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#HBC TKTS Discount Booths

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OK, this was going to be a review of Grease but apparently I felt a need to do a whole post worth of info on the ticket booth.

The plan was to go see a Broadway show Sunday night but Saturday when we got there it was drizzling a bit and we were right across the street from the ticket booth so we decided to go ahead and do the whole ticket booth thing and do a matinee.

This whole ticket booth thing seemed a bit confusing and a painful process before I left last week.  I had many questions…where exactly was it? What time did it open?  What shows would we get to see?  Their site was/is very helpful but I’m too
much of a visual person and want to know what to expect.

The first picture shows that you can see all the show times.  You pick two or three you’d like to see and stand in line.  I’ve heard of one hour wait times but we waited no more than 15 minutes.  The first picture was taken from the line and the booths are right around the corner from there.  You can see in the second picture we were on the other side standing out on the sidewalk and it gets a bit crowded near the booths but it was very quick once you got up there.  Our first pick was Wicked but they weren’t selling tickets to that so we went with Grease.  I was a bit hesitant to pick that but you’ll see in my next post that it was a great pick.

#HBC – My “Deal”

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I have no idea where to start on telling the stories from this weekend so let’s just start with something fun.

Dani and I had headed out to shop while Heather napped Saturday evening.  We stopped by one of many street vendors who were selling a multitude of things.  This one table had a bunch of pictures from the city and these two pictures caught my eye.  I started staring intently at the guy’s stuff and of course he started making deals for me.

His sign said a 5×7 was $10 and the larger size (pictured above) was $20.  I was flipping through the smaller size and he says “Right now, $7!”  I continued to look, not sure which print I was interested in and he throws out, “For you right now, $6”.  Hmm, you guys know I love a deal!  “What about the larger print?” I ask.  He says $15.  I start looking at the two prints above trying to decide which to take.  The fall one would be nice.  I have a lot of red in my house and I LOVE trees.  But the other shows more of the city and I also have those blue and brown tones in my living room.

He gets them off the board and says “Both of them $20!”  Oh, half price!  I can’t make a decision on one and it sounds like a deal!  I’m in!  I hand him a $20 bill and I was off.  Dani and I continue across Broadway down 46th and head towards Park Ave to shop and wouldn’t you know the next block we pass has the same dern pictures and a sign for $1.99?

#HBC The Day After

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Wow.  I am so overwhelmed from the weekend.  It was probably the most jam packed, satisfying, fun, dizzying, exhausting, wonderfully wonderful 48 hours of my life.  I have a mile long list of things to blog about but I know everyone wants to see pictures.  So here is where they are hiding on the Internet…

Here is every single picture we took in New York.  Some very boring.  Some taken just for Emma and Lexi.  Many fuzzy and dark ones.  But a few good ones.

Here are just the photo shoot ones I took.

A few other bloggers are adding their photos from the shoot to Flickr and tagging them with hotbloggercalendar09.

Katja took a great one of me and a chocolate doughnut 🙂  She’s supposed to be uploading more.

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And just for the record, here are the wonderful people that were there this weekend.  I was able to meet most of them.  For those I didn’t (including the HBs that weren’t able to make it to NY), I truly regret our paths didn’t cross and hoping for it in the future!

Sarah and  Jane (The ones who started all this!) Wonderfully wonderful people.  Really.  So sweet, down to earth and REAL!  They make meeting people from the Internet not-so-scary 🙂

Peter Shankman (HARO) Full of energy guy I’m grateful to for picking up the tab Saturday night 🙂

Miss Britt Full of energy and smiles

Poppy and NYCWatchDog We sat across from these two at dinner and had a great conversation…even when he did start talking about Dragonland and our eyes went all glassy 🙂

Jill Notkin, from Alex Casey Baby and The Daily Grind Unfortunately didn’t get to spend too much time with 🙁

Erika, from Chick Shopper Chick So sweet and bright.  She was like sunshine walking around.

Katja, from Skimbaco A talented lady with a big heart.  Very warm and inviting.

Shawn, from Backpacking Dad So in love with his wife it’s almost too much to handle.

Jim, from Busy Dad Mr. GQ. And my new blog crush.

These last three I was not able to meet 🙁

Josh, from The Comic’s Curmudgeon

Riese, from This Girl Called Automatic Win

Francesco, from Francesco Explains It All

Bill Wadman TALENTED photographer and his assistant Meg Wachter

Jillian Villafane, our AWESOME makeup artist. Can I please have her at my house every morning??

And I can’t forget about Jane’s Mom Sharon and her husband Barry

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You are going to be sick of hearing about this New York weekend…this is just the start!

#HBC – 7 Hours and Counting

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In seven hours I will be waking up WAY before I want to to get ready to make an early flight out of Charlotte.  Getting ready this week has been absolutely insane.  Work was crazy for me this week (and not just all the public stuff going on…my actual work), I had too many appointments to keep this week, too many clothes to wash and all smack dab in the height of PMS.  I haven’t been on my best behavior and I’m very sure the minute I’m in the air I’ll be feeling guilty for the many times I’ve raised my voice this week but such is life, right?

So the kids are tucked away at my MILs and my bags are packed.  Heather is coming over soon to spend the night.  Dani is supposed to be here at 5:30am and Scott will have been up all night working and plans to take us to the airport.  Maybe I should first of all be praying he doesn’t fall asleep driving!  I’ve got a list of last minute things I need to make sure I take.  (Note to self: change purses before you go to bed!)  I’ve showered.  I’m going to finish typing this and head to bed.

My prayer/hopes for this weekend are that we stay safe in New York, we don’t get lost, we all get along well, we have FUN, we get lots of good shopping deals, we eat a lot of good food, my family stays safe back home, they don’t miss me too much and of course that I pick the right outfit and take a great picture on Sunday :).  Not too much to ask, right?

Oh and of course, my period..just in time for vacation.  Likely story.

Another professional shocker

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Wow, this week has been insane in my professional world.  I mentioned one big bank buying another big bank this week.  Well one big bank backed out and let ANOTHER big bank buy ALL of them.  Well, this deal still affects me so if you read the news you might figure out which bank I work for.  I’m not naming names for search engine purposes.   What’s interesting is the first big buying bank is now mad and making accusations at my bank.  This is getting crazy!  insane!  You can imagine I’ve been in conference calls for much of this week.  But the one question the employees want answered is do I have a job a month from now, a year from now, two years from now?  No one knows the answers but I do know that changes are a-comin’.

The new new-hair-cut

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Yes, I went and did it again.  Got my hair cut.  I get this kind of tick when I have short hair.  I have to change it every time I go.  And this time came a little sooner than later since I wanted a fresh cut for #HBC (for those not on twitter..# denotes an event and HBC is short for Hot Blogger Calendar)(and I know that’s sort of like Rachel Ray saying “EVOO” and then following that immediately with extra virgin olive oil)(i mean, what’s the point of an abbreviation if you’re going to say both??).

I wasn’t going to make a big deal out of the cut but then I had a little freak out when I walked out.  She had spiked it out on the side and I had this awful polo shirt that made me look like a boy and I HATED the cut.  Tried to get Scott to take a few pictures and I deleted every single one.  I got home and fixed it enough to go to church and liked it much better.  But this morning I’m feeling MUCH better about it.  The drama!  It has becoming quite a blogworthy event.  Then Melissa left this message for me:

Post pics of the haircut! I just went to your blog to look for them and I want to see them – now!

Well what’s a blogger to do but yes ma’am and post pictures??

I think this one might be a keeper for at least another round.