Good times, good finds and good food in NYC! :)

This past week my mom had rounded up the three of us girls (easier said than done ;0)) and stayed with our cousin Liz (who you might know better as the writer of Sex and the City, and she's the co-author of best seller He's Just Not That Into You) in the Big Apple :)

The trip was a blur we were SO busy!!

The 1st day there my mom had gotten us amazing seats at Dr. Oz' show! While they were moving the set around, Dr. Oz came closer to where we were sitting an my mom went ahead and asked why he doesn't wear a tie! :) He then grabbed the microphone from the guy who gets the crowd pumped up for all the applause's and asked what her name was!!! (squee!!!) Dr. Oz then said "Janel asked why I don't wear a tie" and went on to explain that when viewers normally see someone in a tie at their home its normally a guy who is serving them papers so his look is in between the tie and scrubs. Which was pretty cool and made sense. Dr. Oz was really personable... he had a segment where a girl had made brownies using a can of pumpkin mixed with Duncan Hines mixed topped with a bit of drizzled peanut sauce, well he brought over the platter and shared them with us!!:D In addition to all these fun tidbits, you might see my mom, sisters and I on the 400th show of his :). I'll be sure to post the youtubes of it when I see it :0). Before we made it to Dr. Oz's show we roamed around Rockefeller Center and across the street where we saw Billy Bob Thorton and Matt Lauer for the Today Show. We were literally 12 feet from them!! Crazy fun times! :)

We then galavanted around in the NBC store where someone offered us Jimmy Fallon monologue tickets, so we grabbed food before hand (yummy chicken that I can't remember the name of the restaurant :s) and once we went through all the security, briefing and were there for the monologue it felt like it took not even 10 minutes! Still, we had some laughs and it was really cool to see the set that they use... and that the background of a window with building lights behind it is fake :s. I did not know - ha!

Wow, that was just day one. Maybe I'll share day 2 tomorrow or something this is getting to be a LONG entry! :D

Onto a picture ;) - this is one of the items I scored while visiting! :) Found in a jewelry and second hand store called Jillery. It was so charming I had to share :)

a Painted Turtle - an adventure!

No pics with this one - just a story. :)

I have a fellow co-worker of mine, Kimmy, over almost every weekday for lunch. She's pretty amazing I tell ya, she likes fast food or dine out food and yet she is not showing any signs of growing horizontally! lol It kills me! I do not have her metabolism! :)

Kimmy normally goes out and grabs something the first half hour of lunch break and then comes over for the last half hour to eat, chat, hang out, veg, whatever :). Well it was getting on 35 minutes and she still wasn't at my place yet... I wasn't worried, just puzzled. I figured she must have gotten caught in traffic or drive through long lines, it happens...

As one turtles luck would have it, on the way to my place Kimmy spotted him in the parking/driving area of my apartment complex and saved him! Kimmy was fearless I tell ya! I don't think I would have picked him up for fear of being bit! lol But Kimmy knew a thing or two about turtles and that this particular one was a painted turtle. (which means they don't bite? ;)) A rather large one at that! Take a medium size hand and think of it with "jazz hands" gesture - you got it? Good. That's about how big this sucker was.

Kimmy wasted no time when she got into the apartment telling me the story about spotting the turtle. Had she not been there the following FedEx truck would have squashed it (no offense FedEx ;) just the truck that was there at the time). So realizing I didn't have tupperware container large enough for this lil "big" guy - to the pond! And I might add Kimmy's words here, "before he pees in my car". Right. Good thinking! :)

Off to her car, grab the turtle and in business attire complete with heels we went to the pond! Once Kimmy set him down, I forgot he was a turtle - he ran! He ran as fast as he flippin could into the pond to be rid of us!

Kimmy saved the day, but unfortunately the adventure cut into her lunch time so she didn't get to eat all of her chipotle. Darn. Proof positive - it's not easy being awesome ;).