Belated update

Hello friends! I'm a bit tardy with my promised Britney update, but let me assure you, it was AWESOME. I wish she had done more old stuff, and she doesn't dance quite like she used to at 17, but it was damn entertaining. And our seats were fantastic. The $9 beers were not, but what are you going to do? Totally worth the $140.

I have a short weekend in CLT before I have to head back to New Orleans. Carrie will be there all week, which sounds fun but I'm still going to have to skip going out to dinner in favor of working overtime in my hotel room a fair amount. Which is lame, but that's busy season. I went to the mall today because stupid Banana Republic keeps sending me 30% off coupons, and I got a price adjustment on what I got last weekend as well as a new skirt, dress, and sweater set. For 30% off. But I have to at least attempt to behave now, especially with my planned purchases of the Coach shoes and bag, and a pair of new black sandals which is yet to be determined. Also, I came across these online today (I'm really liking the brand Report Signature lately) and I may get them too. Thoughts?

That's all. I'll try to check in from New Orleans next week. Ciao.

Somebody kill me.

I'm coming to you live from New Orleans, which is the worst place ever, after the worst travel experience of my life. Last night, there was a "blizzard" in Charlotte. I wouldn't really call it a blizzard, but there were at least 4 inches of snow on the ground when we took off, and that's the most I've seen while living there, so it's almost legit. Anyway, the travel story involves sitting on a runway for 4 hours and then flying here, waiting on line for the rental car for another hour, and then getting into my hotel bed at 3am. We didn't leave the hotel until 9:30 this morning, but I still want to die. Need caffeine.

Also in sad news, I visited the purse in the previous post this weekend and it was a bit disappointing. I LOVE the yellow color, but the bag itself was smaller that it appeared. They did show me more of a hobo-type bag that is a smaller version of my effing huge black one that I got for Christmas, so I may go with that instead. See below. Also, they are not receiving the shoes at any of the stores in Charlotte, so I either have to order them and possibly return them and lose the cost of shipping or find them elsewhere. I'm going home to NJ the first weekend in April, and I bet they'll have them at one of the malls there, so I may hold out and try for that.

I'm too tired to form any more complete sentences today; I will check in Wednesday to tell you all about how awesome the Britney Spears concert was. Woo.

OH MY GOD.

Be my new spring bag, please. I just can't pick which color!

I may have a shopping problem. I heart Coach. And I'm thinking yellow would be more interesting and different, yes? But the pink is so cute.

Help me out!

If there's anything that busy season makes me, it's extremely quick to anger. But mostly I have trouble making decisions about anything other than work because I'm so tapped out by the end of the day. So I am asking for your opinions.

I came across these boots today, and I think that I love them, but I can't decide. On the one hand, I haven't had a decent pair of black pant boots in like two years. On the other hand, I've lived without them for two years, why go back now. Also, I'm afraid that the fact that they were originally priced $495 but are marked down to $139 is clouding my judgement. I love sales. A lot.

So what do you think?

I think that the most likely scenario here is that if I don't buy any other shoes this weekend when I go to the mall for a price adjustment (yay) I will probably order these (free return policy, no worries).

UPDATE: So today they updated the boot from "sale" to "final sale" so I won't be buying them. I don't feel comfortable with buying on final sale for a designer that I don't have experience with because I don't know if my fat feet will fit in there. Sad. But I saved $139 which will come in handy when I buy the purse above. Which, let's be serious, is certain to happen.

Random thoughts

First of all, i would like to say this: Campbell's 25% less sodium Classic Tomato Soup-at-Hand is delicious. I love tomato soup. You know what makes it even better? Dunking a cheesy (yet suspiciously low-calorie) lean pocket all up in it. I'm pretty sure this would be my dinner every night of my life if I didn't have to start cooking dinner for Blake again after busy season ends.

Second of all, I'm becoming very annoyed with the "free fruit during busy season" claims being made by my employer. Because they don't buy enough, so now by Wednesday afternoon there is no more free fruit. This week Susan told me she had heard that they were just making two trips a week now so that the fruit brought in on Monday wouldn't go bad, so I only hoarded two bananas and an apple on Monday, figuring I'd get through to Wednesday. And today? No new fruit. Now I'm going to have to hoard even more from my fellow employees...which is definitely wrong, but I really like to have a piece of fruit when I get back from the gym in the afternoon. The granola bar I had instead today was fine, but it was not the apple that I wanted.

I did something to my left hip lifting at the gym today. Now it constantly feels like i need to crack my hip, yet even after I do that it still hurts. Boooooo. I hope this doesn't affect my ability to do pilates and yoga this weekend, because that will make me sad.

I heard the wonderful news last week that a few restaurants have extended restaurant week menus this week (I missed actual restaurant week because I was out of town) so tomorrow Blake and I are going out to eat at Zebra with Susan, Chris, Danny, and AT. They've already gone there during actual restaurant week but it was so good that they wanted to go again so we're going to join them. It should be fabulous.

Tomorrow is Friday. Yay.

Bad news bears.

Sometimes you just get a lot of bad news in a short amount of time. You have to learn to make the best of it. Here's a few things that made me say "booooooooooo" in the past few days.

1) I went to the mall this weekend, and couldn't find the Coach shoes that I wanted in Coach, Norstroms, or Neiman Marcus. Poo. I think I'll wait a couple of weeks and then try again. I did get a couple of cute dresses at Banana, so I guess that's a plus.

2) I was informed of my bonus today. Oh my god, the crappy economy is seriously killing my buzz. I'm getting roughly half of what I thought I'd get. So I suppose I really should just save it all and not buy the shoes. (Spoiler alert: I'm going to probably buy the shoes anyway. I shop when I'm sad.)

3) I've been being so good about my diet and exercise for the past two weeks, and I have taken off three pounds. Three. And not necessarily even three...I weigh pretty much what I've always weighed. I just had three extra pounds chillin after the holidays that have finally come off. I've come to terms with the fact that this is just how my body likes to roll, and I'm fine with that. I would, however, like to add some muscle definition. So I'm going to be better about lifting 3 times a week. I also went back to yoga yesterday after almost a month. It was torture. But it was good. I have noticed that my stomach is getting flatter and flatter (thanks, pilates) so even if I don't lose a pound, I will still look good in a bikini this summer.

4) My computer got a virus so I had to get a loaner while the IT guy fixed it. It was only slightly annoying because I had to back up files and change my settings once I got my computer back, but it was still an annoyance on an already busy Monday.

Now maybe next time I post, it will be all good news.

All of my dreams are coming true

As I've mentioned at least 1000 times before on this blog, there is only one good thing about the 6-8 weeks a year that I have to spend in New Orleans, and that is the wine bar that is right next to the hotel. However, a particular situation has presented itself and now there are TWO good things about New Orleans.

Today I got tickets to see the opening performance of BRITNEY SPEARS'S TOUR which starts in New Orleans while I will be down there.

OH MY GOD I'M SO EXCITED.

I'll be without internet for the weekend, but I intend to shop so I'll probably update with some of my purchases next week at some point. Yay! Hope you all have lovely weekends!