I start a new job Tuesday. I quit my old job for other reasons that I won’t say because it is just very rude to talk ill about people so I’ll leave that be. I’ve been out of a job since July 13th and been living on fumes basically financially and am finally now a regular person with a regular job. This job is something new I get to wear scrubs. I’ll be a receptionist at a very busy dermatologists office. They do everything there from regular stuff, to botox, laser hair removal, surgery etc. So it is going to be fun. I went with Donna yesterday to buy scrubs from Wal-Mart. I bought 3 tops and three bottoms.

On a side note I’ve joined . I am excited to be a member of it! It’s great because it gets reset every friday. I think it is perfect. Great meme idea Jenny.

I should come up with a meme. I WANT MY OWN MEME JENNY!!!

This Weekends To Do List

1. Get my hair cut! – I saved $23 by scheduling a wet cut (coming in with my hair wet and not having them blow dry and style it)
2. Get my nails done – I enjoy having my nails done. I switched to pink and whites and saved a lot. I have them fill in the whites thicker and only get pink fills for like 4 fills. Saving me an extra $52 a year or more depending on where I go!
3. Eyebrow Waxing – I know I know I could save if I pluck. However its my splurge once every 6 weeks to spend $7 on my eyebrows getting waxed.
4. Clean out my car – I pay for my nieces cellphone bill at $50 a month so she will be doing a very, very in depth car cleaning that I’ve been meaning to do on the inside of my car. A full detailing once or twice a month to work off her cellphone bill I’ve paid a few times and will be paying for apparently until she is allowed to get a job.

So I spent Saturday in New York City just a short jaunt from my own home, at the BlogHER conference representing Pajama Mommy Community. I enjoyed meeting a few bloggers there, along with meeting all sorts of great PR people and meeting those I’ve worked with in the past. I met up with Sheena who is too cute in person for words. I was thrilled with all the fun I had and the stuff I got. Granted by the time 4pm rolled around I just wanted to go home. I was tired and cranky, drained, my brain was slowly becoming mush. It just was so much better for me to just go home and call it a night.

I knew it wasn’t going to be that great of a day when my train showed up late. I got into the city about 45 minutes late, and about another half hour until I walked the 20 city blocks from 33rd to 53rd. Aka from Penn Station to the Hilton Hotel. Oh it was a fun walk too. I called the Hilton and I had to say they weren’t the most helpful people on the phone they made assumptions and gave me horrendous directions that I had to call back two more times and finally get rude with the lady just for her to listen. I called up the fist woman and I said I’m walking on 6th and I’m trying to figure out where you are she doesn’t know where on sixth I am and tells me to go straight. I end up on 5th avenue that way. So I call again and I am like I am trying to find you and another woman tells me just go straight until the numbers get bigger. I’m like straight is vague and I need something more than that. She is like you can only go one way on Sixth Ave, all snotty to me. I was like listen lady, I can go any where I want to since I AM WALKING I just need to know which way to go on Sixth Ave. To which she is like well follow the traffic. I am like if it was that simple you should have said that in the beginning instead of making assumptions and not trying to help me a consumer at your business.

So I hung up on her. I don’t like rude people.

The staff at blogHER were so nice and friendly, the PR people were great. The few bloggers I spoke to were so nice. The rest well as a group I was hoping people were over all nicer. But I found that several other people I spoke to seemed to get snubbed by a lot of bloggers there for no reason. This is a meet and greet and a lot of times when you say hello to someone people just snubbed you. I was very appalled at that behavior. No one wanted to actually meet and connect with other bloggers. This whole thing is not just about meeting PR its about social networking. One of the best things you can do is talk to other  bloggers. There are times where I have PR contacts others want and vice versa and we share because I find that when you are greedy it just is rude and tends to turn people away. There is nothing wrong with sharing, there is enough out there for everyone.

Please don’t think I am ungrateful or anything. I spoke to several bloggers there who felt the same way every time they went to socialize and network they were getting snubbed. I personally think this is a chance not only to meet other bloggers but other readers. I’m very quiet so when I ate breakfast I just sat there quietly and spoke very little. Not that I am unapproachable I just was soaking it all in. I socialized but it seemed I chose a table where more people knew each other and not that they made me feel out of place since they were very friendly I was just tired from my walk. I just think even during the meet and greet sessions people were using blogher for just PR contacts and I wanted to meet other bloggers and I found so many people felt that way so I hope when I attend next year it’ll be even better. The event was great, I just hoped to find more people to talk to next time around

Over all it was a great experience I believe I will be attending next years even if it isn’t local. I should have been going to this far earlier. I am such a slacker.

I have been managing to do a lot of work. By work I mean grunt work no one else wants to do and really I mean grunt crappy work. It takes a lot of grunt work to run a blog the size of Pajama Mommy. So where everyone thinks of Amanda doesn’t do much because I never have that many articles. I know I don’t I’m too busy spending 6 hours cleaning out spam from just ONE small section of the site and not even getting ALL of it. So yes I spent all day yesterday doing that.

Today I have a job interview, tomorrow I will be at blogHER and the same thing with Sunday. Monday I also have a job interview. I also need to get all the work done for my freelance for AOL so I can have some money on Tuesday. I didn’t do crap this week. I’ve been PMS’n and depressed. I haven’t been really depressed for any particular reason just an over all well rounded depressed state. I’ve been snappy, and bitchy and shit that wouldn’t normally bother me I just abhor as of right now. I mean little things that you just usually brush off I want to stab someone for. I’ve been had this strong of a PMS issue so I wonder if I’m going crazy.

So yesterday while I was working on Pajama Mommy I was talking to my friend Jenny and then I went out side to have a cigarette (oh yes I’m one of those evil vile people who smoke.) and while I was outside I had this grand epiphany that I have decided to become the next Oprah. To which Jenny asked me how I plan to do that. I told her that I had an epiphany not a freaking plan. Gosh. So yes some how I will become the next Oprah. I don’t need a TV talk show I can easily utilize the websites that I have. It wont be on Pajama Mommy no… I think it’ll be something else hmm. I might work it into this site some how. What do you think?