tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33888261220344537032024-03-13T00:23:00.944-04:00Today I LoveLady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.comBlogger867125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-64003755282394004332013-04-06T21:48:00.002-04:002013-04-06T21:48:40.292-04:00New York Food: SMORGASBURG<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't that a delightfully pleasurable word?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SMORGASBURG.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">smorgasburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">smorgasburgsmorgasburgsmorgasburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sounds like a yummy treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a gooey melty treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a delightfully, deliciously, fried or breaded or fresh or organic or allofthat or just freaking well thought out and executed and yummy yummy yummy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">williamsburg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(my neighborhood!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as part of the brooklyn flea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hosts a food flea market</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EVERY SINGLE SATURDAY</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now through november 7th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(my mom thought that AsiaDog was awful.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(sooooo yum)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm going OFTEN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">james and i tried to go to yoga </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(emily succeeded)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">jogged instead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">went to smorgasburg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and ate everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you'll see a lot of food pics OFTEN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because i'm delighted this exists four blocks from me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SOOOOO HAPPY.</span></div>
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<br />Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-40695853094645209372013-04-04T20:33:00.002-04:002013-04-04T20:33:45.206-04:00drum roll please!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there's something about a good pair of friends that never fades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there's something about growing as young women with a good pair of friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">something about the diversity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the play of personality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the way you share everything, love everything, experience everything, together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there's something about them that just doesn't quit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mary and genevieve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">engaged!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i'm feeling incredibly nostalgic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">these are women that i want everything for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">these are women that i would do anything for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">these are the beautiful women that grew up with me when i was growing as fast as i could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm excited to celebrate with and for them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">do you have friends like this? friends you'd do anything for? i'm grateful for mine. :)</span></div>
Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-38703854011716064932013-04-02T20:18:00.000-04:002013-04-02T20:18:07.990-04:00New York Places: The Strand Bookstore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Strand Bookstore </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is one of those places</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that every New Yorker and non-New Yorker know about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's LARGE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(18 miles of books on three floors)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's HISTORICAL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(famous writers through the ages have spent countless hours here,)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it's INEXPENSIVE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's a used book store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or a liquidated book store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or a something book store where you get a lot of books for cheap</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(but not cheaper than the library, boys and girls!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it's the kind of place you can get dreamy in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if you have the time, the patience, and can detach from the hordes of folks milling about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you'll feel transported,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">airy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and open for chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there's nothing quite like stumbling upon a good book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there's nothing quite like having a book call your name</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reaching up,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">picking it off the shelf,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and realizing you have just enough dollars to buy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.strandbooks.com/" target="_blank">The Strand Bookstore</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the place for dreamers.</span></div>
Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-8097774799896048142013-04-02T20:10:00.000-04:002013-04-02T20:10:15.981-04:00Subway Reads: Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">everyone reads on the subways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">everyone that can, at least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">even parents read to their kids!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and sometimes i read to philip!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that's it, cell phones or books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i chose neither for the first six to eight weeks we were here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mostly because i just didn't have a book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i haven't talked too much on here about the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lack of a plethora</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we brought (or didn't bring) with us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but i still can't believe i haven't worn holes through all the socks i have </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OR</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stretched my jeans out too terribly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i didn't have a book!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then one day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i was walking to the train,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and lo/behold there was a book table set up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with little irish people behind it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and, apparently,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because it was the weekend before St. Patrick's Day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the <a href="http://www.newyorkirishcenter.org/" target="_blank">Irish Center of New York</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">about Irish things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they asked only that you took one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i asked the lady what her favorite was,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so i picked up a memoir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i always love memoirs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">turns out,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ma%2C+he+sold+me+for+a+pack+of+cigarettes" target="_blank">Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes</a>,"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is one of the most awful/most beautiful books you might ever read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one book in a series</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this is the real tale of a baby/girl/child</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">growing up poor as heck in ireland in the depression ages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she suffers a lot of things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he uses it to his advantage, often beating her and making her work for the family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">while he sits on his ass and eats all the food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i hugged philip and asked to be held.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i recounted tale after tale after tale in the book</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">completely appalled and abashed that this happened/happens/is happening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I highly recommend it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd ABSOLUTELY read the rest of the books in the series,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i'm happy that this is the one book that kicked me back into my reading habits.</span></div>
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Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-78850360431419337452013-04-02T00:27:00.001-04:002013-04-02T00:27:06.920-04:00Fedorable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was probably the best Event of my family's entire visit to New York City for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The few days they were here were miraculous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love them, and they love me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can't miss that fedora.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am I right, or am I right?! :D</span></div>
<br />Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-71807333666048799912013-04-02T00:24:00.001-04:002013-04-02T00:24:47.902-04:00shell shocked<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and no matter </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or how much you expected it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or how much you prepared or dreamed about this BIG thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it still takes you by surprise?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the reality of it is so much more substantial than anything your dreams could have ever given you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">holding your new grandson?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">missing the friends you grew up with?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">winning the lotto?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oh wait - who know what <b>that</b> feels like? ;P</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York is kind of like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've dreamed of this my whole life, and I never knew how or why or where or when I'd end up here, but I knew I would, and that dream has been burning alive and bright for always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's shocking, in the good way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jumping into water,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sky diving for five minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Falling out of a tree and landing on the ground with nobody to see you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doesn't kill you, you feel a little more rounded out after it, and overall, it's just the things to really kick your butt into gear, into LIVING. you can't stay stagnant in a city like this. to do so goes against all that this city is. this is a city of action and movement, and moving is what makes opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MOVING is what made this opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been experiencing lately, an onslaught of what is to be known as </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It usually happens like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Philip works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Philip works all day long, and we both just got paid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and suddenly - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">suddenly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like magic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i have this long, languorous, lovely day ahead of me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in which i can and will do anything i want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i've considered laying in bed and eating chocolates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i've done that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for a little while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but a long, languorous, lovely day needs a bit more substance </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">than just <a href="http://thethirtysomethingbride.com/imported-20100102151706/2010/5/13/mariebelle-yum.html" target="_blank">four gourmet treats</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So they start out great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an effort to "track" my life back to its most optimum happiness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chart out what i have tried and true tested to be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i wake up early</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but not too early</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9 am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i walk to yoga.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i take a yoga class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">read,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York City is THE city where all of my dreams come true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the most beautiful city in the world, and even though the winter has been awful and the struggles have been piling up against us, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we've done splendidly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and will continue to do splendidly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and this will all continue to GET EASIER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my Super Days</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are the best days in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I work all week,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then, all of a sudden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm suddenly yoga-ing with celebrity instructors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">having lunch in soho with friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">going to a broadway show</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and philip hauled it off to their magical garage to store it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Philip and I had reached a leaping point in our lives. He had a stage position in NYC, and I was yearning for something new. I mentioned once that we should move, and then he brought it up again. That was all it took. The opportunity presented itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sure, there's never a good time to move to NYC. I've learned that I'll never have enough money and that I'll never really be ready. So I took those facts as THE FACTS. The facts are A) we're moving, and B) we have limited funds in which to do it in. Also, C) We don't have jobs. So the Planning began.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started planning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Housing needs to be located. </b>Since we don't have the funds to get an apartment right away, we're working with our friends that currently live in the city to stay for a few weeks till we get our feet under us. That means JOBS and $$ for a down deposit. It's tough work securing a roof for two people for free, but I'm doing my best, and we're playing it by ear. If we run out of weeks in the city to stay, we'll dip into our limited funds and sublet a room for a month or so--whatever we need to do to stay afloat in the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jobs need to be found. </b>Philip has some work lined up. I've been throwing myself into internet job searches like there's no tomorrow. Any national retailer or business online, I'm applying for. Whole Foods, Godiva, Starbucks--things that are great starter jobs in a new place that just give me a foot in somewhere. I've submitted resumes and cover letters to temp agencies, and I had a GREAT interview with a Medical Center who does the kind of work I'm interested in. That job, if it does, will pan out end of January, so I may have a few weeks in the city of figuring out my next step.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Fun needs to be had.</b> The biggest problem in all of this is that it's so much that it's sometimes overwhelming. Coupling packing and finances with a big day of work is a sure sign of disaster, and I've been doing everything I can to compartmentalize my focus onto the tasks at hand. Days off are rare and busy, and I did recently have a temper tantrum with the world where I railed my desire to have this be easier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it's worth it. This is worth it, and this is how we're doing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have any pearls of wisdom or helpful leads, I'd much appreciate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so i started to! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's been pretty much non-stop fun for months, now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and when i made my new year's resolutions.....they weren't the typical, lose weight, save money, yadda yadda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's the part of life where i accomplish something big</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it takes a little bit of cash to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(or as much as possible.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">an easy way to be boozy without being a slob. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this belgian framboise sure does hit the spot in terms of special drinks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unlike mixed drinks, it offers an uncomplicated but full flavor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hits the tongue full force and leaves you wanting more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i practically drank a complete 750 mL bottle during a three hour game of tripoly, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YUM YUM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">know those times where you pause, and gasp, and pull all the air you have into your throat and sigh out with bright eyes and a happy heart all the good you have inside of you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">know those times where you choose to throw yourself forward into the unknown, trusting that whatever you have ahead will certainly be more exciting and more fun than anything you've had behind?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">know those times when you laugh all night, laugh all morning, laugh all evening and all throughout the day?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">know those times you finally relax and breathe and re-focus when you see someone you love, THAT someone you love?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i have those.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i am so blessed for Philip. so blessed to have him in my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i love him, and i'm keeping all the promises to myself i ever and always decided to make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hardly, when i really think about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pushing the limits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">encouraging and coaxing me onward and forward and onward and forward and continuous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i think about the scary things sometimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but i'll figure them out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">philip and i are laying side by side in bed right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he's playing words with friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and just rolled over to kiss me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he has no idea i'm blogging about him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we hold hands together in the middle of the bed and i type one-handed till it gets less romantic and more annoying not to use two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my first holidays away from home, and i loved them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">however, the holiday post is going to wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we're moving!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and there is sooo much to do and keep track of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thank goodness i'm a detail-oriented kind of gal. there are soo many little things to do and keep track of. this morning i laid in bed and made lists for every day leading up to the Big Move. all the visits, errands, packing days, everything, and fitting it all in around my work schedule. madness and chaos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but an update is an update.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">phil is still selling his car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm still trying to find someone to take over our apartment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we'll see what happens after we get those two things finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I crawled into bed. on the tiny side. there was 3/4 bed on the other side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"philip, i have an amazing idea!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">berrrrrrughhhh, he said, and I pushed him onto his back and grabbed ahold of his shoulders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i pulled my face really close to his, kissed him on the cheek, then started jabbering about a script i just had an idea for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"sweetheart, i love you, but it's 3 am," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i know! i exclaimed! i know! i know what is happening right now! you're sleeping and i'm excited! and i'm going to keep telling you my plan!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then i was too excited to sleep, so i got up and wrote a script for a 1.5 minute mini movie called, "Grown Ass Woman."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I wrote the shooting schedule, and scene breakdown, including wardrobe and location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:14 am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">philip was looking at my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"i get to be your ugly boyfriend," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOOOOO!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i immediately cried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"you are Handsome Philip."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you'll need to put handsome philip pictures up, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(he made me say that.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and here we have handsome russian philip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went on super sabbatical for ages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and by "sexy back," i mean, I'm back in the blogging saddle and ready to advocate for myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought about creating a new blog, but why? I have this beautiful one going strong with history and character, and besides, I still love all kinds of new things every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you don't know the good news, and seeing how my last post on September 18th was about moving to New York, I am HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT I AM, IN FACT, MOVING TO NEW YORK CITY on January 13th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Philip got an offer to work with wd~50. He has a friend who works there, and person to person got a call and an email to show his stuff for a couple of weeks and learn a bit about what cooking in the Big Apple is like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Long story short, and I don't remember who posed the idea first, but Philip and I both thought that, well, heck, I'll never have enough money and the time couldn't be any more opportune than now to GO, to MOVE, to GET THERE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I started looking at what GETTING THERE would mean at this point in my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What it means, technically, is couch crashing. It means we arrive in NYC on January 13th, and stay a week with a friend here, and a week with a friend there. I have two weeks of lodging in the books, and figure that gives me enough time to get a few jobs and begin scraping some NYC rent money together. We'll be packing up all our things throughout Jan. 1 and 10th, and pay our rent through February in the hopes that someone will resign a lease with our landlord and help us get out of our contract. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did have a lovely job interview with Mt. Sinai Medical Center's PPHS office, in the hopes of returning to a quiet and focused life of research compliance. Restaurant Management sure has been fun, but man oh man if it isn't exhausting. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm planning on just seeing what happens!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next step is to find someone to take over the apartment, writing a couple of heartfelt thank-yous to friends here in Cincy, and packing up what is making the move/tossing out what isn't. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll need to print off copies of my work resumes and my acting resumes, print out headshots, and make certain I can locate my business cards and voice demos (which I'm finally going to be able to use.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need to collect legal documents for both Philip and myself, documents that help us get jobs or new bank accounts, and have all our references at the ready for work and apartments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mostly, mostly, I need support and momentum. My landlord is expressing his disdain for this plan, and I need the momentum to prove to him that we can and will do this move! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, who's with me?!</span></div>
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<br />Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-46544618858897949412012-09-13T16:06:00.002-04:002012-09-13T16:06:33.628-04:00new phone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this is a beautifully complicated story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my iphone was stolen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it probably wasn't a fellow employee that did it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you see,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">people in the bistro have told me countless times</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"don't leave your phone laying around."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the homeless people/the drugged people/ the crazy people/ the dishonest people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they all frequent the gateway quarter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and they all like to wander in the TOB doors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"don't leave your phone laying around,"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">everyone says</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so i don't</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but i do :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i don't have pockets in soo many of my clothes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so sometimes, down my phone goes, and then, up again, it goes, back into my hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not yesterday though</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">woop!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was down,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BAM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i knew it right away too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i just knew</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PHONE? gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PHONE? not where i thought it was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and so i called it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">busy signal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">called again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">busy signal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dill called it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no answer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we texted it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i didn't worry about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's a phone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no big deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i've gone without a phone before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it was getting glitchy anyway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shorting out, taking a long time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">small glitches i'd ignored because replacing an iphone is not an inexpensive task.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on my day off, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">good thing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i went back to the bistro and checked around for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no phone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">days off are a weird thing for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm either so exhausted i can't get out of bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or i wander around aimlessly wondering what to do before i go back to work the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so i went to church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and before church,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dill and i went to findlay market, and he bought spices, and we got vietnamese pho, and i rummaged around in my bag and found the three dollars and change i've had for two weeks--literally, the only money i have.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i wanted a coffee. or a latte. or maybe a piece of cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but i didn't buy any, and we had a lovely lunch, and dill went to work, and i went to church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">st. mary's on 13th is gorgeous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">big, cathedral-y</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the kind of church that you don't have to pay attention in, just listen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i prayed, i listened, and when mass was over, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i headed out the back and saw the votive candles by the door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">$2 says the sign,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i reach into my bag and pull out my three and change and toss them in the cash collector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"please, lord,"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(i pray,)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"watch over philip today. may his day be filled with strength, peace, and a good sense of humor,"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and out the door i go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i hop in my car,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drive to the AT&T store,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and walk in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm unkempt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a red jersey dress, <a href="http://www.shopbando.com/ban.do-heart/prod/334?rc=32" target="_blank">red sequined heart,</a> and gray keds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">long, wild hair.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dreading what iphone expenses are to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i know i can't afford a new phone.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in fact, i know it'll probably be another two months before i get something in my hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's just that kind of money existence for me right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but In, i go, to do the responsible thing, and at least see what my options are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">turns out </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm in luck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the AT&T guy, Mike, is fantastic, and he knows and loves my bistro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">turns out, AT&T is having a sale on the exact iphone i have, the iphone 4 for .99 cents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.99 cents!! i laugh!! .99 cents!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here i was, all morning, thinking of buying coffee or cake or a latte,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and instead, INSTEAD,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm charging an iphone 4 to my credit card for .99 cents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i rejoice.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i bless my stars and thank the heavens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">every little glitch worked itself out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lucky me!</span></div>
Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-24530411479170222002012-09-12T10:00:00.002-04:002012-09-12T10:00:38.496-04:00breakfast detritus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the birthday party two days ago was great fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the first time since moving in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my fridge is actually stocked with food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it hasn't been stocked for multiple reasons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) it turns out i don't need that much food at home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm paid in meals at work, and one only needs so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) even if i didn't get paid in meals, i get home much too late for dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) since i get paid in meals, i'm obviously not making a fortune in paycheck so i don't have any cash for that, anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ANYWAY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the fridge is stocked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with bacon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sausage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">biscuits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cinnamon rolls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two cartons of eggs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">milk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">juice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and a whole additional quiche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm eating it bit by bit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thank god</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or i'd walk away being a carb-loaded blimp of a woman.</span></div>
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<br />Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-2706182531418524702012-09-11T12:25:00.003-04:002012-09-11T12:25:46.435-04:00i just decided<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i just decided i'm moving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i just made a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i just made the choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i can't believe it took me so long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i can't believe it took me two years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i just decided i'm moving to new york.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i just decided that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WOW!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i can believe it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i finally can believe it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm moving to new york.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm working on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for about a year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a big move takes about that much time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i just decided to begin working on that now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">COOL!</span></div>
Lady Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167637138746970962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388826122034453703.post-50805582584471564712012-09-11T12:21:00.000-04:002012-09-11T12:21:06.090-04:00dilly deli<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we sat outside on the patio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drinking wine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">talking about philip's work there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">watching couples dancing and kissing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and loving the fall air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we lazed during dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we chatted with philip's old kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we planned and loved and looked at the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">later, we sat in the bar with friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">catching up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">catching forward</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">celebrating a wedding and celebrating it all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i wore sequins and green, laughing and dancing and relaxing for now. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#thankgod i work at 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and surveyed my apartment for birthday debris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">amazingly, there was little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">philip and i clean well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in fact</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was that someone had popped all the brussel sprouts out of the vegetarian quiche last night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and there were all these little brussel sprout shaped crevices all over the top of the quiche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i baked it back up and ate it anyway. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the birthday was WONDERFUL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">originally, we planned on going camping this weekend, but it didn't work out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we hosted V.3 of the Monday Night Dinner Series,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which, just happened to coincide with my birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BREAKFAST</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">screamed the invitation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and breakfast we did have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Philip and I spent two days preparing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday was brunch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a trip to his parents' house</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where he baked three cakes for my triple layer cake, (mango, pineapple, banana with strawberry-banana icing,)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we painted dining room chairs in the garage all afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday was equally busy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and lovingly blessed, being my actual birthday,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waking up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thrift-store shopping for baking and serving ware</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">back to loveland for the chairs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">picked up an additional rug and lamps from his parents' basement</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">home to unload</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">groceries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">philip's apartment, to pick up cooking things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">home to arrange, bake, cook, plan, clean, and party!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the party was BEAUTIFUL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i had such a gorgeous birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">23 was an interesting year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a year of solid ground and patient foundation building</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">24 starts me yearning for life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yearning for passion, love, and theatre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm re-writing the course of my life, now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">deciding and choosing who i want to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">24 is going to be one of the best years of my life, i can feel it.</span></div>
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