sunday night fitness vol. 1

a new tradition over here y'all.
we feel great!

there's a million things to be

hello again to all my friends!

this will have to be quick and sweet because i am EXHAUSTED.
i drove up to albany this weekend to go to a show at the egg on friday night and attend lark fest with my buds on saturday and beyond. total blast had by all.

here are the highlights:



the egg! one of the best places on earth to see a show (i'm convinced at this point) i saw son volt on friday. how nice. did you know even the elevators are round? i hadn't had a chance to go home at all because i decided to go shopping at the salvation army (which proved to be the best decision i could have made, i got LOOT) so i had to carry a change of clothes with me to the show. when i went in the bathroom to change i realized i had lost one of the shirts i had brought (luckily i brought two). i ended up leaving the show a bit early and scanning the ground outside the egg for my black tank top. i had just about given up hope but then i saw it! lumped up on the steps down to the street. victory was mine!



saturday! cue the fried food! paul and christine picked me up and we headed to larkfest. for whatever reason i always liked larkfest more than tulip fest. this year was no different. we ate and drank and laughed and saw old friends! what could be better. throw in a bit of matt and kim pure happy and the day was really complete.



but it wasn't over yet! christine and i headed to monica's house to continue our drinking roll and have some good laughs.



we took our party on the town and around 1 am paul was kind enough to drive christine and i home again. what a peach.



sunday! didn't start so sunny but started mystically enough to call it a good day.

packed up my finds and met christine for lunch at an old childhood favorite we've been talking about visiting for a while:



toll gate! named because it was once an actually toll gate. clever!
IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME.
i should make a list of places that refuse to change because they deserve praise from the heavens for resisting this life force. more power to them!





fish fry and a shake on a fish placemat. i folded it up and took it out with me. identify the fish! i love you! i'm sorry i somehow stayed away from this place for so long. IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN. its weird how you don't think you remember a place but then you get to it and its just so familiar. i wanted to live in it. forever. in the wooden phone booth. a troll who advocates remembering the past.

wow this is getting out of control. okay i'm going to leave you with this video that melts my heart in so many ways. its a young dolly peforming on the porter wagoner show. when she first joined the show the audience didn't accept her, they liked the girl she replaced much better. in a last ditch effort porter had her sing the mule skinner blues (a real trad number, you know) and bingo! love! if i can channel just a fraction of this happy love i will be golden golden.



goodnight (lady) muleskinners!

start this off without any words

i feel like writing out lyrics to songs in some burst of grades 7-12 that i am channeling at this moment. maybe its because i had on a degrassi marathon and i fell asleep and absorbed their angst? i'm lounging in my milky green room that feels like having a garden party with your grandma and 3 of her most stylish and sassy friends. only i am alone. and blogging. last night maylis came by and we had a pretty typical night where we ate brownies and painted our nails and decorated my new apartment and then watched all the videos i made of myself singing when i was in the country. maylis told me she has known from the very beginning that we are linked by an "evil chain" and i definitely agree, there is an evil chain between us.



there's my room as it stood last weekend. its more complete now, and i will try to get some shots of my apartment. but until then, i must say goodbye and try to make something of my night. since i refuse to join more social networking sites i basically cannot stay connected in the modern way, so i have to either go it alone and hope i see people i know or sit in all night. triple wah, huh?

let's see what i can stir up. bye!

for some it doesn't differ from the big dark valley

hello from a tired me.
i'm writing you from some kind of student lounge in the basement of the nyu dental center. i still can't exactly figure out how to open the door so someone has to let me in every time. this time the guy looked really disgruntled. what a jerk. still looking for my dentist husband but trying not to look like i'm looking. you know. i saw one today that would do, but he was potentially gay. gentist. okay forget i said that. let's see some photos!












kaitlin and i cruised up to city island on labor dabor to enjoy some fried skrimpz and ice cream and nautical bronx life. it was so fun! above is kaitlin and i, as seen by each other, and then some little snaps from around the island. ice cream is fun! kaitlin kept saying "city island is the best!" and its true because everything about it is good. i didn't see one bad thing! boats and birds and booze and buds!


beyond that, now i am in serious life. today is my third day of school and actually i have to depart for chemistry shortly. dental students are funny and dental hygiene students might be even more humorous. today i learned how to sit in my chair and seat my patient in their chair. i like the 8 o'clock position best for viewing the teeth. i've managed to friend some other "mature" students who have interesting backgrounds. i think i am okay doing this for the moment but ask me next week, it will probably change. i will definitely be happier once i get the more feminine lab coat with the nipped in waist to show off my girlish figure. no but really, how will i ever find a dentist husband if i am walking around in a boxy lab coat? i don't and won't ever wear scrubs so i already have a one up there. scrubzzzzz. barf! and i decided i am going to have cute hair accessories since it is probably the only way, other than shoes (which i have covered), to show my excellent personality.


that's all for now. i still don't know where this class is, so now i've got to find it! no school tomorrow and i've got a nice day lined up for myself. saturday i learn cpr all over again, so if you hang with me on saturday night know you are in good hands. love!

everything's moving, what's this feeling I'm under

i'm here. i survived another move. i wish that someone had all the answers to give me. doesn't everyone wish that? change is hard. change is HARD.

i realize i've been absent for quite awhile and i'd love to be accountable for that missing time. i'd love to tell the world that it won't happen again. that i'll be around. that i'll tell you all about my new (and noisy) life. but the truth is, i have not a goddamn clue what my life will be like in a mere thirty-six hours and i'm just sick about it. again: change? hard.

so i'm here now, like i said, riding on the crest of a wave of adrenaline and emotion that is now crashing into a shore called 'real life' so i cry at the drop of a hat. i'm trying not to completely lose it out here in this industrial east williamsburg where i decided to make my home? when i find my elvis believe you me i'm cantering to the country and never turning round. what follows is my visual tribute to a life of green. a life i hope to return to. i know i will return to. i hope i'm right. i'd better be right.













those were all taken on film about one year ago. now i'm going to call this quits and make some sleeping tea before i get crazy emotional on my fucking internet journal. see ya! my last hoorah is driving to city island tomorrow with some chicks to stuff our faces with cheap fried deliciousness along with all of the thugz in the boogiedown. can't wait. adieu dudes.

i can see it in your crystal dancing in like a storm

my cousin serena's 10 day visit came to an end this morning and i think we really packed in a lot of stuff for 10 days. the following will be some picture highlights with small descriptions. you dig?



we took at tour of the albany capitol building, one of only 9 capitol buildings in teh us that does not have a dome. the picture above is of the famed 'million dollar staircase' which cost....a million dollars. at the time (1850 something) that was really a lot of money.



the faces are of governors and also local people and are all carved by hand. it was such an impressive tour full of so many facts and it was free! can't beat that. i never even knew of this incredibly impressive building in my backyard!



remember the truck i wanted? well its gone. someone bought it. now i want this. its even more money! $9,000 dollars! basically someone needs to buy this for me. i know one of you wants to. i went to see that movie julie & julia last night and now i magically think i have hundreds of secret readers of my blog. go with it.



my blue crew and i went to the altamont fair last thursday. despite being really way more expensive than you would think something whos main demographic is people who can smoke without using their hands would be, it was so so fun and we even shelled out the 6 dollars for 5 tickets to ride one ride and loved it. i happily spent my $5 dollars on funnel cake and watched a video of a calf being born: the miracle of birth!

















obviously the best part is when the entire midway sparkles in the night. we were all filled with some kind of child's glee as soon as the sun set and the rides started shooting fiery sparkle dust into the black sky. we rode the orbiter and it was the best $6 thirty seconds of my life. we cherried our sundae night with stewarts ice cream. cotton candy and fireworks. i almost got chocolate espresso trifecta. next time!

friday i made my first drive into new york. triumph! i saw some apartments that i cant afford and teased my poor heart. now i listlessly search craigslist sublets knowing my poor sweet furniture won't follow me. knowing i'll have to walk in some hallway. knowing it will never feel like mine. such is life. it all works out in the end, no? i belive this. i do believe this. i must believe this but really, i do believe this.



saturday we woke up bright and early (crack of dawn, seriously folkz) team up with kiki and hawk our wears to the greater fort greene region. we made $1,000 dollars! really, i would love to do that more often. it was fun! i loved seeing the direct faces of the people who will wear things that i hand picked at thrift stores that dot the whole of the nation. someone finally bought the purple plaid pantsuit onesie! it looked so adorable on her!




saturday night we decided to bolt from the city while we had the light on our side and head to hillsdale to rob's purple themed birthday bash. we also had the plan to find some waterfalls the next day and do some swimming. the party was better than we could have ever expected. all of the food and drinks were purple or purple inspired. there was even homemade fresh beet pasta! it was really incredible!

since we arrived in the dark we couldn't see anything about the property and had to have a tour of the food tables by flashlight. when i asked rob about nearby waterfalls to swim in the next day, he sort of looked at me funny and pointed to the right and said "there's a waterfall right there"



we did a night time swim, so i knew it was refreshing, but i could have never fully imagined how incredibly beautiful this place was. we slept in a tent in the yard and woke up at 8am baking in the purple sunshine and decided right away that it was time for a swim.



little by little the stragglers woke up and jumped in one by one. did i mention there was ledges for jumping in and a rope swing?



did i mention the water was crystal clear and awoke you from your innermost core?




paradise!


we drove the 40 minutes back up here and had a lovely sunday dinner at staats.
last night we went to see julie and julia and then had a small feast afterwards at new world bistro bar, the only "nice" restaurant in albany that i actually like. it was delicious! we had strawberry basil bruschetta with chevre and a balsamic reduction. yum!

now i am going to go back to craigslist and nursing these allergies/potential actual sickness. i hope this entry will tide you all (my plentiful and overflowing readers) until i find the time/do anything fun enough to do this again.

much love from this hot humid heart of august!

i wanna live where its always this way

gosh i wish i could find the energy somewhere inside me to write a proper post. do you know i've slacked THREE times on bowl crawl posts? i am ashamed! so ashamed!

i spent a super excellent and sexy baby weekend with 5 other ladies across the river at the staats summer party. we laughed, we cried, we danced all night! we met santa (he drives a limo) and his hippie elf michael who made our night complete. if i could make you feel the extreme joy we all poured out that night i would use any amount of words possible to do this, but i really think, unfortunately, you just had to be there, walk dancing on a dock over the hudson river to disco tune after disco tune.

after this things get messy. after this its down to business. after this my tiredness sets in. after this i go to bed.

perky pictures:






















more sorta soon! xoxo!