Name That Bag!

I really love this Chanel Handbag that Emma is carrying.

I want to know the deets! Not even the fashion spot gang know what the story with it is?

Not to mention this gal has been decked out in Chanel for all the premieres and such.

Jealous.