Maggie having surgery today

OH! I can't believe I didn't mention this: We took Maggie have surgery today. The week before Thanksgiving, she was playing at the dog park and must have turned wrong- she tore her ACL on her left leg. My little football player. Anyways, no doggie in the house today- it's weird. We won't pick her up until after 3 tomorrow! Poor Mags.

Back? Fer REAL???! Naahh....

Ok, I'm not making ANY promises this time! Especially since I've been using Facebook over the last month. Addicting, time consuming... plus I'm hoping to start a new job soon and with that, get back to Bikram since it would be nearby. I'm waiting to get an offer after my second interview this last Tuesday.

So let's see...what has happened since my last update in Feb? We moved into that phat pad I mentioned before- we have amazing amenities, a penthouse view (not to mention the view from our actual apartment), lots of space... VERY posh. We're actually saving money by doing it, too!

About the job... Well, I'd had my fill of the studio, and found out about another studio that had opened up right near my place. Lots of interviews, phone calls, details discussed- including a start date... about a week after I put in my two weeks, they moved my start date to Jan. After much going back and forth, I realized that the job wasn't actually available due to the unstable position Publishing has been in. I immediately asked a friend about his new job and lucked into an interview.

It's not in Publishing which is great! I was originally supposed to move to NY and not stay in Publishing as long as I did. I wanted to work at the studio long enough to get my bearings on the city and find a job doing something different using what I know. So, 4 years later, I have even more mad skilz (yes, I just wrote that) and I'm hoping to start work as a "Senior Producer", or uber-Project Manager, pretty much what I've been doing over the last 11 years of my life.

I'm going to be 37 this year! I want to make sure I get into something new now before I get too old! I'm going to be competing against 20 somethings who will have more energy and work for cheap. I need to breathe new life and work my way up into something I love! So, that being said, wish me luck! It's been two days and I haven't heard a thing back.

NEW PLACE!

We'll be moving into the SICKEST PAD I've ever lived in! Eric, Rohan, Dave and I are splitting a 3 story, 4 bedroom 4 bath condo in Newport starting next week! I'll post photos once we get in and settled... I'll have 2-3 cams (SO excited) of amazing NYC views and one of the park below.

I cant even tell you how crazy cool this is going to be!!!!!!!

IKEA in slow motion

So I was surfing through the IKEA website, checking out what kinds of new things have popped up. They did a seriously cool thing to show some bedroom setups. Click here and sift through the slow-motion videos with a sense of humor. I hope they make commercials out of these. Very cool.

Note: The first one is just ok- be sure to click "change bedroom" at the bottom right.

Not a bad weekend!

Not that the 3-day weekend caught me up on all my sleep, but it sure did help enough! I stayed in all day Saturday while Dave wondered into the city in the glorious weather and visited the NY Historical Society.

A cool photo out of the bus window on his way there...


Sunday, we decided to finally get new cell phones. Away with the mysterious restarts, pulling the battery out in order to get it unfrozen and crappy battery life! We both got the "enV" phones. They have GPS navigation, a music mp3 player, they have super photo and video quality, and a full key pad for texting, downloading videos and surfing the web! Quite the upgrade for us! I also bought one of those blue tooth ear buds so I can join the army of people appearing to have a discussion with themselves while walking down the street.

Sunday night we went over to Tamara and Kevin's place for a hell of a party! (I'm still hungover Monday night at 10pm!) Lots of incriminating photos and even more videos! There was a dance-off, a weird stomach baring incident with Andrew, and a TON of laughter. We missed our last train, so we ended up staying there with everyone else overnight. In the morning, it looked like a bunch of homeless people had invaded Tam and Kevin's apartment. I also feel sorry for the neighbors...

Rohan, Dave and Kevin


A few people from the group, a little while before things got weird....


HERE'S where it starts to get weird...

Dave's "Dance of a Thousand Fools"

Back to work. I even need to still send a status to a client tonight before I go to bed. Agh.

Sewing?

It's been so, very very long since I've had the time or energy keep up something creative. With this 3-day weekend, I'm catching up on my much-needed sleep and investigating a few things that inspire me.

I've decided to take a sewing class. I've had an idea stirring in my head for about a year, and I need to remember how to use a sewing machine again!

Happy Valentine's Day! <3

Iphone photo

Here's a great photo I just found on one of my favorite photo blogs,
Trevor Little:

Public iPhone in the East Village

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The Newest in Newport, NJ

Yesterday was cold and gloomy. Eric Dave and I walked over to Komagashi Too for a happy sushi power lunch!

Afterwards, we walked over by the skating rink to peek in the window of the soon-to-open Morton Williams grocery store that we CAN'T WAIT for! It looks like it's going to be huge! It's stuck right in between The Shore condos and across from the new Aquablù residential building. All right outside our front door. This area is growing so fast! Very, VERY exciting.

Here's a photo off the 9th floor by the tennis courts for The Shore. The left side is the newest extension of The Shore condo building. The right is part of the new AuqaBlù building, to open sometime in 2010, I believe.
(Notice how cold and crummy it is outside)

Eric joining the household!

Finally some very good news: Eric will be moving in with us for 2-3 months, either at the end of Feb or March! We asked if he would, since he's looking to move out of his place and his lease is coming up, and we're all looking pay a bunch of bills off and save as well... there's an awful lot going on at work and we want to have a cushion should anything happen.

We've all lived together before and it should work out great. (Famous last words, right?) ;)

Dave is still sleeping after staying up partying until 3am with Eric. I couldn't make it past midnight!