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Nothing cheers a girl up like a little bit of Tammy time at a beauty pageant and a little bit of Wildfire on itunes.

The First 36 Hours

So I will first state that I am not a small town girl. I grew up in Phoenix, it’s the 6th largest city in the US. I live in Los Angeles, I have been to New York and London and other major metropolitan areas and have always done just fine. But Las Vegas – wow.
Talk about an overwhelming city. Nobody warns you. Nobody talks about the mass of people, the scale of the buildings. The fact that they recreate the outdoors inside! It’s not that they recreate the outdoors inside, it’s that is such a good job! It freaks me out. It’s been 36 hours and still it freaks me out. I swear they can make the clouds move. It’s always late afternoon. And they have malls inside of these hotels. Not just a few stores but actual malls that I would drive 30 minutes to. And they create the mall to make you think you go from the inside to the outside. And this is even before I leave my hotel. Which by the way just a regular room has the hugest bath tub. Thankfully there is a mall with a Bath & Body Works, Aveda, L’Occitane, H2O+ and Sephora right here, so really I have my pick of bubble bath for the rest of the week.
I saw the Bellagio fountain show, sort of a romantic thing. I can see Las Vegas as sort of romantic overall. Everything is grander than it should be, the scale of it all is just overwhelming, its kind of what you think love will be like.
Oh right and there are real hookers here. I even saw one. I’m going to see if I can spot any more later in the week. And my hotel has a Commander’s Palace, mmm delicious. My first meal here was the Eggs Versailles with a mimosa (and during the week they have 25¢ martinis), had I not been so freaked out by the hugeness of LV and been so nervous with my lunch people I would have fallen in love with the city right there.
So I think I could easily become a Vegas girl. We’ll see how the rest of the week works itself out. I do know that I need to see the white tigers and maybe even a show, hopefully other than the one I’m working on.

Side note, slowly becoming a football fan. Very cool fourth quarter with the Steelers and the Colts. I’m just glad the Patriots are out. I’m so over Foxboro (even though I love Vinny T’s).

It's good to be awake

So I just woke up from the two strangest dreams. In the first one, I took the plants out of my aquarium and found out my fish had three new babies! And the snails (that I found in real life yesterday) kept trying to play with the baby fish and kept getting hurt. And the snails had big cartoon eyes, it was like they were talking with their eyes. They were just so animated. Weird but fun, I would love if my fish had babies in real life, but they are both girls so I don’t think that’s actually going to happen.
Then the second one was much creepier. I had gotten stop by a fake police officer who took six dollars from me, then when I got home he had attacked (my dream friend) Addy’s boyfriend and I knew he was a fake cop so I went outside and beat the crap out of him. Good thing the alarm went off, beating up fake officers is scary stuff!

I don’t like creepy dreams, the creepiness stays with you through out the day.

So we danced

So one my favorite parts about my job is show day. I’m always excited, who’s going to come, how’s it going to go, are we going to go to the after party? All the work comes together and the show just goes on. Overall good show I’d say. The host cracked me up. I’m a fan of Jessica Simpson (sort of – I think I just really like pop stars, I love when people are famous for who they are even if they aren’t the most talented person out there). And I’m (now) a big fan of George Lopez.
On this particular show I worked with a really good department. They put up with my endless chatter of dating and blogging and whatever else popped into my mind that I didn’t seem to have a filter to stop. Good sports these three, and they are all hilarious in their own way. So the shows over and we decided since we weren’t so much invited to the after party we’d just try to get in anyway. Jenny is very brave in this way. Turns out that this was not hard at all, you just walk right in. So we hit the bar, there are some lovely blue drinks floating around and we each get one. Bombay Sapphire Gin, I’m a fan. We manage to find ourselves some food, see a couple of CSI people, and grab a table right by the dance floor. We saw a girl that looked like Chloe from Smallville (it wasn’t) turns out she does the marketing for Bombay. She actually gets Ashlee Simpson more often – I can see that – she’s a good sport either way.
So at our front row table we watch this blonde officey kind of girl (who must be completely trashed right now) get down with this older Sammy Davis kind of guy. The moves these two had, and they didn't even know each other! He’s having her bend over then running across the floor leaping over her. And they just slide and wiggle back and forth across the dance floor. They both spend a lot of time laying on the dance floor wiggling about. It’s all very jaw dropping kind of moves. I have a second blue concoctions and think I should have a dance off with her, just to make it a little more fun. But really I think I would have needed a third drink so that didn’t happen.
The dance floor starts to fill up a bit and I beg my department to come dance with me. Jenny’s totally up for this (she hasn’t ever seen me dance) and with a bit of cajoling we get Brad on the dance floor but not Bryan. That is till he sees how much fun we are having be bopping about without a care in the world. Then he just can’t help but join us. I must say that was one of the best times I have had on a dance floor in a while. (Of course on Thursday I’m going to Cowboy Country early to learn a few dance moves – so we’ll have to see what’s better). And this quite girl came and danced with us, turned out she was all of 15! She didn’t look 15 that’s for sure, but nice girl, good dancer – she did this whole back bend thing kind of like Dirty Dancing but with out the guy holding her up. Impressive, and she did it in a very non-slutty club girl kind of way. At some point though you just wonder how long you’re supposed to stay on the dance floor. You just can’t think of any more moves and you get thirsty, but can you just leave your group on the dance floor? Turns out for the most part we were all done dancing. It wasn’t till I was back up stairs that I heard more songs that I new that I wanted to dance too. They played “Great Ball of Fire” how fun is that!
Oh and we met this girl Amanda who was 24 dating this guy I don’t remember his name, but the guy was 50! This Amanda girl thought this was funny stuff, she’s in med school going to be a pediatrician and they have this joke about how he’s a baby so that’s just perfect. (Ew!) Essentially she just seems to prey on older men. Not that this 50 year-old man is having any issue with this, he shares with me that they have a mutual affection for spanking. Ew, seriously people I’m just trying to say that maybe this is slightly inappropriate. That girl has trouble written all over her, and loves that about herself, good for her I guess – 24 with a questionable but healthy self-esteem. At least she doesn’t ask if her butt looks big all the time. But then we lose focus on this slightly disturbing situation when we find out there is a dessert bar. Yes they a chocolate fondue fountain, mmm good stuff, and ready made smores, which I didn’t have one, I just enjoyed the fact that they were available. Overall good party.
This morning I woke up to go to the chiropractor, but all that dancing and good time just relaxed me so there was very little adjusting to do. I felt a little bit silly going in and having no reason to be there but hey now I have a new chiropractor I really like should I ever throw my back out with all this new dancing I’m doing this year!

Today's favorite quote from another blog:

"The first time a guy tried to pull the "making love" phrase on me...I started cracking up...I mean...all out just burst out laughing in his face. Then asked "Do you really call it that?" The way I said it must have made him feel a little silly because he turned red and just shut the Hell up. He was trying to be all General Hospital with me...ahhh...how cute..."

- Kelly-kat

I love GH references

A New Discovery

So one of the pros of my job is the craft service table. Sometimes it can be disappointing but more often than not it’s a highlight of my day. Who can't love a table of snacks. When you become a producer you get to make requests, not so much requesting as just getting exactly what you want. I always wonder what I'm going to want when I'm in charge. I like the bite size snickers packs, that have the 3 Musketeers and Milky Way and Aquafina water, but if I was in charge I'd get the Penta water. But overall I don't have anything good so maybe that’s why I'm not in charge. Anyway I digress. On this particular table I have come across string cheese, which not that exciting but definitely a nice surprise. The really exciting discovery is the Nutella. I'v seen it all week just wasn't sure why. But Brad had put it on a toasted bagel with cream cheese!! Bryan was telling me how Nutella is actually better for you than peanut butter. People this is a divine little snack! Hints of the Ferra Roche which I also love, turns out yes people I'm a hazelnut fan - who knew.

If you were stranded on a desert island what box DVD set would you want?

Jenny thought Lost - that is hysterical, it’s like wanting Gilligan’s Island, but scary!

Brad and Brian can't make such a huge life decision on the spur of the moment but they did come up with a few possibilities:
CSI,
The O.C. (because of the hot girls - but really CSI: Miami has more hot girls, but they are usually dead, and that's kind of creepy for being stranded on an island)
Seinfeld (ew - whatever, its just because there are ten years of it)
Cops (now that’s funny)

Me, hmm.
The O.C. - but really just the first season
Grey's Anatomy - but I'd have to wait a couple of years so I could watch lots and lots of them! I love that show!
Mad About You, because they still make me laugh
I considered Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls but they don't really have stranded island appeal.
My So Called Life, just some really good TV
Alias, just because I could really figure out all the secrets that the brilliant JJ came up with.
Nick and Jessica!!
GH wouldn't really work in this scenario because you only watch them once, but I could watch the first 20 years see how it all came about.
Designing Women, the Sugarbakers people!
Ally McBeal, America’s Next Top Model, Dawson’s Creek, The Office (the British version), Dynasty or Knots Landing (from start to finish, it would all be new to me!)

It think if I was stranded tomorrow it would be – My So Called Life or The O.C..

3 Things

First, I'm adding to my new year's resolutions. I'm not saying, "Ooh but I want to get marrrrrried" in my cry baby voice for the rest of the year! Other smaller resolutions include working out (The number of years I have left to have a Maxim stomach are quickly passing me by.); to read at the very least one book a month (I went on half.com and order a bunch of books. The first one I got "Number the Stars: Lois Lowry," um yeah, it turns out it's a children's book, young adult really. So January will be easy.); and I thought this year I might try to be early for everything- at least on time, which really means no more procrastinating (So far its actually going well, I realize I have a lot more downtime when I'm early. If I remember to take a book with me, the book one will be no problem!).

Second, my new favorite “make me laugh site” www.chucknorrisfacts.com my favorite line being:

“Crop circles are Chuck Norris' way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down.”

OMG I’m still laughing about this!! Who knew I was a Chuck Norris fan?

Yeah and I am a fan of Sudoku, which has nothing to do with CN, but I love them and I love the new wacky ones they over lap or have silly rules just to change things up a bit.


And my third thing is just a funny story – I constantly crack myself up. So one of my gifts was a book called “The Pathfinder,” it’s a strategy book for changing careers or having a new perspective on the one you already have. So those that know me know that I’m always looking for a new idea of who I want to be and what I want to do. So after getting distracted while reading the intro I decide to make a list, because I love to make lists. Then I pause for a moment and think how nice it would be if I could just find a job that I got to make lists all day long – OMG I would just love it! This causes me to take another pause when I realize that is my exact job description. I literally make lists and revise them all day long for weeks at a time. So it turns out I don’t need a new career after all. And I guess I don’t need to read the book so yeah back to the young adults section for February.