Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

I am related to some of these people.

Every year for the last 16 years Viacom has sponsored Viacom Community Day. Employees can volunteer to do some community service. The company makes T-Shirts, they offer breakfast, snacks and a wrap party. But really the fun part is the community service. I have worked there since 2006 and this was the first year I was able to participate because usually we are in the middle of blockbuster season meaning we are too busy to break for this event. This year I through caution to the wind and told my new boss I was participating. Luckily he didn't disagree so, yesterday, I was able to participate for the very first time and I am so glad I did. I had so much fun and not to mention the experience felt really good. Maybe I should do more community service, more often? hum? Anyhoo, Viacom Community day not only happens at the Hollywood Studio but at our offices around the world. Since everyone was participating it was a little easier to leave my work behind for a few hour...

I think our Disney craze is complete. This past weekend hubby and I bought the super deluxe premium passes to both Disneyland and Disney World. Now we can go to the parks 365 days of the this coming year! When we tell people about our purchase the first question they always ask is, "Wasn't that expensive?" To be honest, it was however, here is why we did it. We did it to save money. With our 6 days/7 nights Disney World vacation planned it would have cost about $320 per person for a 6 day park hopper ticket. And since we have been going to Disneyland every weekend we have been pondering the thought of buying an annual pass for Disneyland which goes for about $460 per person. When you add those two figures together its more than what we paid. Add in a screw up by Costco, cuz we bought some tickets to upgrade to our pass thus getting $100 gift certificates for free from Costco, we made out pretty good in the deal. This past weekend we used our passes fo...

After spending the morning and afternoon at Disneyland we came home and took a big nap. We needed to rest up before we drove South to Culver City to meet up with Caroline for dinner. We thought we were meeting Caroline and Minh for dinner (we didn't understand why we were meeting them in Culver City because they live near us) but we ended up meeting up with Caroline (no Minh), Matthew, Jung, Jon, and Danielle. It was a surprise but a good one. The seven us us had a great time catching up at Waterloo & City, a British Gastropub. Lots of beer and some pizza's later, Caroline and the 81st Street boys got all caught up. I told Caroline she should surprise me more often. It was a nice evening.