Off To Ohio!

So I'm off to Ohio today for the long weekend to celebrate Ellis's 3rd birthday. Ohio, if you would have told me 3 years ago that I would end up moving there, hating it and moving back to NY and never being able to live near my family, I never would have believed you. But here I am about to head out to LGA for yet another flight to the lovely midwest. Well I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles. But it's already going to be a jammed packed weekend and I'll be there until wednesday afternoon. Seeing madagascar with Ellis tomm, baseball game with him on Sunday, babysitting him on Monday, we may go to the park or Chuck E Cheese, depending on the weather, and then his birthday on Tuesday following by Mom's birthday on wednesday. So we'll have brunch before I go to the airport.

Grandma is coming too. But she's flying in from Newark, so I will meet up with her when we both land in Detroit. Here's hoping for on-time flights for both of us. I'm heading out of the office at 3:15, and would you believe the copy chief today, said oh you're leaving at 3:15, did you come in at 9? Are you fucking kidding me. I was here 2 hours late on both tuesday and wednesday. And I am leaving fifteen minutes early today! OMG!!!! But I have to let this one just roll off the back. It's pure insanity. But I don't even care, Steph approved it days ago, so whatever.

My tv season is officially over, but I still have tons of shows on Tivo that I haven't had time to watch. And after that, it's welcome to the summer of reality tv. Of course, I always get sucked into Big Brother! It's just such a trainwreck!

Oh My God, Vaughn!

Spoiler alert! If you haven't watched the Lost and Alias finales beware. Because boy were they fantastic. It's funny the 2 hours of Lost were so good, but I was disappointed in the ending. And then with Alias, the first half was nothing special and then that end, oh my god. Vaughn says that it wasn't an accident that Syd came to his office when she first came to the CIA with her story about SD-6 and that his name isn't Michael Vaughn. And then smash! A car bashed into their car. OMG! What the hell is that? Is Vaughn dead? Who is Vaugh. Poor Syd! So much!! And to think they were in Santa Barbara, exchanging I love you's and planning to elope. Me being the romantic sap that I am was like, oh everything wrapped up and they're going to elope on the beach with music playing in the background. But no! How can we possibly wait until September to find all of this out. And now that Jennifer Garner is preggers, how will they even do things next season.

And then on the 2-hour Lost, so much happened. Couldn't believe it when Arntz blew up. My fave line of the night.
Hurley: Hey Jack, you've got some Arntz on you". I just Hurley. I loved seeing him and all the others in all the flashbacks, but what is up with these numbers. It all has to mean something right? And then the Others! I knew when Danielle stole the baby, and the Others didn't want him. It meant that they wanted the other boy. But when something popped up on the radar of Michael and crew's boat, I never thought it was them. I just knew it couldn't be good. Because if they got rescued, the show would be over. And the Others arrived and took the boy, Walt! And was that a teenage girl I saw on the boat. Could that be Danielle's daughter, Alex? And was Sawyer shot? So many questions. But then I expected this huge ending, but after they blew open the hatch, we just saw this deep long ladder underneath it? That's it. I expected more than that.

I'm off to Ohio to see the family tomorrow. It's my nephew Ellis's birthday on Tuesday. He'll be 3. Boy does time fly. So I'll be there friday night till wednesday. 3 days off from work! Wahhooo! I'm thinking of taking Ellis to see Madagascar. And we're also going to a baseball game. Fun! But I did promise the girls that I would read, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, on the flight. Since the weekend when I come back is the opening of the movie. I usually bring lots of mags to read. So we shall see.

Well I have this passions synopsis calling out to me, but I am still so full from the pizza that I just scarfed down. It's the big boss, Lynn's, birthday tomorrow. But since Lynn doesn't work on friday, we have pizza today and we are celebrating with treats today at 4. And I did my best to bake. I bought rice krispies and marshmallows and was making my usual treats during Lost last night. But they didn't come out good for some reason, so I didn't bring them in. And I was going to run out and buy some, but Vozzo, Lynn's assistant, told not to even bother, since most people never ever bring stuff in. Oh well. Well back to work .....

Kelly Rocks!

So I went with Erica to see Kelly Clarkson in concert in Central Park on Saturday. And she rocked the house. But before we got to enjoy that show. We had to get on this line to get in that went for like 10 blocks. That's the one thing I hate about general admission concerts. Waiting to get in and getting packed in with no seats. But it wasn't bad at all, we got a good spot. And she just rocked. I love her. And so weird it was actually my third time seeing her. After the Idol tour and her tour with Clay. But I feel bad, you can totally tell she was sick when she couldn't hit those high notes.

My stress of the week: Our lease at the apt. expires at the end of the summer. And the roomie has been thinking about buying a condo and not resigning, especially if the rent goes up. So here I go again having to find a new roomie. But at least it's my place and it's a great pad. Or do I just take this opportunity if it happens and move into the city. I guess I should worry about this when and if it happens. But that's me, always pre-stressing. I guess worse comes to worse, I find a cool new roomie to move in. There are other cool roomies out there in Hoboken, right?

Then Sunday was the return of Desperate Sundays. It was so fun hanging with the crew again. And they killed off Rex on the ending of Housewives. I was so sad. But now I am hearing rumblings that he might not really be dead. And I heard that the evil pharmacist will be a regular next season.

Last night, I just came home and chilled and thoroughly enjoyed the season finale of Everwood. All my shows are ending as of tomorrow night. Everwood was soo good. My new favorite tv couple is Bright and Hannah! They are the cutest. But how are they gonna work when Hannah is saving herself for marriage and Bright is all about the nookie (Bad fred durst reference). And Andy and Nina were so cute. But hello Bailey just moved in with her!

Today will be craziness at work, all these emmy pages to get out. So back to the grind.

TGIF!

Boy am I glad this week is over. I was so in a bad mood today. Tonight is the daytime emmy's and the one thing that bugs me about my job is that us lowly copy editors don't get to go. I've been working there over 3 years. I would like to go once. But that didn't put me in the bad mood, that was when most of the office got to leave to either get ready for the emmys or just go home and us people at Digest had to work the full day. I was fuming. Weekly sent people home early. But not us because my supervisor is incapable of making a decision like that.

Well anyways, it's now the weekend. And I just finished watching the Emmys after having dinner and starbucks and shopping at the Gap with Kenny. Eden Riegel won! Yeah, I'm so happy for her and GH won best show. But I wanted Alexa to win over Eden. But oh well. Eden deserves it. I'm off to see Kelly Clarkson with Erica tommorrow. I'm psyched. Hopefully the weather holds up.

Tonight was a great week of TV. Between the shocking Rory/Lorelai fights on Gilmore, to the shocking end to the OC this week. So much to discuss. There's Lost and Alias too. My shows are just so good. Vaughn proposed to Sydney this week. I love them. This show is just too good. And Lost wow, so much happened. I love all the mini flashbacks. Next wednesday will be a doozy, 2 hours of idol, 2 hours of lost and 1 hour of alias. Ridiculous. And they announced the new fall schedules this week. Just a few new shows I want to check out. But they messed with the lineups. Moved Veronica up against Lost. And Thursdays at 8 are ridiculous. Survivor, W&G, OC, Alias and Smallville all at the same time. That is messed up. Oh well.

I Want A Doggie!

I miss my doggies. Their names are Bailey and Daisy. Bailey is a mutt, half saint bernard, half something else. He is 6 years old. Daisy is a full beast of saint bernard. She is 4 years old. They are the cutest and sweetest dogs ever. I haven't see them since February. But I'll be visiting the fam a week from friday, so I can't wait. So me and Adena are looking into becoming foster mommies to a doggie. We love dogs and since she works so close to home, it would totally work. I see people walking their dogs and I want one! So who knows?

But anyways, another busy weekend has passed on. We all went out for happy hour on friday night. It was me, Ken, Erica, Dorothy, Pilar and Alexa. It was fun. Except I got a little pissy because they ragged that I was late meeting up, but all was fine later. And Ken and Erica and I went to see Monster in Law with my hottie, Michael Vartan. The movie was sooo funny. I was laughing my ass off. I liked it even more than I expected to. Then after a relaxing saturday just chilling, Adena and I decked ourselves out for Drew's big 80's party. With our funky hairdos and crazy makeup, we were ready to go. And Drew kicked the partie's asses in the 80s trivia game. But it was all in good fun.

Then Sunday was a fun shopping day with my girls, Dorothy and Erica. We find Erica a hot dress for the Emmy's this friday and the giels played personal shopper to me and I got a beige flowy skirt and turquoise top from Banana. It was a fun day, but we need to do it again since I need more cute spring outfits. Today was back to the grind and a typical monday of my boss driving me crazy, same ol, same ol!

Everwood was soooo good tonight. So sad. Pooooor Rose. They'd better not kill her off. It was bad enough when they had Andy do Colin's surgery and then he ended up dying. Now it looks like he'll do Rose's surgery too. But Ephram is being such an ass. I can't believe he actually left for Europe when look what his best friend and ex-girlfriend are going through. But I am loving Bright and Hannah! They kiss next week! yeah!!! The cutest!!!

Alarm Clocks Suck!

So, I open my eyes today and didn't awaken to the booming sound to my alarm clock. Which usually makes me think it's the weekend. But it wasn't, it was 9:20 and I have overslept. So I zoomed, got ready and boomed out the door. And walked in at 10:30. Whew! But at least it's the weekend. And it's going to be a busy one, which is always good.

Off with the gals from work for Happy Hour near Dorothy's. And the supposed to meet up the roomie at a Jazz Bar in the city later on. So I am tempted to go see Monster-in-Law with Ken and Erica tonight. I was supposed to go see it with Jody tonight, but she couldn't make it. And I need my Varty fix. Michael Vartan that is. But Jody is still planning to come up on Thursday, so I can just see it 2x.

Then tomorrow I plan to veg out and then prepare for the 80's party that I am going to at Adena's b-friend Drew's place. And then shopping with Dorothy and Erica on Sunday. If only, the weather was holding up better! Then next week Stars Wars w/ Ken, Kelly Clarkson Concert w/ Erica and the Desperate Finale night with the Boys. And then it's practically memorial day and I am off to see the fam in the OH for Ellis's 3rd Birthday. Whew! What a crazy May.

Last night, me and the roomie went to this jewish event in Hoboken celebreated Israel's anniversary. It was okay, then we headed home and watched last week's OC. I'm so OC behind still. I guess since the new season ends soon, I will be catching up on everything. And all the show are sooo good in May Sweeps. I loved Lost and Alias this week.

On Lost, the backstory was all about Kate. And I am so intrigued by her. We know she's on the run and now we know that her mom is scared of her? But why?? All this mystery! And then on Alias, this fake Sloane stuff is so intriguing. I actually was feeling for Sloane! He is so evil, but poor Sloane losing that baby. And I loved seeing Emily! And the previews for next week, Vaughn proposes!!! AHHHHHH!!

I love Springtime!

I love this weather. It's been such nice weather all week so far. I knew on Monday that I was planning to work out in my building's gym during Everwood. But then as I was walking home, I thought hey maybe I would just go for a run. But then laziness took over and just stuck to my original plan. And did the work out during Everwood. And Everwood was full of such sadness. At the end, poor Rose couldn't feel her legs. AH! But that Ephram needs an attitude adjustment. Yeah, it sucks. But the attitude has gotta go. Have fun in Europe, bud! Last night, I had a doc appt. so I didn't get home until just before 8pm. And then the roomie was like as I walked in, go get changed. I'm like, huh? Bellydancing at Lacey's she says. I'm like, huh? She's like, don't you remember, we're working out with Lacey tonight. Well I totally forgot and I hadn't eaten and I had to see the Mars finale and Idol. So she went and I just hunkered down with a delicion tuna fish sandwich.

As for Idol, what was up with my girl Carrie. She was just not feeling it tonight. I thought everyone was off. I liked Bo's second song, same as V and Anthony. But the first ones, ugh. Well, I did get 3 votes for Carrie. So here's hoping it's V or Anthony who goes tonight. Even though I really like everyone, who is left.

Then it was time for the finale of Veronica Mars. OH MY FREAKING GOD. So fantastic. If people are not watching this show, they are missing out. But the DVD is coming out this summer, so get on it. I love Kristen Bell. She just rocks. But Harry Hamlin was Lily's killer and they were having sex! EW! Dorothy was right. His face on the sex video. That is just one image that I don't need to have emblazed in my memory. But OMG, the stuff at the end. Harry was in her car, AHH! Then she crashes the car gets away and he gets her, locks her in a freezer and sets it on fire. Could this get any better? Now we must wait till September for more.

Well more great shows tonight, Lost and Alias! Let's hope closing day goes well.

Too Many Buses!

Okay, I took too many buses this weekend. After a fun night at our usual Mexican place to celebrate Erica's roomie, Heather's 25th birthday on Friday. I just chilled out all day Saturday and tried to catch up on my TIVO backlog. I watched some soaps, Veronica Mars, OC. But of course I am still backlogged. Still 4 weeks behind on Veronica. But I will watch the finale live tomorrow, I must! Anyways, so the buses began on Saturday night when I went to hang out with my friend Leslie at her new pad. It's at 116th Street and Riverside. And after taking the bus from Hoboken to the city, and then jumping on the subway. It took me an hour. But we had fun. Leslie's college roomie Jared met up with us. And we went out to dinner and just chilled. Jared was trying to help Leslie put together a TV cabinet for her new apartment. But she needed a screwdriver, duh. Once that got settled. Jared got to work. It was fun seeing Jared since we all went to Umass together. And now he just moved to NY and found an apartment in Jersey City. FUN! So while I was up at Leslie's, my roomie Adena called and was out at some bar in Hoboken with her boyfriend and some of his friends. So I left Leslie's at 11:45, got to Hoboke at 12:45 to meet her at Maxwell's. Well, me being a little tired, I got off the bus at 14th and Washington. When the bar was actually at 11th and Washington. So after my little stroll, paying a 5 dollar cover and purchasing a draft cider. We started rocking out to this oldies cover band. And the lead singer was CRAZY! He started singing that song, "Peanut Butter". And started eating peanut butter out of this jar while he sang. And then wanted people to eat peanut butter off his finger. EWWW! So an hour later, we were outta there. I did need to get to my grandmother's house in Marlboro, New Jersey the next day. So after finally hitting the sack at almost 3am, I was up before noon to head to grandma's. And getting ready for that outing is never easy. Grandma always like to comment on what we wear. So it took some planning. And you know what I need, to go spring shopping? All my cute tops, I'd worn to grandma's recently. So I borrowed this cute top from my roomie that she wore to our party the previous week. With my GAP jeans, it was really cute. So I headed out toward the Hoboken bus stop. Yes, more buses. And hit the Hoboken flower shop at 1pm. It was crazy there. I got the last of the good stuff they had left. I had already sent mom and grandma flowers for mother's day, but I needed to pick up a bouquet for my aunt, since we were having dinner at her house. And then once I was done, the Hoboken bus didn't come for 20 minutes. So I finally got to Port Authority, got on a 2:30 bus and was on my way. Flowers and all. Mother's day dinner was nice. Grandma liked her birthday gift I brought her since her birthday is thursday. I blew up this picture of her with all her grandkids and Ellis. Of course, she teared up. Then I escaped the bus for my ride home. My cousin Meredith and her hubby Malek who lives in the city gave me a ride home! YEAH!

I've Been Slacking

Wow, I haven't posed since Tuesday night. I've been slacking. It's been almost 3 days. Wow, lots of report. Wednesday was a typical closing day here at the Digest. I was here until 7. And of course, there was something going on that I was just too wiped to attend. Craig and Jason are off to Europe for 4 days, so they were all going out to give them a proper send-off. But I am always so wiped on Wednesday nights to do anything. Seems like everything gets planned for Wednesdays, things in Hoboken are always going on Wednesdays too. So I just went home and arrived just as LOST began.

LOST was fantastic as usual. So much to discuss Jack freaking out on Locke, Kate drugging him. I just love them together. But everyone just knows that Sawyer and Kate are going to end up hooking up before Kate and Jack do. They did already share that seedy kiss early in the season. But I loved Kate drugging Jack so he would finally get some sleep. She rocks. And then Sawyer's voice being the only noise that would calm Kate's new baby, Charlie called the baby turnip head since they still didn't have a name? How about demon seed? And Hurley always cracks me up. Trying to sing to the baby and then when that didn't work, Hurley was like, "That's all I got". And poor Shannon, she is upset over her brother's death. I can't wait till she tells Sayid, about her and Boone's true relationship.

Then onto my other fave, ALIAS. Yea, it's not the same as always. I'm not as obsessed as I always was. But it's still so great. I loved how the whole misson was about saving Jack. Poor Syd. Having to impersonate her mother and wow that doctor of Jack's was all a hallucination. I love when these shows shock me, especially since everyone knows, I am spoiler hore.

And there was so much more TV. And it was all about IDOL. SCOTT SAVOL IS GONE! YES, FINALLY! And I like this final 4, of course, I would have rathered Constantine be up there instead of Anthony. But still it's a good final 4. Go Carrie! And then there was that Primetime Special all about Corey Clark and Paula Abdul. And yes, he is doing this to get attention and be famous, and he is so skeazy. But I buy his story. How would he know where Paula lived? How would he have medicine prescribed to her? How would he have phone records from her? Who knows what really went on. But I of course love this salicious stuff. And now I've been hearing rumors that Constantine and her also had a thing. OH constantine!

So, last night was Cinco de Mayo. And it was a fun night. First, my bud Mandy came to visit the Digest office. It was so good to see her. Even thought she only stopped working here two weeks ago. But it feels like forever. And then the two of us went to have dinner together and Chevy's. It was so fun. And so great to just hang out outside of work and just chat. But it went by so quickly. And then it was off to Hoboken, to go home and change, and head out with roomie Adena and our friend Adrienne for Cinco de Mayo. But then we're trying to leave and the Nana episode of THE OC kept pulling us in. Seth Cohen got dragged into a spring break contest with some chick, and then that chick's boyfriend was gonna bust him up. Hysterical. So we finally leave, meet up with our friend Adrienne and two of her buds at the mile square cafe and then Tazzo. Tazzo was this really cool lounge-y bar with great sangria. It was a fun, chill night just chatting. And I got home by 11:15. But boy was I buzzing. From just, two glasses of sangria and an apple martini. And tonight begins a busy weekend. Birthday dinner for Erica's roomate Heather, dinner with Leslie tomm night and finally get to see her new pad and Mother's day BBQ with grandma, aunt, uncle and cousins. But I'll miss seeing Mom.

TV on Tuesdays

TV on Tuesdays is just out of control. Gilmore Girls and American Idol at 8, and Amazing Race, Veronica Mars and One Tree Hill at night. And do you know how many of those I watched tonight, none! Tonight was my last night of belly dancing class. But we're starting the immediate group in two weeks. Yowzers. And then our friend from class, Lacey, came over to drink some left over margaritas from our BYOC party and hang. And we ended up watching House, this crazy show on Fox that Lacey just raves about. And it was weird. It was like ER to the extreme. And meanwhile, all my other shows were either Tivoing or recording on the VCR. LOL. But our last belly dancing class tonight was so fun! We were working these cool scarves and doing all these cool moves. Definitely my favorite class to date. But now I am officially 3 weeks behind on Gilmore and 5 weeks behind on Veronica Mars. Yes, as Dorothy tells me, it's out of control.

Otherwise, the rest of the day was nothing too eventful. Just busy at work working on this special issue. As well as trying to finish an issue at Digest that closes tomorrow. But I miss my copy buddy Mandy. It's so quiet over by me without her.

Well I'd better get back to the phone. I've been trying to get in some votes for Carrie tonight even though I didn't see it. But it's busy, busy. My mom was just on the phone telling me how great Bo is and she's calling for him. That Scott needs to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BYOC Party

What fun we had on Saturday night. We invited everyone ever to our BYOC Party: Bring Your Own Cards, to celebrate the end of Passover. Even though Passover technically ended on Sunday night. Oh well, I do my best. I spent most of Saturday running around, getting around and setting everything up with the roomie. Wilkofsky and Vozzo were the first to arrive right at 7:30 and she brought me such pretty flowers and awesome chocolate covered pretzels. And then the food just kept coming and coming. Dorothy made Mac and Cheese in our apartment. So good. And Ken made this awesome cake. But the amount food we had was insane. Cookies, cakes, brownies, pizzas, it went on and on and on. The amount of leftovers we still have is out of control. But we had so much fun. Just hanging out with all my friends, having some drinks, dancing. I really have the best friends. That's what I have to tell myself when I get lonely about my family being so far away and always being single. I need to find a boyfriend. But I've always been so shy with guys. It's not so easy when I am going to be 29 soon. Ugh so old. But anyways, my friends left around 1 and then we started playing Outburt Remix later so fun. Didn't go to sleep till 4am. Whew!

Then on Sunday, boy was I tired. I was up by noon. We did some cleaning. And then hit from Hoboken Arts and Musica Festival from 4-6pm. The food was amazing. I had a chocolate, banana and strawberries crepe. I also had a mozzarepa and some taste testing of other items. MMMMMM. But boy was I wiped. Fell asleep from 6:30-8. And then was alert and ready just in time for DH. But I am still so tired today!!!! Arggh! But what a great weekend!

Is it Sunday already?

Boy has this weekend flown by. We had our Break Passover party last night and it was alot of fun. But more on that later. Friday night, me and Ken had date night. We hadn't gone out , just me and him in probably at least a month. So it was fun, just chatting and catching up. But it still being Passover, made our dinner options scarce. No seafood, no bread. Limiting. So we walk from our office in midtown, down to union square, all the way down to a cool bar and grill in the West Village. I think it was called Buster's. It was nice and relaxing evening. When I got home, I still had straightening up to do and making up our buckets of cosmo and margarita slushies for the big festivities the next night. More to come on that later. We're cleaning the apartment now and then it's off to check out the Hoboken Arts and Musical festival, it only runs for 3 more hours!