Favorite Facebook: The update Facebook made to my iPhone and iPad. New posts are easier to see, photos and comments on photos load extremely fast, and I love how we can view multiple photos posted at once by swiping. It’s AWESOME and for the first time, I have not one complaint about that time-sucking app!
Favorite Twitter: Anything that has to do with Mixtape Festival. I’m stalking that page for an announcement that our photos from the meet and greet are available. I’m told it can take several weeks. I’ll only stalk daily, k?
Favorite Day: Saturday, August 18. I got to hug each of the New Kids on the Block. It was worth every minute in the sun, every hour spent in line, every snarky girl next to us, every dollar spent. It surpassed my expectations times a million. I can’t believe it finally happened. And of course, I didn’t say what I wanted to. The connection between my brain and my mouth was broken. Probably a good thing. But I thought about telling Donnie how much I loved Blue Bloods. I wanted to tell Danny while I was standing next to him that I appreciate all of his work for Susan B. Komen. But at least I kept my composure and just smiled and said thank you. THEN afterward I completed freaked and bawled my eyes out. Good thing the photo op didn’t include that!! Memory I’ll keep with me forever.
This day also included meeting some really fabulous people (Dorte, Cara, and Lisa) that will forever be in my heart. And then it was concert time. We were up close and personal for the guys and several other concerts. We saw (along with Friday’s shows): Kelly Clarkson, Steel Panther (unfortunately), DJ Pauly D (who is surprisingly GOOD), NKOTB, The Wanted, LL Cool J (so close to him we saw the sweat in his butt-crack!), The Dan Band, 98 Degrees, NKOTBSB and heard Carly Rae Jepsen and The Fray while they performed on the opposite stage.
Favorite Spontaneous Act: Random Acts of Kindness. It’s just important to do.
Favorite Restaurant: Serendipity in NYC. Made it there twice!
Favorite Dessert: Frozen Hot Chocolate from Serendipity. OMG. It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever tasted. EVER. Order dessert first people.
Favorite Refreshment: Frozen Wicked from Jacques Torres, his shop is in Chelsea Market. It is his Wicked chocolate in an icy drink. Oh. My. God. Last time we were in NYC, they weren’t serving them. So glad I got to try it this time…very delish.
Favorite Bite: Lombardi’s pizza in NYC. It’s epic.
Favorite City: New York City. We saw more in two days than most see in their lifetime. Still exhausted and exhilerated. Highlights include:
- 3 Art Museums (The Met, Guggenheim – my favorite, and MoMA)
- 3 Parks (Central, Madison Square and Bryant)
- A bus tour where we saw over 30 points of interest, my favorite was Rockefeller Center (next trip – going to the top) and a really old church next to the World Trade Center that remained standing, even though it was just across the street from the towers (less than 100 yards away). We had a designated bus and tour guide (which is THE way to go). The on-and-off tours take quite a bit more time and you don’t get the tour guide with you off the bus. Here is the website we used, ask for Howie: www.onboardnewyorktours.com. Also, do the bus tour first thing. You’ll find stuff you want to go back to. We did it toward the end and didn’t have time to circle back to the cool stuff.
- Lion King. One of the greatest live performances ever. Quintessential Broadway and now I understand why millions of people have seen it. The beginning was so emotional. The costumes and the set were unreal. And the singing. Amazing!
- Traces. Performed at Union Square Theater. 7 insanely talented, hilarious performers. 90 minutes of non-stop. I don’t think I breathed the entire time. See a bit of what we saw: http://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent/video/agt-special-guest-traces-urban-circus/1409324
- Times Square at night (from a cab, but we got amazing photos…link to photos to follow soon)
- Chelsea Market.
- High Line. Didn’t walk it, but saw it everywhere. It’s a must do at night, we did on our trip last time, and the views are amazing.
Favorite Book: Yep, even had time to read. The White Devil by Justin Evans. “Set in a four-hundred-year-old boys' boarding school in London, a chilling gothic thriller by the author of the critically acclaimed A Good and Happy Child . . .
A fierce and jealous ghost . . .
A young man's fight for his life . . .
The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty. Seventeen-year-old American Andrew Taylor is enrolled in the esteemed British institution by his father, who hopes that the school's discipline will put some distance between his son and his troubled past in the States.
But trouble—and danger—seem to follow Andrew. When one of his schoolmates and friends dies mysteriously of a severe pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed and is soon an outcast, spurned by nearly all his peers. And there is the pale, strange boy who begins to visit him at night. Either Andrew is losing his mind, or the house legend about his dormitory being haunted is true.
When the school's poet-in-residence, Piers Fawkes, is commissioned to write a play about Byron, one of Harrow's most famous alumni, he casts Andrew in the title role. Andrew begins to discover uncanny links between himself and the renowned poet. In his loneliness and isolation, Andrew becomes obsessed with Lord Byron's story and the poet's status not only as a literary genius and infamous seducer but as a student at the very different Harrow of two centuries prior—a place rife with violence, squalor, incurable diseases, and tormented love affairs.
When frightening and tragic events from that long-ago past start to recur in Harrow's present, and when the dark and deadly specter by whom Andrew's been haunted seems to be all too real, Andrew is forced to solve a two-hundred-year-old literary mystery that threatens the lives of his friends and his teachers—and, most terrifyingly, his own.” Barnes and Noble Overview
Favorite Movie: Didn’t see one. Maybe this weekend.
Favorite TV Show: Same as a few weeks ago: I got caught up on True Blood (season finale on Sunday, boo) and more Bramwell.
Favorite Song: Big Log by Robert Plant http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/big-log/id254162739?i=254163493
Favorite Thing To Do: Sleep. I already need a nap tomorrow.
Favorite Thing To Look Forward To: More sessions with George Ira Carroll. He’s my business coach spectacular spectacular and an absolute gift in my life. I am so privileged. The lessons I learn from him are life changing and I have nothing but gratitude for him!
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