Thursday, July 29, 2010

When life hands you lemons

Yesterday on the elliptical at the gym I read about how Kristen Davis aka Charlotte on Sex and the City stays slim. And I'm not going to lie, the part where she said she's most proud of her toned deltoids because they're such a difficult area of the body to firm up prompted me to come home and do some research on deltoid working dumbell moves.
BUT! As luck would have it, my google search for said moves brought to me to a page featuring none other than an Eat Pray Love trailer!!!


Which I watched giddily and have admittedly just indulged in viewing again before turning the pic above into a link. Because holy smokes, I forgot how much I looooved this book, and how excited I am to see the movie, but moreover how excited I am to start adventuring on MY own. It's getting to be about that time for this nomad to flutter away for a while. And the very thought of boarding that plane on Sept 19th'll pretty much have me smiling nonstop between now and then :)

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Gamechangers

I love this piece: Understudies: The Technicolor Grace of Godspell.
I'm sure Richard didn't realize it at the time, but there were a couple cast members in the show seriously considering transferring out of the BC Bubble as well. We didn't because we found ourselves in that show. Literally "found ourselves" or at the very least started to. Gamechangers are so fascinating in that way that they happen instant and unexpectedly. One seemingly simple night - one momentary sense of community can sway the course of one's life.

I dropped my Education major and picked up my BFF in the week after we wrapped that show. I can't even imagine what path my college career would have taken had I not had that experience, and I find myself an actress and agent today largely because of the role my being in that ensemble led me to play in the Theatre Department at BC.
Isn't it truly crazy how one thing leads to the next?

Monday, July 26, 2010

Creativity in motion

Today is the official unveiling... I have given my roomie/neighbor the name of my blog so she can finally find it and rabbit trail her way to it for random reads at her leisure instead of having to only see the posts I feel comfortable sharing sporadically.

Maybe I'll even go one step further and post a link to good old "younameitnaugs.blogspot.com" in my FB profile! Ehhhh, might wait till I'm in Italy to do that ;)

In the meantime, I think it's importnat to share that THIS BRINGS ME JOY!!! That's my lifelong friend's new professional website for her Freelance Graphic Designer career that's totally taking off right before all of our eyes. Wahooooooo I love when people love what they do!!!

Rock on, girl, and rock on, LuBerry Cards (another lifelong friend's creativity in motion), the girl is right: good happens :)

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

"I love your heart"

Ahhhhhmazing. Isn't that one of the most wonderful phrases you've ever heard? I think it possibly ranks as one of my personal top 5. And guess where I just stumbled across it this morning... At my kitchen table on Elsworth. On a blue sticker. On a chiquita banana.

So now I'm having the best Tuesday. Because even the bananas in my life are pointing toward positivity and sharin' the love.

All. Smiles.

Hey and guess what else: Good ol' Newton's the third nicest place to live in America. So local friends be sure to thank your moms and dads for raising you here in quintissentially ideal suburbia. Granted I'm off to a meeting about prolonging my nomadic tendencies for a 10 week stretch this Fall, but even I can appreciate having Newton for a home sweet home to head back to whenever I'm in need of a reprieve? from the Wide Open Spaces I inhabit most frequently.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

An optimistic person is the personification of Spring

So... even though it is SWELTERING in Cambridge right now, I'm playing it cool and celebrating all things Awesome. IE:

-having finished the banister on the porch we built the Maddage family in PA last week
-my successful one year marriage to myself ;)
-my ACK roomie being here to visit
-the inception of the country rock album my sisters and i are cutting in late August
-and how wonderfully refreshing water is

Awwww, also how my ACK roomie and roomie/neighbor just said I'm like a 10 on the roommate scale.

Have an easy breezy afternoon, y'all - I'm about to go way more all around positive in this next month worth of blog posts - I feel like June had me glum in some ways, and I'm so not about that against my thisawayrose template.