This & That

a few weekends ago i had the chance of a lifetime to attend the dress rehearsal of SNL. it wasn’t so much a chance happening, i put my name in the ticket lottery every august and was lucky enough to be picked. the page on our NBC universal tour told us that only 1500 pairs of tickets are handed out per season.

getting to see the show in person was unbelievably cool. we just so happened to sit in the back row of the theater on a bench that was slightly left of center stage. we had perfect seats for the monologue and skits that take place on that stage (weekend update, and a couple other sketches) as well as the musical guest that performs on the stage adjacent to it. the musical guests were Maroon 5 and the host was Charlie Day from It’s always sunny in Philadelphia.

we weren’t allowed to take photos at SNL so below are some i grabbed from their website mixed in with some of the photos i did take from the rest of the weekend.

the night before SNL i went to the wilbur theater with LK and JBP to see gilbert gottfried. he was very disappointing.. his set was almost shorter than the opening acts set..

after SNL i went to a patriots game, it was the most low key football tailgate i’ve been to, but it was fun to hang out with and catch up with LM none the less.

having such a whirlwind weekend and seeing most of my new england besties made me long to live back there. :( i even heard a, “so when are you moving back?” i haven’t heard that in a long time. :/

hopefully i will spend some more time there this summer. plus, there is always adam carolla and LKs non birthday celebration in january to look forward to.

i’m about to go on a quick tour of new england mostly, with a quick jaunt to NYC.. and i can’t wait. if you live in NYC and want to meet up with me somewhere near rockefeller center from 4pm-6pm-ish let me know! i’d love to see you too.

i am so terrible at yoga, i hope that my instructor doesn’t think i’m making fun of her class. i think i might be the most inflexible person i’ve ever heard of, and to top it off, tonight i farted at the end of class. a loud fart that vibrated off the bamboo floors into the dark silence of the end ohhhhmm-ing. so embarrassing..

i bet i will never graduate from beginner class. one of the supposed easiest poses is called “child pose”. you basically kneel down, sit on your feet, stretch your arms out in front of you, put your chest to the floor and head down. i couldn’t do that pose if my life depended on it due to my weight and my knee.

also.. i think yoga is all about breathing.. i find myself holding my breath and trying to control my exhales most of the night so as not to sound like i just finished pushing my car up a hill.

the nine minutes at the end of the night where we just lay there dead is my favorite… till i fart and ruin everyone’s serious time. :(

i kinda feel like i’m on Wipeout! and i’m trying to navigate this spinny, unstable, topsy, turvy obstacle course. omg i have a lot going on. not just stuff… like, thoughts too.

a little over a month ago my mom was “overly excited” when i brought up how someone on the radio was having gastric bypass surgery.. she wanted to know if i would do it and even went so far as to say that my sister said if she could she would.. i was pretty taken aback. the more i think about it, and read about the more i think.. maybe i should. my life could be radically different in just 6 months. i would have to make unfathomable changes, but obviously i need that..

i need to think seriously about this now as my health insurance renewal deadline is approaching this next month.

i’m thinking a trip to my doctors office is in the cards soon.. i’ve had a lower back pain that i can remember having since before labor day. i think 2 months is too long for this to be menstrual related. i think it might be a spinal tumor like in 50/50, my sister thinks its probably an ovarian cyst. either way.. prob not something that is just going to go away. :(

in animal news, just when i thought i was turning a corner with schroeder (i’m pretty sure it was him), he takes thing to a new level and pees or marks his territory on my chair. wtf!!

in bucket list news, i’m going to be ticking 3 things off my list in one weekend..

- seeing a gilbert gottfried stand up show
- going to a taping of SNL
- seeing the patriots in foxboro

now i just have surviving a plane crash, seeing adam carolla live, going to a pearl jam concert, going to australia, owning property in ireland and nude modeling. not too shabby..