To new beginnings

One of these years, I want to be be there here.

2011 was a big year for me. I graduated college, moved to my dream city, got my first job, and my first apartment. It was also a difficult year, especially towards the end, so I can't say i'm too sad to see it end. I don't have any resolutions (I sort of think they're silly, don't you agree?) but I know there are plenty of things I'd like to be or do in this new year. Like watch move films, not movies, films. The kind that are limited release and it'll be hard to convince a friend to go with you but it'll be worth it in the end. I want to work really hard and move up in the world. I want to visit my family often because distance is a silly excuse to be away from the ones you love.

I really want to learn something new. Like...how to make a souffle or something. But something more exciting than just learning how to make  souffle, although I bet that would be delicious! I want to say learn a new language but I should probably refresh my dusty French before attempting Italian, my go-to want-to-learn-language. I want to end the year in a completely different place than where it started. I'm sure i'll have a new apartment (again) but more than that, I hope i'll look back and think "wow, so much has changed." I'm not entirely sure I can say that about this year. Not in the way I want to say it at least.

It's New Year's Day though and I always have this strange superstition that whatever you do on this day and how you feel throughout, will carry forward into the rest of the year. It's absolutely silly but it's the reason I always make sure today is enough of all the things you'd want for the rest of the year. For example, today I am spending the day with my best friends, going ice skating, eating at one my favorite places, and tonight, (we're not sure what yet...) we're going to do something new and exciting. Because that's what this new year is and should be, new and exciting.

I hope 2012 is everything you want it to be, Happy New Year!

Old time-y tunes

                             
                                    Megaphone from RACOON_STUDIO on Vimeo.

I want one. No, I want all three and make like I have a band playing in my bedroom. How ingenious is this? And beautiful! Oh to hear Billie Holiday's voice coming through this. 'Tis the season!

It's Give Thanks Day!

I like putting it that way instead of the other way because this way, it calls more attention to the true purpose of this holiday. Everyone is sharing what they're thankful for, and like them, I too am thankful for my family, friends, and health. But there are so many other little things about my life, and life in general, i'm incredibly thankful for that perhaps I don't acknowledge enough. So here goes, in no particular order.

I'm thankful for the random things that make me happy. Happiness is fickle and fleeting and i'm glad that when i'm having trouble finding it in big ways, I can find it in little ways like cupcakes, impulse purchases, and low-culture television shows.

I'm thankful for my body. Not in a holy-shit-I-am-the-real-life-Scarlett-Johansson-way, but in a sometimes-I-seriously-stop-to-appreciate-the-fact-that-I-have-all-my-limbs way. Okay fine, that's sort of like being thankful for your health. Sort of.

I am thankful for perfume. I love perfume. What an amazing concept.

I am thankful for beds. Seriously! Amazing.

I am thankful for phones, texting, emailing, Facebook (even when I hate it sometimes), planes, cars, and subways, because they make me feel less like i'm a thousand miles away from all the I people I love.

I am thankful for my education, both institutionalized and not.

I am thankful for my outlook on life. It's gotten me (and continuously getting me) through so many things and it's maybe what I love most about myself.

I'm thankful for chocolate. How I didn't think of this one first is beyond me but truly, what would life be without chocolate? Not worth living, that's what.

I'm thankful for Burt's Bees. And mascara. And sweatpants. I go from zero-to-sweatpants in under sixty seconds.

I'm thankful for this city. I have always believed it is the greatest city in the world and it turns out I was right. That never happens.

That's ten. That's a nice, round number so i'll stop there. Not that I don't have more (umbrellas!), but you get the idea. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Holy shh that's some perspective.

Sunday Comics

 I can laugh at this even though i'm a vegetarian. See! Vegetarians are cool! 

[Via DODHOUSEDIARIES]

11:11 on 11/11/11

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

R.I.P.