Another Week in NJ

I spent yet another week stuck in NJ for work. I'm basically stuck in my hotel each night so there is no exciting news to report. I did go to NYC this past weekend & met up with a friend from high school. It was cool to see Doug (since it had literally been about 10 years) and I had a lot fun catching up & meeting some of his friends.

Anyways, I'm headed back to Texas this Friday to spend the weekend at home...and then it's back to NJ for another week. When will it ever end?!?!?

76. Go to a movie solo & 98. Watch a new movie each month (March)

So I'm spending my weekend (alone) in New Jersey due to my business trip. Last night I decided to hit up the movie theater and kill a couple hours. Since I got to pick the movie (yay) I went for a more female-driven movie, The Other Boleyn Girl. First off, there were about 7 people in the theater, including myself. When I walked in, there were two other couples...both of which were male/male couples. I'm afraid of gay guys (actually...I love them), but I kind of looked around like I had missed something. Did I walk into the wrong movie? Oh well.

Anyways, the movie was great. I totally love Natalie Portman movies and Eric Bana is EXTREMELY easy on the eyes. The story was pretty historically accurate. Obviously there were some exaggerations for Hollywood's sake, but for the most part it was pretty true. I also LOVED the wardrobe/costumes for the movie. They were so elaborate and really beautiful. Anyways, it was a great movie & I would highly recommend it...especially to all my female friends.

Hope everyone has a great Easter weekend!!

58. Visit a new state in the U.S.

Hot damn, I get to cross another one off the list!I've been in New Jersey for a full 48 hours so it "officially" counts as visiting now. Unfortunately for me (& Miller), I'm here for another 3 weeks so I'm probably going to count as a resident soon.

There's really nothing cool in NJ (except the weather), but I do have a pretty nice view of Manhattan from my hotel room.I'm going to try and get to NYC at some point during my stay, but I honestly am going to try and take in as much of NJ as possible. Apparently the outlet shopping here is pretty ridiculous & one of the locals here informed me that you don't pay sales tax on clothes and shoes.

FOR REALS ?!?!?

With faboo news like that, it's shocking to me that the people here aren't in better moods. Seriously. The government should add Prozac to the water up here. And teach people to drive. Gawd I miss Texas already. It's going to be a LONG 3 weeks....

T minus 7 days

SHOCKER!! I have another business trip coming up!!

I'm leaving next Monday for lovely & beautiful Teterboro, New Jersey and I'm REALLY excited!!

:: insert sarcasm here ::

So it's not the most glamorous of places, but I have to admit that it'll be nice to only be 3-4 hours away from home (by plane) vs. the 24 hour plane trip from Africa. Hopefully Miller can schedule a couple business meetings in New York and we can spend a weekend together so it really shouldn't be too bad at all. On a positive note, I will be able to cross another goal of my 1001 list:

58. Visit a new state in the U.S.

In other news, Miller & I took Riley to the Bull Creek Greenbelt yesterday for some "outdoor" fun. I had heard from other dog enthusiasts that it was a great place to let the dog have some water time since it's pretty shallow throughout and I was hoping that we could maybe get Riley to start swimming. Needless to say, that didn't happen. It was a little rainy so neither Miller or I was interested in getting any wetter than we had to and Riley was pre-occupied with all the other dogs he was meeting along the way. He did splash around in the shallow part of the creek, but never ventured into deeper waters. Hopefully when the weather starts to get better we can give it another try. I didn't get any good pics of Riley in the water, but I did get a couple cute ones of him running around. Disclaimer: Sorry for the devil-dog-eyes. It was about 6:30 and the lighting was horrible!

UGH...

There really hasn't been much going on with me lately. My work schedule continues to be pretty frantic. My next trip is in a week & a half and I'm scheduled to be gone for a month (!). I'm excited about it because I get to stay in the U.S. but it'll probably suck too because I'm going to be in Teterboro, New Jersey. I wonder if they have any good malls.....

In lighter news, I did go to Port Aransas last weekend with my bestie, Jen. We had a complete BLAST hanging out on the beach during the day and partying our tails off at night. I know it was important for her to have a girl's weekend away from the hubster & kiddos and I'm just glad we got to do it together. Hopefully we can turn it into a yearly event =)

I have no idea why I've been so out of it this week. Maybe I'm still drunk from this weekend.....