  I am just so sad to be back at work... I had a four day weekend because of the holiday on New Year's Day and then I took Friday off of work, so it was just so nice to do basically nothing for four days. Getting up this morning after sleeping in for four days straight was annoying. But not hell, because I tried this thing that my dad always said worked: when I was going to sleep last night, I kept telling myself that I was going to wake up in seven hours and that I'd be up by 6:35. And it worked! I totally never believed him when he said that he didn't need an alarm clock because he just told his body when he wanted to get up.
I'm so psyched that it worked. I'm going to do that every night, because getting up at 6:35 makes the morning less hellish. I was totally (pretty much) on time to work today and I even had to start my car ahead of time and de-snow it. Awesome! So yeah. The extended weekend was good. New Year's Eve was fun. Beck, Kevin, Dodi, Tristan, Kevin's sister, Bergeron, and I went to the Macaroni Grill for dinner. Beck met me at my house beforehand and we had a couple of Vodkatini's (which turned out pretty good, considering I made them). Then Kevin picked us up and we met everyone at the Macaroni Grill where I had two Cosmopolitans. So I was pretty drunk by the time we were leaving to go to the Big House. I had another Cosmo at the Big House, but the one there sucked, it had sours mix or something in it. So the combination of the large amount of dinner and the bad drink that I had made me feel kind of sick. I hope I didn't bring the group down, but I was pretty "reserved" for the rest of the night. Kevin and Beck brought me home soon after the ball dropped, and I passed out pretty much immediately.
New Year's Day was quiet. Alex had worked a very busy 24 hour shift on New Year's Eve, so he wasn't around, and Beck was spending a quiet day at home and Dodi wasn't available for most of the day. So I hung out at the parents' house for a good part of the day, and then hung out with Dodi that night. We watched Cruel Intentions and ate buttery microwave popcorn and mini hot dogs wrapped in cresent rolls.
It was a fabulous impromptu girl's night. :) Friday I got up kind of late and cleaned up my room (which desperatly needed to be done). Then I went to the gym and brought shower stuff along so I could shower there afterwards and get right to my day.
I've never showered at this gym before, and I found the shower facilities to be... adequate. They weren't as nice as those at the YMCA in Clifton Park, but they were better than most of the hostel showers in Europe... After the gym I went to the bank to deposit Christmas checks and then went shopping around for a liquor cabinet or other piece of furniture that I could repurpose as one. I was not lucky in my search. Ah well. Alex came over later that night and we went to dinner at Delmonico's. He had the Delmonico's Delmonico steak and I got some special that was steak tips in portobella sauce over garlic mashed potatoes. He let me have a bite of his steak and I instantly regretted not getting the steak. It was divine . My dinner was very good, but compared to the steak... ah well. Now I sound like my mom ;) Anyway, we came back to the apartment afterwards and watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom which is my favorite Indiana Jones movie.
I was so into the movie and excited about watching it... and then I suddenly passed out.
Ah well.
But yeah, it was an excellent night. :) Saturday morning I got up and left Alex sleeping while I went to the mall and met Dodi and Beck to see Mona Lisa Smile . First we went to Ruby Tuesday's for lunch, where we got awful service (again). It's like they hire idiots there. The movie was pretty good. Actually, it was really good, up until the end when they just decided to wrap the movie up really quick and it was kind of disappointing. Whatever. The theater was packed , in fact, we couldn't get three seats together, so Dodi and I sat in the row above Beck.
That was kind of annoying... Afterwards we walked around the mall for a bit, and Beck met up with Kevin. Dodi and I went back to her place where we ate Taco Bell (ghetto fabulous) and watched American Beauty . I'd never bothered to watch that movie before. I enjoyed it, but I didn't think it was as enormously amazing as everyone would have you believe.
Dodi curled my hair while we watched the last hour of The Ring on HBO, and I was terrified... that I'd jump and knock my head into the curling iron and get burnt. We picked up her cousin, Jill, and then went to the Big House for drinks and dancing. I almost bailed on them, we didn't get to my apartment so I could change until almost 11 and I was tired, but they convinced me to go out with them and I'm glad I did. :) The drinks were strong Saturday night at the Big House... the bartenders were very free with their pouring of the Bombay Sapphire.
But every time I drink Sapphire, my drunkness doesn't hit me right away, so I end up drinking a lot thinking it's not affecting me, and then suddenly I'm drunk. So thankfully I was pretty buzzed by the time we went to the third floor to go dancing, because usually I get a little self-concious about dancing, but I wasn't bothered by anything and had a great time. Dodi and Jill dropped me off at home around 2am, and being alone and drunk and a little hungry, I proceeded to pig out on junk food.
I had potato chips, and then since I had something salty, I needed something sweet, so I broke out a bag of almond M&M's that Alex had bought the weekend before for our trip, but we never opened. I never buy almond M&M's so I wasn't immediately aware that the packaging is very boring and looks sort of like the new black and white packaging they have for the contest where if you find a bag of colored m&m's inside a black and white bag you win a convertible beetle and $20k and a trip.
So yeah.
So I opened the bag of almond M&M's thinking that they were in the new b&w packaging and when I saw colored M&M's on the inside, I was like, "woah... I WON!!! " And then I realized that there were all different colored M&M's inside the bag, and the winning bags have all just one color... and then I realized that I wasn't dreaming, and I never win contests, so I closely examined the exterior of the bag and came to the conclusion that I wasn't a winner and that the packaging for almond M&M's is boring.
I mean, who associates the color, taupe, with almonds, anyway?
So yeah.
Sunday was another quiet day. I went to the parents house for the afternoon and hung out with the family. I met Beck at Starbuck's that evening before she returned to Poughkeepsie. I went home and watched the season premiere of Sex and the City (I'm so sad there are only 7 episodes left!! ) and then I played Sims and went to bed at a reasonable hour (10:30). And now I'm back at work and that blows. 
