2008

Jun

days of daze of days

I have been in quite a busy daze lately. So many changes: work, life, friendship, …nope not...

“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster,...”
— Blaise Pascal

day 298.

i am such a fool. that is all. there are about 4193424 reasons why so i won’t elaborate. i...

“To be is to do.”
— Immanuel Kant

day 300.

So glad it is the weekend. So hope it is a good one.

“Fools rush in where fools have been before.”
— Unknown

“After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than...”
— Shakespeare

the journey for happiness.

My friend Lee took off on a summer long European journey. He has been keeping a blog filled with...

day 304.

I feel lonely and I don’t want to feel lonely. I am 100% + happy. Could always be happier, but...

“Do or do not. There is no try.”
— Yoda in The Empire Strikes...

This makes me sad to be a former Texan. Read...

Little Mermaid - Part of Your World Hot days and a cool dip in the pool always remind me of this...

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not”
— Epicurus

Day 309. This just arrived in my mailbox today and I think...

“We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it...”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My friend sent this to me yesterday. He took it somewhere...

Day 312. Ahhh the strolls down memory lane. This photo is...

May

Jason Mraz - After an Afternoon As we all know, I’ve had a mega love affair going on with the...

“Leave until tomorrow only what you are willing to die having...”
— Picasso (via enquotations)

oh, elle...

I am currently out of control, can’t stop crying, which is a rarity for me. And my dog, Elle,...

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose...”
— MLK Jr.

day 325 :: fucking timing.

I just found out that someone that I really want to see is coming here less than 24 hours after I...

“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there is a light...”
— Shakespeare

lfarm: Gavin DeGraw - I Have You To Thank Totally cheesy, but so damn catchy I can’t stop playing...

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of...”
— Clifton Fadiman

Day 330 :: I posted this the other day on my more in-depth...

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the...”
— Oscar Wilde, Lady...

Summer Love (by Andy Davis) The sun is shining and I’m...

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with...”
— Jack London (via...

“To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract...”
— Janet Coleman

day 331 :: the definition of "knowing"...

Today has started off with a sunny bang. After a great night last night with my friends, a lovely...

Maroon 5 - Better that we Break

“A fool will keep going back to his right mistakes, only to...”
— Me (via ladysadie)

“Being a traveling musician, or Rock Star as it was once...”
— -J Mraz (shared with me by...

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-Nine times...”
— Albert Einstein

day 333.......................

Perhaps because it is half of 666, this day was destined to be somewhat miserable. There were a few...

Paul Newman. Sigh. I want to meet a man who can say as much...

“Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too...”
— -Mike Tyson (via...

day 335 :: mama, dentist, rain, QT

That is a summation of my weekend. TGIF! I can’t tell you how glad I am that the weekend is...

John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room Have you ever gone down a path that you know is...

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much...”
— Thomas Wolfe This is so...

view from Dumbo. enhanced with my increasingly badass...

I really want this necklace. It is by Dogeared, the people...

Day 336. Rain, rain go away…. Photo: snapped in...

what i've learned. 05.07.08 (revised)

I started this list after a few too many margaritas. I’m adding to it now that I only have a...

“You have GOT to start eating. I cannot have you dropping...”
— - Rachel Zoe, on her...

337 :: time flies even when you aren't...

Isn’t that the truth? Today has been one of those days where I don’t even know what...

“Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.”
— Samuel Palmer (via...

My friend gave me this photo, framed, from Burning Man...

“Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve...”
— Mae West (via enquotations)

yes, yes, yes!

Everytime I get a horoscope tidbit that I like, it gives me a ridiculous amount of happiness....

“The maxims of men reveal their characters.”
— Luc de Clapier

“He who is outside the door has already a good part of the...”
— Dutch Proverb

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good,...”
— Mark Twain. Love this. What a...

Hope is the dream of a soul awake. - French Proverb. This is...

338 :: mid-day redux.

So it is half way through my work day on Tuesday and I am trying to find the motivation to continue...

Take me somewhere warm, somewhere, someone, please....

Jason Mraz featuring Colbie Caillat- Lucky This is such a beautiful, melodic, simple song about the...

day 338 :: good morning, sunshine.

I’m not sure if it is really sunny or if I am really awake. But it feels great to be alive....

“I find myself wishing for one more morning after, or maybe a...”
— ladysadie, I love this Sadie!

my scope.... (?!!?)

As I have stated before and will now state again for the record (because I want it to be totally...

day 339 :: an inner dialogue

Today I have been really busy with work and life and trying to get a ton done without a ton of...

I’m still experimenting with photoshop during my...

Aloha Sunset. Experimenting with Photoshop Express Online....

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are...”
— -George F. Will, birthday...

my horoscope from today.

Great….I need to face the facts of my finances. I didn’t need some astrologer to remind...

“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be...”
— W Clement Stone, birthday...

piles and piles.

I am packing up my winter stuff and bringing out my summer/spring stuff from last year in hopes that...

day 340 :: errands and more errands

Yawn. I am groggy today. I need to go for a run. Last night I was hoping to stay home and relax but...

Someone special sent me this picture that he snapped from...

This is where I am going tonight and HE makes...

tudors to tequila.

What a regression I am having this evening. I was hoping to have a lovely evening full of watching a...

I’m missing home today for a lot of reasons.

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be...”
— -Niccolo Machiavelli *He...

“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is...”
— Niccolo Machiavelli, birthday...

“A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion...”
— -Niccolo Machiavelli This...

Dave Matthews Band - Stay or Leave There is something about songs like these that negates (for me)...

day 341: highs and lows.

Today started fabulously well…I slept in and got more sleep than I needed which is helping to...

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly...”
— Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk,...

day 342.

I’m all sniffles today and I just got an alert from weather.com “there is a high pollen...

“We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the...”
— Novalis, German poet, birthday...

onemoretimewithfeeling: They are setting up the bull riding...

catching on

friend: isn’t may 1st a great day?
me: why would it be a great day?
friend: because it is almost may 5th
me: and that is cinco de mayo?
friend: you’re catching on.

three four three

343 days until i’m even older than i am now. what a day today was. today i… laughed without knowing...

“I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years....”
— Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize...

“I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I...”
— -Annie Dillard. I think she...

“It’s not about what happened in the past, or what you think...”
— Along Came Polly (via...

“At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me And...”
— -Rascal Flatts, Movin On. For...

Rascal Flatts - I’m Moving On. I said before I’m not a person who often cries and it is...

this too shall pass.

really liked someone a lot, dated them, then had them totally diss you. only to later have them come...

Inspired

ladysadie: Sarah, I just recently passed my time perusing your 27th Year tumblr. You’re a...

brieflynoted: Thought I’d post a few pics from Coachella...

344 days.

I’ve never really been good (or even in the same vicinity as good) at math. It took me about...

Apr

“Par is whatever I say it is. I’ve got one hole...”
— Willie Nelson

lovepuppy:soupsoup:annatruus:fabiogiolito:(Really) Stunning...

“I’m proud to be one of you.”
— Willie Nelson (gosh this is my...

“I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long...”
— Willie Nelson

“I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get...

Gavin DeGraw- Belief I’m excited about his new album coming out (next?) week. To those who...

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is...”
— Jerry Seinfeld, birthday quote...

My birthday card from my sister. I took a moment (and had a...

back together?

getting back together with someone—yay or nay? ...

“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never...”
— william sommerset maugham

Don Henley - Heart of the Matter I just ran 6.5 miles around westside hwy and c.park. It cured my...

County Kerry, Ireland taken in November 2007. I really feel...

“All that we send into the lives of others comes back into...”
— -Edwin Markham, birthday quote...

This one might be my favorite.

I took these photos on my last trip there. I was trying to...

Whenever Spring arrives I feel like I want to go to Paris.

Alexis Bittar is opening a new store in my neighborhood...

“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject...”
— Felix Frankfurter, birthday...

I passed this last week then didn’t get to upload it...

i didn't think it was possible.

………..but I think I fell in love again tonight. Not the kind of love that makes you...

“turns out, not where but who you’re with that really...”
— dave matthews band.

Jason Mraz - I’m Yours Getting excited for tomorrow’s show!

Jessica last night @ Ditch Plains. I wish I got the back of...

I saw In The Heights today with my brother and his...

Spotted on 4.9.08 in the East Village.

“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it...”
— Hugh Hefner, a fellow April...

Hugh + Marc

Hugh Hefner and Marc Jacobs both share my birthday with me. Basically I was a badass male in my...

Talk About Seasonal Affective Disorder

verenasays: I AM IN THE BEST MOOD OF ALL TIME!!! We’re having a party at work tonight, starting at...

“you’re so beautiful, it hurts to look at you.”
— Jordan Catalano, MSCL.

new friendships, new year, fab dinner.

just returned from Little Owl where I had my first dinner of my 27th year with Lauren, Jessica and...

onemoretimewithfeeling: Beautiful adamo: (via)

“You’re going to be older much longer than you’re...”
— my dad, he’s told me...

i'm 27 today.

and I live at 27 1/2 morton. perhaps 27 is my lucky #? Just noticed that when I got my...

aww thanks, ladies!

Thanks to Verena, Emily, Jessica, and Erin for wishing me into this 27th year right as the clock...

It is midnight. I am older. I’m giving myself this...

on the subway today...

The girl sitting next to me was writing on a little notepad on top of her book. I glanced over and I...

Five for Fighting - One Hundred Years Might be a cheesy tune, yes…yet still a meaningful...

“it is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— -george eliot _I’ll...

your 26th.

if you’ve been 26 or are 26 can you reblog this and tell me your single most favorite memory...

what i've learned :: year 26

Year 26 was my first *full* year in NYC, to recount it all would be impossible but I am going to try...