I heart spa week!!!!

For those who don't know about spa week...I urge you to go to www.spaweek.com as fast as you can!!! Many cities and states have extended their specials through out the entire month of October! For those of you in the Boston area I HIGHLY recommend the "pick two" special at Spa Newbury. You can pick from a list of select services for only $50 dollars for TWO spa services!!! This in an absolute STEAL. I decided to go with the massage/facial combo. So worth it.

I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm still letting it sink in. After hundreds of applicants, 20 finalists were chosen for the Boston Bruins Ice girls tryouts. Of those 20 girls only FOUR were chosen to join the Ice girls, as they had many girls from last season returning. And for some reason I was one of the chosen FOUR!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! I was so excited when they called my name! I was sure I wouldn't make it, once I realized they were only picking four girls. There were so many beautiful well qualified girls there, anybody could have made it. It was a long 5 hour process, which made the moment they announced my name even sweeter. To know that all of my studying, dance classes, and preperation had paid off!!!

The ice girls get a decent amount of exposure in Boston, and that's pretty cool, but not really the main reason why I tried out. Not only do I love the Bruins, but this was a huge deal for me!!!! Growing up, I was pretty much as awkward as awkward gets. Skinny, huge glasses, braces, frizzy hair, ect. But then around 15-16 I realized how to use a flat iron. At 18-19 I started really getting into fashion. I had already been experimenting with make-up, but I finally got it perfected around 20-21. For many it may seem superficial, but a cute outfit, and a little make-up can go a long way for a girl's self esteem. While I think it's always important to try to be beautiful on the inside, there is nothing wrong with treating yourself, and wanting the outside to match too :-)

So for all the girls that got picked on, ignored by the cute guy, and shunned by the "popular" girls....you can do it!!!!!!! It may sound corny, but don't give any of the nay-sayers a second thought. Prove them wrong with your actions, by working hard and becoming successful.

I'm sure if you told the girls I went to middle school with that I would grow up to be a professional cheerleader, (OK, so NHL cheerleading may not be as big as NFL or NBA, but still!!!) they would laugh in your face! But who has the last laugh now? ;-)

Censorship....

Sucks. I understand the importance of professionalism, but as long as you state your opinion in a professional manner one should be able to speak freely. I don't enjoy being censored, especially over something so minute.

As someone who works promotions pretty much full time, I'm just sick of the lack of respect us promo girls get. You urge us to show up to every event on time, to be well groomed and in good shape. You freak out if we have an emergency and can't make it. You flip out and tell us it's oh so IMPORTANT to the client to be at EVERY event. If it's so friggin important then treat us like we're important.

Don't make disorganized haphazard schedules, give us less than a weeks notice, and then wonder why no one can work an event! Don't pay us incorrectly, don't pay us 2 weeks late. Don't pay us late AGAIN and not inform us when you very well knew.

OK. Now that my mini rant is over I will make this blog more balanced ;-) There are a lot of perks to being a promo girl, so I don't mean to be ungrateful for sure! I've gotten into awesome open bar parties, award shows, and plenty of cover free nights out. The actual job itself is very simple and stress free, just basically smiling, interacting with people and having a good time. I just wish that some of the companies would realize that if they treat their girls better they would get more reliable girls to work for them :-)