In no specific order...

Here are the songs I am listening to the most these days...

Eyes On Me - Celine Dion
Bleeding Love (Moto Blanco Mix) - Leona Lewis
Do It Well (Moto Blanco Radio Mix) - Jennifer Lopez
Nothing Hurts Like Love - Daniel Bedingfield
Dancin (JJ Flores and Steve Smooth Remix) - Aaron Smith & Luvli
Feedback - Janet Jackson
Soul Kiss - Olivia Newton-John
Erotica (Live from the Confessions Tour) - Madonna
Take Me 2 The Sun - Discofreaks

Lie down for a second...

and Blossom made herself at home between my legs.

For My Company Directory

Work asked us to post a picture for the company profile. So I showered and shaved and here's mine. I desperately need a tan.

The sock puppet

Here is one of the sock puppets on sale at Cafe Hon in Baltimore. The glasses and hair are very associated with Baltimore.

Cafe Hon

Yesterday we got a taste of Baltimore for Lunch by eating at Cafe Hon. They serve great food and even have a gift shot dedicated to all the tacky things that Baltimore is known for such as funky glasses and beehive hairdos.

Finally!

I've been sick for the last six weeks. Lots of Doctor's visits, some time off work and I am finally feeling better! So I just got home from the gym about 30 minutes ago. I hate breaks from the gym, I always feel like such a slug when I start back up.

About three weeks ago I went to a hypnotherapist to get some help with my weight. 14 pounds and counting! It's amazing how I don't crave sweets. I will make an exception for Christmas Eve/Christmas Day though. To that end I picked out two kinds of fudge and four kinds of Christmas cookies for Skip to make this year. I can't imagine being able to eat more than one of each but it will be fun to smell them! I can't believe how fast I get full these days.

I'm working from home for at least two weeks for the holidays and yay for that. Not that I don't love Manhattan in December but it is nice to be home.

Last but not least - Blossom won Doggy of the Day for the 11th day of Christmas at Day Care yesterday. We won a free day of day care and a humongous umbrella set. Seriously, it's so big I couldn't fit it in a big suitcase.

I shouldn't be here...

You may remember how much I loved Fantasia in The Color Purple. I had gotten a ticket to see her one more time before she leaves the show on January 6th. Well, Fantasia didn't show for this performance so I stood in a LONG line for a refund. Evidently she has missed more than 50 performances during her run!

Vegas

My company Christmas party was at Tabu in the MGM Grand. After a nice 2 hour delay for deicing, Skippy and I were on our way there Friday morning. Thanks to Skippy we saw Celine Dion on Friday night! I had seen the track list on the album before the show and had heard she does a few new songs but wow she did an almost entirely different set list! I had told Skip some of the songs I had hoped she'd sing and she sang almost all of them including two of my favorites by her "All The Way" and "Seduces Me". She only had seven more shows after us so she talked about ending the show which was fun to hear.

We stayed at the MGM Grand and I swear we couldn't find an American in that hotel to save our life. The boxing match was the same time as our party and one of the fighters was British and evidently brought over his whole country for backup. We'd go to breakfast at 7 am and they'd be asking for ANOTHER drink in the casino.

The actual party was a lot of fun. There was amazing looking sushi but there was wasabi right on it so I couldn't have any. You'd think the skinny beautiful people that work at those clubs would be snotty but they were actually very nice to us. Meeting my coworkers for the first time was fun and they adored Skippy as people always do.

Sunday morning we had the most amazing brunch ever at The Wynn. A nice walk back to the MGM Grand helped walk it off (they are on opposite ends of the strip) and then we were off home.

One to Avoid...

The New York Helmsley. Let's see. No air conditioning. When I called about it I was told to open the windows, which you can actually do. You can open them so far that you could easily tumble out 33 floors to the (loud) street below.

You know the really basic showerhead you see when you first move into a place? That's what they have in their showers. It may be a Helmsley hotel, but it hasn't been updated since at least 10 years before she died. One more night...