August 2010
1 post
“But I’ve got no secrets that I’ll babble in my sleep I won’t...”
– Missy Higgins, Stuff and Nonsense
June 2010
1 post
“Tell me everything that happened
Tell me everything you saw…”
– Stars … from their yet unreleased album
April 2010
4 posts
YES!
I just saw my very first preview for the new season of Friday Night Lights. And I TOTALLY CHEERED.
If you don’t already watch this show, you must. It is, hands down, the best show on television.
May 7th!
"Have you noticed that all of our conversations...
Friday night was J’s bachelorette party - incredible vegan food (hello, tofu BLT with sweet potato fries…), Luck Cheng’s, etc. Late night with some of my favorite people. Saturday was a lazy morning, seeing one of the coolest plays I have ever seen, dinner with my best friend (up from Philly for the weekend), and a trip to the beer garden in Astoria for my co-worker’s...
I was just thinking -
That while missing my person is unbelievably difficult, I am damn lucky to have somone worth missing.
This weekend will be:
My fabulous co-worker’s play reading, home, sugar free baking, beaches, Boy cooking dinner, beautiful spring weather (thanks for finally joining us), driving, mix cds, my dogs, my bed, Cadbury Eggs, wine, wine, wine, sleep, waffles, family, friends, late night tea, wine, sundresses, aviators, and relaxation.
Hello, Springtime. I missed you.
Ask and ye shall receive...
The Boy and I are going to Cape Cod before a wedding on Memorial Day weekend. Perfect. PERFECT. A road trip, The Boy, the beach, and fried shrimp. DONE AND DONE. Oh, and free continental breakfast and a wedding. All things I like.
March 2010
9 posts
I really, really need a vacation of some kind.
That is all.
“Someone who makes you feel like you can face anything in the world, as long as...”
– THE SIREN SONG OF STEPHEN JAY GOULD by Benjamin Bettenbender
“And anger plays on every station
Answers only make more questions
I need...”
– Dixie Chicks, “Easy Silence.” Makes me think of a couple pretty key people in my universe.
This weekend was perfect.
I got back from Kentucky on Saturday evening, and The Boy met me at my apartment (a big deal, because he is not a New Yorker. We’re doing the semi-long distance thing) and checked it for mice, as my super had set traps for me in my absence.
We took a walk and got vegan appetizers and cake. We saw a show, went to two parties, and got hangover brunch. We took another walk, watched the dogs in...
Breakfast this morning.
Whole wheat flatbread, spread with Laughing Cow Cheese, sliced pear, and drizzled with honey. Served with Jasmine Green Tea.
Yesss.
I saw a mouse run across my apartment and I called...
It was one thing for it to be in my kitchen, running from behind my fridge to behind my dishwasher. It’s another for it to be in my closet.
I know, I know. I’m the worst girl ever.
It should be noted, however, that he was pretty amazing with me while I sobbed that it was going to start living in my shoes.
“Me: Fine, just keep the hookers on your side of the bed.
Him: ……”
– Me, barely conscious, 5am-ish
As it turns out, if my SUPER LOUD next door neighbor is home, she’s talking on the phone. Annoying.
February 2010
24 posts
Friday night, I attended one of the best pieces of theatre that I have seen in ages. It was followed by beers and great conversation at one of my new favorite spaces in New York. Last night was hanging out with my sister at a formal event, drinking wine, losing my contacts, dancing like a fool, and wearing a pretty dress to boot. Today will be a shift at work, followed exclusively by baking some...
Live.to.the.point.of.tears: STFU 22-Year-Olds →
You know what really annoys the shit out of me? Shape magazine putting girls like AnnaLynne McCord on the cover — on the cover of a magazine about getting in shape and losing weight. AnnaLynne McCord is 22. When I was 22 I lived above a pizza place and I ate calzones and pizza and subs every…
On the opposite side of this, those articles are incredibly frustrating for me because when I...
/m/: I spent half of my college career living in a... →
magistrae:
pushbartoopen:
You know, a dorm built around a community that puts on programs to better the campus as a whole. I just came across a bunch of articles from my college newspaper talking about how half of the theme houses on my campus are displaced in a regular dorm right now and it really frustrates me…
i never lived in a theme house, but i always liked that drew had them. they...
So, one of my guilty pleasures are the blogs on Glamour.com (it should be said, however, that I don’t read Glamour Magazine - or any women’s magazine, really, save InStyle). Today, one of the posts got me thinking. It was a nice change from relationship talk, etc!
I work in a small office with 8 full time employees. I am always here at least 15 minutes before 6 of my 7 coworkers. I...
I spent a solid chunk of money on my way home from work on mouse traps, InStyle, and wine. I love getting paid, removing vermin from my life, white wine, and reading InStyle… but ALWAYS back to front. Fun fact about me, I only read magazines back to front.
“Really glad I stuck around for that totally absurd but awesomely hilarious Old...”
– maxually
Is it the one with the guy on the horse? My whole office is obsessed with it.
… I’m on a horse.
I know I’ve been dishing out the New York City haterade lately. I KNOW. My city is expensive, crowded, and cold. I’m often tempted to pack up all my things and ship back out to California, where Kate and Brandon still live and figure it out from there.
But then, nights like tonight happen.
I was walking back from the subway, after stopping to buy new galoshes because SNOWPACOLYPSE...
Food/NYC is expensive related post of the day
How is it possible that $20 bought me six coconut shrimp, a diet coke, and unlimited biscuits?
I feel like I got mugged in a fly by night… thing.
I love my city, I love my city, I love my city… *breathing deep*
The "Rules" to Fiction Writing →
I thought some of these were really lovely and resonant.
Sometimes a girl’s gotta eat a two bowls of Honey Bunches of Oats and call it dinner.
No regrets!
Who wants to explain to me...
Why a box of cereal costs $5 in NYC? Is it made of gold?
What?
No way… you totally just didn’t catch me eating an entire tablespoon of peanut butter from the container I keep at my desk, co-worker… not possible.
(Totally possible. Just happened.)
I will hate you on my morning commute IF:
1. You make the bus stop in order to take it one block from Third to Lexington, especially when it is already crowded and you are keeping it from running express. Yes, we see that you get on at Third and off at Lex and it’s only you. That’s just lazy.
2. You are eating cereal out of a coffee mug with your bangs in your eyes and slurping your milk. That is gross for so many reasons,...
I was 21 and in a playwriting class my senior year of college. It was one of the only classes in my Theatre Arts major that I had put off until the very end, which was odd to my family and the people that remembered me in high school. To them, I as the writer. I was the one that was going to publish books and write plays, then direct them myself. But, as high school closed and I moved forward, I...
What I know now:
1. Just because it’s inconvenient, it doesn’t mean it’s wrong. There is no magic time to find someone, no singular rule that fits. All my life I have believed that when I found someone that was right for me, it would be someone in my city, at a time in my life when I had all the time in the world to devote to him. I’m just now realizing that love, real love and partnership,...
“Slain by the words I lack
My world is bursting sappy music and
With a face so...”
– Mike Doughty, “Madeline and Nine”
“You’re only gonna get what you give away
So give love.”
– Sara Bareilles
Love this apartment. Love the Bay Area. →
I made these amazing chickpeas tonight. →
Follow the link for the most exciting chickpeas, ever. I use Cayenne pepper and I am regretting that a tad - should have stuck with cumin - but so, so good.
January 2010
7 posts
Today, I saw a picture of my Ex (the Ex) and he looked happy.
Not just happy. Beside himself. That kind of happy.
The way he never really looked with me.
And she was looking at him, and you can tell she feels the same.
The way I felt, but couldn’t say.
Is it possible to feel equal parts nauseous and happy for him?
"It's sweet and lovely and that's where I'm gonna... →
"Life is a such fucking rollercoaster, then it...
bblove:
Doors closed behind me but there were new possibilities, the feeling like anything could happen. Like Kate Nash sings, “I won’t regret / ‘Cause you can grow flowers / From where dirt used to be.” I did my time in 2009.
I have been putting off my year recap because I don’t really want to re-live it, because it was so wretched. I think that statement really sums up beautifully my...
I miss California.
Don’t get me wrong: I love my life in NYC. I love having my best friends all just a subway ride away. I have the best job I could ever ask for. My apartment - while cold - is mine, and it feels like home. Mouse and all.
But today, I miss leaving my giant, beautiful house at 9 am with Kate. I miss walking for half an hour through the UC Berkeley campus in order to get to my office, at one of...
Jon Stewart, I LOVE YOU. →
December 2009
34 posts
Road Trip!
Philly bound for the evening to visit a handful of my bests from college. I predict cheap drinks and drunken shenanigans. Yes. Done and done.
“It feels like no ebb is allowed. And I know that’s partly my fault, okay?...”
– Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
“Will: Yeah, but this girl is like, you know, beautiful. She’s smart. She’s...”
– Good Will Hunting (via bblove)
This part of the movie always resonated with me deeply. I haven’t had the fortitude to make anything last beyond the initial perfection in a long time. Every time that I see this part of the movie or read this portion, I suck in my breath and wait for the...
