because you're worth it
TWO people have told me today that i look great lately. "whatever you're doing, keep it up!" that's quite the compliment. i don't feel good, but maybe i'm missing something. my hair is almost unmanageably long (for me, anyway), i still need that pedicure, and i think i've put on a few more pounds, but evidently me feeling especially bad about myself works for me. that's kind of funny, yet appropriate in my case.
last weekend was kind of a wash. we had a half day at work on friday, so monica and i went to murray hill to see trust the man - the david duchovny and julianne moore movie. it was okay. i think billy crudup can do no wrong and maggie gyllenhaal was very cute. i liked all of the other performances, too, but the screenplay was kind of... choppy. scenes ended abruptly and i didn't really have a sense of time in the film. aside from that, it was predictable, which sometimes i prefer. i generally do not like movies that mask themselves as ambitious when they're really not. i prefer just being entertainment or just romantic or just whatever rather than trying to trick me into thinking i'm watching the next citizen kane or something. so, basically, this movie didn't front. i appreciate that.
saturday i was afraid to go outside, so i think we stayed in all day.
on sunday, philip and i went to the short hills mall for back to school shopping. no, we're not in school anymore, but i missed the idea of the event of the back to school shopping, so we did. i bought an eyelash curler and returned a skirt to saks that i bought online. that's how uninspired i felt when we actually got there - i actually MADE money on my excursion. phil got two amazing pairs of fancypants jeans, a couple of shirts, and half the mall compared to me. but all of his stuff is nice, so i can only be a little bitter. and we ate at california pizza kitchen because we always do.
what happened on monday? i think maybe i didn't feel well. i only really remember watching ellen, making ricotta and mozzarella pizzas and watching how i met your mother. i think i tried to nap at some point, too, but did not succeed.
yesterday the weather was nasty again, so that put me in a foul mood. my pretty dress got all messy from the rain. i also had a big important talent lunch and i barely was able to get a word in. and then i found out i have to go to anaheim at the end of next month for... wait for it..... the AARP Convention! yes, really. one of the new series i'm working on is about the baby boomers, and our ad sales department has done a enormous deal with AARP to sponsor the show. so off the to cheek-pinching convention i go! i've never been to anaheim, though, so maybe i will take an extra day and go to disneyland. i would probably really like that.
someone was just growling in the hallway. i work with a bunch of circus freaks.
my boss' birthday is coming up at the end of this month. what should i suggest we get her?
for as much as i don't like meetings sometimes, they still are novel enough that they make me feel important. that reminds me that i haven't been out of school all that long. in another five years, i will hate them all the time like everyone else here does.