I keep getting request from all of you to update my blog. So here is a quick update. I would have done this sooner but everything was so busy during December with all my visitors!
My mom and I decided to wake up at 5:40 Monday morning and try to get into Live with Regis and Kelly. It worked! We had to wait in a standby line from 7-8:30. Then they sent all the standbys through security, but they still didn’t know if they would have room for all 20. My mom and I were numbers 10 and 11 in the line. At 8:50, 10 minutes before they start filming they brought us in! It was well worth getting up early and waiting in line.
We were the audience for Monday’s show, but we will also be the audience for December 29, 30 and January 1. Those are all vacation days for them so everything is prerecorded. It’s crazy how they film! It was so exciting to see it all! Regis and Kelly were the exact same on camera as off camera. I always wondered what they did during commercials and they stayed out and talked to the audience!
Laura Lee and I will definitely try to get in to the show when she comes to visit!
I’m trying to remember to have my camera ready everywhere I go. I found these elves on motorcycles at Union Square on the way to Jodi’s store the other day.
Since the time has changed this is now what it looks like when I leave work. My mom and I have the worst sense of direction. I have been here for almost a month now and I still have to think when I get to 7th Avenue which way do I turn. I know to go towards the lights of Times Square, so it makes it easier!
Jamie, my roommate, has been telling me I need to eat New York pizza, so for her birthday Saturday we ate pizza for lunch. She swears Totonno’s is the best pizza place in our neighborhood. We all split the pizza in the picture. She was right it was very good.
Saturday night we went out for her birthday and then I went to a place called Ship of Fools where a bunch of Clemson Alumni were watching the Clemson game. My friend, Krystal, has a friend Bryn that started the Clemson Young Alumni group. They get together for all the games. It was a lot of fun, but I will definitely have to find somewhere else to watch the Carolina Clemson Game, but I have heard there is a Carolina bar downtown somewhere!
Sunday was an adventure. I did laundry for the first time since I have been here. I was thinking it would be similar to washing clothes in Manning, my freshman dorm. It was nothing like that. The machines were smaller, Amanda wasn’t there and you can’t leave your clothes and come back. I do not plan on doing it again until my mom comes for Thanksgiving. It really wasn’t that bad after I asked a million people how to work the machines and where everything was. I will be a pro next time! After that, I met Bryn at Union Square and we went to the Young Designers Market, which I had heard a lot about and was dying to go to. It was very interesting. I got this ring. I can’t put up pictures of the other things I got, because they are all Christmas presents!
I am finally moved in to a bedroom!!!!!! I am done sleeping on the couch and living out of a suitcase! Since I was able to unpack, I found my camera cord, so I can finally post again!
Jodi opened her store first Tuesday. We had a party at the new store Thursday! It was so much fun! That was my first time seeing it and it is so cute! It is a pop-up shop open through December. There was a great crowd. We had sushi, which I tried for the first time since I was so hungry, and cupcakes from Crumbs that are to die for! Jodi let me pick out a dress for the party and then she got the lady that sews in the office to hem it for me too! Come by the store and shop! It is located at 56 University Place. I am hoping some celebrities come in to shop while I am working!
