City Livin' Update from the Mrs.

I've been posting lots of pictures lately and some good shopping finds, but I thought you might be interested in what I've been up to in NYC! I wrote this note to some of my friends and edited it a little so I could share it with my blogworld friends! So...grab a chair and your drink of choice...

I've mostly recovered from my shooting experience. I'm still very jittery and I hit the pavement every time I hear a loud noise...but guess it will just take time. It was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life, but I get better each day. There is a real police presence in our neighborhood and that makes me feel good. Thanks for your sweet words of encourage and nice notes. It is comforting to know I have some good blogger friends out there!

Married life is great! I love having my husband at home each night (even though it is quite late). He is such a sweetheart and has really been patient with me when I'm homesick or scared. He keeps bringing me home flowers! They are a little cheaper here b/c you can buy them on the street, but it is the thought that counts! Right now he is working until between 8:30pm-11:30pm. His mentor told him it will get much worse from Jan-June...we can't wait! He really seems to like it though, and he scored in the top percent on his training test which meant he got his first 3 requests for his rotations. I'm so proud of him! He did get the entire weekend off last weekend, so that was really nice. When he does get home early (8:00pm) then we get to go to dinner and that has been fun to explore all the restaurants in our area.. We keep trying more Mexican restaurants hoping to find just one that will give us a fix, but they just are not as good up here. (As I mentioned before, cheese dip does not exist in the city and I'm having trouble working through that.)

How many of you go to football games? We watch the games at the Bama bar here. It is pretty cool, there were at least 200 people were there last week. The waitresses wear Bama cheerleader outfits, the walls are Crimson and the have the game on like 10 flat screens and projector screens! They also hand out shakers at the door. We go and drink lots and lots, stay there for about 6 hours and then I like to hail cabs with my Bama shaker! It's the next best thing to being at Bryant Denny, but I really want to come home for a game.

The new job is going pretty well. My official title is "Special Events Coordinator" for a hospital. It is such a different work environment though than the travel agency I did meeting planning and events for at home. I walk out and I'm in the middle of a hospital. So strange, but fun too! It will take some getting used to. My boss is a big wig doc. He's a super man...he only needs 4 hours of sleep to function. In his field, he's done more surgeries than any doc in the entire state and, in addition, he has the highest success level! The best part is for the first time the job I'm doing really makes a difference. I get to help assist someone that saves lives everyday and it really is rewarding! I'm learning lots and lots about the medical industry. When I talk with the doc, I go to the operating room and talk to him from the doorway while he is working on someone. Kinda crazy, but VERY interesting! In addition to their major meeting which I'm in charge of, I assist with obtaining the funding from the pharmaceutical companies. I already have quite a collection of pens and pads!! I'm also doing CME dinners. We had our first one last week, it was VERY nice! I'm working on booking our December meeting and I've been trying to learn all the places in NYC with private rooms. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Anyways, that is it so far. I'm still learning my way around the hospital...I get lost a lot. There are thousands of employees, a little bit bigger than what I'm used to. We get great discounts on plays, sporting events, so I need to take advantage of that soon!

I got accepted into the Junior League up here and I started my provisional training last week! I'm really excited to get to meet some nice cute girls. I need some girl friends up here and the volunteer projects we get to do are really neat! The townhouse is AMAZING!! It's like a country club where you can just sign your ticket for food and drinks and they bill you each month. Sounds like trouble! Oh, the funniest part. My group leader is my husband's good friend's (he was even a groomsmen in our wedding) ex-girlfriend from high school/college. Don't worry...it wasn't a bad break up and they are still friends. Anyways, she had been emailing me recently and reaching out b/c she knew we just moved here. By COMPLETE coincidence I ended up in her Jr. League group. There are 8 groups of about 20 girls! Isn't that funny? She seems like a really nice girl and I'll get to know her very well now! It is such a small world!

Daisy is doing great. She is really enjoying her dog walker. They write us notes everyday to tell us if she went #1 or #2 during her walk and what they did at the park. It is so funny! She is nice and tired when I get home and seems really happy. She's really doing great and my husband is SO in love with her. It is hilarious. I think she likes him more than me now. Ha, Ha. Who would have thought. She's turned into such a good girl! She walks on a leash really well, sits in the elevator and before she crosses the street. She is in love with Chole in 4C (another golden) and Tiger in 14B...they walk together!

I haven't spotted the Sex in the City cast, but I'm on the look out. My husband walked through the set this week (the girls weren't out there) and one of my friends walked through the week before (still no girls.) I missed my bus the other day and walked home...only to walk through the set of Gossip Girls! I had just watched the season premiere and ALL of the kids were out there filming. I recognized them all and called my little sis to tell her (she's obsessed with the show.) It was really cool to see! They film most of it on the Upper East so I'm hoping I'll run into them again. Today the President came through the Upper East (the UN is in town right now.) I didn't get to see him, but they had barricades all over the place!

Ok, back to cleaning the apartment...hope you enjoyed the long post and hearing about what's going on in my life. I'm heading home to my parent's beach house tomorrow night or Friday morning (I'm flying standby) for a little rest and relaxation and to see my parents. Hubby is going to try to make it too, but he will probably have to work. Oh well...I'm hitting the outlets!