I'm sitting in a Greek Orthodox coffee shop with Megan trying to write a letter to my boss telling her I'm leaving New York. I'm also sipping on a chai tea latte that is divine. And I can see a mountain out of the window.
It's a happy day.
Earlier we went to Megan's cake decorating class and while they learned about the "shell" technique and made scary looking clowns, I stole some of the icing and made a bird's nest. The instructor laughed and said it was "good" in a very condenscending voice. After that we had AMAZING Indian food and went on a beautiful drive through the mountains. We made a pitstop in Manitou Springs and drank from some of the natural springs and one of them was naturally carbonated and I thought that was pretty amazing. And that leaves us where we sit now...laptops out in a manor oddly reminiscent of our time at The Gathering in Hillsdale.
Tonight we're getting sushi and going to a "club." This should be interesting.
Love to all!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
In the Wild West
I am sitting in Arianna's living room and taking a moment from our busy day of sun-bathing (it's AMAZING outside today!) and taking the kids to the park to post! It's so beautiful here and the exact opposite of New York. It took me a while to adjust to the altitude, but I'm starting the feel great and the time away from my desk is just what I needed. It's great to remember there is life outside the office. And Brooklyn. And Zach and Gabey are adorable. I'll post pictures soon. We're going to go and get some ice cream and watch a chick flick now...so adios!!
Love to all!
Love to all!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A Post in Pictures
First, here is my nephew. Is he not the CUTEST? I'm really excited to be spending time with him this summer. (And notice the Yankees bib I gave him...)
Second, I saw this on post secret and thought it was amazing:
I agree 100%.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
My Bucket List
After a conversation with Tiffany this morning about how utterly ancient we're all getting and how the years seem to be whizzing by, we decided that we should write a bucket list. For those of you who are unfamiliar with that term (and who failed to see that terrible movie made a few years back) a "bucket list" is simply a list of things you want to accomplish before you kick the bucket. What do you want to experience? What do you want to listen to, take in, fight for and just enjoy before the end? After a few minutes consideration, here are a few of mine:
1) I want to visit Sicily and swim in the Mediterranean.
2) I want to run a 10k
3) I absolutely must fall in love.
4) I want to plant an herb garden.
5) I want to write a novel.
6) I want to volunteer with the UNHCR.
7) I want to really learn to surf.
8) I want to study holistic nutrition and vegan cooking from a real person who knows what she/he is doing. My cookbooks can only go so far.
9) I want to get my masters. Probably in Anthropology or International Studies.
10) I want to be joyful in all things.
What would be on your list?
1) I want to visit Sicily and swim in the Mediterranean.
2) I want to run a 10k
3) I absolutely must fall in love.
4) I want to plant an herb garden.
5) I want to write a novel.
6) I want to volunteer with the UNHCR.
7) I want to really learn to surf.
8) I want to study holistic nutrition and vegan cooking from a real person who knows what she/he is doing. My cookbooks can only go so far.
9) I want to get my masters. Probably in Anthropology or International Studies.
10) I want to be joyful in all things.
What would be on your list?
Monday, April 6, 2009
The Embarrassment of Laziness
Countdown until I leave New York: 55 days
I think something might be wrong with me.
This weekend I did absolutely NOTHING. Well…besides make vegan pumpkin spice/banana pancakes and then clean up after them…and it took real hunger to get me out of bed. I had no motivation to do anything at all: I finished a book in bed, watched a Netflix movie in bed (Vicky Christina Barcelona…which is AMAZING) and slept…in bed. All weekend. I wish I could say I was feeling sick…but I was feeling fine. I had all these plans! I was going to do all my laundry, go running, start packing and above all get some sun! But I couldn’t wake up until 1pm each day and by Sunday I was just like, screw it! I’m going to wallow in this. And I did. It was a perfectly delicious lazy weekend. But I still feel guilty for the lack of productivity.
So that was my weekend. Extremely boring. And extremely good.
I think something might be wrong with me.
This weekend I did absolutely NOTHING. Well…besides make vegan pumpkin spice/banana pancakes and then clean up after them…and it took real hunger to get me out of bed. I had no motivation to do anything at all: I finished a book in bed, watched a Netflix movie in bed (Vicky Christina Barcelona…which is AMAZING) and slept…in bed. All weekend. I wish I could say I was feeling sick…but I was feeling fine. I had all these plans! I was going to do all my laundry, go running, start packing and above all get some sun! But I couldn’t wake up until 1pm each day and by Sunday I was just like, screw it! I’m going to wallow in this. And I did. It was a perfectly delicious lazy weekend. But I still feel guilty for the lack of productivity.
So that was my weekend. Extremely boring. And extremely good.
Monday, March 30, 2009
A Post About Nothing
Countdown until I leave New York: 62 days
I have absolutely nothing exciting to reveal in this post. This weekend was delightfully lazy; I made black-bean soup and finished Jane Eyre. I also watched infomercials and paid my bills. I also found out that I have a library fine from Hillsdale that I haven’t paid yet and I can’t get my transcripts to Mexico until that is taken care of. I also slept. A lot. Oh! And I also discovered carrot juice and it’s AMAZING. Katie, I don’t know how you dislike it…it’s my new favorite thing.
Today I am going to the gym. I feel much too fat. This weekend I made a little workout schedule and a grocery list that should help get me to my pre-winter hibernation weight. I also have to start training because my mom and I are running a 10K either this summer or in December. Either way I need to get my butt in gear.
And that really is it. It’s pretty boring around here actually. It will really get interesting at the end of April when I have to tell my roommate and my boss that I’m leaving in May. Pray for me, kiddos.
I have absolutely nothing exciting to reveal in this post. This weekend was delightfully lazy; I made black-bean soup and finished Jane Eyre. I also watched infomercials and paid my bills. I also found out that I have a library fine from Hillsdale that I haven’t paid yet and I can’t get my transcripts to Mexico until that is taken care of. I also slept. A lot. Oh! And I also discovered carrot juice and it’s AMAZING. Katie, I don’t know how you dislike it…it’s my new favorite thing.
Today I am going to the gym. I feel much too fat. This weekend I made a little workout schedule and a grocery list that should help get me to my pre-winter hibernation weight. I also have to start training because my mom and I are running a 10K either this summer or in December. Either way I need to get my butt in gear.
And that really is it. It’s pretty boring around here actually. It will really get interesting at the end of April when I have to tell my roommate and my boss that I’m leaving in May. Pray for me, kiddos.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Another one of these...
1) What author do you own the most books by?
In my apartment right now, I'm very ashamed to say this...but Stephanie Meyer! AHHH! What have I become! But if you count my books in Florida--either C.S. Lewis or Shakespeare.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The MPA's Magazine Marketing book...I own three copies. It's a long story.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Very much.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
This is VERY difficult. I guess if I had to pick ONE: Mr. Darcey from Pride and Prejudice.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Anna Karenina. I LOVED that book when I was 16ish and I kept reading it over and over.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Hmmm...probably something by George McDonald. I loved The Princess and the Goblin.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Badly written: Twilight (all of them)
Worst Plot: Chasing Harry Winston by: Lauren Weisberger
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
What Happened to Anna K? by: Irina Reyn
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Hehehe...Sex in the City
by Candace Bushnell, just because I know most of you wouldn't read it otherwise!
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Probably Phillip Roth.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I think Lolita of Tehran.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Anything science fiction...
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had the brain fever. Anyone who was in Dr. Smith's English 102 class knows what I mean. It was a little crazy...
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Twilight. So bad...but somehow so addicting?
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
War and Peace. because it was so long and the battle scenes were FOREVER. Or Moby Dick because I HATED it.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Titus Andronicus.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The Russians most definitely.
18) Roth or Updike?
Roth.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare for shizzle.
21) Austen or Eliot?
That's tough. I really like them both. I think Austen wins out though.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't read American literature...I'm not very embarrassed because it sort of sucks in general.
23) What is your favorite novel?
I think it's still Anna K.
24) Play?
Hamlet.
25) Poem?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
26) Essay?
I'm not a big essayist...
27) Short story?
A Haunted House, by: Virginia Woolf
28) Work of nonfiction?
God Grew Tired of Us, by: John Bul Dau
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Either Tennyson or C.S. Lewis
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer...most definitely
31) What is your desert island book?
Something long...
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Jane Eyre, by: Charlotte Bronte
In my apartment right now, I'm very ashamed to say this...but Stephanie Meyer! AHHH! What have I become! But if you count my books in Florida--either C.S. Lewis or Shakespeare.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The MPA's Magazine Marketing book...I own three copies. It's a long story.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Very much.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
This is VERY difficult. I guess if I had to pick ONE: Mr. Darcey from Pride and Prejudice.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Anna Karenina. I LOVED that book when I was 16ish and I kept reading it over and over.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Hmmm...probably something by George McDonald. I loved The Princess and the Goblin.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Badly written: Twilight (all of them)
Worst Plot: Chasing Harry Winston by: Lauren Weisberger
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
What Happened to Anna K? by: Irina Reyn
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Hehehe...Sex in the City
by Candace Bushnell, just because I know most of you wouldn't read it otherwise!
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Probably Phillip Roth.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I think Lolita of Tehran.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Anything science fiction...
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had the brain fever. Anyone who was in Dr. Smith's English 102 class knows what I mean. It was a little crazy...
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Twilight. So bad...but somehow so addicting?
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
War and Peace. because it was so long and the battle scenes were FOREVER. Or Moby Dick because I HATED it.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Titus Andronicus.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The Russians most definitely.
18) Roth or Updike?
Roth.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare for shizzle.
21) Austen or Eliot?
That's tough. I really like them both. I think Austen wins out though.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't read American literature...I'm not very embarrassed because it sort of sucks in general.
23) What is your favorite novel?
I think it's still Anna K.
24) Play?
Hamlet.
25) Poem?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
26) Essay?
I'm not a big essayist...
27) Short story?
A Haunted House, by: Virginia Woolf
28) Work of nonfiction?
God Grew Tired of Us, by: John Bul Dau
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Either Tennyson or C.S. Lewis
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer...most definitely
31) What is your desert island book?
Something long...
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Jane Eyre, by: Charlotte Bronte
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