Aug 23rd-Sep 3rd - Dennise's PhD, Sarah's Birthday & Mike's Visit!

I flew back to to the city Thursday so that I could work that night and the next day at work I saw Matthew Morrison from Glee because he was staying in the hotel. Also on Friday Dennise was in South Dakota defending her dissertation and she got her PhD!!!!! She has worked so hard and I am very proud of her!

On Saturday I worked at night and afterwards headed to Little Branch speakeasy for Dennise's Doctoral party! The place was really cool how it was hidden underground but there was a line outside and Dennise came out and brought me in. Her and her friends had a booth where they were hanging out and it was fun celebrating her success together!

Afterwards we decided to go to a pizza place for a late-night snack and the place was bumping club music. We were having fun when all of a sudden Dennise's friend lost her iPhone! We made the place turn their music off to call her phone and had almost the whole place looking because we could hear it but didn't know where it was coming from! I blocked the door and said that no one could leave until we found it ;p It wound up being on the floor under the soda machine, we don't know how but it was good that we found it!

I worked Sunday during the day and then my Dad picked me up to go visit my Grandma in Connecticut since I had the next couple of days off. On the way there we were hungry and stopped at a cool place for dinner. We visited with my Grandma that night and she had some visitors on the back porch eating the bird food!

The next day we took her to the doctor's office for a checkup. They said that she should get some X-rays done because her neck and her knee have been bothering her. We took her to another place to get them done and then went to the Painted Pony and had a nice dinner together. When we got home my Dad played guitar while we sat on the back porch and he retaught me some chords!

Tuesday I went back to the city and Mike was there because he had a meeting the next day! We went to La Follia for dinner where I had a pasta dish that I love. Mike was craving a very sweet dessert so we went to Max Brenner at Union Square and had banana tempura with chocolate and caramel fondue which was scrumptious.

The next day while I was at work Mike and Tony had a meeting at Atlantic which went really well! In celebration of his meeting and my interview coming up with Abrams Artists Agency we had a great dinner at Tao! I loved having edamame, mixed vegetables and vegetable fried rice! We went back to the apartment and had chocolate lava cake that I bought and it was really good.

On Thursday I worked during the day and then later we met up with Mike's cousin David at Olive Garden because he doesn't remember ever eating there! It was not the best Olive Garden experience we've had and David claims the food was disgusting even though he ate it haha but we had fun going together.

Later at night I stayed up until midnight to wish Sarah a Happy Birthday!! In the morning we both had to work and the jewelry designer Pamela Love came in who my friend Julia recognized. After work Sarah opened up presents and we got ready to go to dinner.

Then Sarah, Mike and I met up with our friends Ryan and Nick at Yurba Buena for Sarah's celebration dinner! Sarah loves it there and I thought it was really good. The service, food and desserts were all great and Sarah's birthday candle was so cool! We had a lot of fun and I hope my Bestie had a great day!

Saturday morning Mike and I went to Petite Abeille for breakfast and had deliscious waffles, one that was sweet with fruit and one that was a banana split sundae!

Then Mike was flying out and I went shopping for an outfit to wear to my Abams Artists Agency interview before I had to go to work. I did not have to work on Labor Day so I finished putting together my outfit and I went for a run to practice for a 5K race that I had coming up that weekend!

That night Dennise, Sarah and I went out to eat at a Indian restaurant called Banjara to celebrate Dennise earning her PhD and Sarah's birthday, as well as the girls were sweet to include my upcoming interview into the celebration! The place was really cute and the food was very good! It was so nice that we all had exciting things going on and were able to get together for a great dinner!