2011 in Review; 2012 Ahead

Happy New Year!

2011 was a tough year. I lost my job at Morgane Le Faye in January. Made abt 8 months worth of income during tax season 2011 and had around 100 clients. Then started at Chapman Consulting end of May only to lose that job in October. At least I have unemployment for 46 weeks, not bad!

Then I had my second root canal, first root canal in 2011 (first one I had back in 2007). That cost $600 even with dental insurance. Then I got a second root canal in 2011 in December this time costing $1100. In addition to 6 cavities for $175. Not a good dental year.

Then I ended a 15 month relationship that wasn't going anywhere with a guy I was only lukewarm in a state several states away! Yup Davey was totally pointless and akin to being single. What a waste of time and effort!

Then Brandon who finally got the guts to meet me, but that went nowhere either. I do like checking his twitter updates, always a hoot to see him checking into everything. He stopped announcing his whereabouts in recent days, but it's still superfluous!

So decided not to go out with anyone ever again and being single with a dog. Yup that's my takeaway from 2011.

I will try to get to 150-160 clients this year and make enough for 10 months. that along with my unemployment income will set me up until Sept 2013.. And I will try to get to 200 clients for 2013 and be able to survive for the whole 12 months. That's my game plan. No vacations but no 8:30-5:30pm full-time job.

So will move to a new office 419 Lafayette, 2nd Floor February 15 to May 18. Will get new business cards soon.

Bought balcony tickets for Hansel and Gretel Tues Jan 3 at 7:30PM and having dinner at Luce at 5:45PM.

Bought family circle front seats for The Enchanted Island for Sat Jan 28 for 8PM and having dinner at Il Violino at 6PM.

Will get tickets with Emma for Tosca for Jan 21 at 8PM.

Public brunch at Jan 7 Sat at 11AM

Bann lunch at Jan 28 Sat at 12PM

I twisted my ankle slightly last week. Taking 10 days off from running. Will return to spin with Constance Marie Cohen at 9AM at 92nd and Broadway. Then will do some strength training upper for 45 minutes then going to Zabar's to get a pie tin so I can bake a blueberry pie. Also a pastry cutter, cheese grater, and muffin pan.

My 2012 goals:

fitness goals:

-lose 10 lbs from 105 to 95

-Get super cut with Barry's Bootcamp workouts and Whipped/Brazilian/30/60/90 classes

-yoga/Pilates each 3 times a week

work goals:

-grow from 100 to 150-160 individual clients; 6 businesses to 15 businesses

cooking goals:

-bake new pie/cake/cookies/muffins/bread each week

-cook one to two new dishes each week

Xmas update

I will try to post weekly if not more updates on my blog. Still at my parents. Have been here since Christmas Eve!

I am making my old recipes from Jan 2010. I will try cooking more because it saves on money and I'm tired of the food in my neighborhood.

I'm going to make spicy cajun chicken fettuccine (from Pioneer Woman's website. www.thepioneerwoman.com) on Thursday. I have to eat the avocados before they go bad!

I've been making a chicken avocado salad with grilled chicken, sliced avocado, cherry tomatoes, red leaf lettuce and diced eggs! Very tasty! I need to buy jalapenos. I found them to be really good and they were at the Morgan Le Faye cafetaria salad bar.

My dad bought me a winter coat. It's Larry Levine cream colored (I still want the white DKNY or the white Calvin Klein coat) long down coat. I prolly won't wear it often as I don't want to get it dirty. I'll be spending a fortune on dry cleaning bills as my mom predicts. They also got me some thermal underwear and a rice cooker.

Still need to buy a blender, food processor, cheese grater, and rolling pin. What irks me is that I bought a cheese grater and rolling pin back in 2010.. Not sure where they are!

So headed back home tmrw around 4:30PM. I might take a spin class tmrw morning. It's an hour spin because in Long Island they spin for an hour (LOL).

I just love Robert Pennino's Terrier Tri cycling classes! I think that makes up for the $178 Equinox membership fee. He's my favorite spin instructor of all time. Gregg Cook of the Terracycle classes is a close second favorite spin instructor. He teaches three classes M to Thur and two classes on Fri. Gonna try his Whipped Classes next month to prep for BBC classes in March. Also will take Leandro Calvallo (sp?) Brazilian Butt/Tummy Tuck/Body Sculpt classes. And Kristi Molinaro's 30/60/90 classes.

Also will save money for a Polar FT60 heart-rate monitor watch! $130. I will get that in March to train for the Brooklyn Half-Marathon!

It looks like there might be showers on NYE, so will skip the outdoor 4 miler. My first race will be the Coogan's 5K. Will try to do it in 8:30 min miles!

I am beginning to like to run again. Need to train up to 6 miles (one full Central Park loop).

Wonder if I'll ever hear from Brandon R again. I do know what he's up to on any given day given his constant twitter updates. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing, LOL

I went to the Jets-Giants game on Christmas Eve with Augusto. That's the last time he goes to a winter game with me. He abandoned me after the third quarter. Not a true fan! Giants won! I was ecstatic! Giants are my number 1 team of all time. Followed closely by Real Madrid, Mets, Yankees, then Jets. I doubt they will win the Super Bowl with Mark Sanchez. I see Vick, Romo and Flacco winning Super Bowl Rings before Sanchez. there was a funny heckler who kept calling him Mark Sandwich. very funny guy!

Too bad I am not making enough money from my tax business to go to the Cowboys-Giants NFC East title game! One way is to get one ticket and use my dentist money and just not finish my post and crown. LOL Nah!

BBC! Updates

So the weekly updates have come to a halt. So sorry for those even bothering to read this. I am still doing my own tax business and working out like a fiend.

I am projected to be fine without full-time or even part-time work until September of 2012. So I will look for full-time or part-time work in April after this coming tax season!

I have lost 4-5 lbs. I am currently hovering near 103. Once I weighed 102.4... I want to weigh 95 lbs because I weighed 95 lbs back in 2001 when I was 24 and had a super-crush on Joe, this really hot trainer at NYSC. I googled him and he is still there now as a fitness services manager. His FB pic is with him and this woman, not sure if that's his wife, fiance, girlfriend. I did ask to be his contact on LinkedIn but he has only 4 connections so I doubt he uses it much. He's still hot! Thought he wanted to be an actor. Oh well.

My new craze is Barry's Boot Camp! I ordered a 5-pack for $110. $22 a session instead of $32. I will take some fitness classes at Equinox to prep myself up for the BBC.

I will prolly take it with Joey Gonzalez, COO of BBC. I was contemplating taking Noah's classes but he's not an expert trainer like Joey. Plus he's Jewish! LOL I doubt I will be dating Noah anyways. He did accept my friend request unlike Joey. All of them don't hold a candle to Joe. He inspired me to run the marathon... I am even contemplating tracking down which NYSC he belongs to and re-joining NYSC. Nah. I like not being in any relationship of any kind. As Rachel Weisz character said in Definitely Maybe, "I don't need a guy!" Just his sperm. LOL

I will cut out my hair coloring and manicure expense if I like BBC.

OK nothing else new with me. Nothing to do today or tonight. I spun with RP of Terrier Tri at 85th and Third (four spin classes each day this week in a row!). Will attempt to run 3.4 miles tmrw.

He gave out free Terrier Tri coffee mugs! Not sure why the 85th Street Equinox members are so special. I went to the 63rd St Terrier Tri on Wednesday morning and he didn't give anything out to them!

Cooking Part II

So I cooked crab bisque yesterday for Christmas. I added too much salt so it came out too salty. Also had to constantly skim off foam off the top of the seafood bisque, prolly won't make that again anytime soon. Check out my FB page for pics.

I made Pasta Bolognese today and that came out so much better. My parents thought it tasted really good and it was easier to make than the crab bisque so I'll be sure to cook it again.

I also cooked Sauteed Crab with Egg, Scallion and Ginger, a family recipe. I haven't tasted it yet so I'm not sure how it turned out but my mom said it came out well.

Tomorrow I will cook Chicken Pot Pie. I forgot to buy the frozen puff pastry so I will go to the Stop and Shop on Northern Blvd on my way back from Equinox in Great Neck to run 2 miles, my first run in two weeks. My right ankle is completely recovered.

I am going to give myself a budget of up to $30 to buy some cooking utensil or apparatus. This week I bought a $33 10.5 x 7 red baking dish.

I'm also not going to get the $550 Burberry Pink Perspex Tote but will save up to buy a $265 Kitchenaid electric mixer from Amazon.com. I'm also going to get the Pink Florentine Laptop Bag next Wednesday.

I have to get 1099-MISC forms for my two clients, Adam and Julieta. Hopefully they won't exceed 10 recipients.

Working out

I worked out last night before my dinner at the Equinox at 92nd Street and Broadway. I ran 3 miles. I am going to start training for a marathon soon so that should be interesting.

I am sleepy from the medications. Wah! I wanted to stay home today but dragged my sorry butt into work.