Work is hard...

All of these pictures are from the "Best of the Best" week (my 2nd week of work) Where we invite the top 75 or so Estee Lauder salespeople to NYC for a week of fun. Luckily, I got to attend all the events. It was fun fun fun fun fun!!

On a boat

Fun times in the rain

In Melville, NJ at the R&D center. Don't be fooled by the nerdy gear, we needed it to make our own lip glosses.

Dinner/Boat cruise

Lunch at the Plaza

View from Estee Lauder's office

Fabrizio Freda, CEO of Estee Lauder speaking

Times Square

Dinner-Bar Americain

Rockefeller Center

Hump Day

TGIW is what I have to say about today. And TGTIT is another thing I have to say. (thank god tomorrow is thursday for the slow ones out there).

Why am I excited about tomorrow??????

Cause the one and only Alice Lee is coming to visit me and I have Friday off and its gonna be the bestestestetstsest weekend ever!!! We're going to The Governor's Ball on Saturday and we're gonna be all over the place the rest of the time she's here.

Pictures and updates to come...what you're about to see may not be appropriate for children under the age of 25.

The road to stardom starts with a $500 down payment...

I've always wanted to be famous (more famous than I already am..ha ha ha)

Hanna and I were joking about how we wanted to be on the show "millionaire matchmaker" and on Friday, while bored at work, I decided to figure out how to apply to be on the show. I mean, who wouldn't want to date a millionaire?

So, I found a website to apply for the show and I also discovered it was very easy to apply to other reality TV shows at the same time. Why not? All you had to put was your height, weight, age, and a picture of yourself. (The most important qualities of being cast for a reality tv show obviously).

I forgot all about doing that until I got a call from the casting agency this morning asking me to come in for an audition TODAY. After calling Hanna and laughing for like 10 minutes about this happening, I decided to do it. I wanted to see what the whole tv/acting world is all about.

I am now extremely grateful for the fact that I have an actual job and don't have to resort to auditioning at these terrible places ever again. I walked in and sat in a waiting room with 100 other people applying for modeling/acting jobs. The place is called "One Source Talent" if you wanted to know. The owner came in at first to tell us all about how brutal the acting/modeling agency world is..and the whole time I'm thinking...since when do I want to be a model/actor?? All I want is to be on the jersey shore or some other trashy show where all I do is drink and act like an idiot....

At the end of explaining that we had to pay $500 for our "comp cards" which are oh-so necessary in the modeling/acting world, and pay a small monthly fee of $39.99 (what a deal!!), he told us the door was right there and we were welcome to leave if we weren't 100% sure and serious about being an actor.

All I could think about at that point was how do I leave without looking stupid and also trying to remember where the Wendy's was that I passed on the way to the place cause I was starving.

They proceeded to call names for quick interviews and luckily I was one of the first to be called otherwise 2 minutes later you'd find me at the Wendy's ordering the biggest thing on the menu.

I walked in and the girl told me to go stand over "there" so she could check me out basically. She was like "so why do you want to be model/actor" and I'm like "Umm honestly I just want to be on reality TV." And she basically told me I would be great for commercials and other acting opportunities (Oh really, cause you know me so well and know I'm a great actor just by looking at me...PS-I'm a terrible actor).

She asked me to come back tomorrow and I was like ummm sure! What do I do after that? She then "reminded me" I needed to pay $500 for my comp cards (WTF are comp cards?!).

Never going back. Ever. But now I have a cool story for my blog so at least it all worked out in the end!!

Serious Shopping Addiction

I love life!! I spent way too much money this weekend and now I'm on a shopping high. Between being excited about my new purchases, being happy a bunch of my friends are now in the city, the governor's ball on Saturday, Alice Lee coming to visit this coming weekend, and knowing Tessa will be here in less than a month, I'm basically about to pee myself from excitement.

Here's a rundown of the weekend:

Friday: lunch with Hanna and a trip to the new cupcake place Sprinkles, long nap, and then free open bar with all my friends interning here this summer. It was SO FUN.

Saturday: Slight hangover cured by large brunch with Hanna, shopped at Urban, and walked around Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill. On Saturday night, Hanna came uptown with me and we watched Millionaire Matchmaker and got serenaded by my roommate Parker who loves to practice Karaoke in his room all the time.

Sunday: Most delicious crepes in the world with Hanna followed by more shopping in Columbus Circle. I purchased some fabulous new Kate Spade shades and some HIGH nine west heels, as well as some sale items from j.crew which I convinced myself were a great deal so I HAD to get them.

What is it about NYC that makes you want to spend all your money??

Too tired to think of a title

Too tired to think of what to say right now except, the last few days have been amazingly awesome. I am making a lot of new, good friends. And I am so tired. so so so tired. I could easily sleep for 24 hours without waking up.

Usually, I'm a very light sleeper so just to give you an example of how tired I am/was last night, I got home at midnight from a boat cruise and went to sleep. Woke up to find a painting had fallen from my wall a few feet from my head and broke on the ground. And I am pretty positive that falling painting didn't soundlessly fall on my floor.

Okay so without going into too much detail, here's what I've done this week:

Monday: Breakfast at Palace Hotel, bus tour around NYC, lunch at financial center, back to office to work, dinner at Bar Americain, and saw the broadway show Mary Poppins (LOVED it)

Tuesday: Breakfast at Estee Lauder office (with Lauder execs and CEO), tour around the main office, presentations, lunch at the Plaza hotel, work for a few hours, and dinner cruise to the statue of liberty

Wednesday (today): Breakfast at the Palace Hotel, trip to long island to visit and tour Estee Lauder R&D center, made my own lipgloss from scratch, lunch at Woodbury country club, work, and home and bed as soon as I'm done with this hopefully before 9:15

I took lots of pictures from this week so I'll post, go to bed, and give you more details at a later time!

Some of the lovely ladies from the Special Events team

Paul Mitchell, one of the execs I'm in charge of ;) He is great!

New friend Anne who is also an Assistant like me!

Is this real life?

I can't believe I graduated today! I can't believe I'm moving to New York City tomorrow and I can't believe I have such a great job (also can't believe I start work on Tuesday). This is all happening so fast that I don't even know what to think. Most of it is happiness and excitement but of course there are a few feelings of nostalgia.

Here are some moments that I have gotten a tear or two in my eye...

1) Driving into my driveway on Easter break and realizing it was the last time I was going to be home until like Christmas. (Gonna miss you Fairview)

2) Looking at a picture of me and Will Bryant from our pre-school graduation

3) Today at graduation, when the sun came out and shown JUST on the graduates for about 4 seconds right after we were officially graduated

4) Taking silly pictures with my silly sister yesterday and walking around campus for the last time

5) Saying goodbye to my mom (Happy mother's day, mommy!)

I have loved every second at Carolina and I feel so grateful to have had all the experiences I've had here. With that said, I'm so ready to start my life in NYC and tell you all about it.

I'm going to try to update the blog as much as I can...mostly so I can document my life in New York for myself...but also to entertain yallses. (Question: Can I say "yall" in NYC? I will just stick with yallses that sounds more new yorkerish)

Graduation was really good today. Rick Dees was the commencement speaker at the Journalism ceremony and he was crazy. One of the memorable quotes from his speech was:

"Many of you will grow up to be older than 100...I met one guy last week who was 116 and another one who was 104 and another who was 106 and one thing I realized about all people over 100...they all look like shit."

Not quite sure what was meant by that one but I laughed. Also, it was funny because I recognized his voice from "Rick Dees and the weekly top 40" on the radio.

Here's a picture of me and Will at the JOMC graduation:

I'm all packed and ready to go for my flight tomorrow. I'm sure I'll be really busy in the next few days but I'll be sure to post pictures and updates later this week. Wish me luck!!

MOVING to NYC!

Its been a while but now I can start updating my blog again because I'm officially moving to New York City (one day after I graduate) on May 9th!

This semester has been extremely hard..between taking 18 hours, having a full-time job, another PR internship, projects, papers, and trying to find a job after school...but it's finally all paying off and I feel extremely lucky to be graduating not only with a job, but a job that I already know I'm going to LOVE.

Sooo what is this "amazing" job? I'll be working at Estee Lauder as an administrative assistant for 2 executives AND I'll be writing and editing training materials for "beauty advisors" who work for Estee Lauder in stores. So yeah, if you know me or know anything about me, you should know that this is definitely my dream job right out of college. Not only do I love the company (and the beauty industry) I LOVE writing. And the 2 people I will be working for, along with the rest of the team, happen to be amazing, wonderful people.

Anyway, I should really be studying for my exam tomorrow morning, but I can't stop thinking about how excited I am to start this new part of my life so so so very soon. Still, not soon enough because I have absolutely no motivation to study for these exams. All I want to do is daydream about my job, look up fun things to do in the city, and start packing my stuff up to send to my new apartment.

So...look forward to lots of blog posts in the future and LOTS of pictures. I am going to try hard to update a lot more than I did last year! YAY