My new career path

So, I'm going to try my hand at wedding planning.
Through my own wedding planning experience over this past year, I have come to realize I really enjoy doing this.
I'm super organized about it and I've been nice and calm through out the whole process so far. I've impressed so many vendors with my organization and collages that I've put together for each aspect of the wedding.
I'm currently quite bored and unhappy in my current job. While I'm making decent money, I'm definitely not satisfied with it. However, in this economy I can't afford to quit my job, but I know that I can move forward with the wedding planning on my own time while I continue in my current job.
I am going to take a course to get certified. While certification is not necessary in this type of business, I think it would help give me an advantage over others who are not certified. It should also provide some tools and documents that will make my business run more smoothly.
Wish me luck in my new endeavor. I am really going to work hard at this.
I have a new Storefront on WeddingWire.com to get exposure.
My business name is "NEW DAWN Weddings & Event Productions".

Here's hoping I don't screw up some couples big day!

What Recession?

I would love forsomeone to explain to me how, with all the news of falling profits, huge layoffs and government bail outs, I'm seeing so many stores undergoing cosmetic renovations. Citibank, Verizon, HSBC, to name a few that I have passed by, are updating some of their locations around the city. I'm not sure if this is happening elsewhere in the country (if it is, I'd like to know). It just seems to me that now is not the time to make a perfectly functionable location prettier. I think that money could be much better used on something more important, like the salaries of the people that were laid off. But that's just my opinion.

Gilbert Godfried at Caroline's

It was my first time at Caroline's last night. The place is pretty nice, and quite big compared to most other big name comedy clubs in the city. We had dinner before the show, which was surprisingly very good and well presented, if a bit pricier than I would have liked for a comedy club, but it is in the middle of touristy Times Square.
We somehow magically ended up with reserved seating right in front of the stage, it may be because we were having dinner, but I don't really know.
The emcee was woman, she was okay, kind of funny but not hilarious. Her jokes were kind of all over the place and her interaction with the audience was not great. The second guy, Kevin, was great. He had excellent delivery and his material was fantastic. His story about being smacked in the head by a pigeon had me laughing so hard I was crying.
Then we get to the main act of the night, Gilbert. It was a little hard to watch him, as he was uniquely awkward, he comtinuosly had a hand on his head either rubbing the top or covering an eye. He also kept adjusting the mike, usually putting his arms up to cover his face. I'm not sure if it was part of the act or if he's genuinely awkwardly shy. His routine was very good though. His voice is so annoyingly familiar and it just makes everything seem so much funnier. His jewish jokes were awesome and his impressions were pretty good, especially Jackie Mason and Bob Dylan. He capped it off with some of the dirty jokes from his DVD which were familiar but still great to hear coming from Gilbert.
Overall it was a fun night and it was pretty cool to see Gilbert Godfried live.