weekend fun

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I had myself a very enjoyable weekend! Kicked off with Britney and Nicki Minaj - a Friday night that, I gotta say, feels like it was much further away than just two days ago. Saturday was spent catching up with my old roommate and some mutual friends at the lovely Loreley's on the LES - although it also served to remind me why I don't like to day-drink. The whole next day I was tired and head-ache-y, and all that after having dozed and lounged around in bed until 1 pm on Sunday! It probably doesn't help that the humidity in New York City does not let up, and that I'm used to day-drinking when there is an ocean nearby to jump into and wake oneself up. Still, I enjoyed my weekend immensely and was sorry to have to wake up for work this morning, Still, so it goes so it goes and we must get back to it!

weekending

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We've arrived at Friday. Huzzah! I have a Britney Spears concert tonight, which a dear friend is gifting me for my birthday, and I will be reuniting with an old friend tomorrow for some beer garden excitement during the day, so hopefully this weekend will be off to a good start. I hope your Fridays are all equally promising, and I also hope that next week my posts will become less dull and miniscule. I'm not very good at multitasking so until my life is a little more squared away I'm afraid I just can't make any promises. But it'll get there, have no fear of that!

outlook

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Sometimes, conscious positivity is the best asset you can possibly have. Mostly I hate how promising my mornings always feel, yet how that positivity and promise tends to ebb and flow as the day continues on. Thus, my aim for today will be to be mindful of my mental state, and try to maintain a positive outlook through the workday. Wish me luck and I hope everyone's Thursday is off to a great start!

if only.

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Today I would like to be away from everything. Maybe walking alongside these charming houses...

pretty

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I've recently been turned onto "Rizzoli and Isles" - a show on TNT about a female detective and a female coroner who work together and are best friends - and it has really gotten me to appreciating just how beautiful Angie Harmon is. She has that effortless 70's chic that is gifted only to those naturally tall, thin women who are not quite rakish - she does have lovely dimples - but who exude willowy grace nonetheless. Basically, every time I see an episode I just want to throw on a long dress, a pair of sandals, and go sunning near a wooden hot tub. She strikes me as quintessentially California - presumably, though, because she reminds me of how I imagine my Aunt Maureen to have looked although I do not remember her in reality as she died in a car crash when I was but three - which is funny because the show she stars in is set in Boston. Regardless, here are some photos of the glamorous Angie Harmon to get your Tuesdays off to a pretty start.

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i must remind myself - i have a new month for new beginnings...

"...I gave you the moon and the stars to keep / But you gave them back to me..."

- Brandi Carlile

I really think that it's hardest to say good-bye to someone early on in the dating stage...when that promise of what may come still hangs in the air, and the hope that you were pretty sure had wilted away has bravely raised its little head again. Still...if both parties don't feel that same optimism for a future, there really can't be one, can there?

happy august

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We've made it to a brand new month. A month that for yours truly includes seeing my lovah Britney with my other love - a dear friend from college - who is treating me to the show as a birthday gift (crazy generous, I know!) as well as a family wedding down south. Yup, no return trip to sunny Southern California for me, I instead will be venturing to Louisiana. Details to come and surely a report on the trip once it arrives at the end-o-the-month. In the meantime, I hope everyone's first day of August is refreshing, and that you can all relish these last remaining days of summer - or continuing days of winter depending on your geographic location...don't worry, soon it will be spring and then summer for you, too! As for this picture, it really was simply because it put me in a rather chipper mood. And sometimes on a Monday you really need a little chipper pick-me-up.