Back in NYC

I am back from Texas! The trip went well and I am glad that my family had the chance to meet my boyfriend. However, about an hour after we landed I lost my wallet! I think it is in the trunk of a cab somewhere but the cab company charges you $14.99 to report something to their lost and found so I am just cancelling all of my cards and having them replaced. I think that the odds of honest people finding my stuff are very slim and I don't want to pay for the hope that someone might return my things.

Packing

I am packing up and getting ready for my trip to Texas! Tomorrow morning my boyfriend and I are leaving NY for a few days to visit my family in the Lone Star State. We are taking the super shuttle to the airport because it is cheaper than a cab and my family is taking care of the entertainment portion of the trip so that won't cost us anything. The only thing I will be paying for on our trip is a haircut.

I will be gone for a couple of days but I will be back with wonderful tales of the south very soon!

Anti-Thanksgiving

Today a friend of mine is having an anti-thanksgiving party where we all bring junk food instead of eating delicious homemade food. It should be a blast!

But before that I have a free ticket to the performance in Carnegie Hall today! I am so very excited about that and I love things that are free! Hurrah for free things!

Underpants

Whoo...I learned today not to wear a thong and a dress in freezing weather! I am not wearing anything but granny panties and pants again until April. I love the cold though so it is worth it.

It's Diet Time

My clothes are getting a bit snug. I have been spending too much time and money in restaurants here lately! I can't help it because my boyfriend is so cute and it is nice to have the time to spend with him but from now on we will do non-food things together. I can't gain back the weight I've lost since I moved to the city!

Sleepy

I am so tired this weekend! I can't figure out why I am so exhausted. I think maybe it is because I've spent so much time on the subway...my boyfriend lives at the far end of Brooklyn and I live at the far end of Manhattan so it takes about an hour and a half to get to his place. I went out there Friday night and then again on Saturday to help him set up his computer and to take his PS2 and his cable box (he is studying for the LSATs and asked me to take anything that could be a distraction to him.) I am going to take a long bubble bath after I finish doing laundry and I will be sure to take a multi-vitamin so that I am awake and alert for work tomorrow.

Grocery Shopping

Yesterday I went to the grocery store. Most everything I bought was on sale or I had a coupon for it. I had some extra coupons I wasn't going to use so I left them by their items in case other people wanted them.

So Busy

I have been so busy lately! I have a lot going on with my new job and I have been spending a lot of time with a friend of mine from London who is in town for the week as well. I have barely slept! I am going to go to bed super early tonight.

I washed a small load of laundry by hand and it is hanging to drip dry in the bathroom right now. I am going to make dinner and take leftovers for lunch tomorrow. I am also going to return my library stuff tomorrow too...I have been renewing it online to avoid fines but I really do need to return everything tomorrow.

Comedy Show

Last night my boyfriend and I went to see a comedy show. They were handing out discount passes on the street so we went in and saw some very funny comedians and then we got free admission to the dueling piano bar next door. It was a lot of fun and it wasn't too expensive.

I Hate Spanx

The other day I was at the store and I saw them selling Spanx. For those of you who don't know what Spanx are they are footless pantyhose that are designed to basically smooth out your body to prevent panty lines and cellulite from showing through your clothes. They had them on sale at the Lane Bryant where they were showing a video of various stars, from Jessica Alba to Queen Latifah, who were all on the red carpet extolling the virtues of Spanx.

I looked down at my thighs and thought, "Self, you are super sexy but a little smoothing out wouldn't hurt anything. That would be a much more professional look for work too...having your coworkers see your panty lines is just not appropriate!"

Then I looked at the price. $28 for pantyhose! These had better be freaking magical pantyhose for $28! I put them down and started to walk away but then I caught the video out of the corner of my eye again. The women all looked so smooth and elegant. I want to look smooth and elegant! So I picked up a package, verified that they were the correct size according to the chart on the back and bought them so that I too could appear cellulite free because these did indeed appear to be magical pantyhose.

Flash forward to this morning when I am getting ready for work. I pull out the package of Spanx and open them, getting ready to be the sleek, smooth woman I am told I can be by the outside of the package. These were special Spanx too, designed to cover love handles and such on your tummy as well so I was super excited.

They were maybe 18 inches long and 5 or 6 inches wide. I looked down at my ass and laughed at the thought that I would be able to squeeze into that but then I thought about my smooth, streamlined figure and I proceeded to force myself into them. (If you want the appropriate mental image, imagine squeezing all of the toothpaste out of the tube and then trying to put it back in again.) It took about 10 minutes but I finally got them on properly before I discovered the pee hole. That's right, they knew that it would be so difficult to get in and out of Spanx that they added a hole in the crotch so you don't have to take them off to pee. Better line everything up correctly though or you will spend the rest of the day in urine soaked pantyhose!

Well, I wasn't going to pee through the pee hole but they will still serve their purpose right? I walked around for a minute or two to see how they would react over the course of the day and found that the legs rolled up and the top rolled down any time I bent at the waist. So now here I am in the world's most expensive pantyhose dealing with rolling up ends and a pee hole.

I took them off and put on normal undergarments before I went to work because I am not insane. But now I am pissed as hell because these are the most expensive pantyhose ever and I can't return them now that I opened them so I am basically out $28 for 10 minutes of tormenting myself this morning.

The Election

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!

My New Job

I started my new job today! It went very well and I have a good feeling about this place. Hopefully it will work out to be some place I can spend the next few years.

I got to thinking today about the decisions I made and how I ended up getting this job. I quit my last job out of anger and frustration without having anything else in hand. This led me to take a crappy job for really low McWages because they would pay for my health insurance license in New York so I knew I would be able to use that elsewhwere. I used that license to get the job I started today at more than twice what I was earning at the other company.

I also met my new roommate there! She also just took a job because she needed the cash while she looked for something better and we just happened to each need a new roommate. The choice to do something that I knew wasn't what I wanted to do because it would lead me someplace better dramatically improved my life in a matter of months. Taking that crappy job was the best decision I've made in a long time.