Love it/Hate it

Things I heart:
-Looking up potential vacations for our anniversary
-Knowing that the idea of a vacation exists in our future!
-Ice Blended Mocha on a hot day
-My new Lacoste red, white and blue sneakers
-Seeing The Police Reunite
-Driving a car with a working air conditioning system
-Hanging with my cat


Things I hate:
-DB guys in my building elevator discussing their detox diet of cayenne pepper and lemon juice
-Being inside an artificially lit building when it's 80 degrees and sunny outside
-People being rude to servers at restaurants
-Gas prices
-Cell phones at the gym

Workin' for the Weekend

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I Think I'm in Love

Today, I hit a milestone in my adult life. I purchased my very first new car. Gretchen the GTI has already brought much joy to my life. It's amazing the things that come standard with a car these days. My past car Pepe the Camry (God rest his soul) was a great and reliable car but after driving that car for so many years, I was amazed at any new features just above a cup holder. This is me.... "wow these keys come with one of them new fangled buttons that locks and beeps."

Gretchen purs like a kitten, rides like a cadi, and drives like a race car.... I think I love her.

Office Space

It's the strangest thing.... in my years so far in the corporate world, I have found that the head honchos of any corporation have no etiquette what so ever. At my last job, my monster of a Marketing Director was the biggest slob I have ever met. His shirt was always wrinkled, he chewed with his mouth open, and his desk was always covered with old crusty cookie crumbs. I did not understand how someone with who was making a six figure salary could have such crude behavior, especially one that lived in Japan, a country that has manners and etiquette ingrained into every aspect of the culture!

So today at my current job, it was one of our head honchos last days. In honor of his last day, someone went to Toast and picked up some cupcakes to celebrate his departure. After he did a little speech, a few of us were standing around chatting and he proceeded to reach towards me (at which point I am confused for what he is reaching for) and takes a chunk of my chocolate cupcake with his fingers and then eats it! Who does this?! Even if Tony did that I would be disgusted but someone in management.. come on?! That's like having someone lick your slice of pizza or stick their finger in your jar of peanut butter!!! I don't get it if it was supposed to be an endearing thing... where we are like family and he felt it was okay to do since we are all so "close?" Or maybe it was a "this is my last day so I can do whatever I want thing." Regardless, it was nasty and ruined the appeal of my chocolate cupcake with chocolate sprinkles. I don't even think Lumbergh would have done such a disgrace to Milton! LUMBERGH!

Hollywood Freaks in the Hollywood Scene

Last night I attended a UCB show of my very talented and very funny friend Mary Catherine. I felt silly going over to the hipster side of Hollywood dressed in my work clothes (most people who attend UCB dress like they are in a "my sneakers are cooler then yours" competition) but I sucked it up drove east. I stopped at a mediocre Sushi place next to the theatre, ate dinner alone for the first time in 3 years (which was actually quite relaxing and enjoyable.. no offense honey) and stared at the huge Scientology Celebrity Center mansion in all it's creepy glory. Afterwards, I picked up a cookie from the sceney coffee shop two doors down, where the barista spoke with a very cunning British accent and I wondered if he was really British or was just some actor rehearsing for a minor role in a Dyson commercial. From there I wondered into the every growing line which I didn't expect at all for a Monday, ate my cookie and read The Onion quietly while I waited to enter the Theatre.

Now, every time I have gone to UCB, I am usually with a group of people talking and not really noticing my surroundings. What a fucking scene that place is! Every person in line was a wanna be comedian/actor but of the extreme case.. I'm talking high school president of the drama club times 10! I mean these people were worse than talent agents, kissing the cheeks of every fellow UCB class mate, interrupting each other every other word to try and top each other with a funnier or wittier comment. I mean I just wanted to stand up on a chair and yell "IT'S OKAY PEOPLE, EACH ONE OF YOU ARE BRILLIANTLY FUNNY AND LOVED" while simultaneously shoving Xanex down their throats. All I could think was just let me in so I can see my very funny friend MCand can stop listening to you crazies, and THANK GOD I don't work at Innovative anymore where I had to deal with people like you on a daily basis!