Thanks guys!! I'll totally share the love and follow your faces from now on too. I have to thank my neighbor's college friend and her fabulous blog: MiddleSisterFairytales for turning me on to 20SomethingBloggers and I have to say I was delighted not just to see the followers when I logged on this morning but also to see that I'd already posted 4 times this month, meaning my target of 5per is getting easier to hit by the minute!!! Or well, by the month.
Anyway - I'm all over the place right now (figuratively, not literally the way I usually am) because WOOOOOOO it's the first Nook Wedding!!!!!! In Newport. In like 6 hours!!! Huzzah!!! Our friends have been flying in / up all week, the boys are back in town (as they say), and the excitement is palpable. So looking forward to being a friend tonight - so averse to being an agent at the moment... I love love!
Friday, May 28, 2010
Why princesses should not try to pose as fairy godmothers...
Last Saturday night, I had concocted a hair brained scheme and proceeded to attempt to carry it out... I had seen a very nice suitor twice having been set up on a blind date with him by a lovely friend of my mother's who I trust pretty implicitly. Unfortunately said suitor liked certain things like living in Nonantum and kayaking, things I was just never gonna warm up to, it occured to me though when he lost me at kayaking that he might catch the fancy of my dear friend and fellow roadrunner. SOOOOO since there was a graduation party in Central Sq at my fellow roadrunner's apartment and everyone was feeling friendly since summer's pretty much surprised us by showing up, I thought it would be ingenius to invite the suitor to the party via tipsy texts and then arrange for the two of them to play Beirut all the while connecting up a storm.
I was picturing sparks flying and everyone thanking me for seeing the opportunity to jumpstart my referral system (why, after you've gone on a few dates with someone and realize it's not really working out, wouldn't it make sense to suggest they try dating one of your friends who they're probably better suited for??) but ALAS, no dice. And the suitor was not so happy. And while my fellow road runner friend and I have since found this to make for a hillarious story to re-tell and review, I've lost the opportunity to pass this good guy onto a more fitting good girl.
C'est la vie!
I was picturing sparks flying and everyone thanking me for seeing the opportunity to jumpstart my referral system (why, after you've gone on a few dates with someone and realize it's not really working out, wouldn't it make sense to suggest they try dating one of your friends who they're probably better suited for??) but ALAS, no dice. And the suitor was not so happy. And while my fellow road runner friend and I have since found this to make for a hillarious story to re-tell and review, I've lost the opportunity to pass this good guy onto a more fitting good girl.
C'est la vie!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Google Genius
NEW FAVORITE FEATURE ON LEAST FAVORITE PURCHASE (aka my pink dell laptop) = Alt + Print Scrn...
Now I can capture any image I fancy simply by holding down two keys - ooh how fun! Have I mentioned I'm exceptionally easily amused and remarkably unobservant? Because I am. And is this not the best Google depiction ever??? Oh to be a Google designer, or a Google employee in general. I'd say it's 6th on the list of my top 10 full time potential future jobs.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
CHECK OUT MY NEW INSPIRATION
this is billed on msn.com as a little girl giving herself a pep talk, but are you kidding me??? she's her own regular old life coach and I want to hire her myself!!!! I'm not gonna lie, as a kid I did a lot of talking to myself in the mirror, mock interviews for the camera as if I were sitting with Johnny Carson, Oprah, or Rosie O'Donnell (yes, that means I did this not just as a kid, but until I was probably 12 or 13), but this blows those performances of mine out of the water. This girl could rally troops, give her very own St. Crispin's, she's so positive, she get's it, she's saying yes to life, she believes in herself. Amen, sister. You can do all things good, and your house IS great, I like your family members too simply because you do, and I just got an email from my boss saying "Naugs...I absolutely love your positive energy...it will get you far my dear :) xo, bosslady"Man I hope it does. And I hope it gets this little bundle of dynamite far too.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Copywright
"Theirs was one of those houses with a revolving door and a cascading cast of characters that poured through it on a daily basis." This is a line I want to use in some way shape or form in a book someday. It came to me this morning.
Three weeks ago I read a book, The Piano Teacher and in one of the last chapters there was a line that I have rolled around in my head about a million times and even said out loud at least a hundred. Upon reading it, I excitedly informed my mother and sorelline (sisters), who happened to be near by, that it was official, I was meant to be a writer. Gotta love finding affirmation in various forms and mediums.
Now my only question is will I need to start writing about things other than my own experiences, people other than the ones I know and love? I can tell some pretty good stories, but they're all authentic-experience based. I can act out other people's tales on stage, do I now need to think up fairytales from scratch?
Only question. Woops, guess I have a few actually. Think that sentence is copywrighted now that I've typed it on my little pink blog here???
Three weeks ago I read a book, The Piano Teacher and in one of the last chapters there was a line that I have rolled around in my head about a million times and even said out loud at least a hundred. Upon reading it, I excitedly informed my mother and sorelline (sisters), who happened to be near by, that it was official, I was meant to be a writer. Gotta love finding affirmation in various forms and mediums.
Now my only question is will I need to start writing about things other than my own experiences, people other than the ones I know and love? I can tell some pretty good stories, but they're all authentic-experience based. I can act out other people's tales on stage, do I now need to think up fairytales from scratch?
Only question. Woops, guess I have a few actually. Think that sentence is copywrighted now that I've typed it on my little pink blog here???
Sunday, May 16, 2010
The blurry line between sister and friend
My college roomie, Fiefel, graduated from NYU Medical School last Wednesday - the perfect depiction of a dream come true. Could there be anything more inspiring? When they called her up to the stage with her new formal title, "Dr." on Thursday, when her father toasted to the good fortune of her future patients at her party Saturday, and when her boyfriend stood beside her beaming for the billions of pictures our friends and family snapped of her throughout the course of the weekend, my heart was full of immense pride like I could never have imagined feeling for anyone who isn't blood related, but without a doubt there's a point where the line between sister and friend blurs. I feel fortunate to consider my given family people I'd choose to love even if they weren't the folks I was born related to, but I also love the way friends become the family we've extended along the way. Makes even more moments in life all the more worthwhile and meaningful. And, a wise girl once used as her yearbook blurb quote, "life is not a matter of milestones but of moments."
And that wise girl was yours truly, and that quote is one I found on a calendar. And let's be honest, I find most of my fave quotes in -- RANDOM SIDENOTE: sitting in a Starbucks on 9th Avenue, between 42nd and 43rd (the same Sbux, my Ack Roomie and I called our office one afternoon this January after he so nobly traveled to the city to watch me tap dance more terribly than I have ever tap danced in my life in my fabulously moderate success of a 2-women show) and I just looked up to see a boy I know from summer theatre in years past walk by, BIG city, small town this NYC -- Anyway, I find most of my fave quotes in inspirational journals, my Academic Weekly planner which offers up a quote a week, and on Mary Engelbreit calendars and cards, because I'm original like that. But the point of this post: is that I saw my would-be sister / without a doubt best friend make her dream a reality. It took her 8 fully focused years, and it was a goal she'd had at least 10 more, and she did it. And you can too :) We all can. Just gotta work our butts off and believe in ourselves. So go ahead. I dare ya.
And that wise girl was yours truly, and that quote is one I found on a calendar. And let's be honest, I find most of my fave quotes in -- RANDOM SIDENOTE: sitting in a Starbucks on 9th Avenue, between 42nd and 43rd (the same Sbux, my Ack Roomie and I called our office one afternoon this January after he so nobly traveled to the city to watch me tap dance more terribly than I have ever tap danced in my life in my fabulously moderate success of a 2-women show) and I just looked up to see a boy I know from summer theatre in years past walk by, BIG city, small town this NYC -- Anyway, I find most of my fave quotes in inspirational journals, my Academic Weekly planner which offers up a quote a week, and on Mary Engelbreit calendars and cards, because I'm original like that. But the point of this post: is that I saw my would-be sister / without a doubt best friend make her dream a reality. It took her 8 fully focused years, and it was a goal she'd had at least 10 more, and she did it. And you can too :) We all can. Just gotta work our butts off and believe in ourselves. So go ahead. I dare ya.
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