Road to Joy: A Daily Photoblog

Day 40: morning light...

2012-02-14T14:47:00.001-05:00

Gosh I love the sun!

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Location:Grand Central Pkwy,,United States

Day 39: west elm I love you!

2012-02-14T14:46:00.001-05:00

My new favorite home store!

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Day 38: icy starfish buddy

2012-02-14T14:44:00.001-05:00

Sooo I don't have ice and even if I did, the icebag I got from the emergency room was covered in dried blood and smelled like firewood, bacon and blood...sooooo I bought an icepak! Ain't he cute!

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Day 37: pulled from a biohazard bag...

2012-02-14T14:43:00.001-05:00

Remnants of my bloody Sunday!

My pants are now super cool. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Day 36: little did I know

2012-02-12T09:50:00.001-05:00

That five minutes after this pic, I would bomb down the slope, get clipped by some lame ass sitting in my way, flip over face first, bust my lip open and spend the afternoon in the Dartmouth emergency room getting four stitches...

Despite the hit to my vanity, I'm glad the injury wasn't more serious and that I at least have a good story to tell. :) - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Day 35: quiet day at the cabin

2012-02-12T09:44:00.001-05:00

First Saturday in forever I got to sleep in! It was wonderful! Naomi and I just chilled out, stayed in the hot tub, read books, watched tv... So that's what relaxing is like...

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Day 34: Vermont!

2012-02-12T09:41:00.001-05:00

The best thing about driving to Vermont is being soooo tired that you sleep the whole way there. I am such terrible road trip company. Lol

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Day 33: gotta love my doctor

2012-02-03T08:38:00.001-05:00

He ALWAYS takes care of me...even if it means injecting my second toe with some crazy needle to make me (eventually) feel better. :)

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Day 32: only in New York

2012-02-03T08:36:00.001-05:00

...would you see a small "marketplace" that used to be a nightclub that used to be a church. (that's where the spotlights are coming from)

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Day 31: almost 8 years later...

2012-02-03T08:34:00.001-05:00

I met Suk when I was studying in Nagoya for a semester in 2004. It's so amazing to me that despite our language barrier (she spoke mostly Korean and I spoke mostly English), we still found a way to be good friends...I loved that Japanese was our common language.Almost 8 years later and we got to meet again in NYC! Yay!

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Day 30: Jane of the Jungle

2012-01-31T20:33:00.001-05:00

Stayed up suuuuper late to make this purse then promptly went straight to work after. Insanity! Can't wait til I have the option of making this a full time thing. :)

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Day 29: doggy!

2012-01-31T20:09:00.001-05:00

He looks a little like he's tired of life. Lol- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Day 28: I <3 Sally

2012-01-31T20:07:00.001-05:00

If you haven't done your taxes yet, and live in NYC, you should see Sally at the 72nd street H&R block. She. Is. The. BEST! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Day 26: pizza eggs

2012-01-27T11:39:00.001-05:00

They taste waaay better than they look AND they're under 300 calories! And filling! What!! :) - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Day 25: not my kind of chamorro

2012-01-27T11:17:00.001-05:00

Met Jeff's best friend Adam for the very first time and had a lovely Mexican dinner! :) On the menu, there was Chamorro! I thought for sure their special was some awesome Guamanian food, which makes no sense in a Mexican restaurant, but you know, it would have been nice. Lol

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Day 24: tree!

2012-01-27T11:11:00.001-05:00

I don't know why but I love the color of the sky during twilight hours. I think it's pretty! :)

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Day 23: this is what happens...

2012-01-23T21:31:00.001-05:00

..when you can't find your iPhone headphones. You gotta use noiseless ones but hold the phone to your mouth because it doesn't have a mic on it. :(

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Day 22: raaaamen

2012-01-23T11:59:00.003-05:00

Zuzu ramen sooo good

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Day 21: wedding craftiness begins!

2012-01-23T11:59:00.001-05:00

Up at 2 am trying to figure out how best to make paper flowers...I hand dyed these!!! :)

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Day 20: out of practice

2012-01-21T02:40:00.001-05:00

My kanji looks TERRIBLE! :(

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Day 19: reunited!

2012-01-21T02:39:00.001-05:00

Gosh it feels so good to have my engagement ring back! I sent it out for cleaning and was nekkid for a week! Felt weird. :(But the ring is back, sparkly and new lookin' and right where it belongs! :)

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Day 18: early morning

2012-01-19T19:42:00.001-05:00

Something so awesome about such a clear sky and seeing a bird perched on a tree...

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Day 17: two digit numbers!

2012-01-17T23:43:00.001-05:00

So excited! Now we are down to two digit numbers til our wedding! Yay!!!

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Day 16: You know it's a rough day...

2012-01-16T17:13:00.003-05:00

...when you're listening to Kelly Clarkson on Pandora and identifying with Ne-Yo as he's singing sad love songs. lol

I don't think I've been this wallow-y since... maybe that one time way back when I got my heart broken and didn't think it could ever get fixed. So dramatic. lol

I think it's been a while since I've been contemplative on this. Probably because I haven't needed to be. I got luckier than I ever expected, meeting the man I did, falling in love, and now on the verge of getting to move and spend the rest of my life starting and ending my days with him....

But old habits die hard. I still think too much. I still am overly sensitive about stupid shit. I still worry that the other shoe will drop.

Growing up, I used to always ask those in love, "But how do you know?" They all always said the same thing: "You just do." I didn't get it until I did. You just know.

The road to "just knowing" wasn't easy. It was fraught with incompatibility, heartache, tears, and 30 lbs of weight gain and subsequent weight loss.

You know what was easy? After finally getting to the "you just know," part, and just knowing, how easily the word "yes" fell off my lips when asked to spend the rest of my life with just this one person. It was a snap.

Saying "yes," was the easy part.

Getting to "I do"? Not so easy.

You see, when you decide to have a wedding (different from a marriage), all these outside things start trying to push their way into your two person bubble.

Some of it is awesome, like when people hear your love story and tell you cool things like, "you sickos make me believe in love again," or getting to try on pretty dresses and deciding which one will be most likely to make your future husband make his ugly cry face as he's watching you walk toward you.

But some of it messes up your two person bubble. People's (however well intentioned) differing opinions; the "Wedding Industry" and all the random expectations it holds; the financial greatness of it all....

Unless you're eloping or really really self-assertive and unbending, weddings are never entirely or exclusively for the two people getting married.

Suddenly, you're trying to make everyone happy. But you can't. And you wonder if the decisions you're making are the best ones. Worst of all is when you wake up and suddenly have to wonder if the decisions you're making and the ones you've made are making your partner happy. Because that's the part that matters.

It's so hard not to second guess. It's even worse if you're a born overthinker AND a Psych major. And it's the absolute worst if your past is impeding on how you are perceiving your present....

This probably doesn't make sense, all of this. Sigh.

Saying "yes," was just so easy. It was a very large and important decision that came so easy and with no regrets.

The obstacles that follow are what is difficult. Especially when I'm pitting myself against...myself. lol

The key to winning?

Remembering that saying "yes," was just so easy and "just knowing" exactly why.

And maybe listening to Ne-Yo sing sad love songs so you can laugh at how overly dramatic you are.

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Day 15: lombardi's, finally!

2012-01-16T17:12:00.001-05:00

After living in NY for the better part of 10 years, I finally had pizza from America's first pizzeria...!

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Day 14: time flies

2012-01-16T17:11:00.001-05:00

Just yesterday, it feels, me and Daj were waking up to each other, and having tickle fights...And now he's old enough to know how to work a PSP and show his uncle Jed how to play a game on it.

He's also old enough to reason that hugging isn't for boys but since I'm a girl it was perfectly acceptable to hug and kiss me goodbye. Lol Gosh where has time gone? - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Day 13: let's dance

2012-01-14T15:48:00.001-05:00

Well...not me, unless it's Bollywood. LolWent to my first ballroom dance competition (as a spectator) to see Jen and Sean dance! They were so good!

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With this ring...

2012-01-12T23:24:00.001-05:00

I picked up our wedding rings today...They're simple bands, with just a few words engraved on them...and I cannot wait to wear mine!

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Day 11: haiku to my scale

2012-01-11T23:29:00.001-05:00

Oh scale, I loathe you. And fear you. Yet I need you. See you tomorrow.

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Day 10: leeeet there be light!

2012-01-10T23:39:00.001-05:00

Finally changed my lightbulbs! WooooooohoooooLet the productivity begin again!

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Day 9: inconsiderate

2012-01-10T06:27:00.001-05:00

I hate how people do things without thinking about how it affects others. Some lady in the garage was in a hurry to drop her car off and blocked the way out! Grrrrr

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Day 8: lazy bone jones

2012-01-09T08:11:00.001-05:00

Basically did nothing today because I didn't wanna ask my super for a ladder to change the lightbulb. Fail. Thank goodness for lamps!

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Day 7: ridiculous line

2012-01-08T01:28:00.001-05:00

For the Kardashian store...wtf, people be crazy

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Location:Broome St,New York,United States

Day 6: Abigail Bartlett

2012-01-06T23:39:00.001-05:00

Cutest dog.

Without her, I dont think I ever would have found love. <3

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Day 5: oh sticky heating pad

2012-01-05T23:05:00.001-05:00

My sore/crampy body loves you!

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Day 4: I know it looks gross

2012-01-04T21:57:00.001-05:00

But Kappazushi green tea from Japan taste so goo'!

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Day 3: being nice to my body

2012-01-03T22:24:00.001-05:00

I've been mean to my body these past few months. Never sleeping, always working, not exercising, eating crap...

This year I wanna be nice as possible to my body. And maybe look good in the process. :)

Today I went back to physique 57 and will hurtsogood tomorrow. I also had a nice dinner. :)

Now that Jeff is gone again (super sad face), it's time to switch to wedding mode! Aaand go!!!

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Day 2: last night together

2012-01-03T01:04:00.001-05:00

Staycation with Jeff has been so nice. We finally got to spend our first Christmas and New Years together and it was suuuper nice. :)

The crappy part is that until we are married, we gotta get separated again. :(

Poooo.

Today we made up for the fact that all we did these last 12 days was eat and sleep. We finally went ice skating! Yay!

...we only lasted 30 minutes before wanting to die and giving up though. Lol

And we didn't get any pics on the ice because Jeff didn't wanna chance getting kicked out of the rink even though we were on our way out. Lol

Sooo instead we walked right by where we first met. It'll be the last time we get to go there together for a while. :(

But yay photo op! :)

Can't wait to get to wake up next to him every day. :)

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Day 1: If at first you don't succeed

2012-01-03T00:34:00.001-05:00

Dust yourself off and try again...(you can dust it off and try again...)

...oh Aaliyah. She had some catchy tunes...

Soooooo...2011 in my blogosphere was a big fail. I stopped midway because I was sooo exhausted between work, work, other work, school, Jeff being in Afghanistan and planning a wedding that something had to give!

Outside of blog world, 2011 was pretty damn awesome; a NOTfail.

Some highlights:
*I got engaged to the love of my life who finally came home from deployment safely!
*I learned how to work a sewing machine!
*i started my fledgling purse business which I love and hope to grow!
*I enrolled in the Fashion Institute of technology and KILLED my first (and hopefully not last) semester!
*and some other awesomeness yet to be disclosed! :)

Anyhoo, now that I'm back down to only three jobs and planning a wedding, am hoping for more time for this thing. Here's to me actually making it work. Without missing ANY days! Third time is the charm...

2012 did start right though. :)

happy new year!!

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Day 226: Aimee meets Kristin

2011-08-17T16:03:00.001-04:00

Finished purse #1 for the week! Yay!

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Day 225: handwriting sample

2011-08-17T16:02:00.001-04:00

We have our calligrapher for our invites! Yay! Lol

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Day 224: hyperactivity at 1 in the morning

2011-08-17T16:00:00.001-04:00

Matty was the last one standing at the apt. Everyone was pretty much knocked out. Lol I don't know how he does it!

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Day 223: early start

2011-08-17T15:54:00.001-04:00

Decided I would leave for work before 5am to meet Paul for breakfast at 6 so we could go to work at 7 and I could leave at 4! Yay! But it was exhausting! Lol

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Day 222: breakfast at Tiffany's in the park!

2011-08-17T15:52:00.001-04:00

Yay!!! My first movie in the park! It was awesome!!! :) ...even though I slept for more than half of it. Lol

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Day 221: back to the old neighborhood

2011-08-17T15:50:00.001-04:00

Went back to Arn & Che's place on riverside for dinner and watching Marko Germar, a finalist on so youthink you can dance from Guam and it was a little weird to be soooo far uptown!

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Day 220: hah!

2011-08-17T15:48:00.001-04:00

I'm not the only one prone to naps in the lunchroom!

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Day 219: pink nails!

2011-08-17T15:47:00.001-04:00

I love pink nails in the summer! :)

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Day 218: panacea

2011-08-17T15:45:00.001-04:00

I loooove chickalicious club's panacea green and yellow desserts. They're soooooo dericious!!!

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Day 217: the best face ever

2011-08-17T15:43:00.001-04:00

A lot of times, jeff and I don't get to skype anymore because of the lack of computer or Internet bandwidth to do so...but sometimes I get reeeeally lucky. :)

Oh, how I love that face!!

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Day 216: washi tape love

2011-08-17T15:41:00.001-04:00

I love washi tape. It's awesome! Lol

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Day 215: panera lunch!

2011-08-17T15:40:00.001-04:00

So I won free lunch at panera for five people and they dropped it off at work! So cool!

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Day 214: bedtime exercises

2011-08-17T15:38:00.001-04:00

Because I'm too lazy to be upright and exercise sometimes, I just do inner thigh exercises from bed. Lol

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Day 213: mystery present!

2011-08-17T15:24:00.001-04:00

I got Jeff's Christmas present and I'm soooo excited. Lol too bad I can't say what it is. Lol

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Day 212: kissing cousins

2011-08-05T20:22:00.001-04:00

Look! My blueberries are kissing! Lol I can just imagine cartoon blueberries making out. Lol

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Day 211: big bubbles!

2011-08-05T20:20:00.001-04:00

After sleeping for most of the day (something I haven't done in MONTHS!), I met up with Abby and rosa and we ended up at Tompkins square park where we got to see some cool stuff. Like people in costume and a water balloon fight and a seven year old fight with some kid's mom. Lol but most captivating for me was the big bubbles! Soooo cool! I used to think if you stepped in the soap water and tried to make a bubble and succeeded, you'd float off in it. Obviously I was not aware of physics and how real life does not resemble cartoons at all. Lol

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Day 210: photoblog fail

2011-08-05T20:15:00.001-04:00

The problem with living life is that sometimes, you're too busy doing it to document the awesomeness. I was in my first flashmob (Bollywood flashmob no less!) and I only have one (fairly lame) picture of the crowd to show for it. :(

Oh well! Other people caught it on camera and it was soooo fun to be a part of it!!!

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Day 209: papery goodness!

2011-08-05T20:12:00.001-04:00

I love searching for wedding stuff! I wish I had enough money to spend on frivolous stuff like paper rosettes like these but there's no way I would if it costs $160!!!! Must get into the wedding industry. For real!!!!

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Day 208: working like a dog lol

2011-08-05T20:09:00.001-04:00

Jane, our receptionist at work, is soooo good at her job that even her dog works hard. Lol

Closes files and transfers calls and everything!

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Day 207: only sheer exhaustion

2011-08-05T20:06:00.001-04:00

...would lead me to misspell banana and not notice for several weeks. Lol

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Day 206: flashmob practice!

2011-08-05T20:04:00.001-04:00

Yes, there's practice time for when we prepare to do a flashmob. Lol it's awesome. :)

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Day 205: dual screens at work--baller!!!

2011-07-28T22:42:00.001-04:00

Yay! Finally got work to agree to give me dual screens! Soooo awesome!!! Lol

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Day 204: I hate laundry

2011-07-28T22:40:00.001-04:00

The worst part about doing laundry is folding it and putting it away. So until I'm married, I get to leave it on the bed for as long as I want. Lol

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Day 203: reem acra, I love you!

2011-07-28T22:38:00.001-04:00

I got to go to Reem Acra's flagship boutique to try on wedding dresses. Omg, I wish I had thousands of dollars at my disposal. Just so I could have the wedding dress of my dreams...
It was wonderful to see and try on a dress I'd been obsessing about for years though! :)

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Day 202: my lucky day

2011-07-28T22:36:00.001-04:00

So first I won a free catered lunch for five at panera and then!! When I went to the sublime with Rome and 311 concert, I won upgraded seats to see 311!!! It was sooo awesome! Nick Hexum is so hot up close. Lol

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Day 201: frolicking in the water

2011-07-28T22:33:00.001-04:00

They plugged up the fountain at washington square park so that it turned into a mini pool that people can cool off in! How fun!!

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Day 200: from the bed

2011-07-28T22:31:00.001-04:00

I took a pic of basically anything I could before I finally passed out after my loooooong night of sewing and looooonger day at the office.

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Day 199: I'm a purse making bad ass

2011-07-26T20:50:00.001-04:00

I stayed up all night to make two purses in one sitting. It was ridiculous and it hurt so bad working at the office for 9 hours then going to dance class after but it was SO worth it. I can't wait til I can spend more time focusing on sewing!!!

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Day 198: rotary cutter!

2011-07-26T20:47:00.001-04:00

I finally got to use my rotary cutter and it is amazing!!!!

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Day 197: food truck rally!!

2011-07-26T20:45:00.001-04:00

I finally got to really see a bevy of food trucks! And it was delicious!!!

Day 196: no class = good hair day

2011-07-24T14:08:00.001-04:00

Apparently, my fitness class got moved an hour later and I didnt know, so I just fixed my hair in the locker room and left. Lol

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Day 195: waiting to see Harry!

2011-07-24T14:05:00.001-04:00

Since we didn't buy tickets on time, me and Abby decided to just see the 3 am showing. This is us super excited to see it! Lol

Doing a 3am showing of Harry Potter and then pretty much going straight to work was the best and worst idea ever. Lol

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Day 194: the last of the madness

2011-07-24T14:01:00.001-04:00

After ten years of movies coming out, the Harry Potter movies are finally done... No more lines starting at 8pm for a midnight showing with people dressed in hogwarts garb...at least I got to see that insanity once. Lol

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Day 193: random luck

2011-07-24T13:58:00.001-04:00

So I was riding home in a cab from Brooklyn and on my way out, I was checking to see if I left anything...obviously, the person before me did not do the same as they left a gilt promo gift plus $100 gift card in the back seat. Score!!!!

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Day 192: walking with Abby

2011-07-24T13:56:00.001-04:00

My friend Abby just moved here so on top of train stations just feeling gross and hot, she's not as familiar with trains so we walk pretty much everywhere. It's pretty cool because I see lots of random things...like what looks like a hippie center. Lol

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Day 191: doggy water fountain

2011-07-18T07:54:00.001-04:00

NYC people can be so nice to others sometimes. One store owner put out a bowl of cold water for dogs to drink because it was sooooo hot outside. How thoughtful!

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Day 190: an afternoon with Dohn

2011-07-18T07:51:00.001-04:00

One of my family's oldest friends came to NYC for a visit...there was a lot of touristy action involved...this is probably the only pic I have of him smiling slightly. Lol

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Day 189: the ridiculousness of times square

2011-07-14T08:34:00.001-04:00

Went into a camera shop on times square and saw that their price tags looked like this:

WTF.

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Day 188: I missed it!

2011-07-14T08:32:00.001-04:00

This couple was kissing in the rain and I'd hoped they'd do it long enough for me to catch it but I didn't. :( it was cute though. On a random dirty street in NYC, they just stopped, and he dipped her as he kissed her. She had great form! Lol

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Day 187: "4 lobster rolls please!"

2011-07-09T11:28:00.001-04:00

Went to the food truck parking lot and was kind of disappointed with how few trucks there were...BUT!!!

Lobster roll! Yay!

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Day 186: breakfast of champions

2011-07-08T09:07:00.001-04:00

We usually have donuts on Wednesdays from Doughnut plant, but rich was suuuuper late and I was super hungry.

Mmmm nothing like seaweed to tide you over! Lol

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Day 185: I need..

2011-07-06T09:56:00.001-04:00

Better eating habits...

but Wendy's is sooo delicious!!!

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Day 185: lonely 4th

2011-07-06T08:31:00.001-04:00

It's crazy to think that a year has already passed when I still remember last 4th of July like it just happened. I quit my street fair job, met up with Rich, Jen, Sean, Jeremy, Vanessa and Jeff for a 4th of July barbecue and later, after much trepidation (on Jeff's part, lol) and getting through most of Shallow Hal (for him, again, since I was half asleep and more lazily amused watching Jeff himself through half closed eyes), he finally took my hand.

It was a pretty quiet moment; music didn't swell when it happened or anything...(**edit: just to clarify...it was quiet in how it happened in reality...but was, in retrospect and in my head, a huge life altering moment as my heart fluttered in the moment that he took my hand) And though I'm guessing his fears ended when i let him take my hand in his, mine had just begun. Lol

So silly now to think I was scared of getting in too deep with him and of letting go and worrying that I wasn't ready for a relationship. And funny to think about how much time and effort it took on his part to break down the walls I had wanted to put up...

That was the night I started to really let him in...and then he never left. :)

It's a year later and we're still apart while we wait out his last few months in afghanistan... And my hand misses his holding mine!

...but at least I know we'll have next year and the rest of our lives to hold each other's hand. :)

Yay! Lol

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Day 184: sprinkles!

2011-07-06T08:13:00.001-04:00

Had brunch with Stad, Abby and Leah (who I hadn't seen in ten years...!!!) and then, when stad had to go to work (crazy lawyers), the three of us walked to sprinkles for some cupcakes! :)

We couldn't decide on one flavor so we bought a bunch and just shared. Lol

There were no forks, so we just used coffee stirrers. Lol

The awesome part of the day was getting to hang out with friends I hadn't seen in so long, and realizing that it wasn't awkward to hang out even though so much time can pass! :)
That and none of us has changed much in ten years. Lol

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Day 183: Zum Schneider

2011-07-06T08:07:00.001-04:00

Went to my very first German restaurant to hang out with some old high school friends. I'd make for a terrible beer drinker. Mine is the smallest one. Filled with apple spritzer. Lol

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Day 182: what's all the fuss?

2011-07-06T08:05:00.001-04:00

Went to meet Jen & Abby at union square to celebrate getting out early. I saw a huge crowd of people gathered at the park...but never bothered to find out why. Lol

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Day 181: stuck at home

2011-07-06T08:02:00.001-04:00

Called in sick and spent the whole day in bed and alternating between conscious and unconscious states. The worst is knowing it's soooo nice out and not being able to go and enjoy it. For the first time EVER, there was sunlight streaming through my window!!! There's never sunlight streaming through it! What a waste of a day in bed. :(

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Day 180: sick! :(

2011-07-06T07:59:00.001-04:00

Caught my first cold in what seems like forever and now totally miserable!!
The worst part?? I had to drive myself home! Such a struggle to make it through the traffic!

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Day 179: flavaboom!

2011-07-06T07:56:00.001-04:00

Went to get frozen yogurt with Natasha and her niece and spent a good hour and a half eating delicious flavaboom chocolate and strawberry frozen yogurt with brownie bits and pb cups while giving a poor teenager some probably really inappropriate advice. Lol

So fun!

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Day 178: ninja keys

2011-07-06T07:53:00.001-04:00

Soooo I left my regular set of keys in Jersey and had to use my spare set with the ninja keychain. Soooo fun to play with! I made him do all kinds of funny poses. This one is his versatility pose because depending on how you look at it, he could be doing yoga, or like a cheerleading herky or whatever, or attacking in mid air with a kick, or in the middle of a pirouette, or scaling a wall or trying to get through those crazy laser alarms, or....lol the possibilities are endless! :)

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Day 177: Atlantic city...

2011-06-28T20:54:00.001-04:00

Spent the day in Atlantic City with the fambam...it was cool, but I am definitely spoiled by Guam beaches... This was just not as impressive...lol

It was a fun day though!! :)

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Day 176: crane folding party..

2011-06-26T08:20:00.001-04:00

Rich and Naomi are getting married in September and for their wedding, they wanted a thousand cranes folded. It's a Japanese tradition where 1000 cranes = a wish granted, and when couples get married, they fold a thousand for good luck...considering the extreme amount of time and effort it would take for the two of them to do alone, they decided to hold a crane folding party!

It took a while, but we got into a groove and managed to fold 500 by the end of the night...

Pretty sure I can't feel my fingers...

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Day 175: viva el toro!

2011-06-26T08:10:00.001-04:00

On a whim, a bunch of people from the office decided to go out to a bar in williamsburg that had a mechanical bull you can ride. Made for a very entertaining night...!

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Day 174: subway skies

2011-06-26T08:08:00.001-04:00

I love walking out of the subway and seeing the trees against a not-quite-nighttime-but-definitely-not-daytime sky blue...it's just sooo pretty!

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Day 173: only in NYC I think

2011-06-26T08:06:00.001-04:00

...do they move furniture and stuff by going through the balcony and levying it down...

It's practically an art form how they did that!! And no one dropped anything and they were soooo careful!

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Day 172: missed my stop

2011-06-26T08:04:00.001-04:00

...so I decided instead of transferring back to the uptown, i'd just walk home from there...except I was in williamsburg. Not exactly the best idea since I didn't get home til about 1030 and was already tired to begin with...but at least it was a nice night...

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Day 171: lunch!

2011-06-26T08:01:00.001-04:00

Peanut butter and strawberry sandwich! Sounds weird but think of it as a healthier version of peanut butter and jelly. Lol

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Day 170: skype date with my parents

2011-06-26T07:59:00.001-04:00

So my parents had a skype date with Jeff (I find it hilariously cute that my mom and dad had a skype date not with me, but with Jeff...), and while they were waiting for him to call, my dad, not realizing what time it was, saw me online and thought that meant I was actually up and at my computer so he decided he'd call me...at 5 in the morning. Lol

I hardly ever skype with my parents because of the time difference, so I thought I'd stay on until Jeff was supposed to call at 540... But the Internet was down and he couldn't skype them so I ended up spending the next hour or so helping my parents set up gchat to talk to him and then watching them as they chatted with him. It was soooo cute how my dad dictated the words and my mom typed...all so they can get to know their future son-in-law...

It's new territory for my parents, this inability to meet the man their child is going to marry...but I appreciate the effort they're making to get to know him somehow and how Jeff will gladly oblige...it makes me realize how much love I have in my life...it's not an easy situation, but they're both trying and that means the world to me..:)

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Day 169: back to work!

2011-06-26T07:49:00.001-04:00

Bought some new liner fabric for a purse I'm working on...olive green charmeuse...such a rich color! And so happy I got the last of it (only 5/8 yard left!)...Time to get moving...

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Day 168: Friday night exhaustion...

2011-06-26T07:47:00.001-04:00

Is it sad that I don't do much on Fridays because I'm too tired? And does it make it worse that I'm actually too exhausted to care? Lol

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Day 167: doughnut plant line!

2011-06-21T18:29:00.001-04:00

Grrr I hate lines!!! And I hate when people take FOREVER!!! Three people ahead of me at a doughnut shop should not have taken thirty minutes...and it's not because the doughnut lady was slow! I hate when customers get there and are like, "ummmmm....what should I get...?" grrrrrrrr

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