Celeb sighting!

Oh my good lord… the Plaza Hotel is ridiculous.  It looks like King Midas threw up inside it – seriously.  The party ended up being really fun and I ended up staying until about 11pm which was a little unplanned, but I was having such a great time hanging out with work people I totally lost track of the time.  My boss, a co-worker and I started out with martinis in The Oak Room.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the Oak Room Bar was once a men’s only bar.  It’s considered one of the best hotel bars in the US and is a hot spot for celebrity sightings.  In fact, as we were leaving who walked by but Tony Bennett!  Here’s a pic in case you can’t place a face with tha name:

  Seriously, how cool is that??

Our actual party was in the main ballroom and thankfully they weren’t kidding when they said “heavy appetizers”  I was able to make a big plate of steak, potatoes and golden beat salad… otherwise I may have been in pretty bad form today.    Want some pics of where I was??  Ok, I didn’t take these, but found them online, but trust me… it was even more incredible than the pictures show.  Maybe not 100% my style, but crazy cool.  First the outside view…Now the ballroom…

Imagine this with a live band onstage, most of the tables cleared out and a huge square bar in the middle… covered in holiday decorations of course.  Seriously though the walls were covered in gold and intricate moldings – insanity – so glad I got to go!!

This morning I woke up feeling a little icky, but I knew some exercise would do just the trick in curing my hangover.  It took some serious willpower, but I dragged myself down to the gym and pounded out a quick 3 miles on the treadmill on incline 3.  Then I did 2 sets of 20 reps of bicep curls, tricep extensions and tricep press, with sets of 20 crunches between each rep.  Definitely a killer workout!!  I totally dove into my Chocolate Breakfast Cookie afterwards…   I used a little extra protein powder this morning because I felt like I needed a little something extra. 

Look at Peekay – he’s totally eyeing my breakfast cookie…  and cosying up to my stuffed animal cow who I’ve had since I was 3 years old.

On the way to work I picked up a Starbucks skim latte sweetened with some Stevia from NuNaturals, and a dash of nutmeg and cinnamon.  Seriously guys, if you haven’t tried the NuNaturals brand of stevia I suggest doing so.  Zero funky aftertaste – it has a really good clean taste and is powder fine so it dissolves really quickly.  Ok, off to do some brokering!