happy new year (eve)!

I'm currently sitting at home waiting for the GE service guy to come fix my washing machine (again) so that I can do laundry. While I do so, I'm watching the Today show, and they are talking about the New Year Wishing Wall - I LOVE IT! People write new years wishes on official times square confetti and it's all stapled to a wall. At midnight tonight each wish becomes part of actual Times Square confetti raining upon the millions of people out celebrating! Wish I had known so that I could participate - they've been collecting them in Times Square the last ten days. Oh well.

Countless Yankees game, three Penn State road trips, two Giants game, and one pair of Pradas later, I am ready for 2008! Everyone have a happy and safe new year :)

year in review

Where does the time go? 2007 is coming to an end but it went by so fast! A lot of things happened this year. I accomplished something big at work and ended the year on a high note by starting a new and exciting adventure with a new job. I met a boy who thus far a) has not gotten tired of me and my stupidity (yet) and b) I have not gotten bored of. This is an enormous feat when it comes to me, believe me. I've made lots of great friends, had lots of fun football outings, survived my first full year as a single homeowner - all in all it's been a good year.

Had a lovely holiday as always, complete with cool gifts. This includes a pimped out mini dirt devil that I love to zoom around my apt and zap up crumbs and dirt with - yes, I'm a dork like that. No new years eve plans thus far, but 2 out of 3 of my last new years were planned and executed in the final hours of the year and turned out just fine, so I'm not worried.

As for tv, well there was lots of good and bad this year. And there is a lot of football to be watched over the next few days, so this is how I'll end the year. Bye bye to 2007. I'll see you in '08 - Happy new year!

Merry Xmas Eve!

With the holiday usually comes a lapse in tv. Most shows are in reruns and only a handful of reality shows are still going - at last check, I think Amazing Race and Project Runway are the only ones that I care about.

So that means break time for me too. Happy Holidays!

Most Fascinating

Who are the ten most fascinating people of 2007? Well, according to Barbara Walters:

First up, my boy JT! Oh, how I love my Justin Timberlake and he's had quite a year... quite a life actually! From Brit to Cameron and now Jessica Biel. That's my boy. Fascinating, indeed.

Bill Clinton... eh.

The founders of MySpace. Isn't this like, so 2006?

Katherine Hiegl. I'm pretty much the only person on this planet that has never gotten into Grey's Anatomy, so I guess that's why I just don't get this. She has also in Knocked Up, which I did not see. It appears I am missing out on some fascinating stuff.

Don Imus. What a character. Eight months off the air, but he's baaaack!

Jennifer Hudson. American Idol, Dreamgirls, an Oscar... not too shabby.

Victoria & David Beckham - one of the hottest couples known to mankind. A soccer hottie and Spice Girl together making hundreds of millions of dollars. Oh to be part of the Beckham empire..

Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela. He chugs 20 cups of coffee a day and calls George W. Bush a donkey. HAHA.

And the most fascinating person of 2007? J.K. Rowling. Great, figures Barbara Walters would pick the super famous writer of a series that I've never read. Yeah that's right, I've never read a single Harry Potter book. Haven't seen all the movies either. Does that make me a bad person?

yummy

New discovery of the day: Food Network now broadcasts in HD! I can now watch all my awesome favorite food shows in high def. Yay!

feathers

Yesterday I very happily inherited my brother's almost brand new fluffy Ralph Lauren goose down comforter - he said he didn't like it because there were too many feathers flying around everywhere. I don't mind the feathers and I LOVE the comforter. I also finally now own a fancy humidifier that my mom bought for me from Bed Bath and Beyond, to soothe my very dry and scratchy throat and stuffy sinuses. As a testament to just how much these two items have improved my sleep conditions and comfort level - I didn't get out of bed until almost 11:30am this morning! I haven't slept that late in quite a while, so clearly my body is hurting from this nasty cold I've had for the past week. I've been so sick that I haven't even really caught up on much tv and my sunday afternoon will be spent watching football and wrapping christmas presents! And maybe cleaning up the mess that has accumulated in my apartment while I've been ill.

My last full week at DHR lies ahead. Part of me is sad to leave it behind, but I am hopeful that the adventure that lies ahead of me will be exciting!

movies rock

I am watching a special on CBS called Movies Rock! A Celebration of Music & Film which features contemporary artists performing classic songs from classic movies. Carrie Underwood just performed The Sound of Music and she KICKED ASS.

Some other highlights:
* Usher's rendition of Singin' in the Rain
* A very preggers and gorgeous J-Lo
* Josh Duhamel
* Marc Anthony performing Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate
* Tony Bennett singing White Christmas

Fun stuff.

sick

Yes, I'm well aware of the fact that I haven't blogged this week. You'll have to excuse me, it's been quite an off week for me since I've been sick, lost my voice and am all kinds of swamped at work tracking to wrap up my current job while simultaneously trying to prep for my new job (all in all, NOT an ideal week for me to be ill and not "on"). And so, it is friday evening now and I'm in for the night, which means tv catch up, so stay tuned!

funny

You know, it really does make you wonder who's in charge of naming cities and whether anyone actually gets a vote when somebody comes up with these. I wonder if they have trouble selling real estate, because I would imagine most people don't want to have to say they live in one of these places.

50 Most Bizarre City Names Around the World

winter!

It's snowing, it's snowing!! Yes, I am a dork but today we have our first snow of the season and I am excited about that! It is December and there is snow. I now feel a little more justified in the fact that I've been playing holiday music for the past week already. Today I will go down to my storage unit and break out the holiday decorations. And now I can start using my snowman mugs! What can I say, I am cheesy when it comes to this stuff.

And it will make me feel better about the fact that I am still sick and not feeling well at all :(

tiki!

I haven't been able to bring myself to leave the apartment at all today. It's just been one of those days. Actually, I sense it's going to be one of those weekends. And so I've been alternating between napping, catching up on tv and watching football.

This week's Project Runway featured making an outfit for Tiki Barber! The man has has crazy shiny white teeth, btw. Most of the contestants didn't have a clue who he was and Tim Gunn trying to explain that he used to play football for the NY Giants didn't really help much. This challenge turns out to be somewhat of a debacle since many of the designers have never done menswear before, and this is the first time there's ever been a menswear challenge on this show. The further into the task it gets, the more of a trainwreck some of the designers' creations are. Tiki's wife Ginny shows up to give some critique and advice, and I find her personality to be just a tad underwhelming, but who am I to judge - she's married to Tiki Barber.

Jack ends up creating the winning look, a nicely done contrasting striped shirt with pinstripe pants. Supposedly Tiki agrees to wear this winning outfit on the Today Show. I'll have to investigate that one.























In the bottom three are Sweet P, who creates a super messy looking shirt because she couldn't quite get the proportions right in her patterns, Ricky, who makes a very boring suit that is not only dull, but unfinished as well and has pins hanging everywhere, and Carmen, whose outfit doesn't have a shirt! No joke, she ends up taking the fabric that was supposed to be the shirt and draping it around his neck. What a disaster, and alas, it's bye bye to Carmen. What did she think she was doing, trying to put this outfit on Tiki?!

How embarrassing.

sick

I am sick. I woke up this morning and when I opened my mouth to speak, strange funny coughy noises came out instead of my voice and it hurt. (don't ask who I thought I was trying to speak to given the fact that I was in the apartment by myself when I woke up today)

I sensed some illness creeping up on me the past few days but ignored it, and of course now it's caught up to me. yuck. To add to the cranky factor, whoever lives upstairs from me is hammering their floor. Okay, I don't know that they are hammering their floor but that is what it sounds like. It sounds like there is full blown construction going on above me, so there is lots of loud pounding shaking my apartment and giving me a headache. Oh, and there is actual construction going on across the street so there is lots of noise coming from outside as well. good times.

On the bright side, I did have a lovely dinner with friends at Stanton Social last night! Today I will attempt to straighten up my disaster of an apartment.