Joy-ful weekend

Working straight night shift has really thrown me off kilter when it comes to keeping my days of the weeks straight and remembering the few things I do get to do during the daylight! I've been sitting here on my couch wondering "What did I do 2 weekends ago?" and it finally popped into my head, I played with Jenn & Joy!

Jenn's friend Joy came into town from SC and they were gracious enough to let me tag along in some of their fun! The girls are friends from volunteering at Camp Joy and I had the privilege of meeting Joy a few months ago when she came to visit Jenn in SF...or should I say Joy had the privilege of watching my parents try sushi for the first time?!

Anyway, a few of our fun last wkd included a fat-i-licious dinner of corned beef & pastrami from Katz's Delicatessen (think fake orgasm scene from the movie When Harry Met Sally) complete with their own homemade pickles and dessert of cheesecake and carrot cake. After that we moved just a few blocks down to a bar to meet up with a few friends, but we decided to call it an early night since we were planning to be up at 5 am the next morning.

On the way home we had the best cabbie ever! We all dream of being on Cash Cab, but sometimes you have to make your dreams come true so we tried to convince our driver to play along with us. He started off rusty, so it really was more like "Reverse Cash Cab" where we asked him questions. Eventually he got into it and asked us a few questions with a revolving theme around the 5 boroughs. Of course we didn't even know the 5 boroughs but we do now: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

The next morning we got up bright and early to get in line for standby SNL tickets. I'm still pretty upset about these wasted hours of my life. Basically, we stood in the COLD for almost 4 hours (the intern who was supposed to hand out the tix at 7am was almost 2 hours late!), got to the front and were reassured by said intern that we had a great chance of getting in, to then anticipate seeing Florence + the Machine perform later that night and laugh at Jason Segal's skits and have that hope dashed as we waited in line from 10:30-11:35pm without one word from any of the NBC reps regarding if any of the standby's would get in. Seriously, they could have had the decency to announce around 11 or 11:15 that it wasn't looking like there would be any standby's accepted. Nope. They let us just stand there and waste our time. Turns out NO ONE, that's right, NONE of us 200 standbys got in, and that has been happening for the last few weeks. My opinion of NBC has definitely gone down a notch. Oh well, it's a memory and I had good company.

It's really early and really cold!