Summer Nights

Now that the school year has come to an end it has become official that I will be moving back to Los Angeles in the Fall. I have an extraordinary amount of excitement about this move. I am altogether ready to be back on the West Coast and have all the things that come along with that - including the weather, the familiarity, the friends, and all the fast cars! But as I realize that I will be leaving in no more than only two short months - I am coming to terms with the fact that I will also be leaving Broadway, a community of actors I know, and the amazing Bouchon doughnuts that are only four blocks from where I live. I have also recently began to realize and reflect on the things that I sill have not done in New York City.

I mean, come on, I have been here for two years and I have yet to visit the empire state building.

So here is my mission. I am going to be a New Yorker who becomes familiar with many of the most touristy and also the most simple aspects of "The City" before I leave for LA in August (on a cross country road trip).

I consider this voyage to have started yesterday, Memorial Day, when I ventured across the Brooklyn Bridge on foot. Right as we got to the other side we were bombarded by a flash flood, we got drenched, hid inside a pizza place, found a piece of a rubber glove inside of our pizza (I politely complained), we received another pizza on the house and the bill was of no charge. As you probably guessed, the boys ate the second pizza.

Also on my list for this summer: visiting Highline Park, Boat Basin Cafe, Max Brenner, Peanut Butter & Co., Washington Square Park, Bouley, Sigmund's Pretzel Shop, The Russian Tea Room, Popbar, and East Hampton. I also refuse to leave NYC before seeing either of the productions during Shakespeare in the Park. Pictures and notable shorts will be posted accordingly.

Happiness

I admit that I have been focusing on everything else that exists right now except for this amazing blog (that I think about 5 people might read).

But lucky for all of you, taking pictures is something that I was able to have some fun with while I was in California for a little over a week in December.

For all of you fellow New York folk, this is what you were missing on the west coast on Chrismas Day. In complete honesty, these pictures taken at the beach were taken when there was ice on the streets in New York.







Then came the birds : and you know that I cannot go without photographing things like squirrels and kitties and such so I held back and only included two of the many many pictures that I actually took of these winged creatures.




And here is my tribute to Sprinkles. I miss your cupcakes, and I miss visiting you and eating you with friends and Winter Dream tea lattes.

Sorry this post is so short, so hopefully the pictures are stimulating enough to make up for my lack of an interesting story.

Happy Birthday to You

Happy first birthday to Mary's Mix Tape.

So much has happened over the past year, and not enough of it was written down. I keep a sticky note on my computer. On this sticky is where I write down my brilliant ideas for blogging - and I am sad to say that there are 7 things on that list that I have been neglecting for so long, that if I tried to compose something clever it would probably turn out very badly.

Example:

I have the words "a house with more than 23 windows" written down on this pastel yellow sticky, and although I can remember exactly when I saw this image and counted all the windows and thought that I just HAD to blog about it, I truly no longer have any clever thoughts to share. Just as I am writing about it now I will be deleting that topic - I can no longer recall what on earth I could have spent a few paragraphs blabbering about 23 windows for. It was a pretty house though.

Delete.

My second post last year was during the first real snow storm in the city. And I find it fatalistic that as I sit here writing exactly one year later, a sister storm, bringing the first real snow of this season is falling perfectly outside of my living room window. The sidewalks were covered in the salts today before it even began to snow. These are the salts that make the floors of the subways white. Just as it began to snow a simply perfect snowflake landed on my boyfriend's eyelash.

Perfect.

I have to admit that I do like the snow. But I am also excited to be escaping this freezing cold city for almost two weeks to dwell in the not so cold and much sunnier Los Angeles. Then when I come back and finish my third semester I can not feel so bitter when it is six degrees outside when I walk to school in the morning.

Time Goes Away

It has been way too long since I have gone out with my camera, so yesterday on my 20 block walk home from class I decided to take the scenic route and capture some of this beautiful city's holiday charm.




It is a special feeling living only four blocks away from these beautiful sights - and I hope that I never stop appreciating that for as long as I live in New York City.

More Than Useless

This is my new day planner. I love this company - your first thought is that the books are recycled, but they aren't - this company uses post consumer products, so these journals and unique books don't even use the energy that it takes to recycle paper. I am even sending in my coil from my appointment book last year so my book will be made completely from previously used materials!

You can find out more info and see these amazing books at papergeist.com.