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In 5 DAYS!! 

SATURDAY! 

The 11am meeting was a big flop. (Not was he was expecting...) 

But the 4h30 meeting was pretty good! That's enough for us! 

SO HAPPY!!! 

Please let Monday go well great! Steph has a meeting for a really great contract! Is sounds as though they want him to do it.. but nothing is confirmed yet. Please please please, this would be great!

It feels so weird to not know if I can be excited or if I should be depressed, because IF we go to Mexico, it's in 7 days. 7 DAYS! See how excited I would be, if I could be excited? I know I must sound like a spoiled brat. I don't KNOW why I care so much about this. It's 'only a trip'. It only helps fill The Void. Maybe there could be another swine flu epidemic and we could find another deal we could afford. But the couple of times Steph was starting to lean more towards not going, he'd find me bawling my frickin' eyes out.

Confession: When someone says that they are bored, I tend to judge their intellect. Okay, I understand being bored at work, being bored at your in laws, being bored when you don't fully own your time. But when you're on your own time, able to chose to do anything, why would you chose to sit there and declare boredom? 

Yeah. It's Friday night, and I'm bored.

This is the last weekend before the possible Mexico trip. This weekend we were supposed to do last minute things, get prepared for the trip, buy sunblock.. that sort of stuff. I think it's because I'm so upset about possibly not going that I'm not chosing to do anything else but whine about being bored. Also, being snowed in doeesn't help.

Guess what I did last night? I participated in my first choir practice (as an adult)! I was really nervous before going. You know me.. anxious me. Exactly where is the practice location? Is there parking? What should I wear? Will I start coughing? What if I suck? etc. My friend Laura, the one who made aware of the existence of such a choir in Moncton, let me tag along with her so that it wouldn't be as intimidating as going alone.

They We practice in a church, but we're not singing churchy music per se. On the program : Gershwin / American Folk, Excepts from the musical "Radio Girls". The very first song we practiced was the only one I knew, which is also one of my favourite songs : Summertime. The other songs... let's just say that I'm very thankful that they gave us a practice CD, and that I'll have to learn to read music hehe. I learned the basics in elementary school, but that was so long ago. For now I plan to learn the songs with the CD and then try to understand the music more during practices. We will have 2 concerts this year, which I'm so excited about! 

I love love loved it! I couldn't stop smiling! The choir director is SO enhtusiastic and lovely, I already love her. We are a huge choir, I'd say at least 60 members. It's SO awesome when it all comes together - the sopranos, altos, tenors, and bass.

I brought my practice CD and sheet music home, and oh yeah... I didn't blog about this yet, but my parents are in town and stayed over last night. They're buying a new pick up truck. Anyway, they were all curious to hear the music. When mom heard how high and loud I'm practicing, she asked Steph if she should get him some ear plugs :P When I sing at home, pop music or whatever, I don't sing soprano. But I want to sing soprano in the choir. Sopranos have all the fun, I think hehe.

I got rhythm
I got music
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more ?

KB, How do I contact you? I don't have an email adress or anything... are you on Facebook? You can email me at nancy.vienneau  either at gnb.ca or rogers.com ! 

I think about writing this shout out all the time, I can't believe it's already been more than 3 months since your comment! Not only am I a procrastinator, but I also have a terrible memory!! hehe.

I'm really looking forward to catching up with you! 

This is what I looked forward to in 2009. I'm dumping this here so that I can start the 2010 page :) I have realized that I NEED something to look forward to, constantly. I'm happy when I can think about and plan what's next. I t hrive on that.

2009

December 31 - Mary Poppins on Broadway!
December 30 - The Rockettes!
December 28 - Leave for New York City!!
December 25 - Christmas with family
December 24 - Annual Fondue & Cranium Xmas eve!
December 18 - Mom's Birthday :)
December 15-16 - Meetings in Fredericton, all staff
December 11 - Lunch with some Smartest Loser girls!
December 1 - Office Christmas party at the Pumphouse
November 28 - Dinner with the Smartest Losers
November 17 - Initial consult with barriatric surgeon
November 2 - The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
October 31 - David Copperfield
September 26 - Marilyn Manson Louis C.K. Show!
September 24 - Excel Workshop (What, I'm a geek)
September 23 - Work's Fall Fun Day
September 22 - FALL! My favorite season!
September 19 - Bob Marley Tribute show!
September 18 - Pearl Jam Tribute show!!!!!
September 12 - FREE Metallica tribute band outdoors show
September 5 - Labour day Weekend! R&R
August 29 - Genevieve's birthday!
August 15 - Show de 1755, Tintamarre!
August 14 -  Show de la Compagnie Creole
August 13 - Turning 30!
August 12 - Going up home for 5 days!!
August 6 - AC/DC Concert
July 1 - Canada Day fireworks!
June 28 - 6th wedding anniversary!
June 4 - Brian & Leon's Birthday
May 29 - Disturbed Concert
April 26 - Guylaine's Birthday
April 15 - Francis Cabrel Concert
April 2 - Steph's Birthday
March 20 - Leave for Caribbean cruise!
February 21 - Shoppaholic Movie & Fun Day
February 20 - Smartest Loser 2 Gala
February 14 - Valentine's Day
February 7 - Melissa's baby shower
February 5 - G's Retirement party
January 29 - Stand. tests for an awesome fed position!
January 28 - Business trip to Fredericton
January 26 - My father's 52nd birthday
January 24 - Father in law's birthday party
January 21 - Sophie's Birthday!
January 6 - Biggest Loser Premiere! Woot!
January 1 - Ringing in the new year in Times Square!

Attention : You can find the soundtrack for this entry here.

It's about time I blog about New York City, eh? We have been back for 2 weeks now, and we're finally starting to shake off that nasty nasty cold that we brought back! Despite being sick as a dog though, I'm still happy as a clam. I think it's the traveling. Looking forward to Mexico. I think that I must have been a nomad in a past life.

NYC was awesome,as always. We arrived at our hotel in New Jersey in the early afternoon, checked in and stretched and hopped on the bed for a minute. That always feels incredible after 18 hours sitting on a bus. Then we took the bus to Manhattan, and it's starting to feel natural to me. We're not panicked, we still have Heather's great NYC map, which we should really return some day hehe. And we know where we're going. We got off at Port Authority, each bought a Metro Pass, and took the Subway to Little Italy for dinner. How did people ever chose new restaurants before yelp? We went to Il Cortile, and it was amazing, as you can see on the Facebook pictures. We walked through Chinatown, I bought some pretty purses, and then we took the Subway back to 33rd & 7th to catch our shuttle back to NJ.

The next day (Dec 30th), the first thing we did was get in line to go on top of the Empire State Building for the first time. We went up the Rockefeller(GE) Building twice before, but this was our first time at the ESB. Admittedly, the lines are much shorter, the process is much smoother, and the top is generally less crowded at Rockefeller. You can't beat the incredible Central Park view, and obviously the Top of the Rock is a great place to see the Empire State itself.  However, I really had my heart set on the Empire State because it offers unobstructed views of my favorite NYC building : The Chrysler Building. (When you're on Top of the Rock (GE Building), the Met Life building is in the way.)  The whole ESB process took 4 hours. After that we went back to Chinatown for more shopping :) In the afternoon, we went to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular... and wow, it really was spectacular. The costumes, the sets, the grandeur of the Radio City Music Hall.... The Rockettes!! Spectacular! Then of course we went to take a peek at the Rockefeller tree & skating rink. Then we made our way back to Herald Square and went shopping at Macy's and its glorious 10 floors. The 7th floor is almost entirely dedicated to plus-sized women's clothing. aka. Nancy's Heaven! (I have created a private album on Facebook to show my mom and girlfriends what I bought, so if you want to see it give me a shout in the comments and I'll add your name to the album!) 

On New Years Eve, we started the day with more shopping. Steph went to shop at Game Stop and other 'boring to me' stores while I shopped at JC Penney's and found incredible sales! In the afternoon we went to see Mary Poppins on Broadway! We chose it because 1 - We got a pretty good deal for tickets in the Mezzanine, and 2 - It's a classic that we knew we wanted to see someday anyway. We were both pleasantly surprised! It IS pretty magical. The effects are really entertaining. It was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! I wore my sparkly glitter top that day, and left a trail of glitter everywhere I went. Seriously. When I tried on clothes in dressing rooms, the room was completely covered in glitter by the time I left. When I went to the washrooms at Mary Poppins, I left a visible trail of glitter. When I got out of my crammed seat in the theatre, the girl next to me gave me a nasty look while it floated in the air all around us like a cloud of glitter. We wanted to stay in Times Square because they were already barricading people, so we went to waste a little time at McDoanld's and met people again this year. We met a really nice guy and somehow remembered his website. A little later his musician friend arrived and showed us his CD album, but I can't remember his name... Steph says that when I went up the stiars to go to the washroom at McDonald's, he could see glitter falling off of me every step I took LOL. We didn't have to wait in line at all to get into our Applebees NYE party. Again this year, we met a couple to hang out with for the evening. Their names were Jo and Lee, and they are from London. (You can see a pic of me & Jo wasted in the FB album hehe.) Around 11h40pm, we all went outside to watch the ball drop (seeing it from behind.), and I understand now why TGIF is worth the extra money... we didn't have a dedicated area, and ended up completely, utterly SMOOSHED in the crowd. To the point where I had to take deep breaths to not panic. Everyone was pushing and shoving, I couln't straighten my back. I was leaning forward and bent to the left until the ball dropped. Steph almost got into a fight (SO out of character for him) with a guy who had pushed me and was hurting me by doing so. I was really scared that they would fight and they ended up shaking hands and wishing each other happy new year, no hard feelings. That's my man. He can look tough but he's my teddy bear :) We had NO problem catching a subway at all this year, but just because of a little luck hehe. We made it back to the shuttle for 1am and were back in our hotel by 2am... but I stayed up until 4h30am packing. I had to cram all that shopping in the suitcases! We had to check out and leave our luggage on our busses and reserve seats at 9am.

As you can imagine, I was DEAD tired by the time we took the NJ Transit bus back to Manhattan for one last time. I wasn't the only one, the bus stopped to let out one of the girls from our busses group so she could go yawn in technicolor in the snow outside. Ew. Just seeing her... do that.. made me really nauseous but thankfully I was fine after a good breakfast at Au Bon Pain. Yep, I'm still in love with their muesli! Yum. After that we went to Union Square, where I went shopping at DSW and Filene's Basement while Steph found and sat at a Starbucks. White chit chatting with a DSW sales girl, she whined that it's not fair that we plus sized women don't have many shopping options.... My eyes nearly buldged out of my head and I told her it's a good thing that she lives in NYC and not in Moncton hehe. If I lived in NYC, I might possibly stay fat forever. Except I wouldnt, because you do NYC on foot, it's the only way. So much to see! I lost 5lbs again this visit, despite the italian and tiramisu and street hot dogs etc.  After that, as I promised Steph in exchange for all the shopping... we went to see Avatar 3D. I was SO flambeed tired, that I fell asleep about 42 times during the movie. Woops! I'll have to rewatch it, but Seph tells me that it's awesome hehe. You should have seen the movie seats! Holay! They were about twice as wide/large as the seats here! The movie theatre was about 7-8 floors, it was pretty amazing. After the movie we did a final bit of shopping in Herald Square - Conway, Sephora, M.A.C, Philosophy (in Macy's), etc.... and then it was time to say goodbye, beautiful city! And just as when we drove to NYC, we drove back home in a big snow storm. Thankfull we had good bus drivers and we got home safe and sound.

Just as we arrived in Salisbury (near Moncton) I told Steph - Wow, my throat is sore! That, my friends, was the start of what I hope is THE biggest/only bad cold I'll catch this year. It started on Jan 2 and I still have uncontrollably embarrassing coughing fits today. In fact, I completely embarrassed myself at Addition-Elle 2 days ago by accidentally farting while having a coughing fit in the store. Woops! I hope I coughed loud enough to cover the toot! 

But even with being sick like that and missing 2 days of work, I am so happy. I've never been this happy. Like I said, I must be a nomad at heart. I'm really looking forward to Mexico in 3 weeks, and spend all my free time reading TripAdvisor forums :)