Babs feels blah

Last night's press conference was quite interesting. Side note: While I was typing that, I actually started typing "stress" conference. That should tell you something... Andy and I both attended - by the time we got out of there, Zumba had already started, so instead of dancing out my frustrations, we headed to the Elmwood Inn. Back at home we wound up staying up late trying to catch the press conference on the evening news. Stress + Eating out + staying up late... I turned into a food monster. Today is not going much better. Once I get a taste, I can't stop! And tomorrow is Job Number Two's holiday party. I'm going to try to get my life in order by Sunday so that I can get back on track before things get too far out of control.

One exciting thing from the press conference - my picture is in the paper today!

I'm in the white coat - that is the back of my head!

Notice I am the only one not clapping. That was on purpose. See the person leaving? That's our ex-music director. I hope he keeps walking and doesn't stop until he gets back to Vienna. It's amazing how one person can create such a mess. 

Anyway, this morning I had the pleasure of picking up Chris Botti at the airport and taking him to his hotel. For those of you that don't know, Chris Botti is sort of the "Kenny G" of trumpet.

Chris Botti

My job used to be driving the guest artists around, so it wasn't a foreign thing for me to do. Thankfully he fit the mold for guest artist behavior. The more famous the person, the nicer they are. The no-namers are HUGE a$$holes. I could list several who I'd wish uncontrollable diarrhea on. But the well known ones - super easy to deal with. Quiet but friendly. Thank you, Chris Botti, for not being evil. 

So the rest of my night/weekend... 

Tonight I hope to make some quality progress getting life in order while watching Say Yes to the Dress (I've loved that show even before getting engaged, but now it is especially exciting!). Ideally, getting my life in order would include: finally unpacking, cleaning all the things, going through all of my clothes with a super amount of will power to get rid of things I don't wear or that don't fit, reorganizing the remaining clothes so that everything has a place (separated by season), ironing all of those clothes so that everything is instantly ready to wear, cleaning out the fridge/cupboards and stocking them with all of the healthy foods I need to cook all of my pre-determined healthy meals (because obviously I would have my meals planned out as well), and prepping several ingredients so when the time comes to make a meal I'm already halfway done. Piece of cake right? 

What will I more likely accomplish tonight? Empty the garbage, wash the sheets, unpack one of two bags, and maybe try on a few pants, get sad that they don't all fit, then lay on the couch in my PJ's (without hanging the pants back up, of course).

Saturday I work at job number two... then our associate holiday party. Last year's was really fun so I'm looking forward to it, although Andy has a concert and can't go, so I'm bummed about that. Sunday is pretty quiet thankfully, so if I don't accomplish everything tonight, I'm sure I will be able to make some more progress then. ;-)  

PS - Kate Middleton's first official portrait was revealed today. I'd just like to go on record that I don't like it at all.