weekend update

actually more than a weekend update. i'm so freaking far behind! ummmm ok let's see...
thursday vicky and i went to the first screening of Mike Myers upcoming summer comedy The Love Guru at the Tribeca Cinema at an invitation from her friend Collin who works for Mike Myers- check it out here: title/tt0811138/
Mike Myer's introduced it and informed us it was unfinished and stuff and seemed really anxious as he's been working on this character for years apparantly and this is the first time anyone in the public has seen the film...
It was really really funny. It's basically about this like, Guru character who wants to be better than Deepak Chopra and get on Oprah... so he agrees to help this canadian (and black) hockey player who has been losing since his wife left him... the character is pretty funny and even though the film isn't finished, it was close, and it was a good time. My fave part, and something I'm sure everyone will be saying if this movie is a big hit, was his guru catch phrase was mariska hargitay (instead of like, namaste or something...)... and she even appeared for a few minutes... I thought that was really funny. I wish I could remember what else was really funny... I should have posted that night. why don't I ever learn?

after the movie we went to la sirene, where we had already dropped off a few bottles of wine. Vick and I started with apps and then collin joined us and we had a whole meal... It was really nice. Kristina took good care of us and I got to eat all the things i've been serving people and craaaaaving... and collin was entertaining and a good time was had by one and all. (ha)

friiiiiiiday..... i'm pretty sure nothing notable happened friday. actually, so little happened that friday might as well not even exist. thursday night it snowed allllllll night and it was BEAUTIFUL but friday it was really cold and slippery so i basically stayed in the house alllll day long and all night. i worked on my resumes a little bit trying to get everything up to date... and watched a lot of bad television... late late late, like 2 am, brandon got off work at his new restaurant, Candela, and buzzed me to come down. I was in my nightgown, but he was persistant, so I put on shoes and pulled on a coat and grabbed stella so i could kill two birds with one stone... when i got down he was giggling and threw a snowball at me... he was really really excited about the snow. it was kinda cute... but only kinda, since i wasn't wearing any pants and it was freezing. it's nice to see him happy though and for us to play... i'm so so so scared we'll fall back into how things were before and won't have any fun together and i'll just get depressed and he'll do something bad... i don't know i should stop worrying... but then we come to saturday night... he didn't come home at all. apparantly he fell asleep at work in the break room and didn't wake up until the next day... yeah. i, meanwhile, sat at home, awake allllll night, worrying and not being able to do anything to figure out what was going on. i called the restaurant around 3 am and was informed that he had left to go home... so i was naturally completely scared when he didn't ever show. things like that are what make me crazy and worried and tense! it isn't fair after everything else for thigns like that to happen...

before that.... sat i slept in and ran errands and hung around the house until vicky got off work. i met her at peep, this random thai place that kinda looks like a nightclub... lots of neon pink lights and clear tables and bar... anyway, they have super good cocktails and the foods not very expensive... so we shared appetizers and had some drinks and then of course vicky decided she wanted dessert and i actually did too... somehow we thought it was a good idea at that point to go to midtown... soooo we hopped on the e and went to 34th, and got off right at tgi fridays! what luck, right?! (ha ha) but that one had a 45 minute wait- ridiculous. soooo we walked to 42nd street where it suddenly looked like daytime because of all the gigantic neon lights... and went to the giant multi level tgi fridays there. (i know, why all this work for a gross chain restaurant? nobody knows!) we got a seat at the bar and ordered some chocolate disaster and i had a mochatini... and vicky of course ordered something gross and sent it back for what i was drinking... shocker! anyway, we actually had a really good time. shocking, i know. after we finished we tried to get one more drink back downtown at tailor but they had a private party in their bar so we called it a night and went home.

sooooo i waited up for brand all night, then finally fell asleep around 6:30 am. he called from work around 9:30 am to tell me where he had been and he apologized and sounded sincere... then i just went back to bed and napped until early afternoon. He came home from work around 1 or 2 and was exhausted.... which was weird if he had such a good night's sleep... i went to work and tivo'd the oscars so i could watch when i got off! i left work around 10 and brand was still asleep and in a horrible mood and said he was sick.... it's just all so similar to every other time he's stayed out all night doing one thing or another and then come home to have me take care of him cause he's ill... i want to believe that everything is how he says it is but am i being stupid? i mean, him falling asleep at work is possible. he was working ridiculous hours. and he didn't have any money to go out and he doesn't have a phone... so i guess it's conceivable, but still...i guess time will tell.

work was good last night. my fave customer, lou, came in with a group of friends... lou promised me a few months ago he'd get me in to see his agent, and even brought his agent to the restaurant to introduce me... but then i didn't hear anything for like, two months... so last night he once again promised that within the next few weeks he will indeed take me to see his agent! sooooo fingers crossed.

oh, so the oscars.... i NEVER miss them but this year i had to work and so i watched them delayed on dvr... i hadn't seen any of the movies really so it was sort of weird, i wasn't pulling for anyone in particular except for cate blanchett of course cause i always want her to win! all foreign actors won the acting awards... marion cotillard who played edith piaf won best actress and her speech or lack of speech brought me to tears... she was seriously the most excited person i've ever seen. it was really touching. and i liked her dress better than anyone else's... so double win for her. oh, and when they announced her they showed all the other women nominated and cate blanchett started cheering for marion as if she had won... it was like she didn't even think she should've won but was pulling for marion all along... it was really sweet. i want an oscar.

today i've once again done very little but i go to work in an hour... didier told me yesterday that he wants me to start working weekends with kristina, which is great. weekends are really good money and that's less pressure to temp, thank god. anywayyyyyy i guess i should play with stella for a bit and jump in the shower before another butter scented night downstairs!