Gaga, Love and Connecticut

Hello my lovely readers! This last week has been another crazy, action packed 7 days. The Grammy Awards, Single’s Awareness Day and my 2nd big business trip have all come and gone. And of course, here I am to tell you all about my week and to give my opinions on the happenings in Hollywood...

I thoroughly enjoyed the Grammys. The red carpet is always a highlight for me and Jennifer Hudson (Weight Watchers must be making a fortune off of her!), Lea Michele (I love how she is so much sexier than her alter ego Rachel Berry in reality) and Selena Gomez were the Best Dressed of the night in my humble opinion. Ciara and Dianna Agron were the two I'd place on the Worst Dressed List - one left too little to the imagination and the other was too dark and dreary for the Grammys. The show was a great spectacle of wonderful entertainment and deserving winners. Best New Artist and Album of Year left me with the “who the 'f' are you” feeling that everyone else on Twitter seemed to be feeling. Or as my brother's text read when the Grammy Awards had ended with Arcade Fire's win, "This must be a joke." The music lover that I am is happy however, because now I get to fill up my itunes library with new and interesting music. My favorite performances of the night go to Katy Perry (“Not Like the Movies” is my favorite song on her Teenage Dream album), Rihanna and Eminem, Rihanna and Drake (Not a bad night for RiRi), and Mumford and Sons (They may be my new favorite band). While I do love Lady Gaga’s new song, her performance under-whelmed me. Perhaps because she went first, but I was glad she won Best Pop Vocal Album. On an end note, if I hear “It’s a quarter after one” one more time, I may punch someone. Nice job Lady Antebellum, but make new music.

Yesterday was Valentine's Day - a truly perplexing "holiday" if I'm being honest. I spent the day I would prefer to call February 14th in a hotel room in Hartford, CT reading the Sunday NY Times and watching Gossip Girl. I hope that doesn't sound too depressing because it wasn’t for me! Even though I am single, I do not need one day to show love to the ones I care about. I try to do that 365 days a year. Cynical and depressed I am not on Valentine’s Day – I’d say I’m indifferent to it. Maybe next year if I’m in a relationship, I’ll be happy to go out to dinner and receive a yummy box of chocolates, but I would rather have that and flowers on a random day in a random month when the one I care about feels like doing so – It shouldn’t be an obligation. That said, any day that celebrates love is a good one, but let’s try to spread love everyday. Too much love never hurt anyone.

I experienced my second business trip of my big girl career over the last two days and it was another great experience. My boss gave me my positive review on Monday and we then discussed me moving full time once my co-worker goes out on maternity leave. I'm so thrilled! I will learn so much more working 40 hours a week and the increase in money to help pay for rent is not too shabby either. I really love business trips. There is something fun about traveling on a comfy Amtrak train, eating yummy room service food and jumping on a hotel bed (you’ll never know if that actually happened)...all for free! It was oddly relaxing and our office in Hartford is a beautiful building where the CEO and boss of my boss works – It’s professional and an inspiring place to visit. Too bad Hartford is in the middle of nowhere and a little frightening. If only there was a magic man who could transport that building and all of the wonderful people in it to New York City.