The Friends.

This is what shopping at 1am at Forever21 in Times Square looks like.

The Celebs.

***I've already posted several NY posts and have gotten some clarifying questions. I went for 3 full days to visit my friend (Russ' cousin) Joy. The purpose of the trip was strictly a girls weekend! I had never been to NYC before and loved every stinkin' minute of the trip.***

First thing of the trip was front row in the studio audience for Regis & Kelly!


Don Draper? Yes please.


They also did the taping for Friday with guest host Anderson Cooper

Kelly was arguing with this little girl from the studio audience because she didn't think Anderson was cute.

While exploring on my own one afternoon I turned the corner and saw this. I walked over to see what all the fuss was about and as I got closer the crowd looked my direction and started yelling "KATIE!" I stopped walking, all the sudden very awkwardly, and noticed that the cameras had moved to my right and I looked over in time to see Katie Holmes walking by. I didn't quite have my wits about me to take a pic but no worries, I found these on the internet: Thanks Al Gore!


Here's my 10 minutes of living as a paparazzi:

Anna WinTour (If you haven't watched The September Issue, do it. It's intriguing.)

Well, Hi Kerry Washington!

Isabel Lucas

That head of hair is unmistakable! (Grace Coddington)

Just meeting Eminem on the streets on NYC...

On the set of Good Morning America

Castle! We hung out in the elevator. No big deal.

Russ keeps calling him George Step-off-of-this. Jealousy isn't a good color on you, Russell. (Btdubs, he's laughing cuz of a joke I made. Possibly my proudest moment.)

That might be Tarah Tessica Tarker's Nanny. Honestly, I was taking a pic of her house, not realizing the two ladies w/ the double stroller walking down the sidewalk might be of interest. I call it an odd coincidence that when we rounded the block ten minutes later there happen to be a police van w/ 4 policemen inside sitting in front of the house. Uh...

The Thief.

Guess what NY has?

I hope you are as angry as I am at the injustice. I feel violated.

The Food.

On a mattress with Anderson Cooper.

The first morning I was in New York City, we had tickets to see Regis and Kelly Live. We were in the first row of the studio audience and had a blast. I'll post pics of that a bit later. Before the show started they offered that if anyone wanted to head down to The Intrepid to be apart of the group breaking the world record for people/mattress dominos. We declined, wanting to see the show. After the show ended they let us know they were taping Friday's show next if we wanted to stay. They offered again to take anyone who might still want to head to the Intrepid to leave now. We declined again, wanting to see Anderson Cooper host Friday's taped show. After they taped that segment they offered a third time, saying the producers still had to get down there and they had a couple spots still open in that shuttle. All of my group couldn't go but I was free so hopped into that shuttle. With the producers. Who happen to be very nice people, in case you were wondering.

***Now, pause for a moment and let's embrace a dream redeemed. In college I organized Greenville College Students to attempt to break the world record for longest paperclip chain. In 24 hours we made it to 11 miles long and the record was 11.9 miles. For those of you GC alums who might be curious, here's the current record. So, a little part of me got super excited to break a record having carried my failure with me all these years. (drama added to make this seem more important.)



***Back to your regularly scheduled program:

Arriving at The Intrepid, we all signed waivers, signed the official Guiness list and then went upstairs to find the prearranged mattresses. The whole night before, they measured and taped lines so that when we all stood up, we'd know exactly where to place our mattress. Then it was go time.

Waiting for the event to start!

Watching the inner zigzag fall!

My turn to fall!


Anderson getting hit!

And here's the video: (I'm at minute 4:06 and 4:07 if you're curious.)

So very very very very much more to share...

Job offer?

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Click here to see Russ' Christmas Card designs! Note the special offers for getting your info in sooner rather than later! (the images are much easier to see on his blog than mine.)

Sooooo behind!

I have a blog? Huh? I do? Weird.

I'm incredibly behind on blogging, obviously, but I had to jump in and share something.

This morning I was include on a facebook email thread between my brother and my husband over what/how to pray for my son.

And now I'm weapy. Haven't felt this blessed in a long time.

It's Friday!